My posts have been a little sparse and fluffy for the past week or two (I feel like I’m describing someone’s hair loss). This is a break in my consistent posting for the past few months, and I feel that I owe you all an explanation. First of all, life is crazy; one […]

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I’m experimenting with some changes to the site.¬† Miko and I now have links to the books that we’re reading in the left sidebar, compliments of Library Thing. My list also includes books that are on “next read” shelf–only a randomly selected subset of a few dozen books are displayed, but LibraryThing caches it, so […]

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This survey (pdf link) from the Pew Internet and American Life Project sheds some light on and complicates the stereotype of that strange creature, the American Blogger (and a bit on the related American Blog Reader). The data was collected between 2005 and 2006, which, in Internet terms, is kind of like asking […]

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fmhLisa, superstar of the Mormon blogging world, has invited me to be a guest blogger at feminist Mormon housewives. Come visit me–and while you’re there, read the other quality posts from fmhLisa and others.

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It’s been a wonderful year for Mind on Fire. Miko joined the ranks, regularly contributing her intelligent insights into life, feminism and spirituality. I wrote about my pilgrimage to local holy sites and places of worship (which I hope to begin again in the new year), and a number of us had a […]

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You may have noticed more growing pains. I’ve wanted to switch from a two-column to a three-column layout for some time now. I can fit more info, but I’ll have to move away from the minimalist, airy look I prefer. I’m doing patch jobs on the live site while I work off-line […]

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To those of you visiting from the Skeptic’s Circle, welcome!¬† On the surface, Mind on Fire is my personal blog, and charts my tortuous journey from Mormonism to unbelief; dig a little deeper and you find a community of believers who value doubt and skeptics who embrace spirituality.¬† I’m still on a pilgrimage to find […]

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I’m currently engaged in a compulsive redesign, but I’ll continue to post around it. My apologies if you enter the site and it’s layout is reminiscent of Picasso or Dali. It will revert to its own sparse utilitarian self, though with less minimalism and more clutter (but hopefully with enhanced features and usability).

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When I started mindonfire many internet generations ago, I felt like each post submitted was like a note-stuffed bottle tossed into the dark sea of web-humanity. Incredibly, messages came back–not Sting’s “hundred million bottles,” but a few poignant notes from other castaways and drifters on the same great spiritual ocean.
Many of my […]

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There’s an entertaining post by the newest contributor to the Sunstone Blog, Matt Thurston. He describes his ironic first encounter with a controversial biography of Joseph Smith while serving as a Mormon missionary in Taiwan. He then asks his readers to share their own first encounters with troubling Church history.
Try as I might, […]

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