Posted in Worldview, Mormon-speak on May 31st, 2007 4 Comments »
Our words, like our deeds, should be filled with faith and hope and charity.
This was Jeffrey R. Holland’s message in this last April 2007 conference. (“The Tongue of Angels,” Ensign, May 2007, 16–18). Specifically, he said:
“Our words, like our deeds, should be filled with faith and hope and charity, the three great […]
Posted in Truth on May 30th, 2007 32 Comments »
I want to share my testimony with you of the truthfulness of the telestial kingdom, and the fact that we are currently living in a telestial world.
First, the words of Paul, as he spoke to the Corinthians (1 Cor 15). It is dangerous to read things completely in their original context (because […]
Posted in Truth on May 30th, 2007 4 Comments »
I want to share an amazing experience that had a very strong impact on my life. It happened in my youth.
Two missionaries were at the end of a very long day of tracting with no success at all – and these were righteous missionaries, so it was a little strange that their […]
Posted in Worldview, Missionary Folklore, Missionaries on May 30th, 2007 34 Comments »
Steve M. over at Within the Bubble wrote about an interesting mission experience (interesting in the “you have got to be kidding me” kind of way) and it got me thinking about all the times on my mission (no, I was never AP, not even a ZL, just a lowly DL for a few months […]
Posted in Mormon Humor on May 29th, 2007 15 Comments »
This site has been up and running for about a month now and there is a lot of joking that goes on here. I enjoy it and I can see that several others of you do as well. But I also worry about it sometimes. It raises questions and often perplexes me. […]
Posted in Mormon Humor, Missionary Folklore on May 28th, 2007 6 Comments »
While we often talk about stereotypes as a bad thing and are encouraged to get rid of them, as a folklorist I find stereotypes fascinating. They encode a lot of cultural knowledge that is useful (either practically, or for purposes of understanding culture). If one take the evolutionary position of memetics, these stereotypes persist because […]
Posted in Lost Tribes on May 27th, 2007 15 Comments »
Here is the first installment of a four-part video podscastumentary (is that a word?) on Japan and the Lost Tribes of Israel. Each installment will be around 10-15 minutes long. This is information I gathered several years ago for my MA thesis, and while I am no longer technically “collecting folklore” on this […]
Posted in Mormon Humor on May 25th, 2007 3 Comments »
Several years ago I was introduced to the gourmet culinary art known as “cooking your own wings” and “chowing down.” A group of friends and I religiously perfected the ritual of wing-eating and developed some very clear do’s-and-dont’s.
And while I do not know how many of you know much about the […]
Posted in Inspirational on May 24th, 2007 18 Comments »
I was sent this link in an email the other day. I watched it. I found it interesting in many ways. I want to reserve my comments on it at this point, but I thought I would post it here and see what — if any — discussion it could create. […]
Posted in Inspirational on May 22nd, 2007 19 Comments »
It is very easy to get cynical and even a little snide when talking about folklore. There is a tendency to frame folklore is a bunch of stupid stuff for stupid people. I really don’t want to create or perpetuate that impression. I don’t know if there is anything more valuable […]
