[…] 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.”
HARK, hearer, hear what I do; lend a thought now, make believe We are leafwhelmed somewhere with the hood Of some branchy bunchy bushybowered wood, Southern dene or Lancashire clough or Devon cleave, That […]
[…] my great-grandfather’s (Henry S. Tanner) family. He decided to take his first polygamous wife ten years after the first Manifesto. He had already been the mission president of the California mission and had completed […]
Otis Redding and Ulysses knew something about sitting at the edge of the world, trying to remember the changing shades of the sea at home,
The angels’ wings are molting, so I’ll make my pen. Sound me down to earth or hell, but let me take my pen.
The 2010 videogame Epic Mickey, before its release, was looking to be one of the more controversial games of the year. And that’s without any sex or decapitation. What made it so controversial? […]