The Mormonverse

I was once invited to attend a Mormon scholarship conference. As a lifelong member of the church, a returned missionary and a teaching assistant for a religion professor at BYU, I eagerly looked forward to the event. My barely contained excitement was quashed, however, when I discovered just how boring Mormon scholarship is. The speakers droned on about semantics and primary sources and peer reviews and all manner of other topics in which I had no interest. In short, these very intelligent people used whatever the opposite of imagination is to talk about all of the mindbendingly incredible things there are to discuss within Mormondom.  I'm sick of it. I know that scholarship, research, sources, blah, blah and blah are important, but I have started looking at Mormonism as more than a history to be studied or a faith to be followed. It is a massive universe filled with adventures, prophecies, heroes and villains. The way a person may look at Harry Potter, the Lord of the Rings or