Turning to face the strange…

We have noticed that in many corners of ye oulde Bloggernacle, there has lately emerged a growing consensus–likely fueled by Bob Wright and Gregory Princes’ otherwise outstanding “David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism”–that President Alvin R. Dyer of the Seventy’s 1960 address “The Challenging and Testifying Missionary” was one of the infernal catalysts for the high-baptism/low-retention approaches towards missionary work that have bedeviled the Church since at least the post-war period.

Shortly after I moved to upstate New Jersey in 2018 for work, my Dad flew out from the west coast to visit. He hadn’t been

Also read the second AML review here.

Sometime early in the 2010s, “Rockist” became a borderline slur: music reviewers began to lob it at each to slander their opponents as snobbish, stagnant, out-of-date and out-of-touch.

Our third excerpt from our first book-length message in a bottle And All Eternity Shook, available now. Read the recent AML review here.

Some baseball and death for your summer solstice.