I thought I’d share my reasons for no longer seeing Mormonism as true or particularly useful. True, I have sprinkled some these idea throughout posts on the blog but they are scattered and fairly disorganized. I’ll try here to put them all in one organized place to hopefully avoid the risk of readers merely dismissing [...]
On October 13, 2009 Dallin H. Oaks, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the LDS Church spoke at BYU-Idaho where he took the gay marriage debate to a whole new level of ridiculous. In his talk titled, Religious Freedom he compared the backlash against the LDS Church for it’s participation in the [...]
I have been slowly responding to the text of a presentation that Richard Bushman gave discussing Church members who have learned new facts about Mormonism— facts they find disconcerting. I have addressed 3 of the 4 characteristics he lists for a “revived Latter-Day Saint— someone who manages to still believe in Mormonism despite discovering a [...]
Just as I finished mowing and fertilizing my lawn on Saturday a large thunderstorm barreled through the east side of the Salt Lake Valley, where I live. It was pretty entertaining as storms go— according to the Channel 5 weatherman there were 6000-8008 lightning strikes in the valley including the west side. One of those [...]
Another dust up about baptism for the dead (this time it’s Obama’s mama) has Robert Kirby back in business. I quite enjoyed his piece as usual.
Read his words here.
Robert Kirby is my hero. He manages to remain Mormon (something I am having a hard time doing) while still being thoughtful and open minded. I find him funny as hell too. Today’s column on the Big Love debacle is right on the money and cuts through all of the hypocrisy surrounding this “controversy”. Please [...]
Much of the fury surrounding the Big Love episode scheduled for this Sunday— the one depicting the LDS temple ceremony— has been about one group (HBO writers) hijacking what is sacred to another (The Mormons) and using it for their own needs (creating a potentially killer season finale). Boos and hisses all around.
HBO has apologized and [...]
Over the past few days I’ve watched a tempest in a teapot over the episode of Big Love that will air this Sunday on HBO. It seems that the show will include a depiction of the sacred/secret Mormon temple ceremony, temple garb and all. It’s no surprise that faithful LDS are up in arms about the [...]
