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Theology class

Letters to the Phoenix editor, July 2, 2010
My religion teaches me that I have a responsibility to work to create a better world for humanity and for all living beings in the world that God created.
By PHOENIX LETTERS | June 29, 2010

Holy war

How an unholy alliance of Catholics, Mormons, and evangelicals seeks to control our lives
And so it came to pass, Roman Catholics, Mormons, and evangelical Protestants have banded together to battle, well, the rest of us — the heathens, the godless liberals, the Hitchens-reading progressives.
By JEFF INGLIS | June 28, 2010

Review: 8: The Mormon Proposition

Sheds a sad light on Prop 8
While we were getting decriminalized weed in Massachusetts, a large segment of the population was reeling from the devastating passage of Proposition 8 in California.
By CHRIS FARAONE | June 18, 2010

More than Mormons

The big love that dare not speak its name
Despite the comparably juicy family dysfunction it offers, Big Love hasn't achieved the iconic status of its HBO predecessor The Sopranos . Maybe viewers relate better to the mob than to Mormons.
By JOYCE MILLMAN | January 06, 2010

Glenn Beck's Mormon ties

Letters to the Boston editor, October 30, 2009
Thank you for carefully illustrating the intellectual dishonesty of the right wing’s number-one glory boy.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | October 28, 2009

Latter day taint

How Glenn Beck is driven by Mormonism — and why his fellow faithful (including Mitt Romney) should be worried
Fifteen years ago, Glenn Beck was a small-market DJ with a drinking problem, no friends, and bleak professional prospects. Today, he’s a Fox News superstar averaging 2.4 million viewers, an inexorably successful author, and the leader of a popular movement that condemns government in general and President Barack Obama in particular.
By ADAM REILLY | October 10, 2009

Various artists | Spiritual Jazz: Esoteric, Modal, and Deep Jazz from the Underground, 1968-1977

Jazzman (2009)
Apple-pie Mormon missionaries the Millers travel through Iran to spread the gospel of Joseph Smith among Muslims and Zoroastrians, and their kid discovers the glorious sound of the santur.
By GUSTAVO TURNER | April 21, 2009

41. Warren Jeffs

LATTER DAY TAINT
Jeffs, the creepy leader of the polygamist Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, is a grade-A shitbird — he reportedly described Hurricane Katrina as an answer to his prayers — and so nobody was surprised when he was finally convicted, in 2007, of being an accessory to child rape. (That case also exposed a hideous loophole in the Arizona laws against incest — they only apply to those over 18.) That should’ve been the end of the road, except that according to a recent Salt Lake Tribune story, Jeff’s diaries indicate that he’s retained a hold over his followers from jail. To be continued? We hope not.
By Boston Phoenix Staff | March 25, 2009

Was it all a dream?

EXCLUSIVE: Mitt Romney claims that his father marched with MLK, but the record says otherwise
The Phoenix can find no evidence that the senior Romney actually marched with King, nor anything in the public record suggesting that he ever claimed to do so.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | December 21, 2007

The passion of the candidate

Romney’s religion speech was aimed at Christian conservatives, but his model wasn’t JFK — it was Mel Gibson
Pity Mitt Romney, the object of religious persecution, forced to make a public speech confronting the antagonistic forces that have kept his candidacy down by attacking his faith.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | December 12, 2007

Bewilderedbeests

Letters to the Boston editor: September 14, 2007
In two weeks of “Talking Politics” columns about Massachusetts politics, David S. Bernstein has left us bewildered about what candidates think.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | September 12, 2007

Mitt’s thorny threesome

How will a trio of new media developments affect the Romney presidential campaign?
Whatever Mitt Romney is doing in a few years, he’ll always have the Summer of ’07.
By ADAM REILLY | August 22, 2007

September Dawn

A descent into caricatures
The violence, when it comes, is shot in slow, luxuriant detail that feels almost pornographic.
By ADAM REILLY | August 22, 2007

Mitt's equity army

Romney’s war chest is overflowing with the contributions of his financial-world pals. But what is the price of their loyalty?
The predictions coming out of Ames, Iowa, hold that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is expected to win this weekend’s closely watched straw poll.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | August 10, 2007

Holy War!

A new army of atheists is taking no prisoners in its battle with God and his self-appointed faith dealers
There’s no doubt about it: right now, God is on the side of the atheists.
By JAMES PARKER | June 06, 2007

Letter to the Boston editor: April 13, 2007

Another inconvenient truth
Ralph Nader was not the reason for Gore’s loss.
By LETTERS TO THE BOSTON EDITOR | April 11, 2007

Feeding the rabid right

If Mitt Romney can’t persuade conservatives that he’s one of them, his hopes are dead. But convincing them could be fatal too.
Mitt Romney’s attempt to follow George W. Bush’s formula to the Republican presidential nomination has hit a snag.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | February 28, 2007

The GOP’s tin ear

Republican silence in the face of attacks on the first Muslim congressman speaks volumes. Plus, Deval Patrick misses a “teachable moment.”
Anyone still wondering whether the GOP has lost touch with the electorate can find more evidence in the controversy over newly elected congressman Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to the United States Congress.
By EDITORIAL | December 27, 2006

The A list

Letters to the Boston editor: November 10, 2006
Overall, a great list; impossible to do and make everyone happy.
By PHOENIX LETTERS | November 14, 2006

The Mormonator

Mitt Romney’s blinding ambition. Plus, the inexplicable opposition to an Armenian-genocide memorial.
Political dynasties are as American as apple pie.
By EDITORIAL | October 30, 2006

Romney's greatest gaffes - 'tar baby' update

He may be the GOP’s new golden boy, but the country doesn’t know Mitt like we do
Even by Mitt Romney’s gaffe-tastic standards, this was a bad one.
By ADAM REILLY | August 02, 2006

Mitt can’t pull a JFK

The Mormon speech Mitt Romney needs to give
Sorry, Mitt, but the JFK approach isn’t going to cut it.
By ADAM REILLY | May 12, 2006

Romney's first draft

The Massachusetts media could play a big role in shaping Mitt’s ’08 bid — or close to none at all
If a few recent incidents are any indication, Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, widely viewed as a likely Republican presidential hopeful in 2008, is quite concerned about the hometown press.
By MARK JURKOWITZ | January 19, 2006