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  • Religion, politics and culture

    Religion, politics and culture

    When religion tries to dominate culture and politics, it hurts all three, as seen in the battle over the rights of gay Americans.

    by Jonathan Thompson , Oct 23, 2008

  • Prophets and politics

    The Mormon Church works to ban gay marriage in California, even as gay people in places like Rexburg, Idaho, come out of the LDS closet.

    by Ray Ring , Oct 20, 2008

  • The West remains a mysterious region

    Ed Quillen says that even in this so-called “Year of the West,” presidential candidates and media pundits demonstrate a deplorable ignorance of the region’s history and culture.

    by Ed Quillen, Jan 10, 2008

  • Fightin’ against the feds

    Utah state Rep. Mike Noel is still fighting the federal government over Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

    by Michelle Blank, May 28, 2007

  • The Silence of the Bees

    Migratory beekeeper John Miller hauls his hives across the West, pollinating everything from almonds to apples, but a nasty parasite and a mysterious disorder are making life much harder for John and his buzzing business partners.

    by Hannah Nordhaus, Mar 19, 2007

  • Finding good grub in Mormon redrock country

    In With a Measure of Grace: The Story and Recipes of a Small Town Restaurant, Blake Spalding and Jennifer Castle tell how they ended up running the Hell’s Backbone Grill in the remote community of Boulder, Utah

    by Michelle Nijhuis, May 16, 2005

  • Mormonism 101: A primer for gentiles

    The Mormon Church, founded by Joseph Smith in the early 19th century, has a distinctive set of doctrines, theology and church governance

    by Rosemary Winters, Dec 22, 2003

  • Being Green in the Land of the Saints

    Mormons are often stereotyped as conservative anti-environmentalists, but Utah activists Richard Ingebretsen and Chris Peterson of the Glen Canyon Institute want to convince fellow believers that it’s OK to be green

    by Rosemary Winters, Dec 22, 2003
 

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