Archive for November, 2009

Glenn Beck: the renegade running the opposition to Obama

Glenn Beck is a TV host, bestselling author and the most influential voice on the rightwing Fox channel. Now, even some Republicans worry that the extreme and maverick views of Beck and his supporters will make their party unelectable. Is the TV tail wagging the political dog? On 12 September this year, during the Indian [...]

Marriage definitions vary widely by State to State

Marriage definitions vary widely By Scott Taylor Deseret News Published: 2009-11-29 00:17:19 America’s struggles to define marriage are all over the map. It’s more than just differences from California to Connecticut and from Idaho to Iowa — it’s also how those definitions continue to be refined across the country. Marriage definitions have been crafted or [...]

Questioning the alternative Jesus

By Michael De Groote Mormon Times Published: 2009-11-29 00:17:14 PROVO, Utah — Richard Neitzel Holzapfel was on a plane traveling from Berlin to Paris. Two Americans sat next to him. One was a scientist from the University of California San Diego. “As soon as he found out that I was a religion professor from BYU, [...]

Cowboy gets headstone 76 years after fulfilling his dream

The deceased remain alive as long as someone remembers them, as the saying goes. Juanita Clarke Chesley probably is the only person alive who remembers her brother, Irvin Clarke. So she was relieved beyond words last week when she finally replaced Irvin’s long-gone wooden headstone with a new granite one at Citizens’ Cemetery in Prescott. [...]

Farworld: Land Keep by J. Scott Savage

Title:  Farworld: Land Keep Author:  J. Scott Savage Publisher:  Shadow Mountain Genre:  middle grade fantasy Year Published:  2009 Number of Pages:  374 Binding:  hardback ISBN13:  978-1-60641-164-3 Price:  $18.95 Reviewed by Marny K. Parkin The imagination of young adult writers is amazing. Scott Savage does a wonderful job of populating and creating the worlds in his [...]

Post-Manifesto Polygamy: The 1899-1904 Correspondence of Helen, Owen, and Avery Woodruff (Vol. 11 in the Life Writings of Frontier Women series)

Title:  Post-Manifesto Polygamy:  The 1899-1904 Correspondence of Helen, Owen, and Avery Woodruff (Vol. 11 in the Life Writings of Frontier Women series) Edited by: Lu Ann Faylor Snyder and Phillip A. Snyder Publisher: Utah State University Press Genre: History Year Published: 2009 Number of Pages: 196 (Biographical List; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index Binding: Cloth ISBN:978-0-87421-739-1 Price: [...]

Jehovah and the World of the Old Testament by Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Dana M. Pike, and David Rolph Seely

Title: Jehovah and the World of the Old Testament Authors: Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Dana M. Pike, and David Rolph Seely Publisher: Deseret Book Genre: Old Testament/Criticism, Interpretation Year Published: 2009 Number of Pages: 397 ISBN13: 9781606411360 Price: $45.95 Reviewed by Blair Dee Hodges Every fourth year the Sunday School curriculum covers the enigmatic books of [...]

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day by Lloyd & Karmel Newell

Title: I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day Author:  Lloyd & Karmel Newell Illustrator:  Dan Burr Publisher:  Shadow Mountain Genre:  Non-fiction, picture book Year Published:  2009 Number of Pages:  32 + DVD DVD:  “Longfellow’s Christmas” narrated by Edward K. Herrmann; written by David Warner; music by Mack Wilberg with The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and The [...]

Black Friday: A big Oxymoron

I went shopping on Nov. 28th 2009, a.k.a. Black Friday. I started to think about it, and Black Friday is one big oxymoron. As we all know Thanksgiving is about being thankful for everything God has given us. Then on Black Friday we all go shopping to get more. People are so greedy when it [...]

Weyland writes a ‘brave little book’

Weyland writes a ‘brave little book’ Published: Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009 Some authors write novels so subtle you need to hire a private investigator just to learn what they’re about. Other authors prefer to write books that actually get read. Jack Weyland is in the latter camp. Weyland is so well-known in LDS circles that [...]