Summer (er...winter) reruns...

Careful readers may have noticed some site redesign--removing some sections of the sidebar and adding a new "Monthly Index" section.

(Careful readers may also have noticed that thanks to something I did during the redesign the BoD header has disappeared from all my sub-pages...but I'm working on that.)

One of my (few) annoyances with Typepad is its ineffective way of finding previous blog posts.  I frequently want to link back to previous posts (or just browse an old post myself to see what I wrote back then...) and since they are clumped together in monthly archives without an index, it's hard to find without doing a Google search.

Since I don't think I should have to do a Google search to find something on my own site, I've created my own Monthly Indexes where previous blog posts have been listed in a nice, neat table.  (Yes, still by month, but that's good enough for now)

I created these primarily for my use--although perhaps others might find them useful, too.  The tables have the post title, the topic and (since my post titles are frequently on the obscure side) a "What it's about..." section which describes more specifically what the post contains.  I didn't index the site announcement posts about new movie analyses or essays because they're redundant now--those can still be found in their individual sections. 

In 'summer rerun' fashion, then--now that the indexes have been created, perhaps I can point out a few posts I'm happy with from the early months of BoD--dating from before you may have started paying attention...  (After all, to paraphrase NBC--"If you haven't read it, it's new to you!")   With the "Recent Comments" feature on the sidebar, we can restart discussion on any one of these topics if anyone is interested:

February/March: 

• Why organized school prayer would be like eating white rice...
• My view on the death penalty
• Relative vs. Absolute morality when it comes to pornography
• The existence of racism vs. the perception of racism
• The purpose of religion: changing your beliefs to match the truth, not the other way around...

April:

• The good and bad about being a Church member in Utah
• April LDS Conference Report
• My tribute to Sister Hinckley, with reflections on 'identity'
• Why polygamy is not coming back...and why men don't want it to, either...
• Why age doesn't matter...in prophets or athletes

(Also the Science vs. Religion series which can be found in the Essay section)

May:

• Covenants and the "Attempted Murder" Theory
• Dinosaurs and the Bible
• Orson Scott Card and I have different opinions on "The Passion..."
• The parable of the box of chocolates...

June:

• Blessings and Rights...and the difference between them.
• Why boycotting stores open on Sunday is wrong
• The Hazards of Religious Education
• The three-part series on "evil" music

More tomorrow...