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December 2015

December 03, 2015

Batman vs Superman (The Gods Are Fighting)

So there's a new Batman vs Superman trailer (thanks to Jimmy Kimmel) and it's kind...

November 2015

November 20, 2015

Finding Hope From The Westboro Baptist Church

For years, the Westboro Baptist Church have been synonymous with bigotry. I learned this when...

November 19, 2015

See, Mormons and Muslims Really do Have Stuff in Common

While advocating for Donald Trump's insistence that Muslim's deserve less rights than other religious Americans, Katrina...

November 18, 2015

Star Wars Needs A Faith Crisis

I don’t know if you’re aware of this, but there’s a new Star Wars coming...

November 17, 2015

Bill Maher is Like an Awkward Parody of Atheist Beliefs

Famous atheist and washed up 1950s stand-up comic impersonator Bill Maher went on The Late...

November 16, 2015

So Mitt Romney is Back

But not really. So in light of the fact that 47.6% of primary support in the...

November 07, 2015

Why Didn’t We Do This By Common Consent?

Reactions to the recent church policy changes concerning the children of married homosexual couples (which...

November 07, 2015

These Arguments are Weak.

That “Insight into new LDS Church policies on same-sex couples and their children” post, written...

November 06, 2015

How I choose to see the revisions

I write this as a heterosexual person, one who is not directly affected by the...

October 2015

October 29, 2015

Is Brigham Young’s Hearse Residing in Disneyland?

I recently went to Disneyland for the first time since middle school, and in the...

October 28, 2015

The Politics of Monsters

Editors Note: This post isn't about Mormonism, since it is an unpublished blog for a...

October 26, 2015

From the Archives: Ghost Stories

Editors Note: Welcome to Halloween Week at Peculiar People! The following is a post from...

October 26, 2015

Should We Really Worry About Ben Carson’s Religion?

Presidential Candidate Ben Carson is a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, a protestant sect of...

October 22, 2015

Did Back to the Future Really Predict 9/11?

I know we're a day late, because the future was yesterday, but I did just...

October 20, 2015

Mitt Romney Still Doesn’t Want to Talk About Race in the Mormon Church

So the guy who was in charge of getting Barack Obama elected both times, David Axelrod,...

October 20, 2015

A Mormon Perspective on the New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer

Because the trailer for the new Star Wars movie has officially dropped, I thought I'd...

October 19, 2015

Sister Wives’ Madison Brown’s Mormon Baptism Rejection, Explained

Confession: I actually really love the show Sister Wives. It is a pretty remarkable snapshot...

October 19, 2015

Scandal on the Mormon Ranch

In case you haven't heard, the LDS Church is currently involved in a rather large...

October 14, 2015

This is Why the Mormon Vote Matters to Republicans

Mormon reporter-in-chief McKay Coppins has a new piece up at Buzzfeed (it's actually a two...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

Stephen Colbert is right, believing in God is pretty crazy

I had the pleasure of catching The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night. It...

September 18, 2015

Ahmed Mohamed, and The Need For A New Narrative

Ahmed Mohamed, a high school student in Irving, Texas, had a rude awakening this...

September 16, 2015

The Utah Soda Wars Are Here, So Let’s Hurry Up With The Apocalypse

In the 1980s, America was subjected to a bizarre race to the bottom between competing soft...

September 15, 2015

American Gas: Reflections on Home After a Year Abroad

I’ll ask the reader to forgive my following foray into a personal travel log, but...

September 14, 2015

Marco’s Mormon Moment

The big news right now for everyone with a "Mormon" Google alert is that Sen....

September 07, 2015

Who will get the Mormon vote?

So is this it? Is this how The Republic ends? Not with a bang, but...

September 01, 2015

James Bond becoming more interesting and relevant isn’t a bad thing

Idris Elba basically oozes everything one associates with James Bond. Pretty much everyone recognizes...

August 2015

August 31, 2015

When did celebrities become so powerful?

There's nothing terribly new to the idea that maybe we give celebrities far too much...

August 27, 2015

There’s’ something religious about ‘political correctness’

Editor's note: This expression of ideas is way too long and meanders a bit. The...

August 25, 2015

With the Mormon Church’s Backlash Against Boy Scouts, Gay Leaders Are Merely Scapegoats

Young men in the Mormon faith are almost guaranteed to be automatically enrolled with the...

August 24, 2015

Jon McNaughton, the Obama Era’s Most Significant Artist

Gaze upon the works of Jon McNaughton, the most important painter of our time.* Undoubtedly,...