As soon as my friend said I was a Mormon, the two ladies wanted to know more.
Sunday School Lesson #43
Lesson 43: Ezekiel 18, 34, and 37
Sunday School Lesson #42
Lesson 42: Jeremiah 16, 23, 29, 31
Johanna Tippett Porter: In Active Service to the End
LDS missionaries working on the Isle of Wight, off the coast of England, found the Tippett family in 1859.
St. Martin’s Day
Or, Notes from a modern theocracy Continuing the periodic series on Holiday Envy, November 11 is St. Martin’s Day.
Welcome Aboard, Ardis!
In case it may have escaped your notice, Ardis Parshall has been posting and commenting a great deal lately. Actually, she’s so quickly made herself at home here at Times and Seasons, with her superb series of historical posts, as well as her reflections on everything from running a business to doing archival research, all from her own unique yet thoroughly Mormon perspective, that it almost escaped our notice as well. But not quite! So allow this to be a somewhat delayed official introduction of Ardis to the Bloggernacle as T&S’s newest permablogger. Welcome, Ardis! (We’ll be getting you your own set of keys any day now.)
“For this [blog] was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.”
It appears that the reported demise of the Millennial Star blog may have been premature. The blog appears to be alive once more.
What If The Woman Taken In Adultery . . . Wasn’t?
In the abstract, there are three possibilities: she was guilty, she was innocent, or she was raped.
To accompany Kaimi’s post
How about lyrics which folks (especially children) often mis-hear? My mother was terribly ashamed of her parents when she saw that cherries were included for Sunday lunch, since they had just sung, “Cherries hurt you, cherries hurt you…” (Cherish virtue…)
Fixing the Minimum Wage
It seems pretty clear that we are heading for a hike in the minimum wage. For the many of us who care about poverty reduction, which would be basically all of us, this could be a big deal. The problems with the minimum wage are that it:
Grace shall be, as your day
I was well into my twenties before I finally deciphered one particular line from I Need Thee Every Hour. It was a line that I had certainly sung a hundred times or more: “No tender voice like thine can peace afford.”
As Goes Russell, So Goes…
It looks as though the nation may be starting to look more like Russell, frightening as that is for some of us.
Ladies and Gentlemen, a Mormon Has Taken (Ok, Ok, Will Take) the Building
You’ve heard it here first: it may take a day or two, but Jon Tester is going to come out the winner of the senate race in Montana; and it may take a few weeks, but Jim Webb is going to be confirmed the winner of the senate seat from Virginia. And that will mean…
Party Spirit
Could there be a Mormon political party? Should there be?
Making Isaiah (and the rest of them) FUN
I teach all of the youth in my ward. I suspect this is because nobody else will do it. Also, most of the youth (whether or not I’ve given birth to them) pretty much live at my house. So I am very able to tell them to behave and get a quick response.
Words for Life
I was 15 when the American POWs came home from Vietnam.
Primary Lesson 41 Supplement
Annie Griffith Burbank: Amongst the Gentiles
Annie Griffith was born on August 27, 1837, in Georgetown, Essex Co., Massachusetts, on the Merrimack River near the New Hampshire state line. She lived in that county all her life.
The Theology of the Horse
How big of a deal is technology theologically speaking?
Mice and men
If we’ve learned one thing in the past week, it is this: Mice are not good Mormons.
The Shape of Things to Come
For many years, northern Bavaria had a duplicate Church geography, with a stake for American servicemen sharing the boundaries of a German district.
Faith in the Shadow of Death
My sister-in-law, Lynda, is dying of cancer. It was in remission for eight years, but has now returned and is in her bones.
LDS Sessions at the Society for Biblical Literature
Mormons make an appearance at the important SBL conference.
Mormons, Gentiles, Suffrage, and the Courts
In 1870, the Utah Territorial Legislature passed an act giving women the right to vote, making Utah the second jurisdiction in the United States to given women the vote. (Wyoming was the first in 1869.) In 1887, Congress revoked the territorial law in the Edmunds-Tucker Act, and women were denied the vote until Utah was admitted as a state in 1896. Less well known is that there was an 1880 judicial attack on women’s suffrage in Utah.