Richie T, Author at The Cultural Hall Podcast

The Death of Trick-or-Treating

*TRICK-or-TREATING* I can't believe I am finally to an age where I can say this legitimately...... Back in MY day....I can remember Halloween being an all night affair. Come rain or snow we would not be detoured from…

Richie TOctober 31, 2014

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Let’s Talk About Sex…wait, WHAT!?

Let’s Talk About Sex…wait, WHAT!? My sweetheart and I recently celebrated our 6 year anniversary by taking a small 2 day “stay-cation” to a fancy hotel in Salt Lake City. The first morning of our trip, I sat lazily in…

Richie TOctober 30, 2014

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9 Mormon Halloween Costumes for Under $10

Halloween is just around the corner, and according to some bogus statistic I'm about to make up, as many as 70% of people still haven't decided on a costume yet. Adjusted for Jehovah's Witnesses, Orthodox Jews, the French, and other…

Richie TOctober 29, 2014

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Mormons and Halloween: The Odd Truce

Mormons do weird things. Just ask the internet. We are a peculiar people, most especially to those unfamiliar with our faith. Most of the time we don’t think the things we’re doing are weird because we understand why we’re doing…

Richie TOctober 28, 2014

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Fiona Givens Ep 149 The Cultural Hall

FIONA GIVENS is a retired modern language teacher with undergraduate degrees in French and German and a graduate degree in European History. She is now an independent scholar who has published in several journals and reviews in Mormon studies,…

Richie TOctober 28, 2014

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Sacred or Secret?: Preserving Sanctity in an Age of Transparency

I, like many other Latter-Day Saints grew up knowing that there were certain topics that were "just not discussed" openly, or even within the privacy of our own homes. Many (if not most) of these topics had to do…

Richie TOctober 27, 2014

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The Mormon History Guy Responds to the Polygamy Essays

In a class I was teaching at a non-LDS university on Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o classic novel, Weep Not, Child, I asked students what most stood out to them about the book. One student responded: “One of the men had two wives…”…

Richie TOctober 23, 2014

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Freetown (New LDS Movie) Trailer

In 1989, Charles Taylor’s rebel group—The National Patriotic Front of Liberia—launched an insurrection against then leader, Samuel Doe. By the following year, Taylor’s rebels had taken control of most of the country and killed Doe. More than 200,000 people died…

Richie TOctober 20, 2014

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LDS Temple Garments (Video) + Q & A

Recently headquarters for the LDS Church published this video about "Garments" What questions do you have about LDS Temple Garments...Post in the Comments and we will add them to this post and make it a more comprehensive Q and…

Richie TOctober 20, 2014

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Terryl Givens Ep 148 The Cultural Hall

Terryl L. Givens was born in upstate New York, raised in the American southwest, and did his graduate work in Intellectual History (Cornell) and Comparative Literature (Ph.D. UNC Chapel Hill, 1988), working with Greek, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and English…

Richie TOctober 20, 2014

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