So what happened in the Bloggernacle last week? Plenty of good stuff, all listed by title in the boxes of the Mormon Archipelago. This week’s highlights include posts from New Cool Thang, BCC, A Motley Vision, Ned Flanders, and Mormon Stories. Read on …

Founders. At New Cool Thang, Bunko Gets Bonked. At the very least, you’ll learn about Bunko from this post (try here for a quick description if you’re drawing a blank, starting with “Bunko is a dice game”). And that spells … trouble. Right here in the River City Church. [Update: I've been advised that the Bunko Gets Bonked post itself got bonked. Sorry if you missed it earlier -- sometimes when you're late to the party you miss the show.]

Mainland. At BCC, try South Park, Peepstones, and Mormon General Knowledge. The terms in the title relate to each other like this: Mormon General Knowledge somehow misses the fact that Joseph used one or another of his seerstones, aka peepstones, not the “Urim and Thummim,” to facilitate his translation/dictation of the text of the Book of Mormon. And South Park, the TV show, apparently once depicted a Joseph Smith translation scene, complete with a seerstone in a hat. Additional commentary in 100+ comments to the post.

Isles of the Sea offers Tell Us A Story, by P. G. Karmenides at A Motley Vision. With this post on storytelling, I finally connected the AMV poster with this book author. Nothing this interesting ever happened in my AP English class.

More Islands. Ned Flanders gives us a Conversation With My Converts, the “rest of the story” from this earlier post. A little piece of post-mission drama worth reflecting on.

Even More Islands. Finally, at Mormon Stories, an update on the Mormon Studies Wiki. Sounds like the kind of project that gets started then forgotten, but if enough people get behind it, maybe it will last.

I’m importing a feature that I started over at DMI last week. I highlight one post from roughly the last week from each of the MA boxes and throw in a comment or two. If you missed these posts the first time around, there’s still time to get a comment in!

Founders - I’ll go with Apologetics, Anti-Mormonism, and Faithful Inquiry, by RT over at LDS Liberation Front. It should probably be paired with his earlier post on the Uses of Mormon History. I like the sound of “faithful inquiry,” but it’s always hard to stay neutral in a civil war. You end up taking flak from both sides.

LDSLF is a new member of the MA Founder’s box, somehow redesignated “Flotsam” since RT’s arrival. That’s a good reminder that Bloggernacle geography, and the MA boxes, are variable, not fixed. Islands move around. Seasons change.

Mainland - I’ll go with M*’s Is the Church the Only Path to Salvation? It’s not every day an LDS stake president gets interviewed on the Today Show, and I wouldn’t have known about it without this post. Nice discussion of the questions and answers, too. I think we will be seeing more and more mainstream media attention focused on the Church in coming years.

Isles of the Sea - A Motley Vision has been quietly assembling a very talented crew — it’s time to spread the word. Go look at this post: Criticism: The Working Language of Good and Evil, Part 3. It explores the fascinating idea that in modern cultures we still work witchcraft, using regular but snarky words, not formal spells. I want to go read Parts 1 and 2, then come back to Part 3 and see if I really catch the drift here. Go thou and do likewise, or risk being skewered by your neighbor without even knowing it.

More Islands - Easy winner here: Starting a Secret Culture of Combinations at MoBlo. Is modern consumer culture giving us a whole new brand of secret combination? Lots of clever cites in this post; go leave a comment or two. Goble … where have I heard that name before? Just how many of them are there?

Even More Islands - Don’t know why, but I really enjoyed this post at Woody’s Woundup. Maybe it’s because he’s a clever LDS blogger who’s into something besides LDS blogging. Woody just seems like an all-around pleasant fellow, and IMHO pleasantness was in short supply in the Bloggernacle this week. You might note that WW is part of the Bear Flag League, a miscellaneous association of California blogs.

Podcasts - Gotta be the first and only broadcast of the Steve and Adam Show. Another dose of good feeling.