Testigos de Jehovah (Jehovah’s Witnesses) got under my skin when I was a missionary. One of the things that bugged me most was the infantile delight they took in telling you that they knew what God’s name was. None of them ever could explain *why* knowing that his real name was “Jehovah” mattered and mostly they seemed surprised at the question. If I were an uncharitable man, all the evidence would have pointed to them caring about God’s real name only because, “nyah, nyah, I know something you don’t know.” 2 people like this post. Like Unlike Read more »
LDS Newsroom
- Family and Church Leaders Eulogize Frances J. Monson as One Who “Deeply Loved” May 23, 2013
- Church Responds to Boy Scouts Policy Vote May 23, 2013
- Bible Brought to Life on Ancient Jerusalem Set May 22, 2013
- Church Working With Oklahoma Officials to Provide Support in Wake of Tornadoes May 21, 2013
- 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
Blog Archives
Heaven Our Haven
Heaven Haven, by Gerard Manley Hopkins: Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
The Love That Moves The Stars
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great acommandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. Thus Christ’s summary of the Mosaic law. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Which is worse, pride or sexual sin?
Every Mormon knows Jacob’s sermon in Jacob 2 where he condemns unchastity and men who sexually dishonor women. But Jacob begins by preaching against pride. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
I RESIGN FROM TIMES AND SEASONS
Since the vicious partisan scandals surrounding my administration have become a distraction from the important work of the American people, I hereby announce that I am stepping down from position of wealth and power as a Times and Seasons co-blogger to spend more time with my family. I vigorously deny all wrong-doing and solemnly promise to devote my time to searching for the real killers. 1 person likes this post. Like Unlike Read more »
Notes from all over
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The Gospel is Crude
The temple, we are told, is where the most sacred gospel rites occur. Brigham Young explained the meaning of those rites this way: are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father, passing the angels who stand as sentinels, being enabled to give them the key words, the signs and tokens So, the deepest, most mystical, most mind-blowing things are . . . passwords? Secret handshakes? Door codes? Jon Stewart says, “Really, Brigham Young? Angel security guards. Really?” Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Adultery in Law
I had a buddy in high school who was a fierce Navajo patriot. He bitterly resented what had become of his people. I needled him once on how much better off the Navajo were now with roads, and medicines, and aqueducts, and things. His voice got strangled and he could hardly say anything. He finally choked this out: “before you white men came, when we caught an adulterer we had horses drag him to death.” 1 person likes this post. Like Unlike Read more »
Notes From All Over
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Coerced abortion, involuntary sterilization
The US Senate just voted down an amendment that would prevent federal funds given to the United Nations Population Fund programs that support or promote coerced abortion (read China) or involuntary sterilization (still China, I think). Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
The Central Religious Experience of Mormonism
What does Mormonism portray as the central religious experience? Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Are Mormons Crazy for Porn?
A study has looked at what percent of broadband users in an area also subscribe to a particular network of paid online pornography. Articles about the study have suggested that conservative religious types, especially Mormons, are more likely to use porn. 9 people like this post. Like Unlike Read more »
Notes From All Over
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I the Lord thy God.
On being smarter than other people at church 1 person likes this post. Like Unlike Read more »
A Motley Vision of the Wilderness
Long-time Mormon culture blog A Motley Vision has added a companion blog focused on Mormon nature writing and Mormon thinking about the natural world. T&S stand-out Patricia Karamesines is the presiding muse. Check it out. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
First in War, First in Peace
Here’s a belated recognition of George Washington’s birthday. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Woe to the Outcast
Marginal groups get into the Second Coming. We contemplate with pleasant savagery the haves and the snobs getting smashed. “Kings shall see that which they had not considered.” “Bottom rail top dis time.” Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Notes From All Over
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Scout Sunday
Scout Sunday is today. 1 person likes this post. Like Unlike Read more »
The Pity of the World
Love is compassion and admiration mixed together. Pity and awe. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
$819,000,000,000 Bill
The Stimulus, Debt, Pork, Rescue, Special Interest Pay-off $819 Billion Bill (not counting interest) has passed the House. You can search the text here if you like. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Hindsight Prophecy
Higher critics would claim that any suspiciously accurate revelations in the scriptures were probably put in afterwards. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
United States to Fund Abortions Abroad
By executive order, President Obama has authorized government funding of abortions overseas (funding abortions in the United States is still illegal thanks to the Hyde Amendment). He described this taxpayer funding of abortion as a non-partisan measure that will move us beyond the stale, tired abortion debates of the past. 1 person likes this post. Like Unlike Read more »
Bad Men and Food Storage
On the sweetness of Mormon life. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Notes From All Over
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The Logic of Christ
16 ¶ And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Lint-free
On the sweetness of Mormon life. 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