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Jeff at Mormanity happens to be visiting New Jersey, only miles from where a heroic pilot brought a crippled airliner safely down into the Hudson River. He posted comments about the event: Avoiding bridges, buildings, cables, and boats, [the pilot] managed a safe landing under difficult circumstances. It was a hard landing, but a remarkably…

At the Lynn v. Sekulow blog, “Anti-Mormon Sentiment At Focus on the Family?” The Rev. Barry Lynn takes the Focus on the Family site to task for marginalizing a posted interview with Glenn Beck once its readers realized that Beck was (sit down for this one) … Mormon! I suppose in an Evangelical utopia Mormons…

From the NY Times, “At M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the Blackboard.” Increasingly, profs found the large-lecture approach was failing — even in classes with bright and engaged students. The article details the transition at MIT to an approach featuring smaller classes and a more interactive teaching style, including those click response units…

I don’t always appreciate Andrew Sullivan’s approach, but I did enjoy his recent article in the Atlantic, “Why I Blog.” The intro blurb (and please, if you know the technical term for the italicized paragraph that appears between the headline and the first paragraph, post it) praises this new and evolving thing, the blog. As…

The new LDS temple in Draper, Utah is running a public open house from January 15 through March 14. For an entertaining account by a journalist who recently took the tour, read Robert Kirby’s “What’s so secret about temples?“

At the Salt Lake Tribune: “Arrested: Leaders of FLDS-linked Canadian polygamous sect.” According to the story, one of the men arrested is the leader of the FLDS community in Creston, British Columbia; the other leads a polygamous group in Creston that split off from the FLDS around 2003. Unlike the action last year against FLDS…

Mike Huckabee is still trying to make amends for his unfortunate remark about Mormons during the presidential campaign (“Don’t Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?”). His most recent attempt was in a national radio interview late last week, summarized at the Mormon Times: “Huckabee denies saying anything unkind about Mormons.” At this…

He didn’t get the GOP nomination and he didn’t get the VP slot, but Mitt Romney was named Mormon of the Year over at Times & Seasons. The Salt Lake Tribune ran a story on it, too. An argument could be made for Stephenie Meyer (anyone can run for president and lose; it takes real…

That’s what Signature Books is doing, according to its website. We have decided to take a brief hiatus (we’re calling it our recession hiatus) to add the complete texts of many of our titles to our Signature Books Library site–something we have wanted to do for some time now.

Nothing Wavering is still kicking and has recently added some new features, as announced by the fellow pulling the strings on the project. NW now offers its own blog, an NW Twitter channel that lists posts from selected LDS blogs, and an NW Facebook group. This sort of raises the bar for the other LDS…
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