SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!!! (Using my monster truck voice) Everyone ready for the big announcement this Sunday? Have you started guessing what the meeting will be about? Is it going to be service missions? Is it going to be about lowering the sister missionary age? Will it be announced that the sister missionaries can serve for 2 years?...
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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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HISTORY OF ORIGINAL POSTUM:
Postum was developed by C.W. Post in the 1890s as a result of a stay he had in a sanitarium owned by Kellogg. An instant cereal beverage was served there as a healthy drink for its patients. C.W. Post knew a good thing when it saw it. When he was deemed healthy enough to be discharged, he set out...
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Recently we have had two excellent posts, one written by Kelly Andersen (click here to read) and the other written by Chris Brewer (click here to read) that addressed the issue of how, as a Mormon culture, we tend to deify our leaders. This along with the hagiographies that Deseret Book produces can lead members of the Church to...
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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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-11:50 AM. 60 W. North Temple. LDS Conference Center. -
A chorus of 21,000 voices (and many more throughout the world) have just said “Amen” to Sister Jean A. Stevens’ prayer, marking the first time a woman has ever prayed in General Conference. It has been 35 years since Spencer W. Kimball clarified policy about...
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By Katey McGregor
By now we’ve all seen it, the video of the young men telling young women what they most want in a girlfriend/wife. If you haven’t, stop reading, and go watch it here before continuing.
Ok, all up to speed? Good. “Thoughts On Girls” is more than a travesty, and heartbreaking to say the least. As a...
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In Part I several revelations were gathered and organized according categories of revelation found in the Doctrine and Covenants. I will now discuss the reasons that the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve are so slow to canonize and why the method of revelation is different than in the time of Joseph Smith. Then I will...
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I am currently finishing an undergraduate degree in Religious Studies at the University of Cambridge. I graduated from BYU in 2003, with a Bachelor’s in Marriage, Family, and Human Development. And while I am taking Hebrew, and typical biblical studies curriculum, my focus is on how sociology and psychology interact with...
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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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