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  • Testimonies of the Bloggernacle

    Testimonies of the Bloggernacle

    Marc Bohn

    A friend asked whether I was aware of any good collections of testimony or “Why I Believe”-type posts in the Bloggernacle. Nothing really sprung to mind, so I thought I’d issue a call for people to share their favorites here. I’ll compile a running bullet-point list below of the suggestions.

  • Your Easter Sermon: Food Storage

    Craig H.

    Every year on T&S there appears around Easter time a certain amount of Holy-Week envy. I haven’t seen any yet this year, and so I thought I’d take my turn to express a little. Or better, maybe this would be a good opportunity to get a sense of what is going on in Mormon Easter…

  • Hugs and Kisses

    Craig H.

    It’s holiday season, which means more friends and family and greetings, in person or otherwise, than usual. Add to that a few weddings receptions and you can get downright sore from all the hugging and hand-wrenching. Not to mention confused by the vast array of possibilities for saying hello or goodbye or Merry Christmas or…

  • Carl and Mathilda

    Craig H.

    Let us praise pioneers. Of all sorts, but today especially the traditional sort. I myself am thinking of Carl and Mathilda, whom I came to know through one of those wholly unexpected spine-tingling unbelievable fantastic experiences.

  • Scheduling the Primary Program

    Julie M. Smith

    I don’t wish to detract from Adam’s lovely post, but after reading the comments, I am surprised at how common the late September Primary Program is.

  • Suggestions for expatriate Mormons

    Jonathan Green

    I don’t know of any Americans planning to move into my ward soon. If there were any, I wish they would understand a few things from the outset. (If you’re contemplating a foreign assignment in an industrial nation, some of this might apply to your situation as well.)

  • The Stake Conference Experience

    Russell Arben Fox

    Today we had stake conference. It was our turn for one of those newfangled and (I hope) still evolving “multistake conference broadcast” experiences; at least some of you living in the Midwest and Great Plains must have caught it also. I think this is the fourth time we’ve been part of one of these over…

  • “Will Heavenly Father Be Mad if We Go to Another Church?”

    Russell Arben Fox

    So asked my oldest daughter, Megan (now 10) yesterday morning, as Melissa and I were discussing our Christmas Eve plans.

  • Cookbook Zion

    Rosalynde Welch

    I gave a talk yesterday; the text is pasted herein. It’s long, but easy reading, I promise.

  • Ritual is the Last Thing to Go

    Nate Oman

    Christmastime is upon us, and before too long hoards of folks who darken a church door only once or twice a year will be flooding into the churches. I have to say I can hardly blame them.

  • Weeping, Singing, Remembering–A November Homily

    Kristine Haglund

    This is the text of a talk I gave in Sacrament Meeting around this time last year. Warning: it’s LONG, and it quite predictably incorporates the John Donne quote I force upon everyone every Thanksgiving.

  • Simple Things

    Gordon Smith

    Over the past few days, I have been engaged in some much-needed family immersion. Among other things, I rediscovered the joys of eating jello pudding with children, playing an impromptu “turkey bowl” football game (with players ranging in age from eight to forty-something), and whipping some teenagers at the board game Risk.