Blair Hodges earned a bachelor’s degree in communications (journalism) at the University of Utah and a master’s degree in religious studies at Georgetown University. Hodges founded and hosted the Maxwell Institute Podcast at Brigham […]
Impossible to tally, The time that a stethoscope Has draped about my father’s neck. Years, I am sure.
Here, the author of this letter instructs his readers to live a life of piety, or godliness. He explains that the power of God has given us all the tools we need to live […]
[…] D. Smith’s Nauvoo Polygamy: “… but we called it celestial marriage” is an extremely important contribution to the history of polygamy and to Mormon history. Carefully written and the result of exhaustive research, it […]
[…] now I love Hungary because the poets are sad enough and no sadder. Life for them is brutal and complicated. They make lace out of burlap, a world out of rubble. Maybe we will learn.
[…] Doctrine class. I’ve no doubt that there were many wards throughout the country (and perhaps throughout the world) where, for reasons having to do with the beliefs and priorities of local or regional leaders, […]
[…] All sins are just variations on that same desire to do something else when you’re already doing something. Multitaskers are children of the devil. You can’t serve two masters. Divided attention is just dressed-up inattention.
Few books convey the pain and poignancy of Mormon ecclesiastical discipline as compellingly as Latter-day Dissent: At the Crossroads of Intellectual Inquiry and Ecclesiastical Authority, a newly published paperback from Greg Kofford Books. The […]
Patrick Mason has recently been named to the Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont University. He was granted a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame; and his dissertation, “Sinners in […]
Mathematicians say the universe is a leaking wonder of heat and cold: immense pressures sucking and exhaling, not elegant as they’d imagined . . . “preposterous.”