This is an effective and well-earned slap-down:   “Dennis Prager and Caller on Mormonism, Values, Theology and Mitt Romney”   There are some pauses.  Keep listening to the end.     Read more

    “I’ve spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don’t know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had... Read more

    I suspect that many of you will find these of interest:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865665719/Temples-topic-of-several-conferences-lectures-in-early-November.html   Mark your calendars and make plans!     Read more

    Just when I was beginning to overcome my distaste for Lou Dobbs after his last anti-Mormon diatribe several years ago (regarding the Mormon conspiracy to promote illegal immigration), he’s given me yet more reason to dislike him.   A lot of the responses to him, though, are really funny.   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mormon-mafia_us_58118785e4b0990edc2f34fb       Read more

    National Review:  “Mike Pence Comes to Utah. (Yes, Utah.)”   OPB:  “4 Reasons Mormons Are More Skeptical Of Trump Than Other Religious Conservatives”   Washington Post:  “Why Donald Trump could lose red Utah: Mormon America has found another candidate”   Charlie Rose:  “Glenn Beck calls Trump a sociopath”   Newsweek:  “Tim Kaine recounts missionary work to court Mormon vote”   National Review:  “McMullin Scenario a Last-Ditch Hope for Dismayed Voters”   World Religion News:  “Meet the Mormon Candidate... Read more

    http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/25/living/mormon-gay-website/   Of course you can be both.   That hasn’t changed.  It’s scarcely a new teaching.   Nor has the Church modified its moral teaching.   But there’s no question that we (like all other humans) can always try to be more loving, more welcoming, and more effectively pastoral — toward those who experience same-sex attraction as toward all others.  I welcome the new website and the new statements from Church leadership.  Including this one:   “Leaders... Read more

    There was a great deal of controversy, a few months ago, about what I believe to have been unintended consequences of intersecting policies at Brigham Young University, where I work.  The effect of these prior policies was, in some cases, to further victimize victims of sexual assault.   BYU has now moved to remedy the situation:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865665672/BYU-advisory-council-recommends-amnesty-clause.html     Read more

    I’ve pointed several times before to the fascistic elements that I see associated with the Trumpist movement, and that trouble me deeply.  These include the personality cult that seems to have emerged around Mr. Trump himself, the authoritarian nationalism that he appears to espouse (which seldom refers to liberty, limited government, and the Constitution), the racism and xenophobia that surface so often in and around it, the latent violence of some of his rhetoric, and the sometimes overt violence... Read more

    A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.  George MacDonald (1824-1905)       Read more

    “Same-Sex Attraction”   “Mormon and Gay”     Read more