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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 […]
Continue ReadingThe 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 […]
Continue ReadingIf 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 […]
Continue ReadingWhich 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, […]
Continue ReadingI applied for a summer writing grant in the Fall and promised myself I would use some of the money to go see the new Book of Mormon musical if I got it. Well, I haven’t heard about the grant yet, but I was planning a trip to Connecticut to do some work with some […]
Continue ReadingNaturally, the buzz this past week was about the big news that a BYU basketball player had sex with his girlfriend — if you can believe it! This led to lots of very amusing discussion about control and the BYU honor code, musings on parenting, and the obvious observation that this shouldn’t be more important […]
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