Director: Scott S. Anderson Release Date: 2003 Rating: 3/10 Summary: Elder Rogers is nearing the end of his mission and he’s not working hard at all as a missionary. The reason he has given up: one of his former companions – who he really liked and worked hard with while…
Author: profxm
I'm a college professor and, well, a professional X-Mormon. Thus, ProfXM. I love my Mormon family, but have issues with LDS Inc. And I'm not afraid to tell LDS Inc. what I really think... anonymously, of course!
blame Christians :)
Great NYTimes article today on Mitt dropping out of the race. Why didn’t his campaign go anywhere? Put another way, those dreaded secularists – whom Romney himself criticized in his off-tune and hugely miscalculated speech on religion in December – were far more likely to vote for him than were…
Colbert’s writers kill Hinckley
Anyone else catch this Colbert Report blurb on Hinckley’s death?
name change
It’s not like this hasn’t come up before, but in light of the recent discussion about my online handle (“exmoron”) being offensive (whether that is the intention or not), I thought maybe I should change it. Just so everyone is clear here, I came up with it not specifically to…
What to do with Mormon missionaries?
So, here’s an intriguing quandary for you. I have a colleague, a full professor who has taught Psychology of Religion for about 30 years. He knows more about what makes religious people tick than just about anyone else in the world (he has, quite literally, written THE BOOK on it)….
Harold Bloom on Mitt’s speech
I was just going back over some articles I recently read in an issue of Sunstone and caught this quote from Harold Bloom’s take on modern-day Mormonism, “What he [Joseph Smith] most distinctly was not was another American Protestant revivalist. Mitt Romney would not like my saying this, but if…
even Republican op-ed writers are dissing Romney now
David Brooks, the token Republican at the NYTimes, tore Romney a new one this morning in an op-ed. I don’t know that his criticisms are all that new (e.g., Romney is a flip-flopper and best friend of the wealthy), but to hear it from a conservative is an intriguing change.
intriguing story on conservative persecution complexes
A friend of mine (who works at Yale) sent me this story about a Yale student who staged several incidents to make it seem as though he was being persecuted for his conservative views. While I am always amazed at the lengths people will go to in order to make…
Steve Benson lays into Romney
Here is a not widely circulated interview with Steve Benson talking about Romney’s conflict of interest. Intriguing read.
on the verge of becoming a denomination
I originally wrote this essay with the idea of submitting it to Sunstone. Thanks to an email exchange with some of the people at Sunstone I’ve come to realize that I don’t belong there… nor does any of my writing (they have quietly become very pro-Mormon over the last few…