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Territorial Library: Periodicals and Newspapers; Catalogues @ Keepapitchinin
- See here for John M. Bernhisel’s assembly of the original Utah Territorial Library. See...
Misguided Zeal: DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography @ Mormanity
- There are a few LDS folks giving seminars and firesides trying to prove that the correct...
Happy 4th! @ Mormon Mommy Wars
- Hope everybody is partying hard today.
P.S. Does anybody know how to make pickles?
Betsy Ross — Mormon Cover Girl @ Keepapitchinin
- “Birth of the Flag”
by Henry Mosler
Elizabeth Griscom
daughter of Samuel...
Sunday's Radio Show: How to Listen, Call In, or Email Questions @ Mormanity
- I'll be the guest on a talk radio program for two hours this Sunday night, discussing...
My Fellow Americans… @ Mormon Mentality
- …I hate our national anthem.
Really I do. Do you hate me already? Does my saying...
Mormons appear in the most interesting places…. #2: Steroid Nation @ Millennial Star
- Though my reading matter currently focuses on my dissertation, occasionally I read...
WALL*E @ Mormon Mommy Wars
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Pixar knocks it out of the park again. Wow.
This talented group of artists...
An Apostle’s Testimony in Soviet Russia, 1959 @ Keepapitchinin
- An office memo from Grant Salisbury and Warren K. Leffler, the writer-photographer team...
From our exchanges: “Mormon Women’s Biographies of Their Female Forebears” @ Keepapitchinin
- Susan H. Swetnam. “Turning to the Mothers: Mormon Women’s Biographies of Their Female...
Regretted Anti-Mormon Zeal: @ Mormanity
- I received a poignant letter recently from a man who regrets his anti-Mormon zeal on the...
And so my little heart was crushed as that certain dream died. @ Mormon Mommy Wars
- Okay, let’s be honest here. How many of you have ever dreamed of being a model? ...
Tips on Camping with an Infant @ Mormon Mommy Wars
- This is a guest post by Mo Mommy- and a Public Service Announcement.
1) Don’t....
Clifford F.D. Kangas, 1947-1967 @ Keepapitchinin
- One afternoon I now know to have been September 1, 1967, my mother gave me a loaf of...
Amazing Latter-day Saints in Las Vegas @ Mormanity
- My wife and I were in Las Vegas recently to pick up our youngest son, Mark, at the...
Punctuated Equilibria @ LDS Science Review
- I am almost certainly projecting my own ignorance onto others, but when I was an...
What LDS Issues Would You Like Discussed in a Talk Show? @ Mormanity
- I'm doing another two-hour radio show this Sunday evening on K-Talk Radio (AM 630 in Salt...
How to Give a Great Sacrament Meeting Talk - Part 3 of 5: Style @ Millennial Star
- Part 2 here. Part 1.5 here. Part 1 here. Part 0 here.
I feel like Douglas Adams, trying...
So, um, yeah, I’ve been gone @ Mormon Mommy Wars
- Without my children. I left on a jet plane and took off for the weekend to giggle and...
Missionary Street Meetings — How Did They Work? @ Keepapitchinin
- My district in Grenoble, France held a street meeting. Once. We didn’t know it was...
California Saints Got The Call @ Messenger and Advocate
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Culture Change and the 1978 Priesthood Revelation: Memoir of a (Somewhat) Radical White Mormon @ Millennial Star
- The following guest post is from Dr. Warner Woodworth.
Latter-day Saints around the...
Johanna Tippett Porter: In Active Service to the End (Redux) @ Keepapitchinin
- LDS missionaries working on the Isle of Wight, off the coast of England, found the...
Territorial Library: American History @ Keepapitchinin
- See here for John M. Bernhisel’s assembly of the original Utah Territorial Library. See...
Why Darwin's Origin of Species May Need to Be Banned in Public Schools @ Mormanity
- Can you imagine what might happen to a public school teacher who read this concluding...
New Plan. @ Mormon Mommy Wars
- I’m supposed to be in Utah right now. I’m supposed to be packing up the...
Mormon Persecution in Missouri in 1838 and the Profit Motive @ Mormanity
- There have been many theories for the intensity of anti-Mormon activism in Missouri in...
Glenn Beck Speaking Sunday, June 29 at the Marriott Center at BYU @ Mormanity
- Glenn Beck is speaking on Sunday at the Marriott Center for a patriotic service (7 pm)....
Zeniff: noble idealist or useful idiot? @ Mormon Mentality
- I, Zeniff, having been taught in all the language of the Nephites, and having had a...
“The Missing Members”: Reactivation, 1909 @ Keepapitchinin
- An article in The Children’s Friend of June 1909 may not be the earliest expression...
"None of the Mormons I Have Met Are Nice" @ Mormanity
- A relative of mine was recently on a flight to Denver enjoying a conversation with a...
Where “Rough Stone Rolling” bowled me over. @ Mormon Mentality
- At 5:16 p.m. on June 27th I want you to stop and take a look around. What do you see? ...
Um, sorry officer, I didn’t see that extra 1/2…. @ Mormon Mommy Wars
- Does this makes sense to anybody?
Yeah, I didn’t think so.
June 26: End of the Utah War? @ Keepapitchinin
- The Utah War of 1857-1858 was the nation’s most extensive and expensive military...
Busy Schmizzy OR My Summer Thus Far @ Mormon Mommy Wars
- So I’ve been really having a hard time writing lately. I don’t feel very quippy and...
A random crap post that is not about ticks @ Mormon Mommy Wars
- And, by the way, I know most of you don’t know her, but I still have to talk about...
California Saints To Get The Call @ Messenger and Advocate
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Richard Lenski Hands Conservapedia Their Backsides @ LDS Science Review
- If you get any kind of a kick out of the science side of the culture wars, you'll want to...
Collapsing NOMA - Ensign, June 2008 @ LDS Science Review
- The late Stephen J. Gould is known, among other things, for his view of how science and...
Guest Post: Movies on the Book of Mormon: Finally Got Some Things Right? @ Millennial Star
- The Millennial Star is pleased to present the following guest post from Chris...
Hey……. @ Mormon Mommy Wars
- How much do you pay your babysitters?
Supporting the Church’s position on SSM (part 2) @ Millennial Star
- This Sunday, bishops will be asked to read a statement in Sacrament meeting requesting...
Top Ten Quotes from Joseph Smith Not in This Year’s Manual @ Mormon Mentality
- Nearly all of these come from Joseph Fielding Smiths’ Teachings of the Prophet...
Top Ten Quotes from this Year’s Joseph Smith Manual @ Mormon Mentality
- Here are some gems from this year’s Priesthood and Relief Society Manual. The more...
False Prophecy: that one time I was wrong @ Mormon Mentality
- I had the pleasure of attending church with my sister yesterday and she goes to a lovely...
"This is not viable. Dispose of it." @ Mormanity
- On a Christian radio station in Chicago, I recently heard an interview with William...
Miles Per Gallon Misjudgment @ LDS Science Review
- This week's Science has an article about why thinking about cars in miles per gallon...
Our culture is crazy. You know that, right? @ Mormon Mentality
- I think I’ve finally found the female answer to pr0n. No, it’s not...
The "Secret" Mormon Handbook of Instructions @ Mormanity
- I'm amazed at all the howling about the Church trying to prevent the theft of its...
Ward Choir Auditions @ Mormon Mentality
- There are some people in my ward who are incredibly talented singers. I am not one of...
On the Road on the Sabbath @ Millennial Star
- An article from yesterday’s Mormon Times discusses attending church and otherwise...
This Came out of Utah @ Mormon Mentality
- As long as we’re on the topic of Utah and Obama…
A Utah couple created this...
Nauvoo In Danger Of Flooding @ Messenger and Advocate
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Born Again 101: Making a Covenant to Follow Christ @ Mormanity
- I've had a number of people ask me what I think of "born again Christians." While some of...
How to Give a Great Sacrement Meeting Talk - Part 2 of 5: Arrangement @ Millennial Star
- Part 1.5 here. Part 1 here. Part 0 here.
Now that you have all of your sources in...
Book Review: By the Hand of Mormon @ LDS Science Review
- A couple of weeks ago I finished reading By the Hand of Mormon by Terryl Givens. I'm only...
Father’s Day Special: Relatedness of Abraham and the Children of Israel @ Millennial Star
- In all that we hear about fathers, one of their most fundamental, axiomatic even,...
The Missing Topic in Much of Popular Christianity: Repentance from Sin @ Mormanity
- Feeling rather dismayed after listening to a televised sermon from the nation's largest...
Hello Taiwan! @ Mormanity
- It's so exciting when a wild, long-shot wish is granted. I've been hoping that my son...
Little Champions @ Mormanity
- I took this photo at a recent "final performance" of my almost two-year-old...
How to Give a Great Sacrament Meeting Talk - Part 1.5 of 5: Invention to Arrangement @ Millennial Star
- Part One here. Part Zero here.
This section became longer than I expected. So, I’m...
The Divinity is in the Details @ Mormanity
- We recently had an anonymous poster bring up the old anti-Mormon claim that the many...
Intelligent Design: Context Matters @ LDS Science Review
- [This post is part of a series: (Super) Naturalism, ID, and the Book of Mormon.]If an...
The Book of Mormon as an Authentic Historical Document @ Mormanity
- One of our dinner guests a while ago was a professor at a local university who had...
What Happens When You Grow Bacteria for 20 Years? @ LDS Science Review
- I've been pretty busy lately, so I will refer you to Carl Zimmer's post about this. I...
Maize and Sunflowers: Evidence of Ancient Transoceanic Contact? @ Mormanity
- Carl L. Johannessen, Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon, has authored several...
Utah may end ‘membership’ requirement to get a drink @ Millennial Star
- I’ll never forget the first time I went to Utah as an adult. This was before I was...
Zimbabwe Vindicated! @ Mormanity
- For those of you who are interested in eating and plan on using money in the future to...
Being Sincere Is Not Enough @ Mormanity
- Some more random thoughts inspired by some random photographs . . .At a hard-to-find tiny...
More Stories Than You Could Ever Imagine @ Mormanity
- (Photographed in New York City, July 2007.)
The Book of Mormon and the Supernatural: Context Matters @ LDS Science Review
- [This post is part of a series: (Super) Naturalism, ID, and the Book of Mormon.]Suppose...
The Book of Mormon Term "Liahona": New Evidence of Ancient Authenticity @ Mormanity
- Jonathan Curci has an impressive article, "Liahona: 'The Direction of the Lord'" in the...
(Super) Naturalism, ID, and the Book of Mormon @ LDS Science Review
- One component of the controversy over ID has to do with the scientific method itself. ID...
Texas Supreme Court Upholds Lower Court FLDS Ruling @ Messenger and Advocate
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S. Kent Brown on Nahom: YouTube Video about a Fascinating Archaeological Find Relevant to the Book of Mormon @ Mormanity
- S. Kent Brown on Nahom - one of several fascinating finds relevant to the Book of Mormon....
Don't Base Your Testimony on Declarations from Non-Believers @ Mormanity
- While serving as a guest on an LDS radio show on Utah's K-TALK radio station on Sunday, I...
Angry "Without a Cause"? An Interesting Omission in the Book of Mormon @ Mormanity
- John W. Welch's "A Steady Stream of Significant Recognitions" is a powerful chapter in...
Texas To Appeal FLDS Ruling @ Messenger and Advocate
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A Fond Farewell To The Wasp @ Messenger and Advocate
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Texas Appeals Court Rules FLDS Children Must Be Returned @ Messenger and Advocate
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Geocentrism Is Alive, If Not Well @ LDS Science Review
- This week I received an advertisement in the mail for a free book. The ad asks, "Have...
California Supreme Court Same Sex Marriage: An Analysis @ Messenger and Advocate
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California Supreme Court: Gay Marriage Ban Unconstitutional @ Messenger and Advocate
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Review of FARMS Review 19:2 @ LDS Science Review
- I don't know how long it has been available online, but I noticed a few days ago that...
Church Website Now Hosts MP3 Scriptures And Other Works @ Messenger and Advocate
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Why No HIV Vaccine? @ LDS Science Review
- This week's Science magazine has a review article titled, "Toward an AIDS Vaccine"...
Bird Flu - Great Food Storage Motivator? @ Mormon Mentality
- The headlines may have died down in recent months, but bird flu experts say that the...
Joseph and the Third Option @ LDS Science Review
- Over at the FAIR Blog, in a post titled Seer or Pious Fraud,Keller discusses the issue of...
Evils and Designs of Conspiring Men @ LDS Science Review
- Aside from the health hazards that have become evident from using substances prohibited...
NRO, Expelled, and Dishonesty @ LDS Science Review
- (via The Panda's Thumb) -- John Derbyshire of National Review Online has written a column...
The God Delusion @ LDS Science Review
- I finished reading The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins. I do not want to add my voice to...
Blogging BYU Biology Professor @ LDS Science Review
- BYU biologist Steven Peck has begun a blog called The Mormon Organon. I'm glad to see...
Ontogeny, Phylogeny, and the First Presidency @ LDS Science Review
- [The following is a re-edited and somewhat expanded version of an older post. It seems...
LDS Commentators and the Eclipse of Darwinism @ LDS Science Review
- This post is a follow-up to Understanding Talmage, Widtsoe, et al.Through his publication...
Scientific American on Expelled @ LDS Science Review
- The editors at Scientific American watched a screening of Expelled: No Intelligence...
Understanding Widtsoe, Talmage, et al @ LDS Science Review
- Reading through the writings of some of our earlier brethren regarding evolution, one...
Monkeys and Monty Hall @ LDS Science Review
- An article in the New York Times, And Behind Door No. 1, a Fatal Flaw, reports on a...
Expelled Exposed @ LDS Science Review
- Have you been following the story of the forthcoming movie, Expelled: No Intelligence...
Two GA Quotes on Concordism @ LDS Science Review
- The following are two (relatively obscure) quotes with a bearing on concordism:First from...
Rejecting Concordism @ LDS Science Review
- I occasionally stroll over to American Scientific Affiliation to have a look at some of...
