Monthly Archives: March 2009
I’m in trouble now
My sweet wife Sandra has figured out how to post videos on YouTube. Here’s her first effort. She works part-time at Curves (a women-only fitness center), and her employer was closing down one Curves center and moving all the equipment … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Humor, LDS Society, Main, Missionary work, Video
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LDS bishop tackles truth, Evangelical Christianity
From a posted news item: Today, many people generally view Evangelical Christians as a people with strong family values and clean living, according to the bishop of the McLean 3rd Ward (Latter-day Saint). Some also believe they are just one … Continue reading
Posted in Belief systems, Humor, Main, World Religions
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The nine billion blessings on the food
A common discussion among Latter-day Saints (and among many other Christians as well as believers in other faiths) is the all-too-easy tendency for prayer to devolve into mechanical recitation as opposed to, well, talking with God. That’s why this website … Continue reading
Posted in Belief systems, Humor, LDS Doctrine, LDS Society, Main, Technology, World Religions
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LDS themes in Battlestar Galactica, Knowing, and Watchmen?
SPOILERS BELOW! YOU’VE BEEN WARNED! [NOTE: welcome to all the traffic from Twitter and from Roger Ebert's review of "Knowing"! I've expanded a few things below for clarification.] I’m going to discuss religious themes, particularly as related to LDS beliefs … Continue reading
Posted in LDS Doctrine, LDS Society, Main, Media, Movies
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The Enos problem in the Book of Mormon
Enos is the third author in the Book of Mormon (after Nephi1 and Jacob). He is best known for his lengthy prayer while hunting in the wilderness, wherein he first asks for personal forgiveness, then for God’s blessings upon the … Continue reading
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Mormon journalism — SL Tribune “Big Love” update
[NOTE: I've made a few updates and edits below.] I wrote yesterday about how the Deseret News has managed to actually increase its paid circulation by focusing more on a specific target audience — Mormons — while the Salt Lake … Continue reading
Mormon journalism pays off
Deseret News — Once upon a time the Deseret News, the Church-owned newspaper in Salt Lake City, carried on a highly entertaining feud with the anti-Mormon Salt Lake Tribune. In these calmer days, the Tribune and the News share the … Continue reading
Madoff syndrome strikes California Mormons
Comes this news from California: FOLSOM, CA – A Folsom investment firm that allegedly ran a $40 million Ponzi scheme drew largely from members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, according to federal investigators. Equity Investment Management … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, LDS Society, Legal, Main, News
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Future(s) of the LDS Church
The last two posts have dealt with the future (in America) of Evangelism in particular and Christianity in general. Ardis Parshall’s comments on the former post raise the question of the extent to which these same factors impact the LDS … Continue reading
Posted in LDS Doctrine, LDS History, LDS Organization, LDS Society, Main, The Last Days
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Some thoughts from a Catholic as well
E. D. Kain at The League of Ordinary Gentlemen has also taken note of Michael’s Spencer’s prediction of the collapse of Evangelical Christianity and added some thoughs of his own from a Catholic point of view: Now my personal take … Continue reading
Posted in Belief systems, Current events, LDS Organization, LDS Society, Main, World Religions
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