Are Mormons Crazy for Porn?
A study has looked at what percent of broadband users in an area also subscribe to a particular network of paid online pornography. Articles about the study have suggested that conservative religious...
View ArticleThe Central Religious Experience of Mormonism
What does Mormonism portray as the central religious experience? Maybe its the achievement of Godhood in family, you could make an argument for that. Although that’s pretty remote and abstract. We...
View ArticleCoerced abortion, involuntary sterilization
The US Senate just voted down an amendment that would prevent federal funds given to the United Nations Population Fund programs that support or promote coerced abortion (read China) or involuntary...
View ArticleAdultery in Law
I had a buddy in high school who was a fierce Navajo patriot. He bitterly resented what had become of his people. I needled him once on how much better off the Navajo were now with roads, and...
View ArticleThe Gospel is Crude
The temple, we are told, is where the most sacred gospel rites occur. Brigham Young explained the meaning of those rites this way: [they] are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to...
View ArticleThe Love That Moves The Stars
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great acommandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy...
View ArticleGaggles of Girls
On the sweetness of Mormon life. My brother’s new wife curls up against him on the pew, toying with his hair. Two of my little girls sit on his lap. A third stands on the bench next to him to better...
View Article“Twenty-Mark Note” Experiences
There is a certain category of life-experiences that I refer to as “Twenty-Mark Note” stories. The name for these experiences comes from a talk by the same name, given by President Packer at BYU-Idaho...
View ArticleCommentary on 1 Nephi 17, pt. 1
This is the first of a series of posts in which I will be offering some commentary on 1 Nephi 17. Why that particular chapter you ask? The answer is that I believe that chapter 17 is setting forth a...
View ArticleLast “Who Should Be Mormon of the Year” segment postponed
At Last Lemming’s request, I have postponed the last of the three “Who Should Be Mormon of the Year” segments until Tuesday morning. That segment covers 1990 to 2007. Last Lemming will be out-of-town...
View ArticleFirst Mormon Studies Fellowships Announced
Mormon Studies took another step forward this week with the announcement of two doctoral fellowships in Mormon Studies. Courtesy of the George S. and Delores Doré Eccles Foundation, the two fellowships...
View ArticleHUAC
After nearly 40 years in the wilderness, HUAC is back in style! The Hanks Un-American Activities Committee is ready to shed “a little bit of light” on the un-American Americans who are “responsible”...
View ArticleRegarding Carol Lynn Pearson
Over the holidays I discovered the poetry of Carol Lynn Pearson, which I have been enjoying. At times she spills over into the trite or saccharine, but on the whole I like it. There is nothing...
View ArticleThe Political is Personal
This post is Janet’s fault. In a (probably futile, given what’s a comin’) effort not to offend, I’m going to call the two parties involved SIFs (single income families) and DIFs (dual income families)....
View ArticleKey to the Science of Unity
Our ward has been exploring the idea of Unity in our sacrament meeting talks this month, and I’ve heard the same attribution to Elder Dallin H. Oaks several times. It apparently comes from a “News of...
View ArticleWho Should Have Been Mormon of the Year, 1990-2007
This final of three posts, covers Times and Seasons reader Last Lemming’s suggestions for Mormon of the Year for the years 1990 through 2007. We already posted on Monday his picks for 1950 through 1969...
View ArticleA Psalm for Inauguration Day
72: 1 Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king’s son. “The king” and “the king’s son” probably apply to the same person; by calling the king “the king’s son,” the...
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