What is the well-dressed office worker reading on the evening train this season? The Economist. The Economist? Yes. An article on family businesses. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
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
The State of the Marriage Movement, post-election
What next for supporters of traditional marriage? Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Who’s accomodating whom?
Greg Call links to Dave’s Mormon Inquiry on whether Church accomodation has led to slower Church growth. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Welcome, Ryan Bell.
If a demographer drew a line around the Salt Lake City area and then filtered out all but the LDS attorneys with a beautiful wife and two kids, he’d still have quite a crowd. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Thank you, Bryce Inouye.
Bryce Inouye’s two weeks have come to an end. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests: a plaint
Brother Decoo’s On the Left: Our Pioneer Ancestors . . . has become a peaceful forum for people who want the saints to be more progressive politically (except for the abortionist libertine part). I have no complaints. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Regional Conference with President Packer
Regional conference last Sunday was a broadcast from Salt Lake City. We and all the other stakes in Oregon had our own opening prayer, song, speaker, and announcements. Then the Packers and the Tingeys and Brother McAllister addressed us on the big screen. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Visiting the iniquity unto the fourth generation.
God sometimes speaks in a terrible voice. Hear this: I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Welcome, Bryce Inouye.
Bryce Inouye is a computer science maven at Duke. He has three children, an interest in homeschooling, in English, in linguistics, in history, in Nobel Prize winners, one-term Secretaries of State, the Moh’s scale, and, in short, in everything. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Endowment Music
I don’t know much about the live temple sessions. I’ve never been through one before. Is there live music that accompanies it? Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Starward!
The Lord reveals through many prophets, “By small and simple things are great things brought to pass.” He does not reveal that by great things are great things brought to pass. He doesn’t need to. We already know. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Youth Ministry
President Faust told an interesting story about a ward that lost most of its Melchizedek priesthood holders (a military ward, perhaps?). The priests were left to run things. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
The problem of p0rn
President Hinkley was pretty sober at the Priesthood session when he spoke about p0rn. He read a hard letter from an afflicted wife. He grieved the 57 billion dollars spent on p0rn worldwide (57 billion dollars gone down the devil’s rat-hole). He mourned for the women who love the men who get addicted. He mourned the lost blessings of those men. P0rn, he said, says amen to the priesthood of its beholders. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Some Criticisms of Missionary Art.
I love the Ensign art shows. They are in themselves a kind of art, greater, as the saying goes, than the sum of their parts. I do not love the missionary art show in the October 2004 Ensign. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Ensign Review
The newest Ensign is pretty simple. It’s plain stories and conventional exhortation. I like that. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
A Naturalization Ceremony
I stepped down the hall to a naturalization ceremony. It was a moving affair, a lot like a baptism in many ways. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Why no official guide to the temple?
I lurk on LDS-Phil. Mainly I read the discussions with that faint air of incomprehending condescension and superiority one feels when smarter and more educated people get passionate about something. But a recent discussion caught my interest. Why, the question was posed, don’t we Saints get more help in understanding the symbolism of the temple? Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Condorcet Paradox and a Close Reading of the Scriptures
She who is as in a field a silken tent brought me home a copy of Blake Ostler on The Attributes of God. Ostler believes strongly that our having free agency means God cannot know the future with certainty. Brother Ostler acknowledges some scriptures that apparently indicate God’s foreknowlege. But, he says, we shouldn’t read too much into them. The scriptures are “pre-critical.” Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
The largest Mormon (et al.) group blog in history?
I’ve just found out about the launch of www.Missionstories.org. It’s a blog, I guess, though anyone who wants to is allowed to become a contributor and post their own mission stories. Read all about it here. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
September 11, 2001
September 11, 2001. Three years have passed—three more nails in the cross—but we remember. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
More on Civility
Let me encourage you all to read Jim Faulconer’s fine post on keeping it civil. It has the merits of its own excellence, the authority lent by Brother Faulconer’s character, and, having been circulated among us cobloggers* for comments before posting, the quasi-imprimatur of Times and Seasons. I would like to add some thoughts entirely my own. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Billboards against P()rn
Driving back from Provo to Portland let us see the occasional p()rn billboards that are now standard on American highways. They aren’t the Golden Arches, but there’s more every year. We also saw an anti-p()rn billboard. It said something like “No Adult Stores in Our Town!” Next to it was a windowless cement-block structure with “Adult Store” in big, aged letters. The wife and I were reminded of South Bend. The more squalid section of South Bend has a few dirty strip bars, with anti-p()rn billboards alongside, stuff like “Sleazy shops ruin this neighborhood.” Be the first to like.... Read more »
BYU-Notre Dame Report
I and my family went to the Notre Dame–BYU game this weekend. We sat on the very back row—actually, on a lip cut into the rear retaining wall. BYU won. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
A Light Heart and Cowpath Rules
How are you today? Fine, I trust? Good, good. I will now pontificate. Christ warned the pharisees that tithing cummin, and anise, and mint wouldn?t weigh very much in the balance against their faithlessness and mercilessness. No arguments here. But I confess I always get sidetracked reading that passage. I think about working a few of my overripe tomatoes into a tithing envelope. Or giving the Church a cut of our Visiting Teacher Rice Krispie treats. Tithing with exactness sounds like a real hoot. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
The Spirit of Elijah and the Victorian Family
Priesthood and Relief Society met together yesterday for a fairly exciting family history discussion/call to arms/how-to. We quoted Malachi, of course: Elijah the prophet . . . shall turn the heart of fathers to their children, and the heart of the children to their fathers . . . . We affirmed that this means more than templework. We agreed that temple work is key but that the spirit of Elijah includes learning to love ancestors by learning about their lives. Someone mentioned the widening in genealogical interest post-1836 as evidence of the spirit of Elijah. A brother mentioned the... Read more »
Deseret and Federalism
A coupla bright boys propose dividing the State of Texas into five parts. This is a great opportunity for a modern Caesar, Omnia Texania in quinque parte and so forth. This is also, according to the bright boys, a great opportunity for the modern Texans. It seems that when Congress let Texas into the Union Congress gave Texas blanket permission to split into five states anytime Texas desired. The old Texans were a bit slow to recognize this particular opportunity, true, but what an opportunity it is. Think of it. Ten Senators! Extra votes in the Electoral College! Five... Read more »
Let God Judge between Me and Thee
Nephi cast lots to determine God’s will. Bruce R. McConkie famously suggested we do the same. I must have had those two in mind when I read a puzzling description of Captain Moroni’s first Lamanite campaign. The Lamanites were sneaking around through the wilderness. Moroni tracked them: And he also knowing that it was the only desire of the Nephites to preserve their lands, and their liberty, and their church, therefore he thought it no sin that he should defend them by stratagem; therefore, he found by his spies which course the Lamanites were to take . . .... Read more »
How Mike Fink gets Remanded
Orson Scott Card has Mike Fink and Joseph “Alvin Maker” Smith scrap. I have my friend who loves the old river boatmen and their boasts and Joseph Smith and his. I work in a judge’s chambers with a fine view of the river. And, as Nate O. can tell you, life as a law clerk is just like life on the old Mississippi. Hence this, this, this . . . you decide. How will you feel when you’re poling down the river, the Willamette as it may be, and you foul a boatmen’s poles, and he says, I am... Read more »
What’s the word for . . .
What’s the word for those representative two sentences that the Ensign puts at the beginning of every Conference talk? The New Republic, the Atlantic Monthly, and other magazines do something similar, though they usually do it in a blown-up box in the middle of the article. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
The Old Trope that we’re the New Jews
The Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology has circulated the following announcement: On tuesday Oct. 12 at USU Menachem Fisch from the University of Tel Aviv will be speaking on “Science, Judaism and the Religious Crisis of Modernity”. Fisch has written widely on 19th century philosophy, plus the acclaimed book Rational Rabbis: Science and Talmudic Culture. 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