LDS themes in Battlestar Galactica, Knowing, and Watchmen?
SPOILERS BELOW! YOU’VE BEEN WARNED! [NOTE: welcome to all the traffic from Twitter and from Roger Ebert’s review of “Knowing”! I’ve expanded a few things below for clarification.] I’m going to discuss...
View Article“Could Pat Robertson Be Mormon?”
Paul Abrams over at the Huffingon Post has a snarky and somewhat ill-informed article in response to comments that Pat Robertston apparently made about heaven. To give you an idea of the silliness of...
View ArticleDid you know that LDS women “flock”, “swarm”, and “buzz”?
This morning’s Salt Lake Tribune has the following story headline and opening sentence: LDS women flock to upcoming BYU Women’s Conference More than 20,000 Mormon women will swarm the campus of Brigham...
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Mormons get the blame for Maine
Mollie over at GetReligion.org points out that in wake of Maine citizens overturning the gay marriage law (the Question 1 initiative before voters this past Tuesday), gay marriage supporters are now...
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Why the Catholic Church is upset with “New Moon”
After having seen “New Moon” on Friday afternoon with my sweet wife Sandra, I was a bit startled in late night browsing to read the following article (hat tip to Big Hollywood): The latest movie in...
View ArticleJews’ covenant with God up for renewal
Ah, the Onion. Doing what SNL would do if they (SNL) had any decent writers or comedians left. ..bruce..
View ArticleMormons, Vietnam, Romney and the Draft, revisited
Five years ago, the Boston Globe ran an article suggesting collusion between the LDS Church and the US Selective Services regarding deferments for missionaries in general, and Mitt Romney in...
View ArticleShades of Zarahemla
Over the past several years, I have been struck by something each time I read King Benjamin’s speech in Mosiah 2-6 to the combined Mulekites[1] and Nephites. Benjamin begins his speech with a long list...
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“Mormonia”: the trailer
This is several years old, but I hadn’t seen it before. I found it quite funny, especially since it probably reflects the feelings of non-Mormons in “tracted-over” neighborhoods. Your mileage may...
View ArticleIn case anyone mentions “the Book of Mormon” and “Smithsonian” in the same...
…please sent them over to this post at Keepapitchinin by Ardis “Ace” Parshall, Mormon Detective: News of the impending publication reached Salt Lake City early in November, 1936. Alarmed, Heber J....
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