BYU Archive

  • Grondahl Restored 31

    For other cartoons in this series,  click here.  This cartoon, as always, is posted with the kind permission of  The Sunstone Foundation  and  Calvin Grondahl.

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  • Our Favorite Mormons: Alice Louise Reynolds, Our Absent-Minded Professor

    If you haven’t met her, I’d like to introduce you to Alice Louise Reynolds, a “founder” of The Lord’s University, a beloved BYU professor and one of our favorite Mormons. It is estimated that Reynolds taught over 5,000 students in 20 different literature courses during […]

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  • So You Think You Can Write LDS Newsroom Press Releases

    There's a little known LDS tradition that on Leap Day, ordinary members of the church can write fantasy press releases for the LDS newsroom. Here are some of the ones we've collected from among our friends and neighbors for Leap Day 2012.

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  • Are all white people racist?

    I recently saw this embarrassment of a video on Facebook: http://youtu.be/XGeMy-6hnr0 There are so many things wrong with the video, it’s hard to know where to start.   I cringed when I saw the guy dressing up in black face, but I admit that I […]

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  • Brandon Davies and not-so-short shorts

    This week, Brandon Davies was suspended from playing on the BYU basketball team for violations of the Honor Code. (ie: he had sex with his girlfriend) The responses have surprised me — Mormons everywhere have strong opinions about Davies’s suspension. The reactions usually fall in […]

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