Posted in Culture, Current Events on Mar 3rd, 2011
Premarital sex on college campuses is not something I know anything about. I went to BYU about 10 years ago, and while premarital sex existed there, it certainly wasn’t widespread enough to be conceived of as a marketplace. So when I read this Slate article reporting that the current market “price” for sex is currently [...]
The original Production Code for motion pictures in 1930 (called the “Hays Code”) contained strict prohibitions against “pointed profanity”, defined as “the words, God, Lord, Jesus, Christ — unless used reverently”. While falling out of favor quickly (the Hays Code also contained strict prohibitions against things like “sexual relationships between the white and black races” [...]
Series Introduction: Movie ratings are traditionally based on three primary criteria: profanity, sex, and violence, with some additional emphasis on drug use. One of the flaws of the current rating system is that each level of PSVD content is wrapped into the same rating, without considering the different categories of content individually. As such, the [...]
Posted in Church teaching, Culture, Doctrine, Scripture on Oct 29th, 2010
In my own struggles to balance faith and tradition with scholarship, I find it useful to see how others have done so, particularly when I see close structural parallels between the two traditions. Peter Enns speaks from a Protestant perspective but Protestants aren’t the sole source of useful insight. I’ve enjoyed Jewish perspectives more, explored [...]
Posted in Church, Culture, Personal Narratives on Oct 25th, 2010
An interesting thing has happened since I launched the Mormon Women Project at the beginning of 2010: Molly Mormon has disappeared. Completely vanished. At least I can’t find her anymore.
Posted in Culture on Sep 21st, 2010
If you’re keeping up with the latest debates in LDS pop culture, you’ve probably come across some discussion over the new mormon.org site. It’s fantastically imagined and executed–an amazing leap away from the stogy PR of the past and a clear leap into the iFuture, if you will. I’ve found the stories on it personally [...]
Posted in Culture on Aug 27th, 2010
I have a confession: the music in the waiting chapel of the Salt Lake Temple drives me nuts. There I am, sitting reverently in my white dress, waiting for the session to start, and instead of a quiet atmosphere in which to ponder the reasons I came to the temple that day or even say [...]
It’s been five years since I posted this, and it came up in a Church discussion the other day, so it’s time for a repeat. I enjoy Orson Scott Card’s books. My in-laws feel that he portrays evil too much in them. OSC has his own defenses of this (cf. A Storyteller in Zion), but [...]
Once upon a time, my wife and I watched a TV movie on a basic cable channel — the TV-edited version of a movie that was originally rated R in theaters. It was okay, but the interesting part was what we didn’t see.
Posted in Culture on Jul 2nd, 2010
It’s Independence Day this Sunday, and chances are each Mormon ward will sing at least one of the three patriotic hymns in our hymnal. If my ward sings the national anthem, a friend of mine will quietly protest. She refuses to sing the United States national anthem in Sacrament meeting, not because she doesn’t like [...]
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