I updated my Now Reading list (three clicks down the sidebar), adding a slot for Christian books. My first will be John Polkinghorne’s The God of Hope and the End of the World (Yale Univ. Press, 2002), which should provide several posts during March. Does anyone have any suggestions for the next book? I’m amazed…

The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously against a New-Age sect that sued to force the town of Pleasant Grove, Utah to place a monument inscribed with the 7 Aphorisms of Summum in a city park, complementing a monument already in the park that displays the 10 Commandments. Full story in the NY Times, “Court Denies…

Politics makes strange befellows, as the saying goes. See Salon.com’s post, “Will trade: One black Democrat for one Mormon Republican,” reviewing the pending legislation that will give Washington D.C. “actual voting representation in the House” and, at the same time, grant Utah one additional seat in the House of Representatives.

At Mormon Matters a couple of weeks ago, “A Truth-Seekers Guide to the Bloggernacle and Beyond,” relating a few rules for sifting reliable posts and comments from the not-so-reliable stuff one reads. I know college profs stuggle to teach undergrads that “a reliable source” does not mean anything one finds via Google. A few of…

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