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Linger Longer is a series where we highlight religious and non-religious articles, as well as mormon-related podcasts. Click here for previous lists.

Bloggernacle (religious sites)
10 Common Arguments Against Female Ordination in the LDS Church (Feminist Mormon Housewives)
Real People Sin (By Common Consent)
Five Things You Should Know About the BYU-Idaho Dress Code (Times and Seasons)
On Love (Zelophehad's Daughters)
The Parable of the Coors Can (A Motley Vision)

The First Salt Lake Comic Con (Dawning of a Brighter Day)
Is Shaming a Good Parenting Technique? (Wheat & Tares)

The Lamanites of South America: Opening the Work (Keepapitchinin)

The Necessary Sacrifice (Segullah)

Letter to a Bishop: Can I Be a Witness at My Daughter's Baptism? (Doves and Serpents)

Presiding Over Promiscuous Company (The Exponent)
Passive Male Feminist Syndrome (Young Mormon Feminists)
Join Ordain Women for the October 5th Priesthood Session (Ordain Women)

Remember Zelmo Beaty: Race, Religion and Basketball in Salt Lake City (The Juvenile Instructor)
Korihor and the Defense of Secularism (Faith-Promoting Rumor)

Belief and Belonging in Mormonism (Peculiar People)

This Is Not True! Do Not Teach It! (Millenial Star)
On Free Agency (Ships of Hagoth)

Global Mom (Mormon Women Project)

I Am Cutting Myself ... (The Mormon Therapist)

Barb and Steve Young Speak to LGBT Mormons (No More Strangers)

Completely Exhausted New Parents Sleep Right Through Angel Moroni Visit (Mormon Tabernacle Enquirer)

Chocolate Chip Cookies, Snicker Doodles and the Current State of Dating at BYU (Rational Faiths)

Mormon-Related Podcasts
Episodes 60-61: Elijah Abel - Early Black Mormon Priesthood Holder (A Thoughtful Faith)
Episodes 190-191: The Institutional Church and the Individual (Mormon Matters)
Episodes 184-189: Hugh Nibley - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (Mormon Matters)
Episode 1: Feminist Mormon Talks: Tresa Edmunds (FMH Podcast)

Off-Bloggernacle (non-religious sites)
Orbital Speed, Updating a Printed Wikipedia, Signs of Life and Speed Bump (What If?)
On Survival School (in the Utah desert) (Derek Scruggs)
The Stories Behind 22 Classic Album Covers (Mental_Floss)
Your Flight's Delayed! 11 Ways to Get Home Faster (Slate)
What To Do When You've Made Someone Angry (Harvard Business Review)
40 Maps that Explain the World (The Washington Post)
How the Internet Ecosystem Works (CollegeHumor)
An End of Books (Seth Godin)
Cabrera Continues to Make History (Grantland)
What 11 Experts Teach Us About Seeing Our Familiar City Block With New Eyes (Brain Pickings)
How Athletes Get Great (Outside)
What Happens When Four Guys Try to Cross the Atlantic ... In a Rowboat (SportsNet)
The Mystery of Cheap Lobster (The Atlantic)
5 Companies that Make Money by Keeping Americans Scared (Salon)
How the Coffee Cup Sleeve Was Invented (Smithsonian)
50 People on My "Best College Life Hack" (Thought Catalog)
Guillermo Del Toro's Sketchbook is the Stuff of Beautiful Nightmares (Huffington Post)
The God of SNL Will See You Now (The New York Times)
Have Sports Teams Brought Down America's Schools? (The New Yorker)
Trigger: The Life of a Guitar (Texas Monthly)
20 Things 20 Year-Olds Don't Get (Forbes)
The 20 Big Questions in Science (The Guardian)
The Lichen Loophole (Now I Know)
Why Are You Not Dead Yet? (Slate)
How to Make the Most of Your College Years (LifeHacker)

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Linger Longer is a series where we highlight religious and non-religious articles, as well as mormon-related podcasts. Click here for previous lists.

Bloggernacle (religious sites)
A Short History of My Breasts (Feminist Mormon Housewives)
Valuing Families (By Common Consent)
Maybe We're All Right (Times and Seasons)
Impressions of a Girl Lost at Sea (Zelophehad's Daughters)
Do We Take Our Creative Work With Us When We Die? (A Motley Vision)

Mormon Women Authors and Filmmakers Represent with Austenland (Dawning of a Brighter Day)
Is It More Important that the Church Be Important or True? (Wheat & Tares)

"Sadness" (Keepapitchinin)

A Mute in a Monologue (Segullah)

Ride/Walk to the Tokyo Temple (Doves and Serpents)

Women and Comics: Part 1 - The Good (The Exponent)
Understanding Our Differences: Younger Mormons and Leaving the LDS Church (Young Mormon Feminists)

Mormons and the Mythology of the "Greatest Generation" (The Juvenile Instructor)
Doubt and the Dangers of Reading Alone (Faith-Promoting Rumor)

Ghost Stories (Peculiar People)

Mormon Basketball Players' Greatest Hits (Millenial Star)

Ministering on the Spectrum: Primary Helps for Special Education Children (Dandelion Mama)

Cherish One Another (Mormon Women Project)

Teaching About Chastity to the Youth (The Mormon Therapist)

The Miracle of Forgiveness: An Open Letter Requesting Removal or an Update to Reflect Current Knowledge (No More Strangers)

11 Thoughts of a 14-Year Old with ADD During a First Trip to the Sacred Grove (Mormon Tabernacle Enquirer)

Chopping Off Arms is Better than Planning FHE (Rational Faiths)

Mormon-Related Podcasts
Episodes 184-185: Hugh Nibley: Part 1 (Mormon Matters)
Episode 45: Who is Mark Hoffman? Part 3 (Mormon Expositor) Part 1, Part 2

Off-Bloggernacle (non-religious sites)
Random Sneeze Call, Restraining an Airplane and Dropping a Mountain (What If?)
A Little Chat About Religion with the Man Upstairs (The Seattle Times)
40 Signs You Are a BuzzFeed Writer Running Out of List Ideas (Vanity Fair)
How Wonder Works (Aeon)
In America's Pastime, Baseball Players Pass a Lot of Time (The Wall Street Journal)
The Amazing Movie Company Behind 'Sharknado' (Fortune)
A Sneak Peak of the National Grid on Renewables (MIT Technology Review)
Fine Print: Canned Responses for Online Dispute Resolution (@pourmecoffee)
What Does it Even Mean to Believe Something? (Noahpinion)
Why Are Hollywood Movies So Long? (Priceonomics)
The CTFD Method is the Greatest of All Parenting Trends (Jezebel) **graphic language**
The Strange Disappearance of Cooperation in America (Social Evolution Forum)
From Coast to Toast (Vanity Fair)
Robin Thicke, a Romantic, Has a Naughty Hit (The New York Times)
Why Millennials Are Leaving the Church (CNN Belief Blog)
You Can Live Forever (The Daily Beast)
16 Words That Are Much Older Than They Seem (Mental Floss)
What if Mitt Romney Had Won? (The Economist)
The Cheat Code to Life (Wired)
Your Smile Can Change the World (The Guardian)
How to Trick Your Brain Into Banishing Bad Money Habits (LifeHacker)
Incredibly Detailed Close-Ups of Van Gogh's Masterpieces (Twisted Sifter)
Woody Allen's Distinctive Female Characters (The New York Times)
Your Dog Will Not Like DogTV (Slate)
How Not to Be Alone (The New York Times)

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by Seattle Jon (bio)

Ulysses and the Sirens by Otto Greiner, 1902

I think we've all heard the story of the Greek hero Odysseus (English: Ulysses) and the Sirens. Brave and curious Odysseus wants to hear the famous songs of the Sirens, but aware that, when the time comes, he will be unable to resist the Sirens' beautiful songs (which are really a deathtrap), Odysseus advises his men to secure him firmly to the ship's mast. That way, he can listen to the song without being lured to his untimely death.

I recently heard this story retold on NPR's RadioLab (Episode: Help!). The show's creators told the story of Zelda Gamson, who'd tried for decades to stop smoking. Part of her wanted to quit, but another part just didn't want to let go. They asked the question, "How do you win a tug-of-war with yourself?"

Spoiler: Zelda quits smoking. But how did she win the tug-of-war? She cut a deal with herself. She told a friend that if she ever smoked again she would give $5,000 to the Ku Klux Klan. Say what?! Well, Zelda thought the KKK so unbelievably "heinous" that the thought of them having her money was more powerful than the urge to smoke. And she quit cold turkey.

According to neurologists, we are many "people" on the inside, different parts of our brains that fight and argue and don't always agree with one another. The trick is none of these different people exist simultaneously. And for many of us, the person in charge - the one in the moment who wants things now – is the stronger one. You just need to think about shopping and food to know this is true.

But, if you can pit your short-term desires not against your long-term plans but against an immediate feeling of dislike or disgust, you essentially trick the person who wants it now and make the tug-of-war more evenly matched. Zelda, for example, changed her personal tug-of-war from smoking now vs. longer and healthier life later (smoking always won) to smoking now vs. paying the KKK 5K now, and that was enough to do the trick.

This approach is called the Ulysses Contract and is a combination of insight, foresight, and ingenuity. What contracts have you made or will you make with your future self?

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Linger Longer is a series where we highlight religious and non-religious articles, as well as mormon-related podcasts. Click here for previous lists.

Bloggernacle (religious sites)
A Father's Open Letter to President Oscarson (Feminist Mormon Housewives)
Teaching Lessons on the Priesthood to Young Feminists (By Common Consent)
Damnable Terminology (Times and Seasons)
Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My! (Zelophehad's Daughters)
LDS Publishing: A New Writer's Perspective (A Motley Vision)

The Shibboleths of Mormon Aesthetics (Dawning of a Brighter Day)
New Flash Fiction on Wilderness Interface Zone (The Low-Tech World)

Does the Church Over-Subsidize BYU? (Wheat & Tares)
"Bringing Home a New Wife," 1907 (Keepapitchinin)

Should You Let Your Kids Quit Taking Piano Lessons? (Segullah)

Ride to Lakewood Church (Doves and Serpents)

Institutionalized Gender Inequality Starts in the Church at Age 8 (The Exponent)
Wet Hot Immodest Summer (Young Mormon Feminists)

Don't Stand So Close To Me: On Not Hearing Elizabeth Smart (The Juvenile Instructor)
The Value of An Outsider's Perspective (Faith-Promoting Rumor)

Joseph Smith the Seeker and Same-Sex Marriage: The Community of Christ Negotiating Change (Peculiar People)

The New Boy Scout Admission Policy and Rethinking Mormon Involvement in the BSA (Millenial Star)

Some Thoughts on Divorce (Dandelion Mama)

Mohawk Junkie (Mormon Women Project)

What Exactly do Mormons Mean When They Say the Word Priesthood? (Ask Mormon Girl)

Mother's Day and Family Relationships (The Mormon Therapist)

A Post on Maude Adams (No More Strangers)

Like Sunshine in the Darkest Abyss I've Ever Experienced (Joanna Brooks' Religion Dispatches)

Archeology Grad Student Reconstructs 20 years of Sacrament Meetings ... (Mormon Tabernacle Enquirer)

Sea of Change (Rational Faiths)

Mormon-Related Podcasts
Episodes 419-421: Tom Kimball and Dan Wotherspoon, 7 Years After "Stages of Faith" (Mormon Stories)
Episode 043: A Conversation with Emma Lou Thayne (A Thoughtful Faith)

Off-Bloggernacle (non-religious sites)
Train Loop, High Throw and ISS Music Video (What If?)
Alfred Hitchcock and His Blondes (Classic Driver)
40 Gargoyles and Grotesques Around the World (Twister Sifter)
Seeing Stars: The Big Science of Building a Giant Telescope (Harvard Magazine)
Knights of Soft Rock (Rolling Stone)
Thank You For Not Sharing (The Wall Street Journal)
This is the Most Detailed Picture of the Internet Ever (and Making it Was Very Illegal) (Motherboard)
The Food-Truck Business Stinks (The New York Times)
7 Dodgy Food Practices Banned in Europe But Just Fine Here (Mother Jones)
Are 'Hot Hands' in Sports A Real Thing? (The New York Times)
How to Have a Longer Marriage Than Kim Kardashian (Scientific American)
10 Hotel Secrets From Behind the Front Desk (Mental Floss)
I Boldly Went Where Every Star Trek Movie and TV Show Has Gone Before (Slate)
Mariano Rivera Breaking Bats (Fan Graphs)
What I Learned From Watching Every Episode of The Office (Esquire)
The Dark and Starry Eyes of Ray Bradbury (The New Atlantis)
Welcome to the Programmable World (Wired)
2013 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest (The Atlantic)
How to Buy Happiness (Los Angeles Times)

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Linger Longer is a series where we highlight religious and non-religious articles, as well as mormon-related podcasts. Click here for previous lists.

Bloggernacle (religious sites)
My Despair (Feminist Mormon Housewives)
Authentic Prayer After a Faith Transition (Feminist Mormon Housewives)
Laying On Of Hands and Other New Church History Website Content (By Common Consent)
Chastity and Virginity (Times and Seasons)
"I Never Noticed Women Weren't Praying in Conference" (Zelophehad's Daughters)
Creative Writing and Hearing the Word of the Lord: Mormon Lit Blitz (Mormon Midrashim)

Brigham Young on Writing (A Motley Vision)

Children's Lit Corner (Dawning of a Brighter Day)

Mormon Passive-Aggression (Wheat & Tares)
B.H. Roberts, On Tracting (Keepapitchinin)

Conflict Makes Me Cringe (Segullah)

Motherhood in Six Short Words (Doves and Serpents)

Languages of Worship (The Exponent)
People Aren't Ready To Hear This, But They Need To (Young Mormon Feminists)

Mormonism and McDonald's (The Juvenile Instructor)
Priesthood, Women and Non-Agency (Faith-Promoting Rumor)

Thoughts on "Sexual Purity" (Peculiar People)

Using the LDS Ward Library (Millenial Star)

A Mormon at the Vatican (Ships of Hagoth)

Imagining Stuck (Dandelion Mama)

Her Version of Having It All (Mormon Women Project)

Who Was the First LDS Leader to Pair Motherhood and Priesthood? (Ask Mormon Girl)

A Look at Abortion Through a Mormon Lens (The Mormon Therapist)

From Mothers on the Gift of Having a Gay Child (No More Strangers)

Shifting Talk on Mormon Racism Reveals Divisions Within LDS Church (Joanna Brooks' Religion Dispatches)

Deseret Legal Announces New Temple Marriage Pre-Nuptial Agreement Options (Mormon Tabernacle Enquirer)

Mormons and Mullets (Rational Faiths)
Letter to a Doubter (Mormon Interpreter)
Cinematic Heroes as 'Types of Christ' (Mormon Movie Guy)
Happy Day to Heavenly Mother (Living Creation)

Oh My Mother (C.Jane Kendrick)

Mormon-Related Podcasts
Episodes 172-173: Proactive LDS Parenting (Mormon Matters) *features MMM contributor Aimee
Episodes 170-171: Toward Expanding and Improving LDS Discourse About Sexuality (Mormon Matters)
Episode 38: Who is Mark Hoffman? Part 2 (Mormon Expositor) listen to Part 1
Episode 84: Christopher Clark (The Cultural Hall) *features MMM emeritus contributor Topher Clark
Brad Wilcox Interview, Part 1 (Mormon Discussion)

Off-Bloggernacle (non-religious sites)
Pressure Cooker, Go West and Longest Sunset (What If?)
50 Common Cognitive Distortions (Psychology Today)
What's in a Nickname? The Origins of All 30 MLB Team Names (Mental Floss)
Chess and 18th Century Artificial Intelligence (BBC News)
Nine Things You Probably Didn't Know About Swear Words (Time Magazine)
The Passion of the Costas (Grantland)
Why is it So Hard to Make a Phone Call in Emergency Situations? (The Atlantic)
Science, Magic and Madness (BBC News)
Lost in Space (The New York Times)
The Science Behind Why We Procrastinate (LifeHacker)
20 Words We Owe to William Shakespeare (Mental Floss)
George W. Bush's Presidency, in 24 Charts (The Washington Post)
What if We Never Run Out of Oil? (The Atlantic)
How One Small College is Leaving Sports -- And Might Lead a Revolution (SB Nation)
Winners of the 2013 Sony World Photography Awards (The Atlantic)
Kareem: 20 Things I Wish I'd Known When I Was 30 (Esquire)
66 Behind The Scenes Pics from The Empire Strikes Back (imgur)
How to Be a Better Friend (Scientific American)

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Linger Longer is a series where we highlight religious and non-religious articles, as well as mormon-related podcasts. Click here for previous lists.

Bloggernacle (religious sites)
Fanning the Flames of Our Faith (Feminist Mormon Housewives)
Elder Bednar Talks About S-E-X (By Common Consent)
Why Today is Important (Times and Seasons)
What We All Secretly Wish We'd Hear More About At Church (Zelophehad's Daughters)

A Mormon Artists Talents Tithe (A Motley Vision)

I Can't Do That ... (Dawning of a Brighter Day)

A Feminist Primer for Men (Wheat & Tares)
Do Not Raise the Sacred Strain, Gently or Otherwise (Keepapitchinin)

A Love Letter to NPR (Segullah)

On Men and Heavy Lifting (Doves and Serpents)

"Bring Them Unto the Elders" (The Exponent)
The Blessings of Doubt (Young Mormon Feminists)

Of Mormons and Baseball (The Juvenile Instructor)
Sam Gamgee and the Relief Society (Faith-Promoting Rumor)

Mormonism, Interfaith Marriage and the Practice of Pluralism (Peculiar People)

FCC Wants to Allow More Swearing, Nudity on TV (Millenial Star)

Mormons and Hindus in Sherlock Holmes (Ships of Hagoth)

An Open Letter to Michelle Obama (Dandelion Mama)

How Far Can I Soar? (Mormon Women Project)

What is Priesthood? And Don't Mormon Women Already Have It? (Ask Mormon Girl)

Impact Of and Healing From Infidelity (The Mormon Therapist)

A Father of Two Gay Men Advises Other Parents (No More Strangers)

Historic Prayer Signals Growing Concern with Gender Equality (Joanna Brooks' Religion Dispatches)

10 Headlines from the April 2013 General Conference (Mormon Tabernacle Enquirer)

My Daughters, Our Church (Rational Faiths)

What Are True "Christian Family Values?" (Into the Hills)
How Beards Became Banned Among Top Mormon Leaders (The Salt Lake Tribune)

Mormon-Related Podcasts
Episode 415: Kate Kelly on the Ordination of Mormon Women (Mormon Stories)
Episodes 39-40: Adam Miller on Grace (A Thoughtful Faith)
Episode 165: Mormon Women Sharing Their Lives (Mormon Matters)

Off-Bloggernacle (non-religious sites)
Supersonic Stereo, Voyager and Hockey Puck (What If?)
The Marathon (Grantland)
Why the Rich Don't Give to Charity (The Atlantic)
Who, What Why?: What Does a Pope Do? (BBC News)
The Lock Pickers (Slate)
When Ian Fleming Picked My Grandfather to Steal Nazi Secrets (BBC News)
How One Man Turned Himself Into A Publicly Traded Company (The Atlantic)
Women Make Better Decisions Than Men (Science Daily)
How the Wild West REALLY Looked (Mail Online)
35 Astounding and Uplifting Facts About the Universe (BuzzFeed)
The Science of Monsters (The Telegraph)
A Tale of Two Londons (Vanity Fair)
The Touch-screen Generation (The Atlantic)
Why We Ignore Good Advice (Psychology Today)
How Memes Are Orchestrated By the Man (The New York Times)
13 Things Roger Ebert Said Better Than Anyone Else (BuzzFeed)
The Science of How Your Mind-Wandering Is Robbing You of Happiness (Brain Pickings)
The Standardization of Chess Set Design (Kottke.org)

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Linger Longer is a series where we highlight religious and non-religious articles, as well as mormon-related podcasts, we think you should be aware of. Click here for previous lists.

Bloggernacle (religious sites)
It Has Been Confirmed: Women Will Pray (Feminist Mormon Housewives)
Why I Do Not Watch R-Rated (Cert 18) Movies (By Common Consent)
The Case Against Scouting (Times and Seasons)
Gender-Neutral Language in General Conference (Zelophehad's Daughters)

Questions for Margaret Blair Young: Part 1 (A Motley Vision) [Part 2 on MMM]

Creating New Historical Narratives (Dawning of a Brighter Day)

Simple Answers to Complex Questions (Wheat & Tares)
Extra! Mormon Apostle Admits the Church is "In Business, and Big Business at That" (Keepapitchinin)

The Myths of Small Families (Segullah)

Parenthood Juggle: Piano Lessons Are Worth It (Doves and Serpents)

Same or Different? (The Exponent)
Gender Flame Wars, BYU Memes and the F-Word (Young Mormon Feminists)

A Booklist for Mormon Women's History (The Juvenile Instructor)
Masculinity and Mormon Apologetics (Faith-Promoting Rumor)

Weight Weight, Don't Tell Me (Peculiar People)

I Hate the Movie Rating System (Millenial Star)

The Tibetan Book of the Dead and Unbearable Heaviness of Being (Ships of Hagoth)

Precipice (Dandelion Mama)

A Vision of Eternal Perspective (Mormon Women Project)

How Do I Live My Faith and My Conscience? (Ask Mormon Girl)

Mindfulness and Sexuality (The Mormon Therapist)

How I Came Out to My Ward (No More Strangers)

"I Died Inside" (Joanna Brooks' Religion Dispatches)

Spirit World Nicknames (Mormon Tabernacle Enquirer)

See, Now THIS is Our Problem (Rational Faiths)

The Gospel of Jesus Is Not a Plan (Into the Hills)

Mormon-Related Podcasts
Episodes 31-32: James McConkie on Family, Faith and the Historical Christ (A Thoughtful Faith)
Episode 33-36: Andrea Radke-Moss on Mormon Women's History and Gender Equality (A Thoughtful Faith)
Episodes 153-154: Parents on Sharing Their Faith Transitions With Their Children (Mormon Matters)
Episodes 157-158: C.S. Lewis and Mormonism (Mormon Matters)
Episode 33: Who is Mark Hoffman? Part 1 (Mormon Expositor)

Off-Bloggernacle (non-religious sites)
Ships, Twitter, Hair Dryer, and Cornstarch (What If?)
74 Things Every Great Star Wars Movie Needs (Wired)
Shane Koyczan's 'To This Day,' Anti-Bullying Poem, Goes Viral [VIDEO] (Huffington Post)
Deep Space Photos: Hubble's Greatest Hits (Time Magazine)
How To Be a Better Driver (Scientific American)
What If You Rammed Every Car That Cut You Off (Thought Catalog)
Clayton Christensen Wants to Transform Capitalism (Wired)
What It Was Like To Guard Michael Jordan, According to Craig Ehlo (Deadspin)
How Not To Be a Dick to Your Fat Friends (xoJane)
How "Golden Eagle Snatches Kid" Ruled the Internet (BuzzFeed)
Snakes in a Frame: Mark Laita's Stunning Photographs (Slate)
Upgrade or Die (The New Yorker)
Advice to My Kids (ZenHabits)
Cell Phones As a Modern Irritant (The New York Times)
Washed Away: Japan's Atlantis (Boston Review)
The Long Journey of Blue Jeans (Vice)
Jim Gaffigan is the King of (Clean) Comedy (The Wall Street Journal)
The Brilliance of the Dog Mind (Scientific American)

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Linger Longer is a series where we highlight religious and non-religious articles, as well as mormon-related podcasts, we think you should be aware of. Click here for previous lists.

Bloggernacle (religious sites)
Activism and FHM: Can We Change the Church? (Feminist Mormon Housewives)
The Right Time to Marry? (By Common Consent)
Knowledge or Faith? (Times and Seasons)
A Quick Observation on a Topical Topic [Breasts] (Zelophehad's Daughters)

Help Fund Mormon Punk: From LSD to LDS (The Low-Tech World)

Big Table Mormonism: A Response to Joanna Brooks' The Book of Mormon Girl (A Motley Vision)

Orson Scott Card and Homosexuality (Dawning of a Brighter Day)

‘What Salt Tastes Like’: An LDS Psychology of Spiritual Feelings (Wheat & Tares)
Trials of Faith in the Face of History (Keepapitchinin)

Creating Beauty From Ashes (Segullah)

Grondahl 54 (Doves and Serpents)

Ugly Eyes (The Exponent)
Male Mormon Feminists Are Awesome (Young Mormon Feminists)

Food and Faith (The Juvenile Instructor)
Apologists at War: Religious Studies is Not the Enemy (Faith-Promoting Rumor)

Mormon Women and the Priesthood of God (Peculiar People)

New Scriptures from the Church (Millenial Star)

Nibley and The Fear of Joy (Ships of Hagoth)

Any Morning, Anywhere (Dandelion Mama)

Seeking Peace That Passeth Understanding (Mormon Women Project)

How Should I Teach the Tough Aspects of Mormon History to My 14-Year-Old Class? (Ask Mormon Girl)

Cognitive Dissonance and Faith Transition (The Mormon Therapist)

What Helps and What Hurts (No More Strangers)

Lean In Feminism ... Religion Style (Joanna Brooks' Religion Dispatches)

Spirit World Is Two Long Lines of People Who Want to Hug or Punch You (Mormon Tabernacle Enquirer)

Blacks and the Priesthood Revisited (Rational Faiths)

Letters to a Missionary: On Questions and Faith (Into the Hills)

Mormon-Related Podcasts
Episodes 027-028: Brian C. Hales on Joseph Smith's Polygamy (A Thoughtful Faith Podcast)
Episode 029: Cognitive Faith and Faith Transition (A Thoughtful Faith Podcast)
Episode 146: Mormon Parents Face Their Child's Faith Transition (Mormon Matters Podcast)
Episode 401: A Short Stay in Hell with Stephen L. Peck (Mormon Stories Podcast)
Richard Bushman Describes Faith Crisis (Mormon Discussion Podcast)

Off-Bloggernacle (non-religious sites)
Spent Fuel Pool, Interplanetary Cessna, FedEx Bandwidth, and Hubble (What If?)
The 2013 Sony World Photography Awards (The Atlantic)
Why Can Some Kids Handle Pressure While Others Fall Apart? (The New York Times)
Family Inc.: Run Your Family Like a Business (The Wall Street Journal)
To Know Is Human, To Comprehend Divine (Huffington Post)
Inside the Battle of Hoth (Wired)
Happiness Means Being Just Rushed Enough (Scientific American)
The Psychology of the To-Do List (BBC)
The Recline and Fall of Western Civilization (Slate)
Curating the Cosmos (Slate)
Misguided Nostalgia for Our Paleo Past (The Chronicle)
Does Jordan Need to Be No. 1? (The Wall Street Journal)
The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food (The New York Times)
Beats by Dre: The Exclusive Inside Story of How Monster Lost the World (Gizmodo)
The World Factbook (CIA)
Ben Affleck's Oscar Speech Revealed a Truth About Marriage (Huffington Post)
When Diet Meets Delicious (The New York Times)

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Bloggernacle (religious sites)
The Magic Time Machine (Segullah)
Steve Evans Reacts to the FMH/BCC War (By Common Consent)
Crowdfunded Mormon Art (Times and Seasons)
She Says / He Says: The Give and Take in Temple Marriage (Feminist Mormon Housewives)
Wait ... What Does That Mean? (Zelophehad's Daughters)
Damned, Either Way (Dandelion Mama)
A Review of Theric Jepson's Byuck (The Low-Tech World)
Poll: The Mormon Church and the Boy Scouts of America (The Exponent)
Heavenly Mother: Are You Really There? (Wheat & Tares)
A Response to the Salt Lake Tribune on Utah’s Dixie and Slave Culture (Keepapitchinin)
The Lost Elders (Rational Faiths)
The Gospel of Jesus is Not a Plan (Into the Hills)
Five Questions for Terryl Givens (A Motley Vision)
Morally "Straight" (Doves and Serpents)
The Cosmology of the "Priesthood" Restriction (The Juvenile Instructor)
Truth, Lies, and Personal Narratives of Faith (Faith-Promoting Rumor)
Picketing Zion (Peculiar People)
I'm A High School Senior ... Should I go to BYU? (Ask Mormon Girl)
Area Elders Quorum Presidency Has Fantasy Home Teacher League (Mormon Tabernacle Enquirer)
Nibley and The Fear of Joy (Ships of Hagoth)
BSA Gay Okay? - Delay (Religion Dispatches)

Mormon-Related Podcasts
Episodes 019-021: The Journey of John Dehlin (A Thoughtful Faith Podcast)
Episode 146: Mormon Parents Face Their Child's Faith Transition (Mormon Matters Podcast)
Episode 73: Comedian Stephen Jones (The Cultural Hall Podcast)

Off-Bloggernacle (non-religious sites)
Model Rockets, Three Wise Men, Leap Seconds, Death Rates and Steak Drop (What If?)
Name These Star Wars Silhouettes (io9)
How to Read 31 Books in 4 Minutes (New York Magazine)
The Beatles of Comedy (The Atlantic)
The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science (Mother Jones)
Not In My House: How Vegas Casinos Wage a War on Cheating (The Verge)
The Beautiful and Efficient Anatomy of Pregnancy (TEDWeekends)
The 150 Things the World's Smartest People Are Afraid Of (Motherboard)
58% of Republicans Are Young Earth Creationists (Little Green Footballs)
How to Think About Our Steroid Supermen (The New Atlantis)
The Zero Dark Thirty File (The National Security Archive)
The Delights of Disgust (The Chronicle)
The Placebo Phenomenon (Harvard Magazine)
How to Solve Problems Like Sherlock Holmes (Fast Company)
Chicago's Freezing Fire (The Atlantic)
192 Thinkers on the Most Elegant Theory of How the World Works (Brain Pickings)

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Bloggernacle (religious sites)
Once Upon a Soapbox (Segullah)
Ecclesiastical Abuse (By Common Consent)
Should Women Pray in Public? (Times and Seasons)
"Help Meet" of Their Own Agent (Feminist Mormon Housewives)
"I Am No Man!" (Zelophehad's Daughters)
Some Facts in the Storm: From the Mother of a Child with Autism (Dandelion Mama)
Best and Worst Reads of 2012 (The Low-Tech World)
A God Like Me (The Exponent)
We Are All Liars (Wheat & Tares)
In Which We Bid Farewell to NewFamilySearch and Welcome Family Tree (Keepapitchinin)
Baby Blessings, Feminism and Worldviews (Rational Faiths)
Why I Believe in Santa Claus (Into the Hills)
The New Mormon Pop: CleanFlicks or Artistry? (A Motley Vision)
How Much Does a Mormon Apostle Make? (Doves and Serpents)
Touchdown Jesus, Catholic Blessings, and Supporting Mormon Religion (The Juvenile Instructor)
Joanna Brooks Should Say the Inaugural Benediction (Faith-Promoting Rumor)
Issues in Mormon Feminism (Peculiar People)
Should I Marry a Non-Mormon Man? (Ask Mormon Girl)
Recent Piano Purchase Makes Family Into Real Mormons (Mormon Tabernacle Enquirer)
Oxen and Bison: Part 1 (Ships of Hagoth)
The Year in Mormons: Top 7 Stories of 2012 (Religion Dispatches)
To Do the Business of the Church (FAIR)

Mormon-Related Podcasts
Episodes 392-395: Ralph Hancock, Critic of Mormon Liberalism (Mormon Stories Podcast)
Episodes 144-145: The Kingdom of God is Within You (Mormon Matters Podcast)
Episode 72: C Jane Kendrick (The Cultural Hall Podcast)

Off-Bloggernacle (non-religious sites)
Mapping America's Most Embarrassing Addresses (Curbed)
Diamond, Machine Gun Jetpack, Cost of Pennies and Short Answer Section II (What If?)
Strange, Beautiful and Unexpected: Planned Cities Seen From Space (Wired)
110 Predictions for the Next 110 Years (Popular Mechanics)
Why People Believe Weird Things and 8 Ways to Change Their Minds (PSYBlog)
20 Reasons Why 2012 Was The Coolest Year to Be A Mormon (BuzzFeed)
Jerry Seinfeld Intends to Die Standing Up (The New York Times)
Seinfeld Reunion on Curb Your Enthusiasm (YouTube)
The 30 Most Powerful Photobombs of 2012 (BuzzFeed)
Dysfunctional Family Bingo (The Wall Street Journal)
The Real Brothers Grimm Were Stranger Than Fiction (Christian Science Monitor)
Restless Genes (National Geographic)
6 Simple Rituals to Reach Your Potential Each Day (Fast Company)
Wikipedia Remembers: 2012 Deaths (Visual.ly)
The Hundred Best Lists of All-Time (The New Yorker)
The Culture of the Copy (The New Criterion)
The Future According to Google's Larry Page (CNN Money)

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Linger Longer is a series where we highlight articles that recently caught our attention. Suggest religious blogs to add or recommend your own articles in the comments. Click here for previous lists.

Bloggernacle (religious sites)
The War of Animal Instincts (Segullah)
Less Than 1200 Words on Pants (By Common Consent)
Faith is a Work in Progress (Times and Seasons)
Pants Posts: here, here, here, here and here (Feminist Mormon Housewives)
Feeling Equal (Zelophehad's Daughters)
Particular Hipster Pedestrian and Being Absurd (Dandelion Mama)
Anti-Mormon Novels in the Internet Archive (The Low-Tech World)
Should We Tell Girls They Are Beautiful? (The Exponent)
Mormon Misconceptions About Sex (Wheat & Tares)
Share, Teach, Act (Beginnings New)
The Mormon Moment, 1935 (Keepapitchinin)
We Are All Beggars (Into the Hills)
My 2012 Mormon Arts Favorites (A Motley Vision)
The Church and Homosexuality (Doves and Serpents)
Books That Need New Editions (The Juvenile Instructor)
Mormons and Palestinians: Justice and Only Justice (Faith-Promoting Rumor)
I'm Nervous About Answering the Temple Recommend Questions (Ask Mormon Girl)
Mixed Martial Arts Pro Uses Sacrament Meeting for Inspiration (Mormon Tabernacle Enquirer)
Home Literature (Ships of Hagoth)
LDS Church Launches New Website for LGBT Issues (Religion Dispatches)

Mormon-Related Podcasts
Episodes 385-386: Fiona and Terryl Givens and "The God Who Weeps" (Mormon Stories Podcast)
Episode 139: A Beautiful Vision of Mormonism (Mormon Matters Podcast)

Off-Bloggernacle (non-religious sites)
Michael Lewis: Wall Street’s Forgotten Victims Have Some Advice (Bloomberg)
Green Cows, BB Gun, and Tie Vote (What If?)
How Other Animals Choose Their Leaders (Slate Magazine)
Marvel Comics, The Untold Story (Grantland)
The Secret History of the Aeron Chair (Slate Magazine)
Why Do Trees Topple in a Storm? (Scientific American)
Why Fender's Apple-Compatible Guitar Is Brilliant (ReadWrite)
Mike Hoye Hacks Zelda Video Game To Change Boy Hero to Girl for His Daughter (Huffington Post)
How to Live Without Irony (The New York Times)
You Can’t Say That on the Internet (The New York Times)
More Rules for Thanksgiving Touch Football (The Wall Street Journal)
10 Things Facebook Has Taught Me (Thought Catalog)
Surprisingly Interesting: A Dispatch from the 2012 Boring Conference (Slate Magazine)
Human Evolution Enters an Exciting New Phase (Wired)
5 Statistics Problems That Will Change the Way You See the World (The Atlantic)
21 Ways You Should Take Advantage of Your 20's (Thought Catalog)
Thriller at 30: How One Album Changed the World (Billboard)
How to Hack Chipotle (Thought Catalog)