MDB Blogs

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Church

#Epic Meltdowns Tucker Dansie is a media producer, writer, director, editor, social media guru, storyteller, techie, movie buff, and all around good guy to know.

Into the Lyons Den Michael Lyons is a 40-something husband and father of three. Working the corporate grind, Michael blogs about his efforts as a repentant runner, his life, his family, his calling as a member of a bishopric in the Midwest, and how he sees things.

LDS Media Talk Officially, Larry Richman's title is Director of Product Awareness, Church Curriculum Department. Less formally, he might be considered the Church's top social media evangelist.

Film/TV

#Dennis' Technicolor Dream Blog Dennis Agle blogs about his experiences as a writer-director-clapper operator. He and his wife, Suzanne, live in Utah with their three daughters.

#Epic Meltdowns Tucker Dansie is a media producer, writer, director, editor, social media guru, storyteller, techie, movie buff, and all around good guy to know.

#Jared Garrett Jared Garrett works as a writer and an instructional designer. He and his wife have six kids and live at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains.

#kerBLINK This is the place to get funny, clean videos from clean, funnymen Kirby Heyborne and Lincoln Hoppe.

#Mormon Movie Guy By day, Jonathan Decker is a marriage and family therapist. By night, he can be frequently found at the local cineplex preparing his next movie review for his blog, Mormon Movie Guy.

#Roderick Santiano, Director of Photography Roderick A. Santiano found his love for cinematography at the age of 14 when an innate sense of lighting, camera work and editing inspired him to seek a career in film. He’s a graduate of Art Center in Pasadena. He and his wife, Wendy, have recently reloc

#See-47 Brett Merritt is a writer, actor and web guy. He’s one of the founders of the improv comedy troupe The Thrillionaires. He and his wife, Amelia, and their two kids live in Utah.

A Motley Vision A multi-author blog focusing on Mormon arts and culture.

Eric D. Snider's Blog Eric is a freelance writer, critic, columnist, humorist, bon vivant, raconteur and man-about-town. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

I Love My Life Kirby Heyborne is perhaps most well-known for his acting in movies and commercials, but is also an accomplished singer-songwriter, improv comic, husband and father.

Scotty Watty Doodle All the Day Scott Taylor is an award-winning writer of a short screenplay. He and his wife have four children.

General

#Mormanity Jeff Lindsay is the author of book on innovation/IP strategy, inventor, patent agent, blogger, photographer, geek, amateur magician, and just another LDS guy in Appleton, Wisconsin who surprisingly tends to take a pro-LDS view.

#Reach Upward Scott Hinrichs is a software engineer who blogs on a variety of topics. He and his wife live in Utah and are the parents of five children.

#RJR Daydreamer John Teal shares his musings from his home in Manchester, England. Our first international MDBer and his wife have three teenagers.

#Slightly Insightful Ammon Beckstrom, husband, father and self-admitted geek, shares his thoughts on life, technology, and doing more of the things that matter.

#The RMTC (The Returned Missionary Training Center) Aaron Quist started a blog to help ease the transition back to civilian life for recently returned missionaries. Aaron lives with his wife and two children in California, where he practices law.

#Utah Preppers Utah Preppers is a multi-author blog focusing on preparedness.

Art of Manliness Brett McKay and his wife, Kate, live in Tulsa, OK. Brett started the Art of Manliness as something fun to do in his spare time while attending law school. The website really took off. Today he jug

Chronicles of Geoff Geoff blogs about whatever projects he is working on, be it home improvement, self improvement or family outings. He and his wife have five children.

Firefighter/Paramedic Firefighter/Paramedic, who maintains anonymity for himself as well as his department due to the nature of his work, is a 34-year-old living with his wife and three children in California.

Modern Mormon Men Calling itself the manly mommy blog, Modern Mormon Men is a multi-author blog launched in April 2011.

Mormon Life Hacker A multi-author blog focusing on simplifying LDS life.

Mormon Third Eye Richard Tait blogs from Maryland, where he and his wife are the parents of two children. You know that eerie, all-seeing parental third eye? Richard blogs about that.

The Apparent Parent Mark Wilcox is a professional writer and photographer living with his wife and 2.75 kids in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. His blog focuses on family, fun and fatherly advice.

The Craig Report Ken Craig. Father of six. Husband of one. Friend to all. His life is an open blog. A pretty fun open blog at that.

Humor

#kerBLINK This is the place to get funny, clean videos from clean, funnymen Kirby Heyborne and Lincoln Hoppe.

#See-47 Brett Merritt is a writer, actor and web guy. He’s one of the founders of the improv comedy troupe The Thrillionaires. He and his wife, Amelia, and their two kids live in Utah.

Eric D. Snider's Blog Eric is a freelance writer, critic, columnist, humorist, bon vivant, raconteur and man-about-town. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

The Craig Report Ken Craig. Father of six. Husband of one. Friend to all. His life is an open blog. A pretty fun open blog at that.

The Jolly Porter Christopher Clark is a Ph.D. and a university professor who has distinguished himself on a national level as an innovative director of Shakespeare’s work. His love of all things Bard is even evidenced in the names of his children, Miles, Owen, Phoebe, Hug

International

#RJR Daydreamer John Teal shares his musings from his home in Manchester, England. Our first international MDBer and his wife have three teenagers.

Media

#Epic Meltdowns Tucker Dansie is a media producer, writer, director, editor, social media guru, storyteller, techie, movie buff, and all around good guy to know.

#kerBLINK This is the place to get funny, clean videos from clean, funnymen Kirby Heyborne and Lincoln Hoppe.

#See-47 Brett Merritt is a writer, actor and web guy. He’s one of the founders of the improv comedy troupe The Thrillionaires. He and his wife, Amelia, and their two kids live in Utah.

A Motley Vision A multi-author blog focusing on Mormon arts and culture.

Eric D. Snider's Blog Eric is a freelance writer, critic, columnist, humorist, bon vivant, raconteur and man-about-town. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Erik Orton Erik Orton, a playwright and producer, muses on a variety of matters from his perch in New York City, where he lives with his wife, Emily, and their children.

Is This Mike On? Mike Henneke is the Sunday editor for a group of newspapers in Oregon and a father of five.

LDS Media Talk Officially, Larry Richman's title is Director of Product Awareness, Church Curriculum Department. Less formally, he might be considered the Church's top social media evangelist.

Medical

Anna Liberty-The Girl Who's One-in-a-Million Daddy Josh Tenney's touching account of raising a daughter with XP.

Music

Erik Orton Erik Orton, a playwright and producer, muses on a variety of matters from his perch in New York City, where he lives with his wife, Emily, and their children.

I Love My Life Kirby Heyborne is perhaps most well-known for his acting in movies and commercials, but is also an accomplished singer-songwriter, improv comic, husband and father.

Michael McLean Michael is a master songwriter and storyteller, with a long list of credits to his name, with thousands of hearts touched along the way. He and his wife, Lynne, have three children.

Professionals

Ask Dr. Elia Dr. Elia Gourgouris is a speaker, relationship coach and president of LDSCoaching.com. He and his wife, Son, live near Boulder, Colorado, with their children.

Miracles and Oddities Dallas Lauchner‘s blog features psychology-related topics as well as how to be a better man in the gospel. He’s a mental health counselor. He and his wife have four daughters. He lives in Virginia.

Stephen M (Ethesis) Life has given Stephen Marsh a different way of looking at things. An attorney who teaches classes in mediation by trade, he’s also a father who has lost three children and has written about his experiences in living beyond loss. He also writes a blog cal

The Weed Josh Weed is a father of three, a therapist and a writer who lives in the greater Seattle area. Besides being pretty darn funny, his blog covers family life and other things in a way that enriches readers' perspectives about fatherhood, Mormonhood and per

Science

Science Meets Religion David is the “Chief Technologist” of the High-Performance Computational Research Department at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in Berkeley, California. He and his wife have four daughters and live in the San Francisco Bay area.

Shout Out Sisters

#Bloggernacle Deseret News' Emily Jensen gave MDB a lovely shout out in her column, Bloggernacle.

#Green Jello with Carrots MDB got a nice shout out from your one stop for all your LDS clipart, Relief society, Primary, Young Woemn & FHE needs.

#MMB Community Our fairer counterparts, the Mormon Mommy Blog community, were kind enough to show us some love in their "Stuff We Like."

#Tristi Pinkston Tristi is part of the Mormon Mommy Blog community. She has kindly featured MDB on her blog.

Sports

#Jeffrey Westover I am a new media journalist based in Salt Lake City, Utah. I have been writing for Internet audiences since 1992. He lives in Salt Lake City with his wife Sandy and their seven children.

#Le Folauga Seti Matua loves this journey called life. Indeed, he's chronicling his in a blog Le Folauga, Samoan for The Journey. In addition to being a rugby coach, Seti is a former editor for a number of publications and is now a free-lance writer. Seti and his wif

Teachers

Abel Keogh's Blog Abel is an author who has written extensively on his experience as a widower. He and his wife, Julianna, are the parents of three boys and a girl. Reciprocity

Braden Bell's Blog Braden and his wife, Meredith, live with their five children on a quiet, wooded lot outside of Nashville, Tennessee, where he teaches theatre and music at a private school.

Theater

#See-47 Brett Merritt is a writer, actor and web guy. He’s one of the founders of the improv comedy troupe The Thrillionaires. He and his wife, Amelia, and their two kids live in Utah.

A Motley Vision A multi-author blog focusing on Mormon arts and culture.

Braden Bell's Blog Braden and his wife, Meredith, live with their five children on a quiet, wooded lot outside of Nashville, Tennessee, where he teaches theatre and music at a private school.

Erik Orton Erik Orton, a playwright and producer, muses on a variety of matters from his perch in New York City, where he lives with his wife, Emily, and their children.

Travel

Tired Road Warrior Roger Hansen is a world traveler who is currently the Planning Group Chief for a Federal water resource agency in Provo. He has degrees in history, civil and environmental engineering, plus minors in a variety of other subjects, including chemistry, econo