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…)

Experience Press intends to release a new series of true reprints of the 1830 edition of the Book of Mormon. (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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So asks Richard Brookhiser in the latest New York Observer, providing his take of one of the latest popular social discourses–the inevitable linking and comparison of gay marriage, polygamy and even polyamory. (more…)

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…)