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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...

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The 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....

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Boundaries

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...

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A 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...

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Persuasion

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...

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Attention 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...

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The 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...

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Out 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...

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Phobia 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...

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The 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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