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What Do We Mean by Non-Profit?

April 21, 2009 | 42 comments
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I heard the following story at Sam Wellers about some local LDS Church units and selling books. I don’t know when this happened or who it was — no doubt someone here knows the story better than I do, or knows of a similar story — but it strikes me as the kind of thing that happens sometimes among LDS Church members. It seems some stake along the Wasatch Front did their stake history, and after selling copies to everyone in the stake who wanted one, had a lot of leftover copies. So they packed them up in someone’s... Read more »

The “anti-Mormon” label

March 17, 2009 | 42 comments
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Some years ago I had the idea that Mormonism needs an “anti-defamation league”–a group that reviews news coverage and other public actions and publicly condemns those actions that clearly defame Mormons and Mormonism. But I’ve since decided that this is probably not a very workable idea. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »

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  • “And, anyway, the church isn’t some sort of floating seminar in historiography.”(Dave)
  • Bowman on how Mormons (hence Romney) think of the poor(James)
  • LDS statement issued in response to 9th Circuit opinion holding Prop 8 unconstitutional(Dave)
  • Scalzi on Romney: “When I don’t vote for him, his being a member of the LDS church won’t be a part of it.” (Kaimi)
  • Mormon numbers are not adding up (Dave)
  • MSNBC interviews LDS historian Matt Bowman (Dave)
  • (Gasp!) Mitt Romney baptizes dead people!(Kaimi)
  • The Mormon Lit Blitz (Dave)
  • “You can start by listening, absorbing, and deciding that you will no longer dismiss someone else’s experience just because you have not had that same experience yourself.” (Kaimi)
  • GOP candidates & (Christian) common good(James)
  • Romney Thumps Gingrich in Florida(Alison)
  • At the SL Trib: “Mormons tackling tough questions in their history” (Dave)
  • NYT debate on Mormonism (Laurie Maffly Kipp, Jana Riess, others)(James)
  • Mormonism, the religion of the American West. Or not. (Dave)
  • Ron Paul appealing to Mormons?(James)
  • “What is this, a fabric store?”(Ben S.)
  • Doubt and the Creed(James)
  • Uh oh — four out of five ESPN pannelists see Jimmer as the most disappointing rookie of the year so far.(Kaimi)
  • Jay Leno sued over Mitt Romney joke (Dave)
  • Funeral potatoes in the New York Times. (Kaimi)

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