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While some outsiders lump Mormons in with Evangelicals as thoroughgoing biblical literalists and inerrantists, there is actually a range of opinion on this subject within the LDS community. For the not so literal view, check out a recent two-part guest post at Mormon Organon by David H. Bailey, an accomplished LDS mathematician. In Latter-day Biblical…

Since TV has been working so well here lately, let’s keep it going. Believe it or not, the United Nations is calling on Battlestar Galactica’s Commander William Adama and President Laura Roslin to meet with a selection of UN representatives. I’ve liked Edward James Olmos ever since his Miami Vice days — maybe he can…

Moving on to Part 2 of the real-life soap opera … what’s the reaction to the “Outer Darkness” Big Love episode that aired Sunday night? Time’s TV guy says this: Part of the controversy over depicting the ceremony, whose details the LDS church prefers to keep among its own members, has to do with how…

It’s always something of a spectacle to watch how the mainstream media tackles a religion story — the Get Religion site (run by a group of journalists) has been posting on that theme for years now, with the general conclusion that “the press just doesn’t get religion.” So how is the media handling the Big…

First, Joel Campbell at the Mormon Times (the online site sponsored by the Deseret News), with “HBO Big Love response shows ethical lapses, arrogance.” Campbell takes HBO and Big Love producers to task for “cross[ing] a very bright ethical line” by airing, in an upcoming episode, a scene set inside an LDS temple and depicting…

The HBO series you’ve heard about but never seen is using the standard Hollywood tactic of creating controversy to attract viewers. See the Salt Lake Tribune article “HBO apologizes for offense, but will still air Big Love temple scene.” Yeah, that sounds like a real sincere apology.

As reported in the Salt Lake Tribune last month, the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) moved its January 2011 meetings from New Orleans to Salt Lake City. The reason? The recently enacted Louisiana Science Education Act, which, according to critics, “allows local school boards to introduce creationist materials into the classroom under the…

See “The paradox of Harry Reid’s position” at the LA Times. It’s not his tax and spend (and spend and spend) politics that I like. It’s the fact that, as a Mormon and highly visible Democratic leader of the U.S. Senate, he effectively dispels the stereotype that Mormons are all Republilcans who support conservative policies…

Like a canary in a coal mine, certain developments in the postmodern world are early telltale signs that the concept “morality” is changing beneath our feet. I think one of them is cheating, which has become an almost accepted practice in most high schools and some universities. It is simply not regarded as dishonest by…

From the Los Angeles Times, “California Supreme Court looks unlikely to kill Proposition 8.” The California Supreme Court strongly indicated Thursday it would rule that Proposition 8 validly abolished the right for gays to marry but would allow same-sex couples who wed before the November election to remain legally married. The long-awaited hearing, which came…
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