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Call to the Brain Trust: New ‘Mormon Moment’ as Jimmer enshrined in Lil Wayne...
Forget running for president or having a show on Broadway–Mormonism’s next big moment is here: BYU athlete Jimmer Fredette has been featured in Lil Wayne’s newest song in the following lyric: “I got a...
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A Chieko Okazaki Sharing Time Lesson
This was originally posted one year ago. It is being re-posted in honor of Sister Okazaki, who passed away this week. Continuing with the theme of how awesome I am at my callings, I thought I would...
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Mormons are Taking Over the Internet!
The Washington Post has an interesting article about the church’s success with search-engine optimization, PR, and “controlling its image” online. There’s plenty of hyperbole in the article (have we...
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Out of respect for them
The Provo Daily Herald reports “Authorities break ground for new LDS temple in Payson”: Following his remarks and the closing exercises, Oaks invited the four general authorities in attendance to...
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Leggings, Modesty, and EFY
To the left is the cover of the official an EFY souvenir book from 1991. It consists of the title, Feeling Great, Doing Right, Hanging Tough, in 80′s-tastic font design, and a photo of an exuberant...
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Reader Question Box #8: “is Tim Tebow Mormon?”
Reader Question Box is a series where we answer questions that show up in our website traffic monitoring statistics as Google search terms that led people to us. Copious oddities are to be found in the...
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Review: Matthew Bowman, “The Mormon People”
Title: The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith Author: Matthew Bowman Publisher: Random House Genre: History Year: 2012 Pages: 352 Binding: Hardcover ISBN-13: 978-0679644903 Price: $26.00...
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Reader Question Box #9: Is Sufjan Stevens Mormon?
Reader Question Box is a series where we answer questions that show up in our website traffic monitoring statistics as Google search terms that led people to us. Copious oddities are to be found in the...
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A Tale of Two Infographics
Here is an infographic the church’s Newsroom put out to explain the structure of our local lay leadership. (sorry for lack of embedding, I don’t want to hotlink their image, and mine is a PDF) Newsroom...
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General Conference Infographic in Pink and Blue
I really enjoyed working on various reinterpretations the Newsroom’s “Lay Leadership in the LDS Church” infographic. So I decided to try my hand at reinterpreting lds.org’s infographic about General...
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Are You a Helicopter Parent?
I recently took an online test to determine if I am a helicopter parent. Ironically, it was a helicopter quiz! After every question, it gave me immediate, condescending feedback about whether my...
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Elder Bednar Talks About S-E-X
Elder Bednar’s Saturday morning talk was about chastity. Let me start by saying I’m a believer in chastity. I believe that premarital sex creates a lot of hassle, at minimum, and generally speaking...
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Worst Mormon Date Ever
I just finished reading Brian Donovan’s book Not a Match: My True Tales of Online Dating Disasters. My oldest son starts college in the fall, so I have been feeling nostalgic about my own dating days...
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BYU’s Honor Code and Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment
Does the BYU honor code create or discourage sexual harassment? Does the increasingly stringent focus on female modesty create or discourage objectification of women? In both cases, women are often...
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For the Strength of YOUth
In a recent post, frequent commenter Ardis noted her experience with the standards of the church that have been pushing similar themes since the mid-1960s. This reminded me of a post I did elsewhere...
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Drowning in Modesty Guidelines at Girls Camp
Trying out for a role in The Boyfriend? No, just packing for Girls Camp. Marcel Proust said: “People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.” That seems an apt...
View ArticleMormon Obedience: On Disregarding the Prophet’s Preferences
On Sunday morning, President Nelson dedicated his full full talk to shutting down the use of Mormon and other nicknames for the church. This seems to be something he feels passionate about, and...
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I am hyper-social. I am social distancing.
Last May I had an extended business trip that took me to the West Coast for twelve days (Los Angeles, then San Francisco, then Anchorage, then Seattle). While on business, I did what I always do: I...
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How can we measure our lives?: The crisis edition*
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com As I received with hard-won indifference a job rejection this week, I contemplated how the do-it-all feminism of the nineties on which I had been raised had rested on...
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Book Review: Rosalyn Eves’ Beyond the Mapped Stars
Beyond the Mapped Stars (Knopf, 2021) I was startled to realize recently that I had never read a mainstream novel by and about an LDS woman, despite holding a PhD in English. Although many...
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