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My Teen Swears in the Name of Art
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. Read More »
Corianton – An Unholy Review
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. Read More »
Gaggles of Girls
On the sweetness of Mormon life. 0 people like this post.Like Read More »
The Love That Moves The Stars
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great acommandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. Thus Christ’s summary of... Read More »
Which is worse, pride or sexual sin?
Every Mormon knows Jacob’s sermon in Jacob 2 where he condemns unchastity and men who sexually dishonor women. But Jacob begins by preaching against pride. 0 people like this post.Like Read More »
Notes from all over
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The Gospel is Crude
The temple, we are told, is where the most sacred gospel rites occur. Brigham Young explained the meaning of those rites this way: are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father, passing the angels who stand as sentinels, being... Read More »
Adultery in Law
I had a buddy in high school who was a fierce Navajo patriot. He bitterly resented what had become of his people. I needled him once on how much better off the Navajo were now with roads, and medicines, and aqueducts, and things. His voice got strangled and he could hardly... Read More »
Notes From All Over
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Coerced abortion, involuntary sterilization
The US Senate just voted down an amendment that would prevent federal funds given to the United Nations Population Fund programs that support or promote coerced abortion (read China) or involuntary sterilization (still China, I think). 0 people like this post.Like Read More »
Are Mormons Crazy for Porn?
A study has looked at what percent of broadband users in an area also subscribe to a particular network of paid online pornography. Articles about the study have suggested that conservative religious types, especially Mormons, are more likely to use porn. 4 people like this post.Like Read More »
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I the Lord thy God.
On being smarter than other people at church 0 people like this post.Like Read More »
A Motley Vision of the Wilderness
Long-time Mormon culture blog A Motley Vision has added a companion blog focused on Mormon nature writing and Mormon thinking about the natural world. T&S stand-out Patricia Karamesines is the presiding muse. Check it out. 0 people like this post.Like Read More »
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Woe to the Outcast
Marginal groups get into the Second Coming. We contemplate with pleasant savagery the haves and the snobs getting smashed. “Kings shall see that which they had not considered.” “Bottom rail top dis time.” 0 people like this post.Like Read More »
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Scout Sunday
Scout Sunday is today. 0 people like this post.Like Read More »
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The Pity of the World
Love is compassion and admiration mixed together. Pity and awe. 0 people like this post.Like Read More »
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$819,000,000,000 Bill
The Stimulus, Debt, Pork, Rescue, Special Interest Pay-off $819 Billion Bill (not counting interest) has passed the House. You can search the text here if you like. 0 people like this post.Like Read More »
Hindsight Prophecy
Higher critics would claim that any suspiciously accurate revelations in the scriptures were probably put in afterwards. 0 people like this post.Like Read More »
United States to Fund Abortions Abroad
By executive order, President Obama has authorized government funding of abortions overseas (funding abortions in the United States is still illegal thanks to the Hyde Amendment). He described this taxpayer funding of abortion as a non-partisan measure that will move us beyond the stale, tired abortion debates of the past. 0 people like... Read More »
The Logic of Christ
16 ¶ And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. 0 people like this post.Like Read More »
A Psalm for Inauguration Day
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Who Should Have Been Mormon of the Year, 1990-2007
This final of three posts, covers Times and Seasons reader Last Lemming’s suggestions for Mormon of the Year for the years 1990 through 2007. We already posted on Monday his picks for 1950 through 1969 and on Wednesday 1970 through 1989. I suspect as these posts get into more familiar and more recent territory,... Read More »
MLK Day
The way we honor Martin Luther King Day, around here, is we post his words, usually the text of his letter from Birmingham Jail. 0 people like this post.Like Read More »
First Mormon Studies Fellowships Announced
Mormon Studies took another step forward this week with the announcement of two doctoral fellowships in Mormon Studies. Courtesy of the George S. and Delores Doré Eccles Foundation, the two fellowships will be awarded one a year this year and next. With any luck, the fellowships will be repeated in future years, assuming that they... Read More »
Last “Who Should Be Mormon of the Year” segment postponed
At Last Lemming’s request, I have postponed the last of the three “Who Should Be Mormon of the Year” segments until Tuesday morning. That segment covers 1990 to 2007. Last Lemming will be out-of-town during the weekend, and wants to be sure he is available to comment and react to others’ comments on the post. ... Read More »





