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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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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A week or so ago I remember reading headlines about the newly ordained Pope Francis riling up traditionalists by washing the feet of some prisoners in Rome. Under the headline was a picture of Francis kneeling on the stone floor kissing the tattooed feet of these inmates. I canʼt claim to know much about Catholic history...
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Once upon a time, before I was born, but after I was conceived, my father had a dream that I would be a great missionary. And because of that dream, he told my mom that I would be a boy. To my mom’s credit, she exclaimed, “Girls can be great missionaries too!” To my dad’s credit, he was not upset, when I did...
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I caught up with an old friend of mine that has served as bishop many times in his life. While our conversation covered many subjects, the most interesting was the topic of repentance and an experience he had while counseling a young married couple. He remembered the exchange between the husband and wife vividly because it was just...
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The Church just released the 2013 edition of the Doctrine & Covenants and Pearl of Great Price. Changes were made in the introduction as well as in a number of chapter headings (you can view the changes here). The Church hasn’t made any major changes to the scriptures since 1981, so, in the words of Joe Biden, “This...
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I feel that this topic has by far been the most important one I have addressed in my writings to date. So in the spirit of black history month, I want to revisit it. I believe it is critical that we really know our history so we don’t repeat our mistakes. Holding one person above another is not something we should ever...
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By Michael Barker Section 11 (from Book of Commandments (BoC) 10 (cf. LDS D&C 11; Community of Christ (CoC) 10) Date: May 1829 (after 25 May) Hyrum Smith arrived in Harmony, Pennsylvania, after Samuel H. Smith’s baptism on 25 May 1829. Thus, section 11 was of necessity received after that date. Place: Harmony,...
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Lesson – Lost Elders As the newly called first counselor in the EQ I am in charge of the lessons. When talking about accepting the calling I let the president know of my concerns about correlation and Mormon culture. I mentioned that I wanted to incorporate some disaffection help and inoculation into our lessons. I teach...
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By Melody Newey When I was a young mother in my twenties I attended a stake women’s conference in Provo, Utah. Sister Vivian McConkie Adams spoke about the creation story, expounding upon the poetry that is the Book of Genesis. As she described it, this was a beautiful and powerful story of creation and the introduction onto the...
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