Today, as I was preparing a lesson for Elder’s Quorum, out in the foyer of our chapel, a young boy, maybe eight or nine was playing and came up to me. Very sweet. I asked his name. “Nick.” I know the father of the boy, and think highly of the family. They are your typical [...]
Perhaps an exacting form of vengeance upon Christians who insist that all Mormons are not, would be to insist that all Christians are Mormons. (He chuckles to himself.) (Really, though, no interest in trying to pick any fights.)
This post was prompted by a question raised over here. I’ve been thinking about visual representations of machine language for some time now. I had an idea pour itself into my brain, oh, nearly a year ago, that has been consuming my thoughts ever since. We live in a world of ones and zeroes and [...]
In an endeavor to not entirely resist *all* my cultural upbringing, today I begin the first in a five part series revealing some of the cheesy Mormon shiz I have secretly embraced over the years. Enjoy at your own secret eating. Part I: Stay With Me It would probably embarrass me to confess how many [...]
See, the thing about that song, despite Paul’s rant, it is much better due to the overly dramatic orchestration and choir. Sure, I like the posthumously released, sparser version. And Ray Charles really was meant to sing the song, but it is, in my opinion, a better song because of Spector’s vision. ‘Sides. Were it [...]
Okay. I love TV’s The Office. The show occasionally manages to make me feel really vulnerable or on edge. I mean, that’s what they’re built for, right? Well. This last episode? The one where Michael Scott promised a bunch of kids 10 years prior to pay for college? The one I just started watching and haven’t finished? [...]
One thing about that fateful year: more than two thirds of my life, I lived with that giant in the desert, never knowing his name, never knowing his crime, never knowing his goodness, never knowing the pleasure of his countenance, never knowing the gruesome horror of his face, his hands, his soul. Never knowing his [...]
I’m disappointed that you list Mormons under the heading “cult” on your website. It’s a sad status to lower yourself to denigrating us thus. Why are Evangelicals so preoccupied with proclaiming Mormons under this heading? Do you realize what it sounds like to our ears? It’s become a disgusting epithet, tantamount to racial invective slurs. [...]
Perty cool. This weekend I was able to go and meet some of the founders of the gadgetry running this here blog. I wouldn’t say I’m particularly tied to WordPress as a system, however, I’ve taken a lot of interest in BuddyPress lately, what with a pet project, Arx Poetica, which I’ve built on top [...]