The Nature of the Soul by Clark Goble
So You Really Want to be a Writer? by Eric James Stone
Bits of Mormon History by Justin Butterfield
Lessons Learned in Philadelphia by Ronan JH
Bloggernacle A&E by William Morris
Weekly Zeitgeist by Steve

First an explanation. I had written a long and thoughtful discussion on the soul Sunday night. I finished it off Monday morning. Just as I was completing the last sentence my computer crashed. Since I was writing in a web browser (my bad) the whole thing was lost. So this is me trying to remember everything I’d written Sunday night. Sadly such rewrites are, to me, never as good as the original. So my apologies in advance.

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Kris at Mormon Feminist Housewives discussed her recent experience in celebrating the anniversary of the Relief Society’s founding, reflecting on how we choose to remember past LDS women leaders, such as Eliza R. Snow. She also considered a 1993 Jan Shipps essay raising a related question: Could Mormon women’s history actually be dangerous?

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I was in Philadelphia over the weekend attending the 215th annual meeting of the American Oriental Society. Sounds thrilling, I know. During a break in the conference I decided to explore Philadelphia. Here’s what I learned (and here beginneth the Second Sermonette on Dissent):

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Sorry for the skipped week. Not really — I never claimed to be as consistent as Steve Evans. I mean, I actually have a life and sometimes it intervenes.

Anyway, the best post of the past two weeks is Dallas Robbins’ short musing What Is Mormon Beauty? over at Latter-day Slant. Sure, most of the post is a series of questions, but I’m a sucker for anything that makes an attempt at discussing Mormon aesthetics. So far only Rusty has commented. You all need to change that.
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Avast, me hearties, the ides of March have come and gone in the Bloggernacle. What have they left us in their wake? I alone am left to tell the tale.

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