Monthly Archives: September 2011

Being Mormon on Tatooine

If you don’t understand the last word in my title, congratulations. You are not a nerd. I, on the other hand, am a nerd, and I was delighted to read in the Wall Street Journal that a planet has been … Continue reading

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A Mormon’s Review of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion

This post is largely in unedited marginalia form, but it received a popular response on my Facebook notes page, so I thought I’d share it more broadly. The ordinal numbers are excerpts from Dawkins’ (a prominent neo-atheist) book, and the … Continue reading

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The Ever-Present Face of Tragedy

I have had a hard time with the over-abundance of media articles on the ten-year anniversary of 9/11. Don’t get me wrong; I thought it was awful at the time. I was in a printmaking class that morning, and someone … Continue reading

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You Are Still My Brother

Instead, I’ll end with some questions and maybe be lucky enough to get a comment or two. What should we do when we encounter somebody with a “narrow” perspective that we think may be damaging? Should we try to change it or at least explain it? If so, how? Continue reading

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God Bless America – 10th Anniversary of September 11th

Exactly ten years ago today, tragedy struck American soil early on the morning of September 11, 2001. Volumes of information and personal narrative have been written about this day and its effect upon the economic, political, and social landscape of … Continue reading

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