I think it’s now time to play the “Mitt Romney would/should/could appoint (insert well-known Mormon here) as _____” game.

GA’s and famous Mormons are fair game.    Creating a new position is also allowed.

As in:  Romney would appoint Deiter F. Uchtdorf as head of the FAA, Jeffrey Holland as head of Dept of Education.

What should be a pet-cause for Ann Romney?  (Michelle Obama’s is diet/weight-loss, Laura Bush’s was education, Nancy Reagan’s was Say No to Drugs.)

I nominate Family Home Evening to be Ann Romney’s cause.

(Various ideas can be found/stolen from a “Mitt Romney is so Mormon…” meme at various places on the net. A list of the best is here.)

Here’s a great piece of theo-fiction for Halloween.

John C. Wright hilariously essays to write about the supposed opposition between religion and science, and the nature of science fiction. His definition of science fiction is close to the true one, which is that science fiction is the imaginative fiction of the myths of modernity. (more…)

and the good society.

As you know, I’m interested in TF (theo-fiction), stories like C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce that take the angels and devils of the old folk tales as their properties just as fantasy takes the fairies and dwarfs. First Things has just put up a a very interesting TF discussion about devils in fiction. (more…)

Even if he were to succeed in making his most audacious utopias a reality, man would continue to yearn for otherworldly destinies. (more…)

My review of The Great Divorce from a Mormon perspective is up. I think you’ll like it. Let me know what you think.

You can read it here, and comment here.

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

Mormon SF readers will enjoy this First Things essay.

So Aslan smites his enemies hip and thigh? I’d read it. Except that’s pretty much already in the Christian Narnia.

Update:

More here: http://agentintellect.blogspot.com/2010/03/more-on-jewish-fantasy-literature.html

If the Mormon Review ever gets around to publishing my essay on The Great Divorce, you’ll find that Overstreet’s definition of what’s important about fantasy is what I was trying to get at. (more…)