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Who Should Have Been Mormon of the Year, 1970-1989

January 14, 2009 | 26 comments
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Who Should Have Been Mormon of the Year, 1970-1989

This second of three posts, covers Times and Seasons reader Last Lemming’s suggestions for Mormon of the Year for the years 1970 through 1989. We already posted on Monday his picks for 1950 through 1969 and on Friday morning we will list his picks for 1990 through 2007. I suspect as these posts get into more familiar and more recent territory, more of you will have comments and suggestions about who Last Lemming suggested and who should have been suggested instead. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »

A Year’s Supply of Goodwill

January 12, 2009 | 6 comments
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The Lovely One and I do not (yet) own a hand-crank radio or an AK-47. But we’re still emergency preparedness freaks in our own way. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »

Who Should Have Been Mormon of the Year, 1950-1969

January 12, 2009 | 45 comments
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Who Should Have Been Mormon of the Year, 1950-1969

I received an unexpected and fun email message after we began selecting the 2008 Mormon of the Year from Times and Seasons reader Last Lemming, who had made his own selections for Mormon of the Year for each year since 1950! In this first of three posts, we will include his suggestions for the years 1950 through 1969. We will follow on Wednesday morning with his picks for 1970 through 1989 and on Friday morning for 1990 through 2007. I suspect as these posts get into more familiar and more recent territory, more of you will have comments and... Read more »

Neuhaus Dies

January 9, 2009 | 5 comments
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Fr. Richard Neuhaus of First Things has died. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »

Notes From All Over

January 9, 2009 | 14 comments
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Opine on the week in sidebar links. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »

Times and Seasons 2008 Mormon of the Year: Mitt Romney

January 7, 2009 | 62 comments
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Times and Seasons 2008 Mormon of the Year: Mitt Romney

Image via Wikipedia After careful consideration, the staff of Times and Seasons has selected Mitt Romney as Mormon of the Year, our annual designation of the Mormon who had the greatest impact or influence on Mormons and Mormonism in 2008. During 2008 Romney concluded the most credible presidential campaign of any Mormon to date and dominated the U.S. national news early in the year like no single Mormon has in recent memory. He garnered a great deal of both praise and criticism, gaining him significant endorsements as well as important detractors. Remarkably, his supporters included many Evangelical Christians, which... Read more »

The Family is Ordained of God

January 5, 2009 | 23 comments
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The power of the Proclamation on the Family is its doctrine. The Proclamation does not have powerful language. Its mostly written in passive-voice sentences and ‘be’ verbs. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »

Get me a new hometeacher

January 4, 2009 | 31 comments
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On the sweetness of Mormon life Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »

Vote for Mormon of the Year

January 1, 2009 | 183 comments
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This post opens the voting for Mormon of the Year. Votes will be taken until midnight Eastern Time on Monday, January 5th, at which time the voting will close. The voting mechanism will attempt to restrict votes to one per person. THE WINNER OF THE ONLINE VOTE IS NOT NECESSARILY THE MORMON OF THE YEAR!!! Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »

Drop Bill Simmons?

December 30, 2008 | 50 comments
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In which I crowdsource my conscience. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »

Reviewing News about Mormonism for the Year

December 29, 2008 | 14 comments
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Reviewing News about Mormonism for the Year

OK, now that we’re looking at the Mormon of the Year, I’d also like to look at what the big news stories were for the year. In a lot of ways its been a very busy news year, with, by my count, three big stories dominating: Mitt Romney’s presidential candidacy The confusion of the LDS Church with the FLDS Church in the news The Mormon role in the successful effort to pass Proposition 8. But there were also smaller, important stories that happened during the year, especially if you include in News about Mormonism news about people who are... Read more »

Who Should Be Mormon of the Year?

December 27, 2008 | 201 comments
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Who Should Be Mormon of the Year?

Its that time of year. The week between Christmas and New Year’s Day is traditionally the media’s time for reflection on the past year — the time when we see story after story on the best or most important stories of the year, or the most important person of the year (as Time magazine just named — no surprise there). I enjoy these looks at the past year, and given how much LDS Church members don’t usually know much about news that involves the Church, it seems to me these lists might be quite useful. So let me pose... Read more »

Notes From All Over

December 26, 2008 | 5 comments
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Comment on the week in sidebar links. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »

The True Meaning of Christmas

December 22, 2008 | no comments
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The Church has put together a web page on the true meaning of Christmas. Please give it a look and pass on the link. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »

Nature and Cities

December 19, 2008 | 30 comments
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I often find walking in nature a spiritual experience, for want of a better term. Growing up, I think that I found my testimony in part by tramping through the Wasatch Mountains and watching thunder storms roll across the Great Salt Lake. Today, I am likely to have real moments of reverence and gratitude to the divine while watching mist play across the still waters of the James River in the early morning or enjoying the power of a big Atlantic storm slamming into my bit of the world. I realize that there are some real dangers with identifying... Read more »

Notes From All Over

December 19, 2008 | 6 comments
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Elder Porter of the Seventy, in Newsweek

December 16, 2008 | 103 comments
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Elder Porter of the Seventy has a column in Newsweek responding to a recent Newsweek opinion piece claiming that opposition to gay marriage was unbiblical. There are several unusual features about the column Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »

Haunted and Blessed Lives

December 15, 2008 | 13 comments
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Ross Douthat believes in angels and devils. Me too. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »

The Carnival of Ward Choirs

December 14, 2008 | 3 comments
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On the sweetness of Mormon life. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »

Grace, Works, and the Meritocracy

December 12, 2008 | 24 comments
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Ross Douthat explains why meritocrats feel like they deserve their success. He says that you probably won’t succeed without the luck of good brains and good upbringing, but that then you have to follow that luck with lots of determination and hard work. Since the hard work and determination is closest to your success and the luck is so remote, you give all credit to the hard work. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »

Christmas Devotional 2008

December 7, 2008 | 16 comments
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President Uchtdorf said that the angels came to the shepherds, the poor, not to the rich. At one point in my life that would have bugged me. Today I realized that the rich should want it that way. If you’re wealthy and still looking for something, you don’t want to be told that your wealth is all there is. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »

Past and Present

November 30, 2008 | 15 comments
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It’s an intellectual banality to point out that how one thinks of the present structures how one thinks about the past. The cliché, however, is useful when thinking about Mormon history. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »

Thanksgiving Proclaimed

November 27, 2008 | 2 comments
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Our Chief Magistrate has proclaimed that today be a National Day of Thanksgiving, to acknowledge those blessings of liberty, family, and friendship we receive at the hands of the Almighty God. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »

Each in his Own Language

November 25, 2008 | 64 comments
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Each in his Own Language

BYU’s Religious Studies Center recently announced that it had begun publishing books in Spanish, Portuguese, and German, an encouraging development, given how little is being produced outside of English. In his blog post about the news, Richard Neitzel Holzapfel writes: Today, it is estimated that there are nearly 7,000 spoken languages in the world, of which some 2,600 have a writing system. He goes on to say: Equally impressive is the effort to provide translations of the Book of Mormon to the world. Today, the complete Book of Mormon has been translated into seventy-nine languages, and selections are available... Read more »

Hymn 95

November 23, 2008 | 13 comments
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On the sweetness of Mormon life. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »

Go Cougars!

November 21, 2008 | 29 comments
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Go Cougars!

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Vets

November 11, 2008 | 6 comments
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Today is a good day to celebrate the soldiers I have known and 9 years of marriage. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »

The Raft-Builders

November 11, 2008 | 9 comments
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By Lord Dunsany: Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »

The Canonization of the Book of Mormon?

November 10, 2008 | 29 comments
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The Canonization of the Book of Mormon?

Penguin Books has just published a “Penguin Classics” edition of the Book of Mormon edited by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp. Penguin Classics, of course, are the paperback editions of literary staples like Jane Austen or Charles Dickens. They are printed and marketed largely as texts for college classes. The assumption is that a text included in the Penguin series has become a stable part of the high-brow diet of books, or at least ought to be. It is worth reflecting a little bit about what this edition of the Book of Mormon might or might not mean. The Penguin book... Read more »

Just Say No (to members)

November 7, 2008 | 67 comments
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A few months ago, a sister in our ward asked my daughter to babysit. On a Monday evening. That’s right. Monday Evening. We try to be diligent with family home evening on Monday night, so the answer needed to be “no,” but I was a bit confused about how to convey that message. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »

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  • High school (and seminary) student Jabari Parker on the cover of Sports Illustrated (ht Adam A.) (Sam)
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  • Colbert lampoons McNaughton’s “subtlety”(Kent)
  • There are different rules for public discourse about Mormonism (Dave)
  • Church buys Haun’s Mill, other CoC properties. (Ben S.)
  • The perils of religious illustration, with special application to Mormonism (Dave)
  • Mormon poet named Utah’s Poet Laureate (Kent)
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  • Kathleen Flake interview: “If Mormonism is anything in the American mind, it is a group of people who take their religion way too seriously.” (Dave)
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