Awards
Lists of Brodie award winners:
X-Mormon of the Year 2012: David Twede
X-Mormon of the Year 2011: Joanna Brooks
X-Mormon of the Year 2010: Monica Bielanko
X-Mormon of the Year 2009: Walter Kirn
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How is lying an improvement?
In case you haven’t heard, LDS Inc has updated their scriptures. Most of the changes are cosmetic, apparently, but Peggy Fletcher Stack notes some that aren’t so cosmetic: changes that reflect views on race and polygamy. But what’s confusing me is the spin that’s going on with these changes. In Stack’s article, almost everyone she interviews talks about how refreshing and helpful these changes are. Yet, some of them are lies and half-truths. Take the change in the heading to Official Declaration Read more [...]
Posted in Book of Mormon, God's Favorite Musical
And…The Book of Abraham is de-canonized
When I was growing up, I had a triple combination. This was a copy of the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants and Book of Abraham in one book. We studied the Book of Abraham in seminary, the same year as the Old Testament. I remember my seminary teacher actually built a cardboard replica of Urim and Thummim breastplate (and glasses) to bring to our class. So I was shocked to read the other day that the Book of Abraham is now an “esoteric” work. I know some faithful mormons who would also Read more [...]
Posted in Book of Abraham, God's Favorite Musical, kolob, Mormon Doctrine
Troy Williams @ Sunstone 2011: Thoughts on the Sacred and Profane
Troy tried to buck me up after my latest mini-meltdown over l’affaire Lyman and it reminded me that I need to remember to catch Tabloid (91% “Fresh”!) at my earliest convenience. Here’s Troy riffin’ at Sunstone (go show their Youtube channel some love) on his role in the Errol Morris documentary and his thoughts on the Broadway Book of Mormon: Enjoy. Read more [...]
Posted in Arts, civil discourse, COB, Dottie S. Dixon, Dustin Lance Black, Film, God's Favorite Musical, Troy Williams, YouTube
Soliciting Essays for a Critical Collection on the BOM Musical
The official reaction of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to The Book of Mormon, the musical from Matt Stone and Trey Parker of South Park and Robert Lopez of Avenue Q, consists of a single sentence: “The production may attempt to entertain audiences for an evening, but the The Book of Mormon as a volume of scripture will change people’s lives forever by bringing them closer to Christ.” But the musical has done much more than merely attempt to entertain people for an evening: it Read more [...]
Posted in God's Favorite Musical
Sunday in Outer Blogness: the Book of Mormon Edition!
This past week we’ve had tons of great discussion inspired by The Book of Mormon! The musical, that is. It’s so dangerously fun that even Mitt Romney is going to see it! I especially like Andrew S’s piece about the relevance of religion (or lack thereof), and don’t miss Dad’s Primal Scream’s overview of all of the accurate/inaccurate points of the musical. He also discussed the portrait of niceness. Roger Hansen and Atheist Dad used the musical to discuss faith, which was another popular theme Read more [...]
Posted in God's Favorite Musical, Sunday in Outer Blogness
Memphis station posts four Mormon stories
1) Local Memphis TV news report mocks Mitt Romney’s Mormon beliefs (and ace reporter* Ben Ferguson reminds viewers why some folks prefer to avoid the Bible Belt). The cringe begins at 03:21: 2) Local musical director (and LDS church member) Steve Danielson offers his opinion of the Tony-winning Broadway musical. 3) 89-year old Church of Christ apostle, William Sheldon, explains the origins of the Mormon religion. 4) Meet a pair of Memphis area Mormon missionaries. *CORRECTION: From Read more [...]
Posted in anti-Mormon, Christians, civil discourse, Culture, Evangelicals, God's Favorite Musical, Politics, YouTube
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Winners Edition!
As you probably know, the Book of Mormon (the musical) won nine Tony awards, including Best Musical! Even the faithful Mormons are excited about it — though they can’t quite decide whether to feel proud or indignant (so some go with both). Suddenly, they’re interested in tolerance. Anyway, the CoJCoL-dS isn’t going to let this kind of free publicity go to waste (though they wish they had more control over the information flow). Even the Community of Christ is wondering how to get in on the action, Read more [...]
Posted in God's Favorite Musical, Sunday in Outer Blogness
Sorry, Mormons, but this is nuts.
The Boston Globe: The Mormon image campaign And here’s my dozen reasons why: (Memo to the Mormon leadership: Diverse teams cause people not to revert to stereotyping.) Plus one for a baker’s dozen. Local Mormons weigh in: Im a Mormon and I am here in New York and I really wish the church would pick some other place to advertise. But it’s not just Mormons. God’s Favorite Musical is driving evangelicals like John Mark Reynolds nuts, too. All signs point to Mormonism Read more [...]
cheaper than a caff latte
If you have a spare $1.99+tax, Amazon has The Book Of Mormon : Original Broadway Cast Recording with digital booklet (pdf) from the show for all of $1.99 – as an mp3 download. If you haven’t listened to the show yet, you could spend $2 on a lot worse things. UPDATE: Amazon has adjusted their price to $10.99 as mentioned by SLK in SF below. Views: 1117
Posted in Book of Mormon, God's Favorite Musical
Which is your favorite song from “The Book of Mormon”?
Which is your favorite song from “The Book of Mormon”?survey software Chino put a link to the cast recording of God’s Favorite Musical in our sidebar a while ago, but I didn’t take the time to listen to the songs until people here started discussing them. My new advice: don’t wait!! Listen first and vote, before reading my opinion. … OK, done? A lot of them had me going “Wow, fantastic! And so true!” But it was listening to “You and Me (But Mostly Me)” that made my whole Read more [...]
Posted in God's Favorite Musical, Humor, Nostalgia
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