Jane Galt argues that if mothers are “rational” (in the economic sense) they’ll fight in the Mommy Wars. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
LDS Newsroom
- Concern Over Changes to Home Storage Centers Unnecessary June 17, 2013
- Social Media Gives New Twist to Tabernacle Choir’s 2013 Tour June 17, 2013
- Mormonism in Pictures: Temple Square Attracts Millions of Visitors | 14 June 2013 June 14, 2013
- Father's Day Video: Remember What It Takes to Be a Good Father June 12, 2013
- Church Providing Relief After Most Recent Oklahoma Tornadoes June 6, 2013
- VIDEO: Moore, Oklahoma, Woman Leaves For Mormon Mission in Wake of Tornado June 6, 2013
- Mormons Around the World: Country Newsroom Websites | 5 June June 5, 2013
- Mormon Tabernacle Choir to Donate Wisconsin Historical Marker June 5, 2013
- "On Faith" Column: Scouts Policy Should Be Seen for What It Is: A Reaffirmation of Core Values May 31, 2013
- Mormonism in the News: Getting It Right | 30 May 2013 May 30, 2013
Blog Archives
Peg O’ My Heart
We are pleased to announce the birth of our daughter Margaret Rose. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Pray for our brother in Christ
An Afghan gentleman who quietly converted to Christ faces execution by the authorities. Pray for him, and his country. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Woefully Arrayed
Thanks to The Atlantic, I’m in the middle of reading the book From the Hook of Holland to the Horn of Constantinople. When the author was in his late teens in the early 30s, he decided on a whim to walk across Europe and this is his memoir. 1 person likes this post. Like Unlike Read more »
Two Faces
On the sweetness of Mormon life: Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Abraham’s Human Sacrifice
Abraham went up to Mount Moriah to kill his boy Isaac. He did it at the Lord’s command. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Black
My daughter Betsey Pearl died one year ago today. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Big Love for Romney
Big Love, the HBO polygamy show, has arrived. Both on National Review’s Corner and in other conservative commentary, folks have been wondering whether this polygamy reminder will hurt Romney. Folks are already sensitive about Mormonism and its wierdness without having their noses rubbed in it. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Success through good breeding
I posted on demography and Mormon attitudes to child-bearing a month or two ago. This is not my long awaited follow-up on pro-family and pro-childbearing social policies, though now that I don’t have to worry about tipping the Canadian elections, it should get posted soon. This is a quick note on some complacencies. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Objectively murder, subjectively only like unto it
I’ve argued before that abortion is objectively murder but that the mother who permits her child to be aborted or the father who encourages it are not committing the sin of murder, but only something like unto it.* Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Will He Give Him a Stone?
Jesus once asked, rhetorically, if when a child asked for blessings his father would Read more »
“Precept upon Precept” and Corianton
We know that our Lord reveals and conceals, in response to our faithfulness. For behold, thus saith the Lord God: I will give unto the children of men line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little; and blessed are those who hearken unto my precepts, and lend an ear unto my counsel, for they shall learn wisdom; for unto him that receiveth I will give more; and from them that shall say, We have enough, from them shall be taken away even that which they have. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Beauty in the Book of Mormon
Reading the Book of Mormon this time through I kept noticing the poetry and beauty. There’s Nephi’s Psalm, of course, and Alma’s elaborate chiasmus in Alma 36. But some of the beauty comes in smaller packages. Here are a few of the phrases that gave me chills this time through: Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
A Letter from Birmingham Jail: from the Archives
For Martin Luther King, like Lincoln, the best remembrance is reading his own words. more Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Multiply and Replenish the ____
After decades of low birth rates, Japan’s population just went into absolute decline. Public figures have started to call on the Japanese to breed like rabbits. I shouldn’t laugh because of that, but I do. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Warp drives pertaining to futurity
This news–that the US Government is exploring a warp drive–is unlikely to be true. If true, the research is extremely unlikely to lead anywhere. But . . . ! Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Photoshopping loved ones
Just a little anguish. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
They Do Things Differently There
Even the present can be a foreign country. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Christmas and the Sacrament
I look forward to taking the Sacrament with all of you on Christmas Day this year. In honor that, I’ve updated this post on Christmas and the things that make us innocent. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Falls, Gardens, Deaths
In New Mexico the weeks before Thanksgiving are High Fall, autumn in abundance, all gold colors and fruits. Thanksgiving is the high point of that season, and also its end. Then its whooping crane season, Christmas, and winter. 1 person likes this post. Like Unlike Read more »
From the Archives: Christmas 2003
Our mission Christmases were lonely times, but God gave us a gift on the second one. –more– Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Narnia Review
I’ve seen the movie and read lots of reactions to it (some you probably haven’t seen are linked to below). Mine come’s closest to The American Scene’s–”it was fine.” Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
The Church’s Secret Plot to Undermine the Book of Mormon — EXPOSED!
Apparently some BYU Professor has published an article suggesting that the World Trade Center was brought down by explosive devices, presumably planted by some outside entity, perhaps even by >hushed whisper fraught with unstated menace< the government >/hushed whisper fraught with unstated menace< . John Fowles has posted about it here and Clark Goble followed it up here. As a connoisseur of out-of-control threads, I’d have to give the ensuing discussion at least a B, probably even a B+. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
From the Archives: Marriage and Abrahamic Tests
A post on the role of chance in our lives reminded me of a post on marriage as a way of understanding why God might ask us to do irrational things. (more…) Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Illegal Brothers and Sisters
The Church, it appears, has a self-interested interest in one aspect of the debate over illegal immigration. Reading between the lines, I”m figuring that the church is worried that sometimes our Temple Square misssionaries, etc., might actually be here for longer than their visas are for. I’m must speculating, of course, but I have reason to believe that in at least one foreign country American missionaries are almost all violating the letter of their visas. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
The Sweetness of Mormon Life
Earlier, I said that in lieu of great Mormon writers I’d be happy with adequate ones who capture the sweetness of Mormon life. A commenter who’s named Matt Evans but isn’t the coblogger said some pretty percipient things about the actual Catholic literature vis-a-vis the potential Mormon literature. Check it out. In passing he added this comment I say ‘so-called sweetness’ because I don’t believe the essence of the gratifying experience you sketched above is in any meaningful way different from the Lake Wobegon religious life Garrision Keillor has chronicled so well. I’ve been thinking a lot about that.... Read more »
Adam Greenwood: My Conversion
I was sitting on my bed one teenage afternoon in the early 90s wondering if there was a God and a Christ. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Church Thoughts
Here’s where my meandering mind took me this Sunday. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Zeitcast
Steve Evans interviewed your humble coblogger in the latest Zeitcast. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
If I could speak with the pen of angels . . .
We Mormons don’t need great writers who remake genres and transcend the particulars of their work (though please, please, please) Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Conferences and Events
- LDS Semi-Annual General Conference
- Book of Mormon Lands Conference
- BYU Religious Education Student Symposium
- Reid L. Nielson: "The Latter-day Saints and the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair"
- Joseph and Marilyn Bentley: "Mormons and the Holy Land"
- Armand L. Mauss: "The Intellectual Journey of a Mormon Academic"
- Mormon Theology Seminar
- American Society of Church History Annual Meeting
- American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting
- Communal Studies Association Annual Meeting