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Elder Dallin H. Oaks: ‘Keys and authority of the priesthood’
Elder Oaks’ talk has seen the most reaction from the bloggernacle. Since the church takes a while to transcribe these, I have decided to transcribe his talk from yesterday. You can also see it on the official church website by clicking below. What are your thoughts? https://www.lds.org/general-conference/watch/2014/04?lang=eng&vid=3436246697001&cid=3
Temple Prep Suggestions
This post originally appeared at Wheat and Tares from Guy Templeton under the title Are We Properly Prepared to Enter the Temple? I thought it was worth sharing, along with some insightful comments. —- I’ve been reading a book, Your Endowment by Mark A. Shields. The book claims to be from “an experienced gospel teacher, […]
Agitating for Change
There has been a lot of chatter on the Bloggernacle this week about whether it is appropriate for Kate Kelly and proponents of female priesthood are employing proper methods in seeking to bring attention to female ordination. Kate has organized the group Ordain Women. According to their website, “Ordain Women aspires to create a space […]
British Judge Blasts Tom Phillips
The Deseret News is reporting that a British judge has rejected Tom Phillips’ lawsuit against the Church, and called the lawsuit “an abuse of the process of the court.” Tom’s lawsuit alleged that the Church committed fraud because it lies about its origins in order to obtain tithing receipts. “I am satisfied that the process […]
Land of the Free Imprisoned
We like to complain about human rights abuses in Communist China or North Korea. However, it is the United States with the highest incarceration rate in the world, and it is more than 6 times larger than Communist China. (The U.S jails 743 per 100,000 Americans; China jails just 122 per 100,000.) It seems that […]
How Would You React if One of your Children Came Out to you?
Now that Seasons 3 and 4 are on Netflix, I’m catching up on Sister Wives again. Season 4 Episode 4 was a Q&A titled You Asked, They Answered, in which viewers ask all sorts of questions of the Browns. One question in particular gave me much pause, and I thought it might be a nice […]
The Circumstances of Evil
We would like to think that we would always choose good over evil, but is that always the case? This is part 3 of my series on a documentary, The Science of Evil. In Part 1, I discussed Jeffrey’s Dahmer and his baptism. In Part 2, we discussed whether there is a soul, or whether […]
How do we Define the Science of Evil?
I wanted to continue my series on a National Geographic documentary, The Science of Evil. (A few days ago, I discussed serial killer Jeffrey’s Dahmer, and his baptism in jail following his horrific murders.) In this post, researchers at Harvard and Princeton try to see how the brain processes moral judgment. But how do we […]
Does God Forgive Evil?
National Geographic has a very interesting documentary, The Science of Evil where they look at evil from many points of view. It was a very thought-provoking documentary, and I think I will put together a series of posts on the documentary. My first post will deal with Jeffrey Dahmer, the notorious serial killer. From Wikipedia, […]
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