Practical Ethics #3

Posted on September 23, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 14 Comments

My series on practical ethics is going pretty well. I was about to post an other one a few days ago, but The Bloggernacle Times beat me to it with an excellent post and discussion on predators at church. If you haven’t read it yet, I’d encourage all of your to do so. […]

Rita and Katrina

Posted on September 23, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 6 Comments

Given the gravity of the situation in the gulf with two massive hurricanes in less than a month, I’ve been concentrating a lot of my energy — and blogging time — on Church relief efforts. Sorry if this stuff gets repetitive or boring, but the Church’s activities are worth noting.
The first bit of news […]

Mormon girl voluntarily veils herself as a social experiment

Posted on September 22, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 36 Comments

BYU’s Newsnet has an interesting story about an LDS girl at BYU who has chosen to wear a hijab, the traditional Muslim headscarf. She’s not converting to Islam. I wish the article had more about her and her experiences in the bubble.
This represents, in some fashion, a different side of something that annoyed […]

Hurricane Katrina’s Furry Victims

Posted on September 22, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 2 Comments

Last month, Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc on the Gulf Coast, causing hundreds of deaths and the social upheaval of hundreds of thousands of people.

Harvard SAHMs

Posted on September 21, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 162 Comments

The NY Times wrote an interesting article a few days ago about young women attending Ivy League schools who aspire to become full-time mothers.

Blogging… to the extreme!

Posted on September 21, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 12 Comments

Extreme _________ is in these days. Marketing apparently thinks that making something “extreme” will bring in Generation X cash by the barrel. Witness the Mountain Dew ads, or the X-games.
A few choice websites have appeared, mocking or drawing on this trend. It’s hard to tell which sometimes.
Here are two examples.
Check out… EXTREME IRONING, AHHHHHHHHHHH!! […]

M* Interviews… Dallas Robbins

Posted on September 21, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 8 Comments

We’re starting up a new regular feature here at M*. We hope to interview interesting Mormons and post those reviews here. Our inaugural post came to me when I was in iTunes looking at the new podcasts I’d downloaded. Those of you using iTunes know how easy it is to download these […]

Practical Ethics #2

Posted on September 19, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 20 Comments

My post from the other day on bringing in Katrina victims to our home struck a bit of a nerve. I realized after the excellent discussion, that there were many situations where it isn’t at all clear what do to. That is, sometimes the ethics of a situation are unclear. Now the […]

A matter of perspective…

Posted on September 17, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 10 Comments

Over the past few years, there have been a number of times I’ve commented on a movie either in conversation (or on my website) and made the remark that such movie was ‘profanity-free’…only to be reminded gently by someone else who had also seen it that the movie did in fact take the Lord’s name […]