Syzygy

I’m writing this blog entry in an email and sending it to my wordpress software via a secret mail account I’ve set up on my server.

I’m not sure why anyone would do this, since it seems less convenient than blogging by internet. The only place I can think of where I have email but not internet is on my cell phone, and how much blogging will I honestly do from my cell phone?

Nevertheless, I suppose this is an interesting feature.

Update @ 12:31 pm: Well, I thought I had email on my phone, but apparently I don’t. This feature is utterly useless to me.

This will be my last post on Mormonism for a while. I honestly never intended for this blog to center around Mormonism, but it’s a hard subject for me to avoid given my background and the concern I have for my friends and family.

The purpose of this post is to ask an honest question. I’m trying to learn all I can about Mormonism. In my statements here and elsewhere I’d like to portray LDS doctrine as accurately as I can without resorting to ad hominem or straw man arguments. To that end, I’m asking the LDS folks who read this blog to please recommend some positive reading material. I’m interested in reading the classics I never read before — preferably books that most Mormons would recognize and trust.

Continue reading “Mormon Literature” →

I installed a copy of WordPress on my wife’s website a couple weeks ago. Since then she’s been thinking a lot about what she wants to blog about. I don’t think she’s arrived at any conclusions, yet, but at least she got the ball rolling today.

Please give a warm blogosphere welcome to my lovely wife over at Janene’s Blog.

P.S. She isn’t a big fan of Homestar Runner (gasp!), so if you could keep the HR inside jokes to a minimum, she would probably appreciate it. Thanks.

I installed a copy of WordPress on my wife’s website a couple weeks ago. Since then she’s been thinking a lot about what she wants to blog about. I don’t think she’s arrived at any conclusions, yet, but at least she got the ball rolling today.

Please give a warm blogosphere welcome to my lovely wife over at Janene’s Blog.

Today is Good Friday. Many Christian blogs have been following the Passion week theme. For instance:

• The Bible Archive has been narrating the Passion week one day at a time (1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
• Fides Quaerens Intellectum has been exploring the philosophical issues surrounding the resurrection (1, 2, 3, 4).
• The Irvins and Lutheran Confessions have both highlighted the last seven statements of Jesus before his death (1, 2).
• CoffeeSwirls had something to say about the wondrous cross.
• Brad over at the Challies Community Blog reminds us (with curiousity) that Easter is in the Bible.

I know that’s a lot of reading, but if you have time there are some great remarks from all of these folks and in the comments that have been left.

Continue reading “Our Passover Lamb” →

I had the great privilege of sharing my testimony with a group of Christian students from California last night up at [Salt Lake Theological Seminary]. I was invited by Blair Lerner, a recruiter from the seminary who I came in contact with only a few weeks ago.

The students (about 15 in the group) came from Azusa Pacific University on a mission trip to learn about Latter-day Saint culture. Their trip began a few days ago in Manti, Utah, meeting with a fledgeling Christian Bible study group there and doing a few service projects. Before our meeting yesterday they had toured temple square, and sometime today they will be meeting with BYU professor Bob Millet and several BYU students to ask questions and discuss various aspects of Mormonism.

Continue reading “Testimony at SLTS” →

Firefox 1.0.2 was released about an hour ago. According to Asa, it’s a “proactive update to fix a bug that makes users vulnerable to a buffer overflow in GIF image processing.”

It probably won’t show up on auto-update for a few days, so if you like being on the leading edge, you should download it from the web. Happy browsing!

Edit @ 4:30pm: A friend here at work noticed the automatic update icon on his Firefox toolbar just now. Looks like they are pushing it today afterall.