Sometimes it’s depressing how we just divide up into tribes and assume the worst sort of faith on “the other side” and only the best of faith on “our side.”
“The children of God have more in common then they have differences.”
― Henry B. Eyring
Too bad so few of us actually believe this. Continue reading
Title: Class and Race in the Frontier Army: Military Life in the West, 1870 – 1890
Author: Kevin Adams
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Genre: History Continue reading
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Title: Death and the Afterlife
Author: Samuel Scheffler
Editor: Niko Kolodny
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Genre: Philosophy
Year Published: 2013
Number of Pages: 224
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN10: 0199982503
ISBN13: 978-0199982509
Price: $29.95
Reviewed by Ivan Wolfe for the Association for Mormon Letters
A book like this really requires a lengthy, long form book review, preferably at least as long as the shortest essay in the book (12 pages). Given the constraints of the review process at AML, and leaning on my minor in philosophy in college, I trust that I can let interested readers know if they would enjoy reading this book. Continue reading
I might as well add my voice to the chorus of self-congratulatory and/or other-condemning posts out there on the topic (I won’t link to them, though. Well, I’ll link to this one, which is the only good one I’ve seen so far).
Orson Scott Card in his wonderful “Saintspeak” (which predates snarker sites by decades, and did it better than any of them – if any of them are still active) pretty much already came up with the definitive definitions: Continue reading
This news story reminded me of an old post, so I decided to “resurrect” the old post for current consumption:
Celestial Competition:
This story seems to be making the rounds on the net (again – it first surfaced a few months ago, though I somehow missed it then).
The football committee of the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference, which governs high school sports, is adopting a “score management” policy that will suspend coaches whose teams win by more than 50 points.
This reminded me of two experiences in High School (one of which was a major life lesson to me), and got me thinking about the uses and abuses of competition. Continue reading