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My perpetually angry rampage through the pages of the Deseret News continues with this most recent malevolent rant:
“Evidence of 23 New Testament political figures outside of the Bible”
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I hope to find the time to read this book:
“Gay brother of Mormon apostle shares his spiritual journey”
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Here’s an intriguing piece, with links:
“Mayan Calendars and Book of Mormon Hermeneutics”
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From somewhere on the banks of Lake Ontario in the frozen wilderness of eastern Canada, Stephen Smoot, a stranger in a strange land, has written a blog entry titled “What do the Scriptures Say about ‘Mocking Sacred Things?”
In his honor, and as a token of thanks, I offer this verse from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, set in the region of the Great Lakes:
By the shores of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
Stood the wigwam of Nokomis
Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis,
Dark behind it rose the forest,
Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees,
Rose the firs with cones upon them;
Bright before it beat the water,
Beat the clear and sunny water,
Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.
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A touching piece from the Deseret News:
“How Greg Madsen taught me how to live after he died”
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A remarkably sympathetic article by an Episcopalian priest, Danielle Tumminio:
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You’re perhaps aware of Sharon Osbourne and her husband, Ozzy, the heavy metal singer and songwriter. Here’s something that she said in 2005 about settling in Los Angeles:
“One of the first things I bought for the house was a big old-fashioned telescope, which I kept in the living-room area. And the first thing I did every night when I came home was go to the spyglass and look out across the city to the Mormon temple on Santa Monica Boulevard. On top is a golden angel blowing a horn that glints at sunset. It was my ritual, a way of anchoring myself. And at night, with the city lit up, it was breathtaking. And I built a hot tub on the top terrace where you could sit and look out at it all glittering beneath you.”
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