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August 2017

August 29, 2017
Plaudits to David Brooks for "How Trump Kills the GOP", articulating from some position within...
August 16, 2017
We sit, together, in a moment of terror, brought about by racist murder and the...

July 2017

July 28, 2017
The Boy Scouts of America is an antiquated cohort of corrupt, close-minded, selfish, vindictive, and...

June 2017

June 25, 2017
Another installment of "Toxic Theology". Some things are just too poisonous to leave alone. By...
June 22, 2017
LDS Mormon critics who insist that “testimony meeting is not the place to come out”...
June 04, 2017
In its quest to infuriate by greater and greater degrees, this blog presents Toxic Theology,...

May 2017

May 15, 2017
Guys. Here’s my quick 'Don't Misogyny' list. If you have had any interest during the...
May 12, 2017
Around the time #LittlePrincePumpkin managed to reach one hundred days in office, there was a...

March 2017

March 26, 2017
For outsiders, the nineteenth-century roots of Mormonism were a happy exploitation of the still-young ideals...

February 2017

February 28, 2017
I've seen the Broadway musical twice. I'm on record in The Commercial Appeal, a Memphis...

January 2017

January 14, 2017
Sometimes, losing is the best strategy for winning.  And ethics be damned.  Radiolab, a podcast...

December 2016

December 31, 2016
Many of us will file this past year under “death”, for the passing of a...
December 23, 2016
The LDS church will send its famed Mormon Tabernacle Choir to perform in the inauguration...
December 12, 2016
The Intermedia tells us that the young generation, the millennial generation, is comprised of a...

November 2016

November 22, 2016
This past weekend I published an op-ed in the Salt Lake Tribune.  The piece garnered...
November 09, 2016
I was wrong. I wrote just last week that the 2016 election would show, finally,...
November 04, 2016
There’s nothing happy about this year’s Presidential Dolt-Fest.  But one possibility that this electoral disgrace...

October 2016

October 17, 2016
I’m coming a bit late to the party. I was on an international jaunt during...

September 2016

September 06, 2016
It was a dark and stormy night, y’all.  The phone rang, and Celia called to...

August 2016

August 08, 2016
I would vote for any one of the people on the following list, were any...

July 2016

July 22, 2016
I woke up this morning to find armies of people decrying the apocalypse which he-whose-name-will-not-be-spoken...
July 13, 2016
Editors' Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on Faith and Reason....

June 2016

June 26, 2016
A medieval reading of Mark 8 justified self-inflicted suffering. Conventional readings of the chapter these...
June 06, 2016
Amurrica is the land of opportunity, we say.  And we measure the realization of that...

May 2016

May 20, 2016
If you have Irritable Bowel Syndrome—and reading blogposts can give it to you if you...
May 09, 2016
Jeffrey Holland is angry, nay, furious, at people who leave the LDS church.**  It's hard to...

April 2016

April 25, 2016
I haven't read the entire text of Jeremy Runnells' Letter to a CES Director.  I...
April 15, 2016
The Conference Enigma A Little Play (A dark, silent sitting room. Carpet. Wood shelves. Books. Cozy,...

March 2016

March 23, 2016
Welcome to another episode of “The Most Religious Thing”.  We learned in our last episode...

February 2016

February 29, 2016
For good or for bad, the term Islamist is now part of the English lexicon,...
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