Posted in Worldview on Jun 17th, 2007 1 Comment »
A few weeks ago I started writing a little story over email with my ten-year-old daughter. My job requires that I travel, and I have been away more than I have been home the past few months, so this has been a way that we have kept in touch despite the distance. My […]
Posted in Worldview on Jun 14th, 2007 8 Comments »
I have a pretty good memory. I can recall very detailed things from various times in my life – sights, sounds, smells, words, feelings – it’s all inside me – good times and bad. Now I make no claim that my memories are perfect. I recognize they represent only my own perspective […]
Posted in custom and behavior, humor on Jun 14th, 2007 13 Comments »
This was always one of my favorite units to teach to my F101: Intro to Folklore students. As you might imagine, it generated very lively discussions.
Believe it or not, folklorists actually study practical jokes. The performance of these jokes falls under the “Customary” form of folklore (traditional things that you do) […]
Posted in Truth on Jun 13th, 2007 11 Comments »
Really, Brothers and Sisters! All this joking needs to stop!! Stories about missionaries doing inappropriate things are nothing more than inappropriate stories. And people who tell inappropriate stories… well, you get the idea.
I want to tell a story about MY mission. It was in my first area, and I was praying […]
Posted in Worldview on Jun 12th, 2007 35 Comments »
There was an interesting debate in Gospel Doctrine this past Sunday. Two Historians went at each other (mildly) with differing ideas.
The GD teacher, a Ph.D. in History who is probably in her mid-60’s made that claim that the Signs of The Times does not play as prominent a role in the Church […]
Posted in Worldview, Customs and Rituals on Jun 10th, 2007 6 Comments »
When I was studying folklore, I took a few courses from the Communication and Culture department at IU. It was interesting to compare the traditions in folklore to contemporary media conventions. Two of those conventions really stuck with me – they had to do with the way that information is presented: exegisis and […]
Posted in Mormon Humor, Mormon-speak on Jun 10th, 2007 10 Comments »
I am a huge fan of John Dehlin’s Mormonstories Podcasts. He has a new series up now on “Women in the LDS Church.” I haven’t listened to them yet (I’m saving them for my flight to Tokyo tomorrow) but I was thinking about the idea of it during sacrament meeting today, and at […]
Posted in Truth, Worldview, Hoaxes on Jun 8th, 2007 14 Comments »
In one of the more bizarre posts I’ve yet seen from brother Ixtlilxochitl, it was claimed that Cain is Bigfoot. I remember hearing this same story as a teenager from a seminary teacher (the one who told me that a U.S. space probe had been sucked into a black hole and the Ten Tribes […]
Posted in Truth on Jun 8th, 2007 11 Comments »
There is a great stain upon our church. Truly this is evidence that we are living in the last days when the time of the gentiles is close to being fulfilled.
I don’t know what is more disturbing about this — the fact that our missionaries are behaving in such an obscene […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 6th, 2007 2 Comments »
There has been some noise on this site lately about the postmortem conversion of some of our most prominent early U.S. political figures (thank you Brother Marrón). (By the way, 10 points for anyone who can tell me the significance of the name Ixtlilxochitl to Mormon Folklore).
I think it is safe to […]
