Thanks to the intrepid Ebenezer Orthodoxy, A Motley Vision has added two features that make reader interaction much better.
1. A “Recent Comments” section on the sidebar on the home page.
2. A javascript hack that lets readers post comments without logging on to Blogger. Simply fill out the form at the bottom of each post.
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Update 12/23/04: If you are looking for details on “The Fireside Song,” see below or click here.
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Braden Bell has an interesting post over at To Speak of Many Things on Deseret Book’s Time Out for Women progam. I discussed the book club part of the program back in July. Braden’s post is on the event [...]

Update 9.24.04: Merrill’s column prompted such a volume of reader mail, that Meridian has asked readers to stop writing in about it. Merrill excerpts and reacts to reader mail in Tempest in a Teacup, Take II: The Broth Boileth Over.
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Remember when I paranthetically remarked that Kieth Merrill’s recent Meridian Magazine article on Mormon film was [...]

Who would have thought that Marxist* cultural theorist Terry Eagleton would have a thing for Mormons?
Not me.
And yet in his recent book After Theory, Eagleton makes a Utah reference not once — but twice.
Some A Motley Vision readers may wonder why I am reading a book by a gasp Marxist, but it’s actually rather interesting. [...]

Dave’s Mormon Inquiry brought to my attention a recent Meridian Magazine article by award-winning filmmaker Kieth Merrill on Mormon film. Dave then asks his readers how many Mormon films they’ve seen.
I have nothing to say about the Merrill article [except that it's the best thing he's written for Meridian, and probably the best article [...]

The days have slipped by, but I finally have found the time to take up the third question I posed on my initial post on Mormon artists and membership status. That is: Should an artist’s Mormon-ness be a factor when a Mormon decides which artistic products to consume?
I’m going to answer this question by laying [...]

Last spring Christopher Bigelow stepped down after five years as managing editor of Irreantum, the Association for Mormon Letters’ literary magazine. Bigelow and Benson Parkinson co-founded Irreantum in 1999, taking what was the AML’s newsletter and turning it into a full-fledged literary mag. Parkinson moved on to other projects after the first year of publication, [...]