(Note: This is Part 1 of a two-part post, and both posts are part of my “Evangelical at BYU” series. How this one fits into the latter series will become apparent in Part 2.)
I penned this journal entry on Friday, March 28, 2003, but it refers to an incident that happened on an airplane on [...]

Day 8 – Friday
Got up early in the morning and had Heather drop me off at the Wilkinson Student Center on the BYU campus so that I could meet up with Aaron Shafovaloff from Mormonism Research Ministry at 8:30 AM. Contrary to the reputation he seems to have around the Bloggernacle, he’s actually a pretty [...]

Day 6 – Wednesday
In the morning we had breakfast at the CenterPoint Church office and got to hear the testimonies of some of the staff who work there and how they felt called to come to Utah.
Then we headed to Brigham Young University for lunch at the Wilkinson Center with Sarah Taylor. You know that [...]

You know how I completed my degree at Brigham Young University as an evangelical Christian and how lots of people seem to think this is a neat thing for some reason?
How awesome would it be if there were two of me?
Well, today is your lucky day! Sort of.
In the past year I’ve made friends via [...]

Nothing else at BYU has surprised me except him. I knew I was gonna meet professors like [Hall, Welch, Parry & Ricks], and I knew I was gonna meet cool, open-minded Mormons like Adam & Nick & Julie & Kristi. I even knew I’d meet professors like Keller. But I never thought I’d meet someone [...]

This journal entry is dated Thursday, January 9, 2003. I had a tendency for dramatization in my journaling that kind of makes me wince to read now—I was 20 years old and still held to some kind of self-centered belief that the weight of the world was on my shoulders alone or something—but I think [...]

I think the Daily Universe had it right the first time.
I don’t know what’s funnier, that this mistake was made or the reaction to it, but either way it’s some major lulz. Makes me miss BYU.
h/t: BCC

Via Facebook, I’ve just learned that a group of evangelical students from Wheaton College in Illinois will be visiting the Brigham Young University campus on Tuesday, March 10, 2009. Here is their schedule:
Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Time: 9:00AM – 4:00PM
Location: 382 JSB
Schedule:
9:00 – Robert Millet & Jerry Root discussion
10:00 – Tour of the BYU campus
11:00 [...]

Tuesday, January 29, 2002
I talked to a girl in my martial arts class named [Rita]1 today. She’s not LDS, she’s Catholic, and she’s taking the missionary discussions right now and she has questions for me about why I didn’t join the church. I’m amazed and thankful that God’s put her in my life.
It was during [...]

It happened more times than I care to remember. I would see an LDS friend or teacher or co-worker on campus, we would say hello and make small talk, and then he or she would say with a grin, “So Jack, when are you getting baptized?” This cavalierly dismissive attitude towards my own faith was [...]