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You’re All Gonna Die: Low, War, and the D&C

September 8, 2008
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You’re All Gonna Die:  Low, War, and the D&C

“Therefore, renounce war and proclaim peace, and seek diligently to turn the hearts of the children to their fathers, and the hearts of the fathers to the children” (Doctrine and Covenants 98:16) “All soldiers They’re all gonna die And all the little babies They’re all gonna die All the poets And all the liars And all you pretty people You’re all gonna die” (Low, 2007)

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God, Music, and the Sabbath

August 18, 2008
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2 Nephi 31:3 (emphasis added) For my soul delighteth in plainness; for after this manner doth the Lord God work among the children of men. For the Lord God giveth light unto the understanding; for he speaketh unto men according to their language, unto their understanding. When I was a teenager, I had an angry, liberal, bisexual friend whom I loved. Not in a romantic sense, but in a sense that I truly understood her. She was incredibly creative and I wanted her to be successful in her musical and artistic endeavors. We once had a conversation that completely...

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In Defense of Sad Songs

August 2, 2008
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I was recently asked by someone dear to me to join the fray here at mormonmatters.org, and I looked forward to the challenge.  I must admit, due to my “distance” growing up from any major LDS hubs (I have mentioned elsewhere that I grew up in a small branch Western Kentucky), I have been somewhat insulated from some of the issues that effect the posters that post here, and never gave them much thought.  It wasn’t that these issues didn’t exist, but, being that I was one of three Latter-day Saints in my high school, when asked about the...

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