… and making a political donation: at the LA Times, “A life thrown into turmoil by $100 donation for Prop. 8.” The LA Times continues to write interesting reflections on the continuing saga of Prop 8. The journalist refers to activists and protesters who harrassed customers at the restaurant as “the mob.” Interesting term.

At FPR, “What is biblical criticism?” The post gives the following list of approaches: source criticism, form criticism, tradtion-historical criticism, redaction criticism, social-scientific criticism, canonical criticism, rhetorical criticism, structural criticism, narrative criticism, reader-response criticism, poststructuralist criticism, feminist criticism, and socioeconomic criticism. An impressive, even intimidating, list.

At the Daily Herald: “Business booming at Utah’s only LDS-based private high school.” I’m not familiar with this school so I won’t add much commentary. The LDS Church pretty much stays out of the school debate. It uses its financial resources to provide five-day-a-week religious instruction to high school students via the seminary program (either…

I’m open to suggestions or requests from readers who have questions or topics of interest related to Mormonism or current LDS events — just leave a comment. I plan to get to the promised posts on How Wide the Divide next week. I’ve been slowly building up the blogroll on the sidebar and just added…

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