Stallion Cornell

Andrew's original is in green; my responses are in black. Let's look at Alma 32. OK. Start with 17 & 18 to find out that faith isn't knowledge. Faith isn't to know something. Faith isn't having a sign. Correct. "Now I ask, is this faith? Behold, I say unto you, Nay; for if a man ... Read more

SoI broke down and opened up a Twitter account. If you want to follow me, I’m at twitter.com/stallioncornell. I don’t know how or why I’ll use it, but there it is. The first few days, my updates consisted of such one-word entries as “poop” and “Clytemnestra.” If that turns you on, then sign up to ... Read more

Thisbegan as a response to Andrew S., a thoughtful commenter on my Monday post, and it got long enough to be its own blog entry. So here I am, bringing it out onto the main page. Andrew masterfully demonstrates that atheism and theism can both include varying degrees of belief and doubt, and that agnosticism ... Read more

Despitemy Yul Brynner avatar, I need to say at the outset that I have a full head of hair in real life. So I suppose I can’t really identify with the follicly impaired, and I probably have no right to say anything on this subject. But when has that stopped me before? So here it ... Read more

Overthe weekend, I took the lovely Mrs. Cornell to Ricky Gervais' latest, The Invention of Lying. I have yet to see Mr. Gervais in anything that was less than entertaining, although this came the closest. It's a very clever conceit - Gervais plays a guy who learns how to lie in a world where dishonesty ... Read more

OnFacebook, I posted a link to one of the best LDS Conference talks I’ve heard in many a moon. It’s Elder Jeffrey R. Holland’s piece on the Book of Mormon, and it’s just as powerful on the page as it was when he delivered it live. (And his delivery was pretty powerful, indeed!) This prompted ... Read more

Look,Orson Scott Card went nine months without updating his world update blog. Two months and I get a gazillion whiny comments! Come on, people! Have some faith in Blogboy! Or don’t. Whatever. Some behind-the-scenes info: I had hoped to have moved this blog to a bigger and better locale, but, after considerable wheeling and ... Read more

No. But probably for awhile. At least until September. I'm sorry to be so cryptic, but my professional activities have made it impossible to maintain this thing during the summer. I leave it here for you to peruse - there's a lot of good stuff in the 400+ posts - but I likely won't be ... Read more

Afew days ago, I posted the following as a status update on Facebook: "Stallion Cornell thinks Cap and Trade is a nifty opportunity to kick a moribund economy in the gut in order to have a negligible impact on the warming of a globe that's been cooling for the past decade." As of this writing, ... Read more

Doyou remember where you were when River Phoenix died? Probably not. A better question might be, “Do you remember who River Phoenix was?”( He was an up and coming, very talented young actor back in the day. Did a wicked Harrison Ford impression at the beginning of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Made ... Read more