My parents were Mormon, or at least claimed to be. Blake’s (my bio father) family was and my moms family was, so they both decided, Mormonism was for us. However, it was far from perfect. My mom married the first guy she dated. Mistake number one in my opinion. Blake…
Narratives and the Golden Rule
I was doubtful as to whether to complete this, since I guess things have kinda blown over in recent times, and perhaps we may not even need this message. But something I read recently made me want to write about it all over again… You may have seen our great…
Three Categories of Sinners!!!
Bull received (from his TBM brother) this unsolicited catalog of all of the types of those who leave the church: Group 1: People who have battled patterns of behavior who fight until they conquer it Group 2: People who go inactively quietly in an attempt to minimize feelings of shame…
In the Shadow of the Temple
There’s an exciting new documentary in the works, coming out in the Fall of 2009! Called In the Shadow of the Temple, it’s about the lives of ex-Mormons and of people who don’t believe but still practice Mormonism for family reasons. The filmmakers have finished taking all of the footage…
Sunday in OuterBlogness: Here’s to Life Edition!
The big news — that you’ve probably all seen by now — is that two of our good friends from Outer Blogness have found love and happiness together! Congratulations Equality and Sister Mary Lisa!!! On that note, there’s been a bunch of other reports of homey family news. Christy toasts…
So, what else is new?
Is is cheap sensationalism to post the usual from nutty protesters? Well, I posted positive inauguration stuff on my other blogs. 😉
Moral Foundations: Why we may not see eye to eye with the faithful
During my most recent tour around the interwebs, I found an interesting idea that Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at the University of Virginia, has been working on. The idea is a new way of looking at the foundations of morality than the old economic idea of humans being rationally…
A Convert’s Conscience
Although he appears to be a star professor at BYU, I have only become aware of Robert Millet’s efforts during the last two years. As a convert, I have to admit that his approach to investigators distresses me somewhat. I know that Millet means well when he suggests to side…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Back to Prop. 8 Edition!
It seems like it’s been days since we talked about Proposition 8 here at MSP. Yet there’s been some new discussions of it all over Outer Blogness this past week, and I’m here to gather them up for you! First, Jonathan Blake posts this interesting video which discusses whether the…