Reading Time: 3 minutes This Thanksgiving, Disney Pictures presents Tangled, the newest installment in their collection of fairytale animation. Rapunzel, a feisty princess with 70 feet of magical, golden hair and a hankering to see the world, has been locked in a tower for 18 years of her life by Mother Gothel, a controlling, manipulative and over-protective villain who […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes Many Christian contemporaries recognize the growing need to honor the Earth, and some of them have even included nature in their modern practices of worship. For some non-Christian spiritualists, however, the Earth and nature play a bigger role. “If you take a copy of the Christian Bible and put it out in the wind and […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute KJZZ TV has released the second season of its documentary series The Joseph Smith Papers. This series takes an in-depth look at the life of Joseph Smith, the accredited first latter-day prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The box set contains 42 episodes spread over six DVDs dedicated to examining […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes In the coming week, several events celebrating Utah’s pioneer heritage will take place across the state, including all-day festivities on July 24. The Days of ’47, Inc. is a private, non-profit organization that was organized to commemorate the arrival of Mormon pioneer leader Brigham Young and his followers to the Salt Lake Valley. In the […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute While human rights activists around the world debate the ethics surrounding capital punishment, 35 states in the U.S. continue to offer the death penalty as a sentence for capital offenses. Ronnie Lee Gardner is facing execution in June 2010, and his chosen method of death by firing squad is striking up the controversy once again. […]