Over at Unofficial Manifesto, D-Train takes me to task over a conversation we had a few weeks ago concerning the role of the Spirit in academic progress in which I expressed my cynicism concerning academia and our educational system. His criticism is worth reading and I hope you will check it out.

As D-Train points out, we agree a great deal in our relative positions on the Spirit in intellectual matters. It may be that we are really saying the same thing, but that he is misunderstanding me, or I him.

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Sometime in 1984, I think, my parents purchased a personal computer with a four color monitor–that’s right: four colors! It came with a bootable floppy-disk (back then floppy disks really were floppy!) containing a curious little game, with no instructions, called Digger.

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Archipelago: a Mormon Studies E-journal will be published biannually.

For details, see the announcement by Ronan Head here.

[Update: Since the announcement does not allow comments, please feel free to discuss here]

The M*’s own Kevin Burtt has an interesting post on his own blog about the tradition of women taking the last name of their husband.

J. Stapley has some cold hard facts about caffine over at his blog.

John Fowles has a report about some Positive Press Coverage of the Church.

Finally, this week’s topic at Conversation (ldswomen.blogspot.com) is Spiritual Self Reliance. Go read the uplifting, multi-post contributions that have been made to the conversation thus far.

I just wanted to bring the upcoming film of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe to the attention of all of you LDS C.S. Lewis fans out there.

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