Okay.  Sorry.  So I’m a bit late with this one.   You can still watch these movies.  Or, if you like, you can bookmark this helpful list and be thoroughly ready for the seemingly endless onslaught of irritating Vermont Teddy Bear ads that will commence again in about 47 weeks:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865647510/Down-with-love-9-movies-to-celebrate-Singles-Awareness-Day.html?pg=all#rWbykqVwXY4cIeEO.01     Read more

    http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865648129/The-demigod-Maui-and-his-islands.html     Read more

    He is, bar none, my very favorite non-me writer for the Deseret News:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865646959/A-history-of-6Pride-and-Prejudice7-on-TV-and-film.html   It would have been quite inappropriate for me not to have excluded myself from the rankings, don’t you think?   I’m also a big Jane Austen fan.  (And I absolutely loathe the film version of Pride and Prejudice with Laurence Olivier.  I regard its production as a criminal act.)     Read more

    Warren Aston has been visiting Arabia and reading and thinking and writing about this topic for a very long time now.  His new book is now out.  I’ve just ordered it, and I’m very much looking forward to seeing it:   http://bookstore.xlibris.com/Products/SKU-001023307/LEHI-and-SARIAH-in-ARABIA.aspx       Read more

    My wife is still in Hawaii — I’ve been seamlessly replaced there by a neighbor and by her sister — and I’ve spent the whole day back here in the real world creating two midterm examinations with which to torment and afflict my students.  So I decided that I needed to go out for a burger at Five Guys and then to step across the way for a movie.   I’ve just returned from seeing the new film Risen.  ... Read more

    And, as it happens, I like this article.  Very much.   http://www.heraldextra.com/momclick/parenting/peculiar-people/peculiar-people-i-love-mormons/article_9519f243-105b-5737-b7d9-3bbeeb890d6f.html     Read more

    In August 2014, Sharon Eubank delivered one of the most popular and well received presentations in the history of FairMormon (or FAIR).  She received a standing ovation.  You can read her remarks (or watch them; they’ll require just under 58 minutes) here:   http://www.fairmormon.org/perspectives/fair-conferences/2014-fairmormon-conference/womans-church     Read more

    Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture published two new articles today.  Here’s the second:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/onomastic-wordplay-on-joseph-and-benjamin-and-gezera-shawa-in-the-book-of-mormon/     Read more

    New today, in Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/they-were-moved-with-compassion-alma-274-5313-toponymic-wordplay-on-zarahemla-and-jershon/     Read more

    There’s a new depth of evil here.  It’s almost without precedent:   http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/19/middleeast/isis-child-soldiers/index.html     Read more