Category: Cornucopia

  • Relief Society Moment

    I ran across this Relief Society moment in the March 15, 1873 Woman’s Exponent. Maybe it will make you smile, too:

  • Guest Blogger: Alison Moore Smith

    We are delighted to welcome Alison Moore Smith as a Times and Seasons guest blogger!

  • The Miracle of Forgiveness

    Thursday night I heard a short piece on the radio that brought me close to tears. Part of NPR’s on-going series of personal essays called This I Believe, the segment illustrated for me the meaning of true forgiveness as perfectly as anything I’ve ever heard. The essay was delivered by two people, Ronald Cotton and…

  • Mountain Meadows Panel Discussion at UVU

    Richard Turley, Will Bagley, and Forrest Cuch will present a panel discussion this coming Thursday (March 5) at Utah Valley University. These panelists have very, very different perspectives on the events at Mountain Meadows, so bringing them together should make for an exciting conversation.

  • Provident Living Idea

    Since more people are budget-minded these days, I thought I’d begin an occasional series of frugal ideas.

  • A Mormon History Bleg

    Do you know of any good source dealing with Mormon attitudes toward and/or involvement in the Spanish-American War? Please give me your ideas in the comments. Thanks!

  • BYU Church History Symposium, Feb 27th

    Church Historian Marlin K. Jensen and Asst. Church Historian Richard E. Turley Jr. will be among the many speakers at this year’s BYU Church History Symposium.  The event is free, open to the public, and requires no registration.   More information can be found at the symposium web page.   Full announcement below.

  • Agonizing

    I was intrigued by Adam’s link: “Legitimacy is the most precious resource of the state and should not be frittered away like this.”

  • David Hall at Claremont on Puritans and Mormons

    Next Thursday, February 19th, David Hall of Harvard Divinity School will be giving a free public lecture at the Claremont School of Religion. Below is the text of the announcement; you may also download a color PDF version of the event flyer.

  • Welcome Guest Blogger Matt Grow

    I am very glad to introduce to you our next guest blogger, Matt Grow. We thought this would be a good time to have Matt blog with us because he just had a book come out last week from Yale University Press, Liberty to the Downtrodden: Thomas L. Kane, Romantic Reformer, on an important and…

  • Reminders: SMPT & Summer Seminar

    Deadlines are approaching for paper submissions to the Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology 2009 Annual Meeting (due February 13th), and for applications to the Summer Seminar on Orson and Parley Pratt with Terryl Givens and Matt Grow (due February 15th).

  • Michael Scott and C.S. Lewis

    While I don’t really have a television, there are a couple of shows that I regularlly watch through Netflix or hulu.com.  Among them is The Office.  I actually think that some of C.S. Lewis’s thoughts on the nature of love help to make sense of Michael Scott. 

  • Extended Deadline: Mormon Scholars in the Humanities conference

    It’s not too late to send in a proposal for this year’s Mormon Scholars in the Humanities conference, May 8-9 at Aspen Grove and BYU, Provo, UT. Speaker John Caputo and individualized scholarly mentoring opportunities are special highlights this year.

  • If You See Her, Say Hello

    We are delighted to announce that Ardis Parshall’s posts will be returning to T&S.  

  • Brand New Day

    Thanks for all the comments on site design. We’re still making use of that feedback. Here is a two sidebar option that gives a great deal of info up top, but then quickly drops off to just let you read in peace as you get farther down the page. Take it for a spin.

  • Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright

    We’ve spiffed up our design a little bit.  Have a look around and let us know what you like and what you don’t. We may not do anything about your comments; but then again, we might, and the venting should be good for you regardless.

  • Elder Ballard on the Inauguration

    “We need to exercise our prayers and help [President Obama] accomplish the great objectives that he has set.” Discuss.

  • 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.

  • Welcome to Guest Blogger Sheldon G.

    We’re due for an infusion of new blood here at T&S, so we’ve decided to roll out the red carpet for one Sheldon G. Sheldon got his undergraduate degree from the U of U, where he majored in history, wrote his senior thesis on the reactions of LDS women to the Correlation-related changes to the…

  • Men at Work — site will be weird for a bit

    So we’re switching hosts this weekend. This means things are going to act funny for a while. Since we’ve been having recurring outages for weeks, this should be nothing new to our loyal fans. Hopefully, in the new world order our mindblowing traffic will stop bringing down our server.

  • Pardon our appearance…

    We’ve just completed upgrading the software that runs Times and Seasons. The upgrade requires us to also update the files that control how the site looks. It may take a while for us to get Times and Seasons to the way we want it to look, so please be patient.

  • Brigham Daniels on deck

    We’d like to extend many thanks to Kent Larsen for a variety of interesting and thoughtful posts. We also would like to welcome our newest guest, Brigham Daniels. Brigham works as a law professor at the University of Houston Law Center, where he teaches environmental law. He has been involved with LDS community, environmental law…

  • Three Million Strong (and Growing)…

    A little more than a year ago, Russell wrote a post commemorating Times and Seasons 2 millionth hit. A feat he said wasn’t bad “for a blog that doesn’t feature kittens or porn.” Looking back, he also noted that while “We’ve weathered storms and squalls, and some people have gone overboard… Still, old Times and…

  • Welcome to Guest Blogger Kent Larsen

    Times and Seasons is thrilled to have Kent Larsen as our latest guest. Kent has been very busy in book publishing in New York City for twenty years and has followed LDS publishing closely for ten years. He has also been posting on arts and media for over three years at A Motley Vision, so…

  • Welcome to Guest Blogger Kylie Turley

    Let’s have a big round of applause for Craig Harline’s busy two weeks as a guest blogger, then roll out the red carpet for our next guest, Kylie Turley. Kylie teaches honors writing at BYU (so watch those errant commas and inscrutable relative pronouns in your comments!) and is also on the staff of the…

  • Posts You Might Have Missed 4

    In case you were too busy celebrating Bastille Day to keep up with your required blog reading, here are a few posts to notice.

  • Posts You Might Have Missed 3

    While the Bloggernacle was ablaze with commentary on the June 29 First Presidency letter to California Mormons (see interesting updates here and here) plenty of posts on other timely topics were zipping through cyberspace.

  • Send in the Casseroles

    On the sweetness of Mormon life, with apologies to Adam: