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Uber-Deep and Important Doctrinal Questions

May 15, 2009 | 18 comments
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After reading the post from a couple days ago about optimal tithing rates, I started to think about some of the unanswered questions that have come to mind while I’ve been playing Brick Breaker in Elder’s Quorum pondering the mysteries of the Gospel.  It seems like this audience might be able to offer some differing perspectives on these conundrums that, up to now, have kept me at a loss.  A lot of you seem to be much smarter than I am. Have at them. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »

What Does My Lack of Personal Trials Say About Me?

May 7, 2009 | 33 comments
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I’ve been thinking long and hard about what I should talk about in my inaugural post on this blog.  Quite honestly, when I agreed to do a stint as a guest blogger, I thought it would be pretty easy.  But, lately, it seems that all my Mormonism-related thoughts have been trite and meaningless.  For example, I considered drafting a post complaining about one of the teachers Elders Quorum and his refusal to teach out of the manual.  But, honestly, I think that post would have just ended up being a rant about a quorum discussion outlining the evils of... Read more »

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  • Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys(Alison)
  • All kinds of awesome.(Julie)
  • Watched this last night for FHE (Dave)
  • QUIT WORRYING, WE’RE FINE! (Ben S.)
  • Sister Monson passed away.(Julie)
  • “The Book of Mormon” musical scores a baptism. (Frank)
  • Spencer shines some light on “bracketing” – long live Husserl! (Adam)
  • Branch of Mormonism ready to endorse same-sex marriage(Wilfried)
  • Mormon novelist is subject of academic panel at SASS(Kent)
  • Why no one should ever use the “chewed gum” analogy again.(Julie)
  • Romney’s SVU commencement advice looks suspiciously anti-birth control (Kent)
  • WSJ looks at case of missing returned LDS missionary, feared abducted by North Korea (Kent)
  • “In order to approach the scriptures from a realistic perspective we need to take a side trip into the secular world of science and scholarship.” (Dave)
  • Hear Gilgamesh recited in Akkadian! (Ben S.)
  • Why recommending McDonald’s for lunch is a great idea (Ben S.)
  • Jenny Webb @ The Mormon Book Review (Adam)
  • Hate your garments? Maybe this is the answer (Kent)
  • Nihilism, absolutism, and Mormonism (Dave)
  • It’s like a folk doctrine time capsule! (Julie)
  • Mormon face (Julie)

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