Monthly Archives: December 2007
Grading press coverage
Joel Campbell — an assistant professor of journalism at BYU, who blogs at the LDS Newsline site — has graded (A-F) some recent efforts at press coverage of the LDS Church and its beliefs. He’s pretty blunt and not afraid … Continue reading
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A Mormon lullaby
My former wife, Marla, bought me two Marvin Payne CDs for Christmas this year: “Ships of Dust” (1971) and “Houses and Towns” (1973). Back when we were both undergrads at BYU, Marvin used to go door-to-door through the Provo student … Continue reading
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Current votes for the Anti-Christ
OK, so I’m finishing my preparations this morning for teaching my Sunday School lesson (on the book of Revelation), and the thought strikes me: how many folks out there (and by “folks”, I mean evangelical Christians) believe, fear, or suspect … Continue reading
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Ouch, indeed
Here’s a child after my own heart: “Who is your favorite author?” Aleya Deatsch, 7, of West Des Moines asked Mr. Huckabee in one of those posing-like-a-shopping-mall-Santa moments. Mr. Huckabee paused, then said his favorite author was Dr. Seuss. In … Continue reading
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Joseph Smith’s Presidential platform
Most people (including many members of the LDS Church) are unaware that Joseph Smith ran for President in 1844, the year of his assassination. RonanJH over at By Common Consent has listed Smith’s Presidential platform, as set forth in a … Continue reading
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Oh, great…
…it turns out that Matthew Murray, the Colorado shooter — the one who murdered four people before killing himself and who left anti-Christian screeds on various web sites — had joined the LDS Church a year or so ago. This … Continue reading
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Evil, agency, and suffering
In my posting regarding the Huckabee flap, I noted that the LDS approach to ‘angels and demons’ avoids some of the issues regarding the problem of evil (theodicy), largely due to our rejection of creatio ex nihilo (creation from nothing). … Continue reading
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Rethinking the Flood, part III
I had an earlier posting that talked about rethinking the Noachian flood from an LDS perspective, changing the timeframe and location of the Noachian events to North America at the end of the last ice age. In that post, I … Continue reading
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Angels and demons
Some weeks back, I happened to see the last few minutes of the movie “End of Days“, in which Arnold Schwarzenegger ends up taking on Satan himself. It highlighted for me how differently the LDS Church and most other Christians … Continue reading
Posted in Belief systems, LDS Doctrine, Main, World Religions
Tagged agency, Christ, hell, Lucifer, Mormon, premortal existence, Satan
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The JFK Mormon speech
No, not John F. Kennedy’s original “Catholic” speech, nor Mitt Romney’s “Mormon” speech. This is a speech that Kennedy gave in the LDS Tabernacle in Salt Lake City in September 1963, just two months before his assassination. The full text … Continue reading
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