Book Review: iPlates, Volume 1 by Stephen Carter & Jett Atwood

If you find yourself falling asleep every time you try reading the Book of Mormon but are still curious about its contents, you might want to try iPlates Volume 1: Zeniff, Abinadi, Alma, and Ammon: Book of Mormon Comics by Stephen Carter and Jett Atwood. Like its source material, iPlates tells incredible (and often gory) stories about Hebrew prophets, missionaries, kings and warriors living in the Americas before Christ’s birth. But it’s in pictures, so it’s more entertaining. …Read more

It’s the One-Year Anniversary of the Policy Change

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9nUOCJ8rcU?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] To commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Mormon church’s policy forbidding baptism for children of same-sex couples, I thought I would share this video, produced by the church, illustrating Luke 18:15-17. It tells what happened when Jesus’s disciples tried to keep children away from him because they (the kids) were seen as unworthy … Read more

Book Review: The Forgotten Man

Synopsis: In 1932, after Captain Joshua Pascal’s family loses its fortune, the Great War veteran’s sense of duty compels him to help his mother convert his childhood home into a Jewish boarding house. He’s lived openly as a homosexual among his friends, but now Joshua must pretend to be a “normal,” and hiding his nature … Read more