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“They Don’t Really Belong” – The Story of Doubting Jews Caught In Between Worlds.

January 24, 2010
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“They Don’t Really Belong” – The Story of Doubting Jews Caught In Between Worlds.

I recently came across this story on the BBC Website and felt that I had to return to Mormon Matters to write a few comments about it. High Cost of Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism Over the years I have noticed many similarities between Mormons and other religions, but I never thought I would see a similarity in this context with Judaism. This article addresses some of the main issues that people at Mormon Matters find challenging. Perhaps we, as doubting Mormons are not as alone as we feel. 28 year old, Chani Ovadya, is interviewed about her experience. She does...

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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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What kind of Mormon are you-Internet or Chapel? – James Leverich

June 20, 2008
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What kind of Mormon are you-Internet or Chapel? – James Leverich

I have to admit sadly if it came to push or shove Mormon Matter opinions and the Internet in the main override what information I would receive from a member of my congregation. Primarily because it’s a collective think tank that has looked at it from different angles and in more depth. Since Mormon Stories, Mormon Matters, For those who wonder.com and a plethora of others that have come into my view it has significantly changed my insights of what I thought was black and white dramatically.

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The Church and US – Guest Blog by Michael Albert from Znet

May 23, 2008
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The Church and US – Guest Blog by Michael Albert from Znet

I was recently in Europe, partly for a vacation and partly for a series of talks in Austria. During the trip I had the pleasure of touring a major church and hearing the guide answer questions. Someone asked, why did people of the distant past support the church so stupendously, with so much of their time, nearly all their income beyond subsistence, and, really, their every life product? The guide answered, I think brilliantly. She said, you have to try to imagine being back there yourself. There was no sewage, no electricity, no color, no music, no entertainment, not...

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What Would Jesus Buy – Come Confess Your Shopping Sins!

May 16, 2008
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Mickey Mouse is the Anti-Christ!!! NOW….hold up your credit card to the screen

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R-LOVE-ution

May 14, 2008
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R-LOVE-ution

PRESS PLAY AND THEN READ. Creating Zion requires 2 things: 1) A Vision of what it is like 2) Faith we can achieve it.

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Subliminal Battle for our Free Agency

April 30, 2008
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Subliminal Battle for our Free Agency

If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, is it not possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing about it? The recent practice of propaganda has proved that it is possible, at least up to a certain point and within certain limits. – Bernays

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Shabbos Yom Tov Pesach with My Friend Sam

April 26, 2008
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Shabbos Yom Tov Pesach with My Friend Sam

It was a sunny Saturday and I was sitting in the synagogue with my friend Sam…

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A Case Study on Racism and Learning to Forgive: Anthony Walker’s Mother

April 23, 2008
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A Case Study on Racism and Learning to Forgive: Anthony Walker’s Mother

This is the story of forgiveness.

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Celebrating John Dehlin

April 20, 2008
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Celebrating John Dehlin

Call it what you will….call it brown-nosing in the UK & kissin butt in the US…but I felt extremely frustrated this week trying to follow in John’s shoes and it helped me to realize what an awesome guy he is and the things he might have gotten through to get Mormon Stories to us. I was glad to see him voted as the unsung hero of mormon blogging this year.

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The Banking Industry: A Moral Hazard

April 15, 2008
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The Banking Industry: A Moral Hazard

Those who know me know that I have a lot of vitriol for bankers. As an industry, they have their “New World Order” in the palm of their hands….or if you look at it from the working man’s perspective…our democracies by the gonads!

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Meeting a New Earth-The First Pregnant Man Interviewed By Oprah

April 8, 2008
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Here are 3 videos (all together about 30 minutes) from a recent Oprah episode where she interivews Thomas Beatie about being the worlds first pregnant man.

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Putting the Fun Back in Fundamentalist

March 29, 2008
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Another chance to turn your brain off…and laugh.

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“The Gods Too are Fond of a Joke.” -Aristotle

March 24, 2008
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A chance to turn your brain off…and laugh.

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New Evidence for Sexual Discretion- Stephen Wellington

March 21, 2008
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New Evidence for Sexual Discretion- Stephen Wellington

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A Soldier’s Walk for Peace

March 18, 2008
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Sgt. Marshall Thompson, a Mormon GI from Utah, who served in Iraq speaks about his Anti-Iraq War protest walk, his experience in Iraq, his hopes for an end to the occupation and his fears of protesting in the “reddest state in the country”.

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New Sins for a New Century.

March 13, 2008
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New Sins for a New Century.

Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti, the head of the Apostolic Penitentiary of the Catholic Church, was asked by the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano what, in his opinion, are the “7 deadly sins of the 21st Century.” Here is what he had to say:

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My Disenchantment with Church and State—Part 2 The State

March 8, 2008
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MY DISENCHANTMENT WITH THE STATE Perhaps I should blame Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Amy Goodman or John Pilger for my enlightenment. Or perhaps I should thank the neocons, George Bush and Tony Blair for waging an illegal war, as judged by the UN, in Iraq and destroying my naive ideal of the United States & UK. I am only 25 and had never experienced the fears of recession or seen, first hand, the duplicity of my own government before. As time went on, I began to read, download, and read more. Why was the world I knew as a...

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My Disenchantment with Church and State—Part 1 The Church

March 6, 2008
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MY DISENCHANTMENT WITH CHURCH As long as I can remember, I was always rebellious against what I felt was unjust coercion, but I feel it was not until my mission that I started to come into conflict with authority.

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Overview and Discussion of Church Growth

February 20, 2008
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According to Beliefnet.com the 10 largest churches of 2007 in the US are:

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