In the past couple of months on Rational Faiths, we’ve been hearing a lot about the temple sealing ceremony and the role it plays as a part of LDS weddings. We’ve heard a lot from members overseas about the benefits of having separate sealings and wedding ceremonies as is required by their countries’ laws. It has been...
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The Road to Tyranny: (Steps to take in order to transition a limited government of the people, by the people and for the people, to a tyrannical government that runs the people.) 1. Wage war on independence and personal responsibility. Play up the victim angle. Everyone is now a victim…a victim of their race, a victim of their...
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About a week and a half ago in anticipation of writing this post I posted a poll in a Facebook group that is by and large inhabited by heterodox Mormons. There are other variations of belief ranging from none, to close to Orthodox but the meat lies in the middle. The question I posed was “Do you believe in Satan?” It is...
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Note: This orignally appeared in Newgeography.com. We obtained permission from the authors to repost it here on our blog. This piece is the introduction to a new report on post-familialism from Civil Service College in Singapore, Chapman University, and Fieldstead and Company and authored by Joel Kotkin. For most of human history,...
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When my oldest daughter was about 18 months old, my wife gave me the o.k. to buy a boxer puppy. I had wanted one for years. Their square heads, under-bite, and wiggly butts, just charmed me. We drove up to Grants Pass, Oregon on Father’s Day and bought a beautiful brindle boxer. The brown in his fur was...
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By Francis Williamson Having been born and brought up in the UK it had never occurred to me that, when it came time for my children to be married, I would not be able to take part in the day or witness their exchanges of wedding vows. Two of my sons have been married in LDS chapels in England where friends and family can be...
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I love baseball. There is nothing better than playing ball with my kids or watching the Giants on TV with them. I love hearing my boy say that he just “crushed the ball like Buster Posey.” Growing up I spent hours in my front driveway playing baseball with my friends. We had some cardboard set up for the strike zone and...
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As a young LDS child, I loved flipping through the scriptures in search of the pictures. I would imagine the prophets and key players in the scriptures as I saw them- unhumanly buff, thick jawlines, Anglo-Saxon, sword wielding demigods. We can all thank the late, and very gifted Arnold Friberg for these wonderful depictions of...
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Is Feminism in the Future of Mormonism? By Father Tom Roberts, PhD “Feminism” is really a loaded term. It extends from conservative religious practices under studies such as A Women’s Strategic Place in the Church. Even evangelical feminists like to show just how powerful women were throughout church history into modern...
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Note: A few weeks ago I was asked to teach a lesson to the 14-15 year old youth Sunday School class about the Great Apostasy. I reached out to Dr. Greg Prince for advice on how to approach this subject. His response was so helpful, I thought it would be worth being a post itself. Greg gave us permission to post his private...
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…the stories we tell: Licked cupcakes A rose that has been passed around Used shoes Chewed gum Handled doughnuts Bent nails Licked twinkies Used q-tips -STORYLINE: Nobody wants you “used” or “damaged”. …and what our leaders have said: “Your virture is worth more than your life, please young...
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I couldn’t imagine not having family and friends at a wedding. For many UK members the icing on the cake is the sealing in the temple, but feel wonderful that all family members whether LDS or not can enjoy and take part in a civil ceremony ! For me, it was lovely having all those people in our life that mean a lot to us,...
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