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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
The False Immortality of the Internet
Kim Siever mooted the idea of giving up his blog (via the bloggernacle’s house organ). He felt mired in mediocrity, he said. No one listens to him, no one responds, and what’s the use? Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Zion or Bust
I should say, Zion and Bust. Let me explain. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
A bloggernacle for all seasons (of life)
For obvious reasons, you don’t have to be drinking age to join the Bloggernacle. Greenies is a great blog. Church Things, a new blog from a teenage Saint in Kansas, shows promise to be just as good. Check it out. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Welcome, Brigham Young University.
Times and Seasons got mentioned in the obscure bowels of the Daily Universe back pages today. Yippee! Performance bonuses all around. Next up: a cameo in a cheesy Mormon flick. And, with time and a lot of luck, we now have some hopes that we can achieve the ultimate in Mormon stardom. Ne plus ultra, thy name is the Daily Universe Letters to the Editor section. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Pornography my enemy.
Who can hate the devil and like pornography? Me, I hate them both. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
The whole face of the land was changed
I’ve just finished reading Tolkien’s Silmarillion. Its plot is the Book of Mormon’s plot: the pride cycle. Great civilizations rise, grow over-proud, and ruin themselves in quarrels and strange oaths. The Silmarillion even has the land be broken and changed, several times in fact, just like the Book of Mormon does. Plus it has dispensations called Ages. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
First Vision Art
I took up the Ensign last week to do my hometeaching. Leafing through it, I spotted a First Vision art show. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Spare the rod and spoil the boy child.
Larry Summers and innate sex differences are getting all the press lately. But I’m taking this post in a different direction. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Breath held, awaiting the Blogscars.
All this buzz over the Blogscars is killing me. Ths suspense, the suspense. Who’ll win what? And now that we’re living the glittering celebrity life here in the Bloggernacle–it’s not everybody who has their own awards ceremony, I mean to say!–will we start referring to ourselvs as Molly (Mormon)wood or Doilywood or what? Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
2009 Inaugural Persiflage
If Romney (or Reid or a saint or saints unknown) get elected, should they be sworn in on the Bible or the Book of Mormon? Why? Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
E pluribus unum.
Remarkably, everyone made it home this Christmas, including my sister and brother-in-law who live in Brazil. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
“Family-friendly” work policies
The Proclamation on the Family called on governments and decision-makers (which in a democracy includes us) to “promote those measures designed to maintain and strengthen the family as the fundamental unit of society.” What those measures are has prompted some debate. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Births and Baptisms
Over on the side bar, I’ve linked to an article about Russia’s–indeed, Eastern Europe’s–indeed, all of Europe’s-abysmally low birth rates. This is bad in itself, of course. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Adam, Abraham, Atlantis
Santa Claus came through with a copy of the Charles Murray book Human Accomplishment. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
The God We Hold Hostage
I and my good wife went to the temple last night. Through me, through Adam, through Christ, a 17th century Saxon named Christoph H. came into God’s presence. Or came closer to it, anyway. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Welcome, William Morris
William Morris was born in 1834 in Walthamstow, a quiet village east of London. He and his friends Edward Burnes-Jones and Dante Rossetti, whom he met at Oxford, founded the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Morris was known for his design work, his poetry and fiction, and his Socialism, until dropping out of the public eye in the 1890s. After nearly a century in seclusion, Mr. Morris has again emerged to run a popular Mormon arts and letters blog. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Love me forever.
The prophets have never forbidden us to mingle the poetry of men with scripture. Far from it. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Mr. Krueger’s Christmas (Eve)
We watched Mr. Krueger’s Christmas a few nights ago. It’s not half bad. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
God in the Ukraine.
The Ukraine’s Orange Revolution has managed to be both Western/reformist/urban professional/liberalizing and God-fearing. Remarkable. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Christmas and the Sacrament
Every birth is a nativity for the family involved. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
You were a blue light special at K-Mart
Well . . . not you. Not me either. I’m thinking of Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes fame. And he’s just a fictional character, or at least he used to be. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Marvel Not.
“Go forth and marvel not,” the angels said. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
That cute little truncated pew.
The last left side pew in our buildings is cut short, so people in wheelchairs can sit next to their families Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
A visit from our inlaws.
Our inlaws surprised us with a quick visit from Seattle. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
BYU’s New Nestorian Coach
BYU must stop checking temple recommends at the door to the football coach’s office. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Speaking Evil of the [far too numerous] Lord’s Anointed
Yesterday the lovely one and I were in the middle of some pleasurable criticism of some people we like. I had struck a particularly rich vein, when she stopped me. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Twice Remembering the Blog
I’ve decided to fight the forgetfulness of a blog by resurrecting a couple of old posts in time for the anniversary. In this April post, I admit that social pressures against sinful behavior are painful and unmerciful to the repentant sinner and unjust to the person who acts from pathology and not from sin. And yet . . . Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Remembering the Blog
Blogs have archives but no memory. Perhaps our Very Special Anniversary Announcement will be special enough to change even that. I’m not taking any chances. I’ve decided to revive a few old posts from the first half of the blog. I’ve enjoyed doing it. “Time,” as James Lileks says, “is nothing more than a lick of paint over the hinges. Push hard enough. They still swing open.” Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
The Incredibles, a good flick
Things have been a little heavy around here lately . . . But not too heavy for MISTER . . . INCREDIBLE . . . to lift! Er, yes. 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