This morning I received an email informing me that Paul Allen, the owner of (my beloved) the Seattle Seahawks and Microsoft billionaire recently wrote an editorial in a California newspaper, Santa Clarita, that he’s sick of so many people putting down the Mormons. I thought it curious that this billionaire spent his time writing editorials defending Mormons in a tiny community newspaper, but nevertheless it was a very complimentary letter. (more…)

The editorial staff of The Daily Universe published a short editorial criticizing BYU managers for terminating a BYU staff member whose letter (commenting on certain dysfunctional aspects of the supervision of BYU student elections) was recently published in the Universe. [For more on the original story, see this SL Trib article.] I wonder who has embarrassed the university more, the guy who wrote the letter or the managers who fired him? Ironically, the terminated employee is a student in BYU’s executive MBA program. School of hard knocks management lesson no. 1: Don’t criticize the company in public.

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Yesterday BYU Studies held a panel discussion by the organizers of last year’s “The Worlds of Joseph Smith” conference, which was held at the Library of Congress. Those participating included Richard Bushman, Robert Millet, and John W. Welch. (more…)

This week the Church released a circular letter that reiterated certain policies that are frequently ignored and outlined several new policies for the protection of children. The new policies are to cover Primary Classes (including Nursery), Primary Activities (including Scouts) and Relief Society Nurseries: (more…)

Well I’d hoped to be at the SMPT conference today up in Salt Lake. But it’s looking like I won’t make it after all. However I can put up this week’s report on interesting blog posts on science and religion. We’ll start where we always seem to, on evolution.

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In honor of J. Stapley’s visit to Salt Lake City during the upcoming General Conference, I would like to propose another Salt Lake City Bloggernacle Gathering at my place. Conference will pretty much take up the weekend, so I suggest Monday, April 3 at 7:00 p.m.  If you are interested in attending, please email me at abevblog dot gmail dot com and I will let you know the address.