{"id":231,"date":"2011-03-30T10:56:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T14:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/flunkingsainthood\/?p=231"},"modified":"2011-03-30T10:56:22","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T14:56:22","slug":"radio-interview-on-mormonism-popular-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/flunkingsainthood\/2011\/03\/radio-interview-on-mormonism-popular-culture.html","title":{"rendered":"Radio interview on Mormonism & Popular Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>With two major events last week dealing with Mormonism and popular culture (the opening of the Book of Mormon musical<\/a> on Broadway and the finale of the HBO series Big Love<\/a>), I’ve been asked a lot of questions lately on Mormonism’s role in the public eye and whether outsiders’ depictions of Latter-day Saints are inaccurate or mean-spirited.<\/p>\n

Today I did a radio interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s show “Q,”<\/a> which focuses on culture and entertainment. I’ll post a link when one is available, but apparently it will be on Sirius 137<\/a> today at 3:05 and 11 p.m. EST. It will also air on a number of American public radio stations tonight, including KCPW in Salt Lake City<\/a> at 6 p.m. Cheers!\u00a0 –JKR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With two major events last week dealing with Mormonism and popular culture (the opening of the Book of Mormon musical on Broadway and the finale of the HBO series Big Love), I’ve been asked a lot of questions lately on Mormonism’s role in the public eye and whether outsiders’ depictions of Latter-day Saints are inaccurate…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[34,78,79,19,24,16,80,37,62,36,58,22,35,38,21,29,18,57,23,77,25,17],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-mormonism","tag-avenue-q","tag-big-love","tag-big-love-finale","tag-bobby-lopez","tag-book-of-mormon","tag-book-of-mormon-musical","tag-book-of-mormon-on-broadway","tag-elder-cunningham","tag-elder-mckinley","tag-elder-price","tag-elders","tag-flunking-sainthood","tag-god-loves-mormons-and-he-wants-some-more","tag-hakuna-matata","tag-jana-riess","tag-jon-stewart-and-the-book-of-mormon-musical","tag-matt-stone","tag-mormon-missionaries","tag-mormon-review","tag-mormonism-and-popular-culture","tag-south-park","tag-trey-parker"],"yoast_head":"\nRadio interview on Mormonism & Popular Culture - 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