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Entertainment

Kristin Booth: Meet the Actress From ‘Signed, Sealed, Delivered’

Kristin Booth is a talented actress best known for her performance as Shane McInerney in Signed, Sealed, Delivered.

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Entertainment

Who Is Canadian Actress Crystal Lowe?

Crystal Lowe is a talented actress known for her roles in popular shows such as “Supernatural,” “Smallville,” and “Stargate: Atlantis.” She also stars as Rita Haywith on “Signed, Sealed, Delivered.”

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Entertainment

10 Questions with Bill Abbott

Bill Abbott is the President & CEO of Crown Media Family Networks including networks such as Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, and Hallmark Drama.

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Uncategorized

An Interview with SETI’s Jill Tarter

Jill Tarter is a SETI Institute Trustee and the inspiration for Jodi Foster’s character in the movie, “Contact.” While archaeologists look for mysteries in ancient history, SETI astronomers search out enigmas in the great beyond. Those like Jill Tarter nurture aspiring female engineers, even sending my young daughter a thank-you note for her $2.00 donation to SETI, along with a package filled with space-related materials to spark her curiosity.

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American History

‘Believe Me’: John Fea Questions the Evangelical Road to Donald Trump

John Fea’s Believe Me continues the author’s exploration of the crossroad between religious history and politics. The book stems from his desire to understand why fellow evangelicals voted for Donald Trump. Dr. John Fea explores the apparent conflict between Trump’s character and policies from an evangelical perspective and mourns the divide it’s creating in his religious community.

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World War I

100-year-old diary from Utahn in WWI gives rare insight

One hundred years ago, the only known Mormon to have kept a diary while serving in World War I recorded his first entry.

“One can never tell what the morrow will bring and the record of the few weeks I have been in the army might interest some one,” wrote Nels Anderson on June 9, 1918, five months before World War I would end on Nov. 11, 1918.

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Latter-day Saint History

Meet Latter-day Saint Historian Benjamin E. Park

Benjamin E. Park is an assistant professor of history at Sam Houston University and the author of “American Nationalisms: Imagining Union in the Age of Revolutions, 1783-1833.” He has also written about the political culture of Navuoo in the 1840s, and previously served as a Visiting Fellow with the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Studies at BYU.

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World War I

World War 1 Diaries: Historian Kent Powell on Utah’s Only Latter-day Saint Wartime Journal

Kent Powell is a Utah historian and editor of “Nels Anderson’s World War I Diary.” Anderson is the only Utah Latter-day Saint to keep a diary during the first World War, significantly adding to war stories told in Saints 3: Boldly, Nobly, and Independent.

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Business

10 questions with Jennifer Riel

I recently had the privilege to interview Jennifer Riel. She teaches at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and is the co-author of “Creating Great Choices: A Leader’s Guide to Integrative Thinking.”

Jennifer Riel, Photo provided by Jennifer Riel

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When Calls the Heart

Meet Paul Greene from ‘When Calls the Heart’

Paul Greene is a talented actor best known for his role as Dr. Carson Shepherd on Hallmark Channel’s When Calls the Heart. He starred alongside fellow actors like Erin Krakow and Lori Loughlin until departing the series after Season 8.