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  • Cornucopia

    Primary Lesson #43 Supplement

    Julie M. Smith

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    December 2, 2006

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  • Cornucopia

    What the Smith Boys Said This Year

    Julie M. Smith

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    December 2, 2006

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    19 responses

    For previous installments, see here and here. Simon turned eight, Nathan turned five, and Truman turned two this year. Read More

  • Cornucopia, Lesson Aids

    Sunday School Lesson #45

    Jim F.

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    December 2, 2006

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    18 responses

    Lesson 45: Daniel 1, 3, and 6; Esther 3-5, 7-8 Read More

  • Cornucopia, Lesson Aids

    Sunday School Lesson #44

    Jim F.

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    December 1, 2006

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  • Cornucopia

    Christmas Traditions

    Matt Evans

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    December 1, 2006

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    26 responses

    Our family has two fun holiday traditions worth spreading. Read More

  • Cornucopia

    Angels

    Marjorie Conder

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    December 1, 2006

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    8 responses

    I have lived long enough and had such a variety of experiences that I hardly think I can be called naïve on the subject of prayer. Read More

  • Cornucopia

    Gohar Yeghiayan Davidian: A Latter-day Saint in Syria

    Ardis E. Parshall

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    November 30, 2006

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    10 responses

    For half a millennium, ending with World War I, the Ottoman Empire dominated eastern Europe, Asia Minor, and the Middle East. Read More

  • Life in the Church

    Quadrupling Fast Offerings

    Frank McIntyre

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    November 30, 2006

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    42 responses

    About a year or so ago our stake made a move to improve fast offering receipts. The bishop supported this and urged everyone to donate to fast offerings and, in addition to the general admonition, he reinstituted Aaronic priesthood collection of fast offerings after church. Read More

  • Cornucopia

    Wave theory

    Jonathan Green

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    November 29, 2006

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    22 responses

    Family trees are familiar and similarly dissatisfying models in historical linguistics and in the history of religion. Read More

  • Cornucopia

    Sacred???? Santa

    Marjorie Conder

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    November 28, 2006

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    6 responses

    We could hardly we accused of being “Bah, humbug.” We have a holiday season filled with light, music, food, family, gifts and most important love. Also, as far as I can tell, we consistently pass the “grandkid test.” We are just not very traditional in our approach. Read More

  • Cornucopia

    In which our heroine is forced to confront her own hypocrisy

    Julie M. Smith

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    November 28, 2006

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    45 responses

    So if a friend said to me, “What do you think about that Mormon prophet who got arrested for polygamy?” Read More

  • Cornucopia

    Santa

    Marjorie Conder

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    November 27, 2006

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    79 responses

    For several years running I submitted some version of the following editorial to the Deseret News. Last year they finally published it. You may well guess it was controversial, as of course I knew it would be. I will have more to say on the subject of Santa, but first I want your initial reaction to this piece. Read More

  • Cornucopia, Latter-day Saint Thought, Philosophy and Theology

    Santa-god and the Second Naivete

    Jim F.

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    November 27, 2006

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    58 responses

    I spent all of September and a good part of October finishing an essay on community for a journal on the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, and it nearly killed me. Read More

  • Cornucopia

    Mother’s Blessings

    Margaret Young

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    November 27, 2006

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    29 responses

    Last Saturday, I had lunch with my oldest daughter and her best friend, Adrea, who happens to be my best friend’s oldest daughter. My friend, Buffy, and I went through our first pregnancies laughing at ourselves and at each other, but also struggling in our new marriages. Read More

  • Cornucopia

    A History Shall Be Kept

    Marjorie Conder

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    November 26, 2006

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    10 responses

    What are the most quoted scriptures in the Church? Check at the end of this post to see if you agree. Read More

  • Cornucopia

    Ned Desaules and the United Order – 2 of 2

    Ardis E. Parshall

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    November 26, 2006

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    3 responses

    Ned also records the risks faced by children in that time and place: “Edwin King[’s] smallest boy accidentally fell in my well yesterday, & had a narrow escape at drowning. Bro. Hammond fished him out.” Read More

  • Cornucopia

    “John, you’ve prepared for this your whole life”

    Matt Evans

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    November 26, 2006

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    16 responses

    My brothers, dad and I got together to watch the BYU-Utah game yesterday. With only three seconds left, down by four and needing a touchdown, BYU called a timeout to plan their final play. Not since 2003 had a college football team won on the last play of regulation. Everyone at our party was too excited and anxious to sit down, and we publicly wondered at the intensity the players must be feeling. After the game, BYU quarterback John Beck was asked what he was thinking as he walked on the field after the timeout. “I took a deep breath… Read More

  • Cornucopia

    A cautionary tale

    Marjorie Conder

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    November 25, 2006

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    5 responses

    We had a large garden before we had lawn when we bought our home in the early 1960s. During my “domestic phase” years I felt obligated to preserve—can, freeze, pickle, dry, etc. as much as possible. (We even have a root cellar on our suburban lot.) Read More

  • Cornucopia

    The Happiest Wives

    Julie M. Smith

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    November 25, 2006

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    56 responses

    According to a study done by two sociology profs at the University of Virginia, the following are most closely correlated with happiness of wives: Read More

  • Cornucopia

    Light

    Marjorie Conder

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    November 24, 2006

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    6 responses

    I find light in all its iterations compelling. I often sit crossed legged in front of our bedroom fireplace with a fire and/or just a candle on the hearth. Sometimes I listen to music or beat a drum as I watch the flames. Sometimes I just sit. Read More

  • Cornucopia

    Ned Desaules and the United Order – 1 of 2

    Ardis E. Parshall

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    November 24, 2006

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    10 responses

    On a day when TV news programs carry images of 170 million Americans storming shopping malls in a frenzy of consumerism, here’s an account of a different kind of economic system Read More

  • Cornucopia

    Bill Shrives

    Jonathan Green

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    November 23, 2006

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    2 responses

    For forty years, Bill Shrives was a train signal supervisor for Southern Pacific Railroad. Every day, the lives and livelihoods of thousands of people depended on his doing his job conscientiously and correctly. As with nearly everyone who plays an important part in keeping the economy humming, it is safe to say that nearly no one thought about Bill Shrives when their train sailed safely past the signals he inspected. Read More

  • Cornucopia

    Count Your Blogging Blessings…

    Russell Arben Fox

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    November 23, 2006

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    3 responses

    …name them one by one. This Thanksgiving, I’m thankful for some great posts from days past here at Times and Seasons. Let me count them. Read More

  • Cornucopia

    Holiday Surprises and Flexibility

    Marjorie Conder

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    November 23, 2006

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    5 responses

    We have always been clear that that our married children have two sides to their new families and we have also made it clear that while we may invite them to everything we also don’t want to hog their time or force them into difficult choices. Read More

  • Cornucopia

    I Don’t Know It All, But I Know Some Things

    Ardis E. Parshall

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    November 22, 2006

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    44 responses

    I once spent an uncomfortable few hours wedged in economy class on a flight from Boston to Salt Lake City. Read More

  • Cornucopia

    Welcome the Season!

    Marjorie Conder

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    November 21, 2006

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    11 responses

    Since we are entering the holiday season I am thinking about building some of my posts around the holidaies and maybe some of my evolving ideas of a personal liturgical calendar. I seem to have needed this calendar all of my life and over the last ten years or so I have been actively and successfully pursuing it, including a thoroughly Mormon Passover and some beginning stabs at celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles. Read More

  • Cornucopia

    The Muddle

    Marjorie Conder

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    November 21, 2006

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    17 responses

    This last week has again brought into sharp focus one of my more important discoveries of the past decade. It is “The Muddle” and I am surprised and appalled that I was so old before I figured it out. On the off chance some of you have not yet figured it out, here is my take on the subject. Read More

  • Cornucopia

    Welcome, Marjorie Conder

    Julie M. Smith

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    November 20, 2006

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    10 responses

    We are very pleased to have Marj Conder guest blogging for us for the next few weeks. Read More

  • Cornucopia

    I am thankful for my appendectomy

    Jonathan Green

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    November 20, 2006

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    13 responses

    One night last March, I went to bed feeling fine but woke up four hours later with abdominal pain that wouldn’t go away. I finished the ensuing day in the hospital recovering from an appendectomy, for which I am very grateful. Read More

  • Cornucopia

    Primary Lesson #42 Supplement

    Julie M. Smith

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    November 19, 2006

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    One response

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