James Olsen | November 7, 2009
Let me begin by saying that I not only believe in the historicity of The Book of Mormon, I feel a deep and passionate commitment to our narrative. But this is a point on which I think Mormon historicitists, believers in a divine or human fiction, or any other type of good Mormon ought to [...]
Matt Evans | November 5, 2009
For over a year I’ve wanted to write a substantive post about the contradiction between two of the best-known biblical injunctions, “let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth” and “let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works.”
Kaimi Wenger | November 5, 2009
The trial court in Reynolds v. United States gave the following jury charge, which the Supreme Court later found was proper and not inflammatory.
I think it not improper, in the discharge of your duties in this case, that you should consider what are to be the consequences to the innocent victims of this [...]
Patricia Karamesines | November 3, 2009
For the next several weeks, I attended church when I could. Participation often included lowering my eyes when the bishop or his first counselor walked by and gave me stern “We’re watching you” stares. In some ways the whole business interested me so I wasn’t suffering as much as some might suppose. [...]
Patricia Karamesines | November 2, 2009
Preface. At the risk of running afoul of Nate’s post on turning the other cheek—that is, of appearing obnoxiously immodest and of proving myself once again impossibly dense—I’m telling a story about how I received one of the best lessons I’m still learning. It’s a long story and hopelessly self-referential. Over the [...]
Rosalynde Welch | November 2, 2009
Leftover Halloween candy languishes in its plastic pumpkin on top of the refrigerator; for the moment, the kids are satiated and I’m being good. All the sugar brings to mind a favorite hymn, “Jesus, the very thought of thee,” a few stanzas of which are here:
Jesus, the very thought of Thee
[...]
Rosalynde Welch | October 30, 2009
cross posted at Civil Religion
“Death be not proud,” taunted John Donne. “One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally, / And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.” Death interrupts our view of eternity, a fearsome jalousie obscuring a future we must approach. Like Donne, we console and distract ourselves by turns with bravado, [...]
Rosalynde Welch | October 29, 2009
Trivia fact for the day: the Mormon church operated a newspaper, the St. Louis Luminary, from November 1854 to December 1855. The periodical served the large community of transient Latter-day Saints, many of whom stopped in St Louis to replenish their strength (and funds) after the first leg of their journey to the Salt Lake [...]
Julie M. Smith | October 29, 2009
There’s an interesting new study from Pew about converts.
Julie M. Smith | October 26, 2009
So the upcoming RS/MP lesson got me thinking: What exactly does the phrase “the dispensation of the fulness of times” actually mean?
Nate Oman | October 26, 2009
The language of turning the other cheek and Christian ethics in general can really get quite nasty.
Rosalynde Welch | October 21, 2009
Cross-posted at Civil Religion.
Last week the New York Times published a two-part series on artificial reproductive technologies. The series makes a riveting read, as writer Stephanie Saul narrates the joys and terrors of premature birth, high order multiples, NICU stays, and—finally, sometimes—the precious goal, a baby at home with a family.
Mormon Review | October 14, 2009
A new issue of The Mormon Review is available, with a review of the music of Sara Groves by Troy Keller. The article is available at:
Troy Keller, “Music From Across the Divide,” The Mormon Review, vol.1 no. 7 [HTML] [PDF]
For more information about MR, please take a look at the prospectus by our editor-in-chief [...]
Kylie Turley | October 7, 2009
When my neighbor four-doors-down called last night and asked if I could take dinner to my neighbor three-doors-down, I said yes. I’m a Mormon mom: dinner for a single, middle-aged man is no problem. It was the circumstances that made me pause.
Ardis E. Parshall | October 6, 2009
Michelle Glauser is a young Mormon American woman living in Germany. I’ve long read her blog, Circles and Dots and Other Distractions, which is a riot of activity — she may be based in Leipzig, but she’s just as apt to be blogging about her trip through Turkey, or Switzerland, or Poland, as she is [...]
Kylie Turley | October 4, 2009
My son was none-too-thrilled to realize last night that by next General Conference he will be twelve and *get* to go to a two-hour meeting with his dad. We thought that reviving my husband’s tradition
James Olsen | October 2, 2009
Yesterday, a Mormon Times article began with this opener: “For Finnish music star Mervi Hiltunen-Multamäki, trading in exotic concert locales, a prime-time TV show and platinum records for diapers, dishes and dusting was an easy decision. Maybe that’s because following the prophet has never been hard for her.”
Jonathan Green | October 1, 2009
If we accept, at least for the moment, that 1 Nephi has a textual history, that it drew on older sources or underwent expansion at various times, then we might wonder what could be considered the oldest layer of the text
Kylie Turley | October 1, 2009
Someone feels the need to tattle on us to the bishop every so often.
Julie M. Smith | September 30, 2009
A dear friend sent me an email: “Whassup with Isaiah 6:10?”
Mormon Review | September 28, 2009
A new issue of The Mormon Review is available, with a review of Alfred Hitchcock’s movie “Vertigo” by Joseph M. Spencer. The article is available at:
Joseph M. Spencer, “The Romance of Materialism: Notes on Hitchcock’s Vertigo,” The Mormon Review, vol.1 no. 6 [HTML] [PDF]
For more information about MR, please take a look at the [...]
Patricia Karamesines | September 28, 2009
I’m posting this at Times and Seasons as follow-up to a three-part series I wrote here a couple years back (see here, here and here). I’ve cross-posted it over at A Motley Vision’s companion blog Wilderness Interface Zone.
September 17th marked the two-year anniversary of the closing of Crossfire Canyon (real name: Recapture Canyon) to [...]
Julie M. Smith | September 26, 2009
“We can’t get in,” a young man argued. “The Masons are like a super-secret society!”
Jonathan Green | September 25, 2009
My basic problem with Blake Ostler’s expansion theory is that it approaches via intellectual history what is at heart a problem in textual history
Rory Swensen | September 23, 2009
They immersed themselves in the characters and, by so doing, opened the door to deeply significant conversations between the cast, their parents, and the community. Artistic explorations have the power to touch us deeply, in ways that detached discussion about concepts cannot.
Rory Swensen | September 22, 2009
This new volume is the second overall in the Joseph Smith Papers, but is the first of the Revelations and Translation series which will provide transcripts of many of the earliest manuscripts of Joseph Smith’s written revelations and translations…
Mormon Review | September 21, 2009
A new issue of The Mormon Review is available, with a review of Dan Brown’s new novel The Lost Symbol by Scott Holley. The article is available at:
Scott Holley, “Exaltation and The Lost Symbol,” The Mormon Review, vol.1 no. 5 [HTML] [PDF]
For more information about MR, please take a look at the prospectus by [...]
Rory Swensen | September 20, 2009
Short review of Corianton: By today’s standards, it wasn’t a very good movie. But by 1931 standards? Well, it wasn’t a very good movie.
James Olsen | September 17, 2009
I went on one of the best dates I’ve been on in some time tonight – my daughter and I went to BYU’s World of Dance.
Kaimi Wenger | September 15, 2009
Yesterday in Elders Quorum I taught Lesson 40: “How Glorious are Faithful, Just and True Friends.” It was a lot of fun — it’s a great set of discussion materials. Today, I read a fascinating article in the New York Times about the science of human friendship and connection. I love the [...]
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