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Handbook #2 Highlights: Recreational Hypnotism
Background The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has two handbooks that represent the church’s policies, procedures, and guidelines. While Handbook #1 is available only for Stake Presidents...
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Handbook #2 Highlights: Notes and Recordings of Talks and Addresses by LDS...
This is the second entry in a series of blog posts about some of the interesting and important policies of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints contained in the church’s official Handbook...
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Handbook #2 Highlights: LDS Reasons for Disabilities or Handicaps
This is the third entry in a series of blog posts about some of the interesting and important policies of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints contained in the church’s official Handbook #2....
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Rejecting the Living Prophets by Following Future Prophets
One of the key doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is that we have living prophets and apostles today who are authorized by God to receive revelations for the church and for...
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Internet Gossip – More on Echo Chambers and LDS Activist Propaganda
Last year I wrote extensively about how the liberal LDS blog echo chamber amplifies perceptions and propaganda to push its agenda into the mainstream media and artificially inflate the perception of...
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Did Orson Scott Card Advocate Overthrowing the Government if Same-Sex...
Award-winning author Orson Scott Card, who is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has been in the news lately, and it’s not just because a movie of his popular book Ender’s...
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Watchmen on the Tower – On the Limits of Prophetic Fallibility
Desert View Watchtower photo by Talie Some of the responses to my recent post about rejecting living prophets by following future prophets have predictably raised the issue of prophetic fallibility....
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Rules for Feminist Mormon Radicals – Moving the Overton Window
Over the last few years we’ve seen that Feminist Mormon Activists have encouraged a kind of civil disobedience to the prophets and apostles. They have used self-referential echo chambers to amplify...
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The Parable of the Offensive Remedy
For the kingdom of heaven is likened unto an hospital. And behold great plagues came upon the land, and the people were brought low by all manner of sickness; some with the pox, some with fevers, some...
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An LDS Mother’s Testimony of Motherhood
Happy Mother’s Day! Below are some excerpts from my own wonderful mother’s testimony of motherhood, written in 2004. Photos of My Mother “When I got married, I just thought it would be another...
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Vectors – Faith and Doubt are Incompatible in the LDS Church
It has long been popular among certain self-identified Mormon intellectuals to argue that, contrary to what one might suppose, doubt is not inimical to faith. Some even claim that doubt and faith are...
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My Thoughts are Not Your Tharts
The 11-year-old children I teach at church will not soon forget today’s Sunday School lesson. We accidentally coined a new word: Thart. The lesson was on Faith and the early Mormon pioneers. We were...
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Faithful LDS Perspectives on Race and the Priesthood
You may already know that the LDS Church has been updating the official church website with expanded information and clarification about topics that have caused some confusion for some members, such as...
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Go and Sin No More – Misinterpreting Jesus and the Woman Taken in Adultery
Alternate Title: You keep citing that story of Jesus and the woman taken in adultery– I do not think it means what you think it means. Before I jump into this topic, let me say that there is merit in...
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LDS Priesthood Keys and Temple Recommend Interviews
In the Priesthood Session of this weekend’s General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Twelve Apostles gave an in-depth discourse on the doctrine...
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Dead Works – When Goals Undermine Objectives
Goal-setting has often received emphasis in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and with good reason. We are an industrious, action-oriented people. Our ancestors were motivated by their...
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The Parable of the Painful Patient
There once was a man who developed severe abdominal pain. He tried the normal remedies but nothing seemed to help. So he got on the Internet and began to look up information about his symptoms. Based...
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An Invitation to Those LDS Members Who Are Wondering, “How Did I Get Here?”
I want to address those members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who are among the groups of dissenters, critics, and agitators in the Church who suddenly find themselves in an...
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LDS Church Doctrine Regarding Apostasy, Following the Prophets, and...
For those outside of the church or less active in the church who do not know, for more than a decade the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been publishing a series books called The...
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Beware the Leaven of the Dissidents
In response to recent disciplinary actions by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, supporters of those being disciplined have complained that the charge of apostasy is inaccurate because,...
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