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Flunking Sainthood
My Unlikely Love Affair with the 23rd Psalm
By
Jana Riess
When I was a kid growing up in an atheist/agnostic family (my dad was the atheist and my mother the agnostic), I did not learn about the Bible at home. Or anywhere else, really. My mom took us to Quaker meeting occasionally, which is where I learned to say the Shema. But otherwise I had…
“Book of Mormon Musical” Co-Creator Bobby Lopez on Why He’s Fascinated by Mormons
By
Jana Riess
As I’ve already shared here, I loved the new “Book of Mormon” musical on Broadway, which officially opens tonight on Broadway. As I was discussing it last week with my amazing college roommate, she dropped the bombshell that she’s friends with co-creator Bobby Lopez, who lives in her artsy building in Brooklyn. Only in New…
A Mormon Reviews Broadway’s New “Book of Mormon” Musical
By
Jana Riess
I was prepared for scatological humor, generous doses of the F word, and off-color bawdiness—this is South Park without network censorship, remember?—but I wasn’t prepared for my Mormon faith to be lampooned with any sensitivity. I was happy to be wrong. By Jana Riess “Jesus sounds like Kenny,” my friend Donna whispered at the…
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