You can now buy tumor-shaped jewelry to show solidarity with persons suffering from breast cancer.

His Majesty: “I suppose it could be worse. They could be showing solidarity with persons suffering from hypospadia.”

The term “intellectual” is one frequently found in descriptions of political groupings and presumably refers to writers, artists, poets, philosophers, and other idlers whose influence is considerably greater than their numbers or contribution would warrant.

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I’d like to highlight this Church piece on “Worshipping Through Art.” (more…)

Here are some brief reviews of mostly crappy books. (more…)

Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel as played for priesthood meeting by a convert aunt of Sally DeFord who played piano for silent movies: link.

Some thoughts on the divine purpose of imagination that should be of interest to Mormons. (more…)

Only the unexpected fully satisfies.
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Over at the Old Country, I went full-on bloviate about the possibility for distinctive Mormon arts and culture and scholarship/philosophy. I’m reproducing the comment here. (more…)

Agatha Christie’s Christmas Story Star Over Bethlehem starts out sounding like a piece of mid-priced sentimentality, but then it gets really good, really quick. All is not as it seems. (more…)

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I’m not normally much into the fine arts, but this is amazing.

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