I think that most attempts at broad-based LDS-centric theoretical approaches to the basic questions of such academic displines as philosophy, literary and cultural studies, history (and the rest of the social sciences) are not going to be very successful. I’d be happy to be proved wrong, but I have doubts that I will be.
Luckily, Mormon [...]
Guest blogger danithew has invited Times & Seasons participants to post poems they have written. As usual I have contributed no actual creative work, choosing instead to play the critic. But seriously, it’s a fun thread. Thanks for veering into arts and culture territory, dani.
In other news: “Reputations ride on the success of this film,” [...]
This is old news, but, Richard and Sandy Teraci, owners of a Clean Flicks-style DVD/VHS editing company, will soon launch a Web site offering downloads of music by LDS artists and hymn ring tones. Mac News World has the story (hat tip to LDS Review and LDS Today).
Richard Teraci is billing it as “iTunes for [...]
For the most part the eight essays in the plain-titled essay collection Black and Mormon, edited by Newell G. Bringhurst and Darron T. Smith, are masterpieces of velvet-fisted discourse. They seethe rational, measured arguments and relevant, pointed examples, and end with subtle observations and lingering questions.
This is a good thing.
As the title suggests, the experience [...]
In an interview that appeared in today’s edition of The Herald, controversial playwright and filmmaker Neil LaBute candidly reveals his status in and relationship with the LDS Church (LaBute converted while a student at BYU) — and how his dark muse has affected his personal life.
A few excerpts…
On his LDS status:
“So [...]
A Soft Answer has the news that it appears that Canadian pop-rock artist Tal Bachman is using his recent break from the LDS Church as part of the marketing campaign for his new album.
A Soft Answer posts this quote from a recent news story on Bachman:
“Tal Bachman has left the Mormons! Kind of makes the [...]
Or proof that you never know what a Google News alert will drag in…
From a round-up review of children’s books that appeared in the Oct. 9 edition of the Globe and Mail — an example of one of the facts included in the recently-published Animals and Their Mates: How Animals Attract, Fight for and Protect [...]
Source: Clinton F. Larson. “Advent.” Harvest: Contemporary Mormon Poems. Eds. Eugene England and Dennis Clark. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1989. Also appears in Selected Poems of Clinton F. Larson. Ed. David L. Evans. Provo: BYU, 1988.
I received a surprising piece of mail back in January or February 2003 — a postcard plugging the release of the Halestorm film “The RM.” I experienced a moment of righteous indignation as I thought there was no way that Halestorm could have gotten a hold of my postal address without engaging in anti-consumer behavior. [...]
The October 2004 issue of In Focus (a publication of the National Association of Theatre Owners [hey! Trade mags are ultra-hip so you can keep the snide comments to yourself]) features an interview with South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. The interview ends with this exchange:
“Between “Orgazmo” and the “South Park” Mormon episode, [...]