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Announcing the first Great Whatsit book club

When I was a kid, I got the greatest pleasure from doing what other people expected of me. Still, there were glitches. My friend L—’s dad taught our Deacon’s Quorum class in church (Sunday School for 12 and 13-year-old boys) a few times and seemed to be annoyed with me when I didn’t like his […]

A midnight showing of Narnia

There is a point in the book Prince Caspian, by C.S. Lewis, when a group of characters are hopelessly lost in the forest. The Pevensie children, four siblings transported from mid-twentieth century England to an alternate world called Narnia, are searching for the title character and an army of good guys. Unfortunately the landscape has […]

The bottom line for everyone

( Death and Religion )

I am one of those congenitally rude people who prefers — nay, needs — to carry on conversations with casual acquaintances about the great taboo topics, religion and politics. Luckily, many other people these days share this flaw, so I can usually find an outlet for this urge.
At work we have a few topics of […]

The reason for the season

( Family and Religion )

Merry Christmas, everyone.

A home for flip-floppers

( Politics and Religion )

A few months ago this video (Part 1, 2) came out, showing Mitt Romney talking on a right-wing radio show in Iowa about Mormonism and abortion. Romney was once pro-choice when he was runing for office in Massachussetts but apparently had some kind of conversion to the pro-life position once he’d been elected governor. As […]