[…] his new tribute-to-Joni-Mitchell CD, River. You gotta love that Herbie, I’m thinking. Tina Turner’s singing “Edith and the Kingpin,” something about victims of typewriters and how the band sounds like typewriters. I laugh. I’m […]
Cyberspace is changing the way religion is practiced in contemporary society. A 2004 Pew Internet and American Life project estimated that 64 percent of American internet users go online for spiritual or religious purposes.Religious […]
[…] minutes but her phone has fallen silent. Other than the shirring of the trees overhead, the whole world is still. Jennifer stands, brushes off her backside, arranges her pack over both shoulders, and starts […]
[…] brazenly unreligious I was, and, as a condition of staying in the band, got me reading Good News for Modern Man. That grey paperback book was the semi-official New Testament of Jesus Freaks, of […]
We will get to the violin playing. First, let’s talk about the dress. On May 17, 2015, the Mormon blogosphere erupted into controversy over the designer gown worn by dancing violinist and YouTube star […]
[…] worried for your three brothers the way I worry for you—because you are a girl in the world, because you’re my girl. You are on the edge of so much, the end of high […]
[…] had they were vibrating in an exultant state such that neither could quite focus on the physical world, which was demanding that I keep my steps to the center of the median and keep […]
[…] government of the State of Utah. Joe Hill was a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, an indigenous radical labor organization which gained notoriety, roughly in the period from 1905 into the […]
Dialogue 4.2 (Summer 1971): 82–85 Secular scholarship and L.D.S. studies of archaeology and the Book of Mormon have had a discordant dialogue for some time. The scripture asserts, for example, that the civilizations it […]
[…] of my Mormon heritage, but this does not preclude my questioning within my cultural upbringing about the world, or worlds, in which I live. I wish that I could accept the basic premises advanced […]