Monthly Archives: July 2008

True Religion: Why There Can Be At Most One

July 4, 2008
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aka Why Our Personal Beliefs Really Do Matter and Matter A Lot aka Why We All Believe This Even if We Claim We Don’t Overheard on the Bloggernacle, or in the office, or just about everywhere: All religions contain overlapping ideas and in this overlap exists the real voice of God.

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“All we can hope for is for God to bring us home.” (Thanks, Stephen.)

July 3, 2008
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1) There is a man in my ward who is a dean at a major college in our area. He is a brilliant scholar in his field, and he has served as a Bishop and in a Stake Presidency. He also is one of the most humble men I have ever met. A couple of years ago, one of his adult daughters died in a freakish surgery accident – totally unexpected – leaving behind a husband and an infant daughter.

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How My Wife Exercises Her Priesthood

July 3, 2008
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Tired of talking about gay marriage?  How about women and the Priesthood? In all seriousness, let me share with you a recent experience that has had a profound impact on the way I view the concept of Priesthood, and that has convinced me, once and for all, that I am not the sole Priesthood bearer in my family.  I believe it’s high time we recognized the service rendered by faithful LDS women as more than simply the fulfillment of a Relief Society assignment, or being a good visiting teacher.  Such efforts constitute the righteous exercise of Priesthood power.

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Why Mormon Blogs Can’t Be Civil

July 2, 2008
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Why Mormon Blogs Can’t Be Civil

Let Us Oft Speak Kind Words, Hymn no. 232 Let us oft speak kind words to each other. At home or where’er we may be; Like the warblings of birds on the heather, The tones will be welcome and free. They’ll gladden the heart that’s repining, Give courage and hope from above, And where the dark clouds hide the shining, Let in the bright sunlight of love. Oh, the kind words we give shall in memory live And sunshine forever impart. Let us oft speak kind words to each other; Kind words are sweet tones of the heart....

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How many Barrels of Oil is a Human Life Worth?

July 2, 2008
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How many Barrels of Oil is a Human Life Worth?

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A Church of Visionary Dreamers

July 1, 2008
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A Church of Visionary Dreamers

“You may say I’m a dreamer; but I’m not the only one.”  John Lennon. Acts 2:17:  “. . . your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.”

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