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When you mine comedy for an elusive and dangerous truth, you take the risk of bombing. Hard. Science fiction for a Friday.
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Dragged into Canada, Kicking and Screaming
Thirty-eight years have passed since I’ve been allowed to set foot in America’s neighbor to the north. I'd love to go back again, but only with a proper…
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Money Changers in the Temple of Democracy
A godless atheist wonders what it would mean to live in a truly Christian nation, and proposes the modest first step that would imply.
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January 2025

December 2024

November 2024

A Disciple of the Prophet Joseph Smith
In this excerpt from my memoir, a young LDS missionary under police interrogation begins to realize just how much trouble he’s facing.
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A Former Mormon Missionary Watches “Heretic”
The new horror thriller offers a heady clash between opposing ideas about faith and belief. But how realistic is its depiction of LDS doctrine and…
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Life on Earth
This poem is not about the election, but it does accurately represent the way I feel about it.
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October 2024

Seat 42E: Last
When a documentary filmmaker finds herself propelled twenty years into the future, will she discover a world better or worse than the one she left…
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A Comeback with the Ring of Truth
Confronted by a party guest with an axe to grind, I must flap my gums faster than they’ve flapped in my whole flippin’ life.
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Words for a Room Full of Strangers
Are we the same people we were forty years ago? Some thoughts on what Mötley Crüe can teach us about navigating a high school class reunion.
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March 2024

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