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By Orson Scott Card Editor’s Note: This blog post reveals plot points in the first third of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.” Good people doing bad things — or rumored to have done them. Bad people doing noble things — or were those people ever really bad? I got the book at eleven this…

By Orson Scott Card Editor’s Note: This blog post does not reveal any plot points in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.” “Jane, you ignorant sl–…” Oh, wait, I’m showing my age. Just because I’m in a two-person debate in public doesn’t mean I should make a connection with Dan Aykroyd’s and Jane Curtin’s parody…

By Patrick Rothfuss I knew anticipation of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” had reached ridiculous levels when one of my friends uttered the words: “Accio Book Seven!” What was truly surprising is that instead of being shunned by everyone in the coffee shop where we were talking, my friend’s geeky outburst spurred an hour’s…

By Orson Scott Card A few days from now, J.K. Rowling will bring the Harry Potter series to an end. Well, actually, she brought it to an end months ago. But by the end of this week, we will finally find out what end she decided on. I hear all kinds of speculation. Some examples:…

Patrick Rothfuss is the author of the acclaimed first book The Name of the Wind, a fantasy novel which details the adventures of a young magician. He lives in central Wisconsin where he teaches at the local university. In his free time Pat writes a satirical humor column, practices civil disobedience, and dabbles in alchemy.…

Best known for his science fiction novels “Ender’s Game” and “Ender’s Shadow,” award-winning writer Orson Scott Card is also a committed Latter-day Saint. He has written screenplays for animated children’s videos from the New Testament and Book of Mormon, and is active in his LDS community.

By Orson Scott Card There is a sort of comfortableness that can settle in with majoritarians. A complacency that allows one to be picky and exclusive. I remember getting this feeling when I lived in Utah. I moved to the town of Orem, where Mormons were an estimated 98 percent of the population. That should…

By Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr. I appreciate Orson Scott Card’s response to my first entry, and his rather lengthy essay can serve to move the discussion along. The first matter of concern is to clarify the question. When I asked, “Are Mormons ‘Christians’ as defined by traditional Christian orthodoxy?,” I was stating the question…

By Orson Scott Card Each time a group of Christians comes up with an unfamiliar way of understanding the scriptures and our relationship with God, there are other Christians who are quick to insist that anyone who believes like that can’t really be Christian. Much blood has been shed over these doctrinal differences; wars have…

By Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr. Are Mormons “Christians” as defined by traditional Christian orthodoxy? The answer to that question is easy and straightforward, and it is “no.” Nevertheless, even as the question is clear, the answer requires some explanation. The issue is clearly framed in this case. Christianity is rightly defined in terms of…
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