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LDS Newsroom
- Funeral Services for Frances J. Monson Announced May 20, 2013
- Frances J. Monson, Wife of President Thomas S. Monson, Passes Away May 17, 2013
- Elder Dallin H. Oaks Honored for Championing Religious Freedom May 16, 2013
- Mormonism in the News: Getting It Right| 15 May 2013 May 15, 2013
- Rendering of Meridian Idaho Mormon Temple Now Public May 15, 2013
- Mormons Around the World: Country Newsroom Websites |14 May 2013 May 14, 2013
- Mormon Delegation Encourages Religious Dialogue at International Conference May 14, 2013
- Church Donates More Than 1 Million Pounds of Food to Top Hunger-Relief Organization May 9, 2013
- Mormons Around the World: Country Newsroom Websites | May 9 May 9, 2013
- Mormonism in the News: Getting It Right | 8 May 2013 May 8, 2013
Blog Archives
Revelation: a Syllogism
First premise: Nothing made by mortals can be perfect. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Earned Respect, Unconditional Love
And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. 5 people like this post. Like Unlike Read more »
Sacramental Christmas
This Christmas we will take the sacrament together. The ordinance will be, or can be, bigger than the time and place. Bigger than the place, because it binds us to all the Saints who are taking it with us worldwide, and to God in his heaven. Bigger than time, because it brings us to the foot of the cross and to the times when we made our covenants. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Feet to Zion
On the sweetness of Mormon life Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Memorial Day Thoughts
Some Saints say that death ain’t no thang. 4 people like this post. Like Unlike Read more »
Pagan Prohibition
On the sweetness of Mormon life– Your alarm sounds in the dark of the early morning. It’s 5 AM. It’s Saturday. It’s your birthday. 3 people like this post. Like Unlike Read more »
Osama Bid Laden and Continuing Revelation
In the intervals of my enthusiastic and whole-hearted embrace of the unseemly national frenzy of dancing on Bin Laden’s grave, I’ve had a few tentative thoughts about continuing revelation. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Unchosen Suffering
Christ chose to let himself be in Satan’s power and in the power of the Romans. Its important that he chose, because it made him a willing victim. Its also important that he did not himself choose his sufferings. They were the choices of his tormentors. If he had chosen them, he would have been willing but not a victim. 4 people like this post. Like Unlike Read more »
Brooding Upon the Waters
Lately I’ve been thinking about the Hebrew notion that water represented formlessness, chaos, and by extension sin, the devil, and mortality. The notion has some currency in modern scripture. 4 people like this post. Like Unlike Read more »
Sustainable Culture, Sidelined Pornography
The United Kingdom is pushing Internet Service Providers to automatically block access to pornographic sites. Adults could have the block removed on request. 5 people like this post. Like Unlike Read more »
Toy Story, Like a Hen Gathereth Chicks
Calvin–Watterson’s Calvin, not the Calvin of the Institutes–says that the second bowl of chocolate frosted sugar bomb cereal is the best. The first is spoiled by anticipating the bowls to come. By the third you frankly feel a little sick. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Helpless as a Baby
This is the time of year for Christmas devotions. This year my thoughts have been on the impulse to serve the needy that we have at Christmas. We don’t have it at Easter. My thoughts have also been on the Christ child. The religious significance of the grown Christ, on the cross and in the garden, is obvious. But what did Christ do for us as a bare baby? Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
The Sacred Story of the Goddess
I came in after dark last night just in time to hug my children and pray them to bed. “How was it?” my wife asked. “Good,” I said. “Very spiritual.” That was all. 1 person likes this post. Like Unlike Read more »
You Want Justice, You Need Justice.
Here is a short theory of the atonement. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
The Masonic Element in Mormonism
On the sweetness of Mormon life. 2 people like this post. Like Unlike Read more »
The Doctrinal Problem of Evolution
The scriptural problem of evolution is well understood. The creation accounts in Genesis and other scripture are not obviously describing speciation through natural selection. 1 person likes this post. Like Unlike Read more »
Forsake Your Sins
On the sweetness of Mormon life. 9 people like this post. Like Unlike Read more »
Ye Cannot Behold With Your Natural Eyes
On the sweetness of Mormon Life. 6 people like this post. Like Unlike Read more »
Abstinence Education Works, Study Says
A new study finds that abstinence education works. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Help Me Be Self-Reliant
On the sweetness of Mormon life. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
God Sendeth Rain on the Just and the Unjust Alike
The gospels are full of paradoxes, mostly intentional. Is John 9 intentional? 1 person likes this post. Like Unlike Read more »
Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child
As we all know, what this verse from Proverbs really means is that we teach our children the scriptures. Rod = Iron Rod = Word of God = Scriptures. Spare the scriptures, spoil the child. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
The Book of Jer3miah
After reading about it on T&S, the Lovely One and I watched the first episode of the Mormon web series the Book of Jer3miah. Then ‘just one more,’ we said, and we didn’t get to bed until after midnight and Episode 20. In its 5-minute chunks the Book of Jer3miah had us grimacing in tension and giggling at jokes. Its good. Its very good. Its the strangely beautiful love child of Lost and Johnny Lingo. 2 people like this post. Like Unlike Read more »
Exaltation and Mere Christianity
God’s purpose is to make us over in His image and exalt us to godhood. This truth of Mormon Christianity offends creedal Christians. Maybe even outrages them. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Why Boys Need Men Teachers
One of the most malign of modern trends is the disappearance of men from the ranks of public school teachers and the decline in the number of woman teachers who wield a ruler. The Church counteracts that. I got a testimony why recently. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Doubt
Doubt is not a principle of the gospel. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
How you like me now, Satan?
In Sunday School the talk turned to the council in heaven and Satan’s competing plan of salvation. Since Satan’s plan lost, why, the teacher asked, would God allow Satan to try to sabotage God’s plan? 1 person likes this post. Like Unlike Read more »
Gaggles of Girls
On the sweetness of Mormon life. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Good News for Mormons
For the first time ever in a Gallup poll, a majority of Americans are pro-life. As many support the Church’s moderate prolife position–that abortion should be illegal, but with some exceptions–as support the extreme pro-choice and the moderate pro-choice positions combined. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Conferences and Events
- American Society of Church History Annual Meeting
- American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting
- Communal Studies Association Annual Meeting
- Society for the Scientific Study of Religion/Religious Research Association
- Western History Association Annual Conference
- Utah State Historical Society Annual Meeting
- Center for Studies on New Religions
- Mormon History Association
- European Mormon Studies Association Conference
- Sunstone Symposium