In my opinion irony is a much and unreasonably maligned concept. Associating irony with offensive or subversive intent some relegate it to outer rhetorical darkness. This is especially true in some religious circles where irony is looked upon as being dangerous to steadfast belief. But is learning to identify and engage irony in fact more [...]

Take a self-guided tour of important works of Mormon literature. That has been my ambition for a little while now. Having come into some book money (picture a cobalt-blue lake in the Canadian Rockies, a little wager with my wife, and me taking a very cold swim), I have started a small collection. I plan [...]

Have something you’d like to say about Leslie Norris’s influence upon your creative endeavors but don’t know where to say it?

For those of you who are not familiar with Eric Samuelsen, in my opinion, he’s one of the finest playwrights Mormonism has produced so far. He is a playwriting Professor at BYU, where he has cultivated some of the finest next generation Mormon playwrights including Tony and Leslie Gunn, Melissa Larson, Elizabeth Leavitt and Morag [...]