There are 467 posts from 63 blogs in my Google Reader, with three new LDS blogs added in the last cycle: Keep-A-Pitchinin (by Ardis from T&S), The Mormon Organon (by a BYU biology prof), and Lehi's Library (by some guy named James). Below is my favorite post of the week and a few other notable posts.
My favorite and post of the week was Mormons as Monsters by Natalie at BCC. "Imagine my horror when [my students] decided they wanted to write on Mormons as examples of contemporary monsters." Not what we like to hear from the up and coming generation. Natalie notes, with admirable understatement, that this "indicates to me that as a church we are still failing to win the PR battle," and suggests a more open and public treatment of troubling historical issues as a partial remedy. I suppose the student opinions also indicate something about the students, the power of popular culture, and the ubiquity of scapegoating. Or projection. Or the Other. Or whatever it is that makes people see groups they regard as being different somehow equivalently being undesirable, detestable, or simply evil. Anyway, the post is a nice reminder about how some people still view us Mormons.
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