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Today at lunch I was reading President Monson's "Guideposts for Life's Journey" talk in BYU Magazine, and one section particular stood out to me:
Some of you may be familiar with Thornton Wilder's classic drama Our Town. If you are, you will remember the town of Grover's Corners. In the ...
I can't remember if I've mentioned this before, but I've stumbled across what seems to be an almost surefire way to pray sincerely, at least for me. And it's so simple that I'm embarrassed it's taken me this long to open my eyes to it: pray for other people.
But ...
You know, I have a feeling there'll be a lot of Karamazovian posts over the next few weeks. :) Here's one from 1.1.4, the second page of the chapter, which is describing Alyosha:
...he [Alyosha] certainly loved people: throughout his life he seemed to believe in people and trust them, ...
I realized this week that God seems to sit at the perfect balance between idealism and realism.
On the one hand we have the divine mandate to "be ye therefore perfect." If that isn't idealism, I don't know what is. :) God is our standard. And that end-goal ...
Great post on Segullah by Chris Bigelow entitled Mormon Literature: Carving Out a Middle Niche?
Piddling around with Mormon niche markets is okay, as far as it goes (which isn’t far). But for me, the real holy grail of Mormon literature would be for a Mormon author to break ...
New Play Project's Lost & Found show opens this week, featuring seven short plays on religious themes, and it's going to be good. :) Yes, yes, I'm biased (I wrote one of the plays, Safe and Sound, and I'm assistant directing another, Prodigal Son), but it really will ...
I went to my mission reunion tonight. Bittersweet. The sweetness came from seeing all my old friends, of course, most of whom I hardly ever see. Serving a mission forges bonds of friendship like no other. Even the missionaries I hardly knew feel like friends -- ...
[Cross-posted from Blank Slate.]
Great post by Robert Starling (via Gideon Burton) on Mormon Renaissance yesterday, called High Expectations for Mormon Filmmakers. This part was particularly inspiring:
In a “behind the scenes†portion Dr. Woodbury was recorded saying something that has guided my creative life. He had gathered ...
Great post by Robert Starling (via Gideon Burton) on Mormon Renaissance yesterday, called High Expectations for Mormon Filmmakers. This part was particularly inspiring:
In a “behind the scenes†portion Dr. Woodbury was recorded saying something that has guided my creative life. He had gathered his cast and crew ...
My friends Torben and Marissa wrote and directed a film last year, Wrestling With God: A Three-Way Conversation on Mormonism. It played at the LDS Film Festival but I wasn't able to make it to the showing, unfortunately. But that's okay because it's now up on ...
