On a Philosophy of Marriage
Listen to an interview about this piece here. Many have seen one or another movie or television version of the Frankenstein story. The first was made in 1910 and there have been many since. The…
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Performative Theology: Not Such a New Thing
A movement called “scriptural theology” has been part of academic theology for some time now, since the 1980s or earlier.[1] In spite of that, with some exceptions I will note, it has had little impact on…
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Truman Madsen, Architect
Truman Madsen was a speaker extraordinaire, one of the finest orators in the Church, able to speak extemporaneously in a captivating voice. Alert to his audience, he was able to thread the pieces of his…
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Mormon Scholars in the Humanities Conference | Overcoming Technology: The Grace of Stuff
We tend to think of technology as a way of producing this or that. Simple technologies produce obvious results: a match produces fire. More complicated technologies, such as computers, also produce things, though sometimes it is less obvious what they produce. Our messages may get lost in the ether, but that metaphor recognizes that I produced something using my computer, whatever it was that got lost. There are good reasons to understand technology in terms of production.
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