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2015-10-01T19:02:40+00:00

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Book Launch: Navigating Mormon Faith Crisis

Last updated on: October 1, 2015 at 7:02 pm By Rachael

On Friday, October 2nd, Thomas McConkie’s book Navigating Mormon Faith Crisis: A Simple Developmental Map will be launched. Read on to find out what it’s all about, and check back for a book review coming soon. Amazon copies will available tomorrow at 7pm MT. For as long as there has been faith, there has been faith crisis. This generation of Latter-day Saints is no exception to the rule. Generally, faith crisis points to a kind of falling apart, a disintegration of one’s former world that... Read more

Mormonism, politics, Romney

2015-09-30T16:41:27+00:00

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Stephen Colbert is right, believing in God is pretty crazy

Last updated on: September 30, 2015 at 4:41 pm By J. Paul Valley

I had the pleasure of catching The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night. It was a great episode, and I think the show is getting better as he settles on a more familiar format and rhythm. But even from day one, the thing that’s distinguished Colbert’s late night party has been his interviews. He is just considerably better at interviewing people than Kimmel, Fallon or Conan. And last night was no different. In fact, Colbert said something in particular... Read more

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2015-09-29T02:38:18+00:00

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Abortion as Seen in Young Adult Science Fiction

Last updated on: September 29, 2015 at 2:38 am By Emily Belanger

Imagine a world where a civil war has been fought over abortion, and the compromise that ended the war was The Bill of Life, a document that essentially postpones abortion by making it illegal to tamper with life from the moment of conception up until age 13. In the teenage years, however, parents may choose to have a child “unwound” into parts used in organ transplants. Improbable as it sounds, this is the premise of Neal Shusterman’s Unwind series.... Read more

Mormonism, politics, Romney

2024-08-12T18:53:53+00:00

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Clearing the Air

Last updated on: August 12, 2024 at 6:53 pm By Guest Contributor

Last week in this space, I wrote about what Latter-day Saints can learn from the Roman Catholic Mass. I did in an effort to 1) Show that we can learn from other faiths, which some Latter-day Saints vehemently disagree with 2) Talk about some of the shortcomings of our sacrament meetings In my writing I engaged in a bit of hyperbole;exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. I said things like such as “I personally have never... Read more

Mormonism, politics, Romney

2016-05-30T06:10:25+00:00

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It’s time to change the way we talk about faith

Last updated on: May 30, 2016 at 6:10 am By Nicole Shepard

I remember one particularly humid day in Cluj-Napoca, Romania where I stepped onto a sweltering, smelly bus. I had been serving as a missionary for about four months and I was in no way used to the idea that standing next to sweaty, unkempt old men in an unventilated space was better than risking “curent”—the devious cause behind everything from muscle pain to brain cancer: aka a draft…of air. No air-conditioning, no open windows, just body odor and heat headaches... Read more

Mormonism, politics, Romney

2015-10-01T16:40:10+00:00

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Thank You, Elder Scott: Memories of an MTC Moment

Last updated on: October 1, 2015 at 4:40 pm By Stephanie

Richard G. Scott was the first General Authority I ever met. While I was in the MTC, he came and spoke in the last Tuesday night devotional I was there — the only Apostle my district got to see in our two months’ time in Provo. Hearing of his passing this week took me back to the summer of 2003, when I was 21 years old and so excited to wear that black name tag, to teach and testify and... Read more

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2016-12-28T14:36:24+00:00

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125 Years of the Manifesto – and an overlooked change in Mormon scripture

Last updated on: December 28, 2016 at 2:36 pm By Antonio Trevisan

“It seemed to me to be the awfulest moment in my life,” – wrote B. H. Roberts – “my arm was like lead when the motion was put; I could not vote for it, and did not.”¹ But his abstention in the 6 October 1890 General Conference wasn’t taken into account. Both the Deseret News and the Salt Lake Herald coverage stated that the vote to approve the Manifesto had been unanimous, even though many members didn’t raise their arms to... Read more

Doctrine and Covenants

2015-09-22T21:26:58+00:00

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Ben Carson’s Islamophobia Could Cost His Mormon Support

Last updated on: September 22, 2015 at 9:26 pm By Cody Ray Shafer

The 2016 Republican nomination is turning into quite a spectacle, even when we’re not talking about Donald Trump. True, the Donald’s ridiculous xenophobia has set the tone for the race, but he’s not alone in sharing some outrageously racist opinions. Dr. Ben Carson’s campaign has been trudging along steadily. Recently, Carson topped the polls among Utah Republicans. Though his biggest news moment came this weekend when he expressed doubt in whether a Muslim would qualify for President. Carson was asked... Read more

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Mormonism, politics, Romney

2015-09-21T05:05:06+00:00

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Celebrating Samuel W. Taylor, a Peculiar Person

Last updated on: September 21, 2015 at 5:05 am By J. Paul Valley

Samuel W. Taylor was born, as we all were at one time or another, on February 5, 1907. But make no mistake, he was no ordinary chum. As it just so happens, Samuel had six mothers. That is to say, his father had six wives. Also, his father was at one time, an apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I say at one time because two years before Samuel’s birth, his father resigned as member of... Read more

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2015-09-21T15:40:34+00:00

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The case for and against Christopher Nolan directing an AKIRA trilogy

Last updated on: September 21, 2015 at 3:40 pm By J. Paul Valley

Editor’s note: This post literally has nothing to do with Mormonism. That is, unless you think AKIRA is actually about the dark side of human deification. If that’s the case, then sure, it’s about Mormonism. Recent buzz has made the rounds claiming that Christopher Nolan, the man behind The Dark Knight Trilogy and some other stuff, is attached to somehow be involved with a new live-action adaptation of the manga/anime AKIRA. Den of Geek reports: “We’ve now heard from... Read more

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