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Posted in Religion on Oct 6, 2011 | 3 Comments
The following is a partial transcript of a Mormon Stories podcast interview with Greg Prince, whom I find absolutely fascinating. At this point in the conference, the interviewer, in front of an audience very well educated in all the most problematic areas of the history of the LDS Church, poses what is unarguably a very difficult question: […]
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Posted in Music on Sep 3, 2011 | No Comments Yet
Maybe some of you remember the song Black Metallic, released in the 90s by British alt rock group Catherine Wheel? Well, an indie shoegaze band called Hammock recorded an absolutely stunning cover.
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Posted in Religion on Aug 3, 2011 | 3 Comments
Henry Eyring, father of current apostle Henry B. Eyring, was a world-renowned chemist who became the Church’s unofficial spokesman on scientific matters. The following segment is a good example of the excellent tact and patience that Brother Eyring exhibited when disagreeing with Church leaders.
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Posted in Religion on Aug 3, 2011 | No Comments Yet
President McKay was a tireless advocate of free agency and intellectual liberty and insisted that the Church be a space where the exercise of those principles was tolerated.
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Posted in Music on Jul 16, 2011 | No Comments Yet
Last winter when I got to visit Kaua’i and Maui with Emily, we listened to a lot of local radio. One of the artists that caught my ear was young Maui native Anuhea, whose smooth, sassy Island sound fit the feeling of trekking across Hawai’i perfectly.
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Posted in Religion on Jun 24, 2011 | No Comments Yet
The following is taken verbatim from Greg Prince’s impressive biography David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism. In the 1960s, LDS Church membership was just beginning to flourish outside the U.S., and this brought with it the challenge of catering to Latter-day Saints living in dispersed numbers across the globe. McKay was the first […]
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Posted in Religion on Jun 22, 2011 | 1 Comment
The following is pulled from a talk given by the President of the Oakland Stake in California in Fall 2010, as reported by Carol Lynn Pearson, a member of that stake, in a talk she gave in the recent Mormon Stories Conference entitled “No More Us Vs. Them”. Our purpose is to enlarge the tent […]
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Posted in Religion on Jun 19, 2011 | 3 Comments
I recently attended a conference in Salt Lake City about exploring Mormon identity. My main motive for attending is that I’m a big fan of anything Joanna Brooks or Carol Lynn Pearson have done, not to mention that some of my friends were the ones who put the conference together in the first place.
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Posted in Politics, Science on Jun 7, 2011 | No Comments Yet
I ran across some encouraging news today: presidential candidate Mitt Romney and likely presidential candidate Jon Huntsman both accept the science on global warming.
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Posted in Politics, Religion on May 13, 2011 | 2 Comments
So I’m seeing potential 2012 presidential candidate Jon Huntsman take a lot of heat lately about his particular religious views. You might at first think I meant to say Mitt Romney, and that I meant 2008. Nope. In fact, that’s the ironic thing about it: many of the same people I see now assailing Huntsman […]
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