I had the great pleasure of talking about my "Fundamentalist Christian/Episcopalian/Unitarian/Wiccan upbringing"--and a bit about Race and the Making of the Mormon People-- with April Young Bennett on Exponent II's "Religious Feminism Podcast." In it you'll hear me talk about Jane Manning James--and the power (and problems) of making her the symbol for a more diverse, inclusive [...]
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GBR Will Save the World (And the Ironies of American [Religious] History)
Here is a version of the letter that I read to my students yesterday, the last day of our term. Needless to say, I admire these students and I will cherish the memory of the time we spent together. To end our semester together, this is an open letter to the students of RELG 134: [...]
Race and the Making of the Mormon People on “Mormon News Report Podcast”
I had the pleasure of speaking with Brandt and Brian of the Mormon News Report about the Race and the Making of the Mormon People back in September. I spent, perhaps too much, time explaining my own complicated relationships to both Mormonism and the African-American experience. I am an outsider to both, but an intimate one [...]
Review (and my response) to a Review of “Race and the Making of the Mormon People”
A highly eventful visit to HDS and AAR (about which I plan on writing this weekend!) and the holidays have got me behind on all things, especially documenting the goings-on of Race and the Making of the Mormon People. But during AAR, Quincy Newell's review of the book was posted at Reading Religion. Under the leadership [...]
Race and the Making of the Mormon People coming to Harvard!
I'm thrilled to return to my alma mater, Harvard Divinity School (MTS '08) to present my book, Race and the Making of the Mormon People. I'd like to thank Charlie Stang, the new director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, for this invitation. Professor Stang has new and exciting things in the works [...]
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