Category: Cornucopia

  • Critical Theory for Thee but Not For Me

    Nate Oman

    In 1996, the Catholic scholar Massimo Introvigne published an article entitled “The Book of Mormon Wars: A Non-Mormon Perspective.” He wrote:

  • MR: From Kolob to Kobol (reviewing Battlestar Galactica)

    Mormon Review

    Today marks the launch of The Mormon Review.  Our first article is: James Bennett, “From Kolob to Kobol,” The Mormon Review, vol.1 no. 2 [HTML] [PDF] Bennett offers a review of Battlestar Galactica, both the 1978 ABC series and the Sci-Fi remake that debuted in 2003.  Given the widespread following that the new series has…

  • Spare Me, Brigham Young

    Julie M. Smith

    I wanted to extend the discussion from this post with some thoughts from Brigham Young:

  • Revelation Conference Reminder

    Julie M. Smith

    The Mormon Theology Seminar, in conjunction with BYU’s Richard L. Evans Chair of Religious Understanding and the Latter-day Saint Student Association at UT-Austin, is hosting a conference titled “Latter-day Saint Readings of Revelation 21-22.”

  • T&S is now on Facebook

    Kent Larsen

    No, we haven’t moved to facebook. But we have a page on facebook — http://www.facebook.com/pages/TimesandSeasonsorg/94901729600 — so those of you on facebook can add our page to your profile, share favorite posts and give us feedback and suggestions.

  • Battle of the Bands: A chat

    Kaimi Wenger

    me: okay, apropos of nothing who rocks more – mormons in bands, or evangelicals?

  • Hitchens on the conundrum of female religiosity

    Kaimi Wenger

    From his book review of Elizabeth Edwards’ new memoir, in this month’s Atlantic:

  • Pardon my French

    Jonathan Green

    A brotherly reader writes: I recently had a chance to watch the new French film Banlieue 13: Ultimatum, which as far as these things go is a pretty good action flick

  • FHE Lesson #13

    Julie M. Smith

    Lesson #13: Faith in Jesus Christ

  • Bugged?

    Kaimi Wenger

    We’ve all heard of Mormon crickets. But did you know that there are not just one, but half a dozen types of Mormon butterfly? They’re named for their practice of polygamy (heh), and they’re beautiful. The Great Mormon butterfly (Males are blue or black, females have striking speckled patterns of red, black and gray).

  • God is a Bus Driver

    Alison Moore Smith

    This week I made the pilgrimage to Education Week at BYU, as I always do mid-August. No, I’m not live-blogging the event but, in light of Rory’s deist leanings, an instructor’s comment stuck out.

  • Too Much Information

    Kylie Turley

    My friend was recently invited to an LDS bridal shower, and the invitation came complete with the bride’s personal measurements and sizing. Call me old-fashioned, prudish, and conservative,

  • When Prayers Become Talks

    Alison Moore Smith

    Of all completely meaningless things that annoy me, high on the list is when Young Women is referred to as “Young Women’s.” I’d spend more time elaborating on that, but I really need to finish this post so I can get on to my Relief Society’s lesson.

  • Spiritual Pickpockets

    Rory Swensen

    Does God want you to be rich? Certainly! If you believe Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, preaching their form of Prosperity Theology. They are the focus of an August 15 article at the New York Times. (H/T BCC)

  • FHE Lesson #12

    Julie M. Smith

    Lesson #12: The Atonement of Jesus Christ

  • FHE Lesson #11

    Julie M. Smith

    Lesson #11: The Life of Jesus Christ

  • Liveblogging Symposium – Stay-at-home Moms: On the Record

    Rory Swensen

    EDIT: Emily Jensen has a great article on this at Mormon Times, and offers a much better (and more readable) synopsis. See it at http://bit.ly/GOEdq Approximately 30 people in attendance, an engaging and personable panel: Moderator/ CAMILLE AAGARD, former account executive at a public relations agency; cleaned out her desk two days before giving birth…

  • Online teaching resources

    Kaimi Wenger

    I’ve put together a list of sorts of online lesson aids (thanks in part to the very useful help of many T&S commenters) which I’ll be using in my talk. I’ve grouped them by category as follows:

  • Tired-blogging from Sunstone, Day 3

    Kaimi Wenger

    It’s early, and I’m still recovering from karaoke, but I’m at the Sonia Johnson panel. I’m sad to miss Kristine singing this morning, but this panel has a distinct advantage — I can sit with a laptop and write my talk for next time. I’ll try to type up some notes on this session (and…

  • Live(ish)-blogging Sunstone, Day 2

    Kaimi Wenger

    I missed out on the morning, because I had to finish grading papers. I’m now at D’Arcy’s session on virginity. I’m not true live-blogging it, I’ll post some summary notes as we go along.

  • Selfishness Pays (Off)

    Kylie Turley

    So, what with Utah’s poor Iowa Test scores, I’ve had a few people asking me how I turned all my children into such voracious little readers. “Did you read to them every day when they were little?” friends query. “Why, no. Of course not,” I respond. “I’m much too selfish for that.”

  • Liveblogging Sunstone, Day 1

    Kaimi Wenger

    I’m going to be live(ish) blogging Sunstone, at least some. The level of effectiveness will depend on a lot of factors, including access to wireless (which seems to be a little spotty). If you’re here (or just here in spirit), please weigh in in comments with your own thoughts.

  • Your favorite online resources (or, crowdsourcing my Sunstone talk)

    Kaimi Wenger

    Apparently, I’m speaking on a Sunstone panel about online resources for LDS teaching. (I’m not quite sure how this happened, but it’s probably Kristine’s fault.) The panel is populated with familiar faces from the blogs, and the abstract is this:

  • Wednesday Conference Talk: Finding Joy in the Journey

    Kaimi Wenger

    I really liked President Monson’s recent talk, Finding Joy in the Journey. President Monson talks about enjoying life and focusing on our relationships with the people around us, especially family: Stresses in our lives come regardless of our circumstances. We must deal with them the best we can. But we should not let them get…

  • 8 Seconds

    Rory Swensen

    I entered a rodeo once (and if you know me, you know how absurd that is). I rode a bull in the very arena that we watched the bull riders this weekend. It was my only rodeo, and I dominated that bull for the full 8 seconds.

  • Scenes from Sunday

    Julie M. Smith

    Because I said something that might possibly have been interpreted as mildly irreverent [1],

  • FHE Lesson #10

    Julie M. Smith

    FHE Lesson #10: The Scriptures

  • Times & Seasons Welcomes Two More New Permabloggers

    Marc Bohn

    We’re expanding the ranks a bit more here at Times & Seasons and are pleased to welcome two more new permabloggers to our ranks:  Robert Ricks and James Olsen. Both have recently guest blogged and have bios available here and here. As with Alison and Rory, we look forward to their continuing contributions here at…

  • PSA — email junk from Wegame

    Frank McIntyre

    So if you get an email over the next little while purporting to offer you pictures or a message from someone you know, and the email comes from Wegame, it’s very likely junk.

  • New Primary Lesson Needed

    Dave Banack

    Suggested lesson topic: What to do when you are seven years old and do not want to go to church. Yes, I finally watched the video of the seven-year-old kid who drove away in the family car to avoid going to church (see posts at Get Religion or the SL Trib for details and the…