I blame the Mormons.

The gospels are full of paradoxes, mostly intentional. Is John 9 intentional? (more…)

On the sweetness of Mormon life. (more…)

My wife can give a humdrum talk at church, and I’ll listen. She’s my wife. (more…)

The worst part of these village treats is the children’s choir. The little blighters are rather de trop, what? Seared into the Wooster gray matter–to give you just one instance of the many that come to mind–is the occasion that Kim “Kimber-bimber” Jong-Il of the Drones’ Club invited me down to his country place and what was looking like a promising little week-end with a well-stocked cellar was constantly spoiled by little excrescences mumbling ‘Dear Leader” this and shrilling “Dear Leader” that wherever one turned. It began where ghastly left off.

Towards a Mormon jurisprudence? I never thought of Joseph Smith as one of those beaky legal types, handing out fines for the lightest causes, and burying advice on socage-in-chief in the Book of Mormon, coming it the heavy with this ‘and what explanation do you give for yourself, Mr. Wooster’ stuff, when really I was speeding very moderately, if at all, but they tell me its so. Cor chase my Aunt Fanny up the gum tree.

I was partway through elaborating a beautiful theory about how the heavily Christian content in 1 and 2 Nephi and Jacob was either Mormon’s (1) interpolation or (2) his misreading as a result of language change and the drift in the meaning of glyphs or (3) an example of the usual practice of attributing one’s own insights to revered predecessors — when I remembered that Mormon stuck in the Small Plates of Nephi without any editing.

Not just a way, a truth, or a life. The Way, The Truth, The Life. (more…)

Good. I’d like to think that the men tasked with defending my country are at least a little more competent than the ones from Harvard tasked with running my financial system.

Some are reporting that the Obama Administration has agreed to protect drug prices in its health care plan in return for a $150 million campaign by the drug lobby in support of the plan. Oh, dear. Oh, dear. (more…)

Good riddance. Kids can learn what they need to know on Twitter.

On the sweetness of Mormon life. (more…)

I must say, one rather tuned in to the Pioneer Day Commemoration with something of an expectation that the ceremonies would be, how should I put it, pioneerish. (more…)

God’s purpose is to make us over in His image and exalt us to godhood. This truth of Mormon Christianity offends creedal Christians. Maybe even outrages them. (more…)

Remembering is sacred. (more…)