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I suppose I ought to weigh in on this matter. But given the silence that has characterized this blog of late, I suppose I won’t say too much. I must have been quite distracted when President Packer gave his talk last weekend. No disrespect meant to him, but I think I was waking up from [...]
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This is the final post in a five-part series on marriage, in case that wasn’t obvious in the title. Thus far I have tried to make a case for difference in marriage, arguing that without confronting the fundamental differences symbolized by the sexual unity of male and female, we are less able to understand fully [...]
Filed under: Culture, Mormon Culture, Relationships, Uncategorized | Tagged: And They Were Not Ashamed, charity, Family, gay marriage, Gender, LDS Church, marriage, Mormon Culture, Proposition 8, same-sex marriage, sexuality, women | 73 Comments »
I love to ponder, learn, share, and discuss. I love when people challenge my beliefs in a way that stretches me to seek more deeply for understanding and helps me gain a greater vision of the possibilities and the truth. I have always been this way and I know it is part of why I [...]
Filed under: LDS blogs, Mormon Culture, Relationships | Tagged: -ites, Berkeley, Bloggernacle, Brigham Young University, BYU, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, cynicism, intellectualism, Jesus Christ, LDS, Mormon blogs, Mormons, Provo, self-righteousness, Zion | 5 Comments »
I have long thought that Mormon culture lingo sounds stupid and is off-putting and degrading. Which is wonderfully exemplified by the poem “RULDS?” by Joel Hardy (which I found in a comment at this Splendid Sun post in 2006).
Filed under: About blog, Mormon Culture | Tagged: Mormons, Mormon Culture, LDS blogs, lingo, Bloggernacle, missionary work, RULDS?, technology, jargon | 13 Comments »
We’ve moved! For the purposes of a better domain name and a better server, we have moved from Blogger to WordPress. I’ll be sorting through some of the bugs in the next little while. But please start using this site and change your bookmarks to it.
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One feature I would like to add to this blog is to periodically report on blogs that I think would be of interest to our readers. The first blog I would like to highlight is Towards an LDS Cinema, which I stumbled upon a few weeks ago. I discovered, in my stumbling, that it is [...]
Filed under: Film, LDS blogs | Tagged: Arts, Film, humanities, LDS blogs, Mormon Culture, Mormons | 3 Comments »
In one of my favorite poems, “A Prayer for Old Age,” W.B. Yeats writes: God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone; He that sings a lasting song Thinks in a marrow-bone. Here Yeats makes the provocative claim that thinking is not restricted to the mind, and that the wise person [...]
Filed under: About blog, Philosophy, Poetry | Tagged: Descartes, Divine embodiment, Heidegger, Joseph Smith, Law, Mind-body dualism, Modernism, Philosophy, W.B. Yeats | 4 Comments »
One week ago, I started this blog thinking that maybe a few of my friends would visit now and then. To my surprise, there have been over 1000 unique visitors, none of which came directly from search engines. (Only since yesterday has the blog been searchable by Google and Yahoo.) It’s made me think that [...]
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