Excerpts from Dickens’ The Haunted Man
As a personal Christmas tradition, each December I read one of Charles Dickens’s Christmas novels aloud to myself. Dickens wrote several holiday novels, of which A Christmas Carol is only the most...
View ArticleThe Oath: A Workout Video Masquerading as a Feature-Length Faith-Promoting Film
The Oath is the latest effort to capitalize on Mormonism in a mainstream way, this time in a $24M budget box office flop. It debuted with $112K in ticket sales across 640 cinemas on Dec. 8. As of Dec....
View ArticleBoundaries
By Lisa Wise Shumway Lisa is a lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints raised in Wyoming. Lisa served her mission in New Mexico and Texas, and married a return missionary in...
View ArticleA Minority Church in Utah
The first time I was ever in Utah, it was a very strange experience for me. I had always lived in places where the Church is so much in the minority that I was usually the only church member my...
View ArticlePersuasion
We are taught that we should lead others by “persuasion and long-suffering.” How do we do that when we live in such polarized times when we can’t even agree on one set of facts? How do we do that when...
View ArticleAttention Seekers
I’ve seen this charge frequently in Mormon twitter (which is, post-Elon, a total sh*tshow). Defender of the faith types use this as an insult whenever they see someone who is an ex-Mo making a post...
View ArticleThe Weirdest Talk
I’m on vacation this week, so today’s post is pretty simple, based on someone’s Tweet I read. The Tweet asked “What’s been the most awkward sacrament meeting talk you’ve heard?” I’ll rephrase it and...
View ArticleOut of the Best Books: A Tale of Two Cities
What Dickens called “the new oppressors” “I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long...
View ArticlePhobia Indoctrination
Last summer, I visited the area where I grew up, including going out for ice cream with a group of my old high school friends. None of my high school friends were Mormons, which are super rare in...
View ArticleThe Identified Patient
I’ve been reading Dr. Scott Peck’s book The People of the Lie (recommended in a recent post by Dave B. here at W&T). The author, who is also a psychiatrist, shares several different case studies,...
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