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  • Mormon Fakebook Update: 3

    Posted on October 8, 2010 | 8 Comments
    'Help Needed' in Missouri!

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  • Richard Linklater: ‘Waking Life’

    Posted on October 8, 2010 | 11 Comments
    Richard Linklater’s Waking Life (2001) is, even for such an unusual director, an unusual film. From the very beginning, the bizarre  ‘Rotoscope’ animation technique, (also used in A Scanner Darkly, 2006)  jars the viewer, challenging us to take on the tension between the cartoon fabric […]

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  • The First Lunch

    Posted on October 7, 2010 | 14 Comments
    A middle-aged Hispanic man is walking past the car where I pull up to the light. He sits down on the curb two cars behind us. He has a sign, but I don't read it.

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    Around the Dinner Table: What’s a family?

    Posted on October 6, 2010 | 28 Comments
    While digging through the pile of papers in my seven-year-old’s backpack, I came across a copy of a page from the district reading curriculum that includes the weekly spelling words and a couple of ‘Guiding Questions’ for parents to talk to their kids about at […]

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  • Mormon Fakebook Update: 2

    Posted on October 6, 2010 | 4 Comments
    President Packer has been in the news this week. We have access to his Facebook updates.

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  • Tasteless

    Posted on October 5, 2010 | 66 Comments
    I think I’ve started to lose my taste. For years, I’ve prided myself on having good taste in books. I have carved my reading material up into different categories and congratulated myself on the breadth and diversity of my appetite as the kind of reader […]

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  • The Danger with Playing It Safe

    Posted on October 4, 2010 | 26 Comments
    A common joke amongst us Mormons is the idea that every prayer we offer at church includes the phrase "may we all return home in safety" -- even if we're only traveling a couple of blocks away.

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  • Our Sanctuary

    Posted on October 4, 2010 | 10 Comments
    I was sitting on the grass reading during my son’s soccer practice, when an older man took a break from his walking exercise, stopped, and sat next to me. Out of the blue, he began to talk about God, and pretty soon we were off […]

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  • Third Eye

    Cipher on a Wall: Of Mind, Memories, and Dreams

    Posted on October 4, 2010 | 7 Comments
    The mind is a stage. Does this sound familiar? Descartes continues: where ideas are illuminated by the inner light of reason. In 1973 a Mormon Apostle, Boyd K. Packer, ventured into the realm of mind with a riff on René: The mind is like a […]

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  • Rogue Cinema

    Posted on October 4, 2010 | 11 Comments
    Fridays on 'Doves and Serpents' are film nights. That means you can get your popcorn, or equivalent snackfood, and follow along with a set of great directors and films that have made an impression on the writers here. Please watch the films along with us, and share the personal experiences you have with them, if you like.

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  • Twelve Lunches

    Posted on October 4, 2010 | 12 Comments
    What does the sign say, Mommy?

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  • Knit Together

    Posted on October 4, 2010 | 7 Comments
    When my middle daughter (whom we affectionately call “Mother Earth” because she’s always carrying on about recycling, saving the planet, and endangered species) was about five, she came home from school-full of righteous indignation because she had learned that mother sea turtles swim ashore, lay […]

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  • Stacks

    Posted on October 4, 2010 | 4 Comments
    There are stacks of books and CDs on almost every flat surface of my house. Next to my bed is a tantalizing stack of; books I haven’t read yet. Beside the books waiting in the wings are the recently read, which I’m; not quite ready […]

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  • Mormon Fakebook Update: 1

    Posted on October 4, 2010 | 23 Comments
    The first in an exciting and exclusive series of 'Facebook updates' from around the world of Mormon scripture and history.

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  • What is The Wayfarer?

    Posted on October 4, 2010 | 4 Comments
    Sometimes you have to go before you know. Exploration begins with an open mind, an insistent drive and some ingenuity. It requires some risk. Embodying this spirit of my Mormon heritage and folklore in today’s modern world, every week The Wayfarer travels to discover new […]

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