Recent Links
- “Michigan Gov. George Romney said he would leave his church if it ever tried to prevent him from working for the elimination of social injustices and racial discrimination.”
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- WSJ projects Cougs to reach the Final Four
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- NYT on RateMyProfessor darling Randy Bott
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- Glenn Beck as face of Fox News
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- Even BOAP thinks Correlation is off course.
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- Jana Riess on Beliefnet: Glenn Beck Versus Social Justice
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- The nation’s most popular university…
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- Evangelical leader takes on Beck and calls for boycott
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- “Deseret News editors decided not to run a story about [Garn's] indiscretion at that time, since the GOP primary was only weeks away and the incident had occurred years before.”
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- Sound smarter in your OT class, courtesy of BYU Studies.
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- Beck: social justice “is a perversion of the Gospel”
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- “One way to read the Book of Mormon is that it’s a vast tract on social justice.”
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- New Yorker writes up Jana and John Remy’s bookcase.
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- Harry Reid’s wife and daughter in car accident
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- Pro Football Hall of Famer and Actor Merlin Olsen dies at 69
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- Punk the Church and it’ll sic missionaries on ya’ (HT: Sheldon)
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- Christian Post: Glenn Beck’s Advice on ‘Social Justice’ Churches Sparks Outrage
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- Blogging defined in paragraph 4
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- Ever wonder what the purpose of women is? Well, wonder no longer. Women’s purpose has officially been revealed.
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- Mormon Church seeks to be ‘more proactive’ in green-building efforts with City Creek (and chapels)
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- Hatch seeking inside info on how BCS chooses bowl teams
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- First Things: Glenn Beck Thinks Catholics Should “Leave Their Church”
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- “[I]f I don’t make it, then that’s God’s will. But if I don’t try to rescue more people, then I’ll always have it on my conscience” (HT: Sheldon)
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- Church’s big land purchase in SLC explained
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- Utah teens rally for sex education
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- University outreach to Mormon students = bad; outreach to gay students = good.
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- An in depth statistical look at “raising the bar”
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- Catholic blog: Is Marriott a pimp?
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- Hugh Nibley, man of mythtery
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- Reflections on Religious Law Profs (and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir)
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- Mormon News Gateway … with a strangely familiar logo.
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- Interfaith Voices: 3 blips on Mormonism
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- Obama names Scott Matheson to the 10th Circuit
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- What Offends the Mormon Reader? asks Angela Hallstrom
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- Romney v. Palin
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- How to make church an effective social network.
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- “A growing number of conservative Christians are explicitly and self-critically acknowledging that to be “pro-life” must mean more than opposing abortion.”
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- LDS Church missionaries in Chile all safe, accounted for
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- Memorial held for Henry Stuart Matis on the 10th anniversary of his suicide
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- Fundamental Premises of Our Faith – Talk Given by Elder Dallin H. Oaks at Harvard Law School
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- Did Utah accidentally criminalize cancer treatment?
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- Two fascinating articles about mental well-being: Are we treating mental health right? And is there an upside to depression?
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- Thoughts and prayers – Marie Osmond’s son commits suicide – msnbc.com
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- The Guardian reviews Cardinal George’s BYU speech
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- Meet the New Mitt. Err, the *New* New Mitt.
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- How rich are the Mormons? (Answer: Not as rich as you’d think)
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- Former Miss Utah accused in million-dollar theft case
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- How *not* to date with your spouse.
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- “A law that makes any pregnant woman who has a miscarriage potentially criminally liable for murder.”
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- US in decline as Rome or Britain?
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- Catholic Cardinal speaks at BYU Devotional – opening hymn by Martin Luther heh
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- Church’s Atlanta Public Affairs’ presents community service award to Martin Luther King III
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- Be fruitful, and multiply
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- I’ve never killed a man, but I’ve read many an obituary with a great deal of satisfaction. ~Mark Twain
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- Bybee found to have exercised “poor judgment” with “torture” memos, but will not be disciplined
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- Tell your ward’s Valiant teacher something she doesn’t already know… (HT: Sheldon G.)
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- Bronze girls have more fun (especially bronze Utes) (HT: Sheldon G.)
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- Speech notes from JFK’s address at the Mormon Tabernacle to be auctioned
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- The prophet said to plant — err, to float a garden?
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- Latter-day Saint churches in Haiti become havens of safety and calm
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- Airline passenger who swung at Romney was rap star Sky Blu
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- “She also doesn’t drink tea or coffee – and won’t have sex until she’s married. Think she’s boring? Then let’s see you do a Switch Backside” (HT: Eric G.)
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- Happy blogiversary, EmJen!
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- How wide the gender divide: a Tiger runs through it.
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- The Bloggernacle Times Returns
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- Christianity Today: The Trouble with Twilight
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- Australian: Clean-living Mormon star Torah Bright is a sponsor’s dream
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- Trying to co-opt MLK Jr. Day a bad idea… so what does that make trying to co-opt Pioneer day?
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- Sister Missionaries in Brazil Assaulted, Robbed of Chapel Keys (in Portuguese)
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- Ogden Temple Facelift — will no longer look like Chinese buffet — if only Provo could follow suit
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- The day Ogdenites have prayed for has arrived.
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- “Mormonism is a scandalous religion.”
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- “In addition to being historically faulty in almost every way imaginable, this chapter [undermines] a decade or two of Mormon attempts at a kinder relationship with the rest of the Christian world.”
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- If you don’t read this, you won’t have read it.
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- Young adults “less religious” today… but not necessarily “more secular”
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