Category Archives: LDS Doctrine
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
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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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Our ancestors in the spirit world
The ever-amusing Wondermark strip provides some insight: Heh. Note how we sometimes assume that our departed ancestors really want to get in touch with us? Maybe not so much. ..bruce..
Posted in Family, Humor, LDS Doctrine, Main, Personal History
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Study: religion correlates with greater self-control
An interesting article in the New York Times on New Year’s resolutions discusses the role of religion: [Dr. Michael McCullough's] professional interest arose from a desire to understand why religion evolved and why it seems to help so many people. … Continue reading
Posted in Belief systems, LDS Doctrine, Main, World Religions
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The inspiration of Dickens
I’m currently watching “A Christmas Carol” with Patrick Stewart on TNT. Scrooge has just been visited by the ghost of Jacob Marley, who explains that he is doomed to walk the earth and perceive those he should have helped but … Continue reading
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A people set apart: Mormons and Prop 8
There has, of course, been much discourse on the bloggernacle about Proposition 8 in California and the Church’s involvement in it. Leaving aside the various arguments on the merits of gay marriage itself, the merits of the arguments on both … Continue reading
Posted in Current events, LDS Doctrine, LDS History, LDS Organization, LDS Society, Legal, Main, Media, Politics
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Baptism and restoration in the Book of Mormon (part 3)
I have written previously here about the practice of baptism among the Lehites (see here and here). To briefly summarize: – About 50 years after leaving Jerusalem, both Jacob and Nephi1 teach about the universal need for baptism, though the … Continue reading
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Latter-day Saint exobiology (part 2)
God is speaking to us in a consistent voice. God will deal with all the human family equally. We might be in a large ward or a small branch, our climate or vegetation may differ, the cultural background and language … Continue reading
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Aging with grace
Come, thou Fount of every blessing, tune my heart to sing thy grace; streams of mercy, never ceasing, call for songs of loudest praise. Teach me some melodious sonnet, sung by flaming tongues above. Praise the mount! I’m fixed upon … Continue reading
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“Tablet ignites debate on Messiah and resurrection”
The “debate” cited in this New York Times article is triggered by a stone tablet — apparently predating Christianity — that talks of a Messiah rising from the dead after three days: JERUSALEM — A three-foot-tall tablet with 87 lines … Continue reading
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