McKay Coppins

While skimming Thursday’s edition of The New York Times, one headline caught my eye: “I need to vent. Hello, Facebook.” The article, written by Douglas Quenqua, focuses on couples who use Facebook to make their arguments public, allowing friends to weigh in, keep score and, in probably most cases, feel awkward. “For most couples, the [...]

“Cursed is he who putteth his trust in a former beauty queen.” That is the title of a blog post my friend wrote last week, shortly after discovering that former Miss Utah Elizabeth Craig had been charged along with two other individuals with stealing more than $1 million in Nu Skin products and selling them [...]

I have often heard the criticism that Latter-day Saints classify everyone who disagrees with our beliefs as “anti-Mormon.” Of course, the people who say this are usually anti-Mormons. Am I proving their point? I don’t think so. I actually agree that this is a problem in our church. After all, our belief system, if firmly [...]

Last week, in writing on my blog about what a Mitt Romney presidency would mean for Mormonism, I shared an experience one of my friends had while living in Massachusetts. I wrote: “Shortly after Romney’s gubernatorial election, the Boston Stake planned a ‘mini-mission,’ in which 60 LDS teenagers spent a weekend proselyting with the full-time [...]

Returned Mormon missionaries can generally be divided into two camps: those who hated the Missionary Training Center and those who loved it. Last week, my sister entered the MTC, and ever since I’ve been wondering what advice I could give her that would make it an enjoyable experience. Here’s what I came up with: Speak [...]

I asked for it. My column last week was met with an overwhelming response from active Latter-day Saints, objective religious observers and fervent anti-Mormons. It made its way onto several message boards and blogs, sparking discussions that ran the gamut from the insightful and constructive to the snarky and fruitless. All in all, the column [...]

If there’s one thing a BYU religion professor likes to talk about, I suppose it’s the gospel. But if there are TWO things a BYU religion professor likes to talk about, you’ve got to add his son’s mission to the list. The instructor for my religion class this week told us about an e-mail he [...]

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While watching NBC’s Thursday night sitcom lineup last week, I almost missed a rare nugget of wisdom spoken by Joel McHale’s character on “Community.” “The biggest truths aren’t original,” he said. “Truth is ketchup. It’s Jim Belushi. Its job isn’t to blow our minds; it’s to be within reach.” Indeed, it often seems that today’s [...]