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Tag Archives: Mormon moment
Media Attention Misses the Heart of Mormonism
The plethora of articles I’ve been seeing on the web lately about Mormons are missing a very vital something. They range from how Mormons try to keep the rules and stay cool, how we are leaving the church, our strangest … Continue reading
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White horses and other mysticism.
This is not going to be a long post, I hope. I am still recovering from the shock that Tim Tebow did not win his playoff game against the Patriots. Bad things do happen to good people, even if the … Continue reading
Mormon Chic?
Do these types of articles help make us seem more like everybody else since they show how individual Mormons participate in many different areas of society? Or, conversely, do these articles make us seem more “other” since they make a big deal out of the fact that these people are Mormon,? Continue reading
Once in a Mormon moment
I was bored in lab one day and as I waited for some experiment to finish I stumbled across this very peculiar idea of the “Mormon moment.” I didn’t know what the heck it meant, but one week later I saw … Continue reading
