Newsweek has an interesting article about the success of Mormons on reality TV shows:
Wholesome, likable Mormon competitors are now so plentiful that some viewers have taken to playing Spot the Mormon…
In reality TV terms, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is in a sweet spot demographically: still small enough that members get excited [...]

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Times and Seasons has an interesting post about Don Lind, a Mormon astronaut, who went up into space in 1985. The post quotes from a book where Don describes the challenge of kneeling in weightlessness, and also the challenge of getting NASA to allow him to wear his garments. Good stuff!

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MyFox Utah has a short, but nice, interview clip with Sheri Dew about her work with President Hinckley.

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The Director of the Internet Coordination Group for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Larry Richman, runs a blog called ldsWebGuy. Yesterday he posted that according to BlogPulse, Gordon B. Hinckley was the 3rd most referenced person in the blogosphere on Monday.

As you can see from the screenshot, almost all of the top [...]

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Compared to Stephen Colbert’s “conspiracy theory” bit, Glenn Beck of Headline News and the self-titled radio show, had a much more compassionate tribute to President Hinckley.

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I can’t decide whether this is funny, sad, mean, or none of the above. On Monday night Stephen Colbert had a bit on his show where he said that either President Monson or his (Stephen’s) own writers killed President Hinckley.

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