Frederick Mark Gedicks Brigham Young University – J. Reuben Clark Law School William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, Vol. 18, pp. 901-914, 2010 God of Our Fathers, Gods for Ourselves: Fundamentalism and Postmodern Belief: ” … there is also an ethical reason for wariness. One should pause at imposing…
Category: BYU
One BYU professor’s quest to rescue prejudice from intellectual obloquy
Ralph Hancock started his three-part series at Times & Seasons by sounding the gay threat alarm, but couldn’t be bothered to actually discuss the nature of the threat, apparently in a rush to get to his third post, in which it’s explained that the real danger lies in something called…
BYU Blind Sided: Independent study program no longer accepted by NCAA
The only other school banned from providing distance learning? American School. From the American School front page: “Our students are all ages and from all walks of life. Even well-known celebrities like Dancing with the Stars winner Donny Osmond …” Donny Osmond? Count me among those convinced that the NCAA…
Why the LDS brand matters
General David Petraeus discusses Iraq & Afghanistan war strategy with BYU students: Petraeus began his remarks by listing the Top 10 reasons BYU students make such great soldiers: Number One – They understand how far Iraq has come over the past seven years. In fact, they think that Iraq’s old…
BYU in the 1970s
In “The Feminine Mystique”, Betty Friedan wrote about the “problem with no name”. Women (mostly middle class white women) had left the workforce after WWII to work full time at home. And yet some women found themselves unfulfilled and often depressed. Some had lost their identity by devoting their lives…
What is it with Utah and standing ovations?
Before Kevin Garn got his Big O, Cardinal Francis George brought a BYU crowd of 12,000 to their feet. I just threw up a little in my mouth.
BYU Management Society to award NOM director Orson Scott Card
X-posted. From the press release: The Washington, D.C. Chapter of the BYU Management Society (BYUMS-DC) announced today that it would honor best-selling author and columnist Orson Scott Card at its annual Gala Dinner on April 24, 2010. Card will receive the chapter’s Distinguished Public Service Award and will deliver keynote…
BYU Eliminating its Women’s Research Institute
The Women’s Research Institute of BYU (also known as the WRI) is being eliminated effective Jan., 2010. As is the usual fashion when the Church wants to announce something potentially controversial, the “press release” announcing this change was buried as an archive on BYU’s website. Most in the Bloggernacle only…
An Open Letter to the LDS Church
I was riveted by the fascinating tale of excommunication from the Mormon church, over at Mind on Fire, told with great honesty and feeling, as well as by the reader community response. I have just one question, though, which I suppose should be directed to the Mormon church itself: Where’s…
Oldies but Goodies: Testimony of a Dissident
A while back another blogger asked me to submit an essay about my Mormon experience. Probably, for good reasons he changed his mind and never published it. Since it is already written and might shed some light on my argument at Times and Seasons, I might as well publish it…