- Anon on Attention Spans and Spiritual Diets in the 21st Century: “I don’t think we can downplay the dangers of a diet of digital “short forms”. That stuff is like processed food. It definitely lowers your spiritual life expectancy.” Oct 6, 10:22
- on Cutting Edge Latter-day Saint Research, September 2026: “Really enjoying reading https://interpreterfoundation.org/journal/who-is-the-real-jacques-derrida Thanks for posting!” Oct 6, 09:34
- on Attention Spans and Spiritual Diets in the 21st Century: “I liked reading the Iliad. It probably helped that I read it as part of a class where the instructor would help point out the larger picture that I was probably missing as I read it. But I liked it so much that after I graduated I bought myself a new copy and read it again.” Oct 6, 08:47
- on Attention Spans and Spiritual Diets in the 21st Century: “I agree with your points. I’m smiling at your memory of being restricted to listening to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Halfway through my mission our MP finished his service and we got a new one who imposed the same music restriction so we went from a mission rule that allowed us to listen to anything sold at Deseret Book to MoTab only. I, the most hardworking and obedient missionary ever, could not do it for long. I also recall the mission president’s wife driving us somewhere and she would listen to pop music on the radio. I loved being with her.” Oct 6, 05:50
- on Attention Spans and Spiritual Diets in the 21st Century: “In other words, we need to be realistic and meet people where they are. I agree.” Oct 6, 05:04
- on A Review: Richard Lyman Bushman: A Mormon Ambassador: “Two unrelated comments: 1. As to RSR and faith promotion/demotion, my own personal take is that if someone can’t still be active after reading RSR, it was probably just a matter of time anyway. That’s probably unfair, but not by much. At some point, we all have to understand our history and make peace with it. 2. I put this book in the same category of Leonard Arrington’s biography a decade ago–it’s a little weird and very meta to do a biographical history about someone whose occupation was to write biographical history. It’s like a hat wearing a hat.” Oct 5, 16:59
- on Mormon Studies Books in 2026: “I’m mostly keeping an eye on group of sites I know do a lot of reviews or interviews (T&S, Dawning if a Brighter Day, From the Desk, Cultural Hall). If I’m made aware of more of them through publishers’ newsletters, social media posts, the https://www.ldsblogs.org/ site, and the occasionally search, I’ll add them. But I wouldn’t trust this to be a comprehensive collection.” Oct 4, 13:55
- on Mormon Studies Books in 2026: “Chad, this is fabulous work. Thank you very much for doing it. One question: When you look for reviews of books, are you only looking at the sites you reference here? Or are you doing general searches for reviews of the books? I ask because I wonder how much I can rely on my assumption that the sites you list are the main sites where LDS books get reviewed (i.e., is it possible that there are other sites out there that review LDS books that you have excluded for some reason, or that you haven’t noticed because of the way you search)?” Oct 3, 17:28
- on A Review: Richard Lyman Bushman: A Mormon Ambassador: “Kristine, that would be fantastic (Especially since there’s only 1 out the 10 titles in the series so far that is about a woman.)” Oct 3, 12:20
- on A Review: Richard Lyman Bushman: A Mormon Ambassador: “Chad, I hope the reason not to include Claudia here is that she’s getting a book of her own in the series. She certainly should!” Oct 2, 19:58
