[Encompassing the “Jesus and Satan” post I made the other day, I think I’ll start a series — maybe called “Responding to Bumper Stickers,” maybe called “Long Answers to Short Questions” — in which I’ll try to give a Latter-day Saint response to a question or claim commonly lobbed against us on X. It’s always…

[This is a comment I find myself needing to copy and paste often when discussions of Latter-day Saint doctrine comes up on X. I’m just putting it here so I can find it easily.] One of the great tells of anti-Mormon X is “Mormons believe Jesus and Satan are brothers!!1!” What we believe is that…

It seems almost impossible in retrospect: There was a time in this past year, after a small spate of celebrity deaths, when I felt (and said, openly) that the death that probably meant the most to me this year was Tom Lehrer’s. Ha. Ha ha. Ha. Wayne Osmond Jeannot Szwarc David Lynch Marianne Faithfull Wayne…