Priesthood Ban
Ordain Women Round 3: Success or Setback?
Last October, Ordain Women announced its intention to attend the males-only General Priesthood session, and repeated the intention this past April. In response, Church leaders excommunicated Kate Kelly in June of this year, announcing that Temple Square was off limits for this “protest.” Furthermore, the Church decided to ban media from both the Women’s meeting […]
Female Priesthood would Require Changes in the Temple Ceremony
There is an interesting post over at Wheat and Tares by Guy Templeton. He first asks about whether female temple workers hold priesthood, writing In nearly all blessings and ordinances, priesthood members perform the blessing or ordinance under the “authority of the Melchizedek Priesthood.” I noticed recently at the temple that the ordinances are performed […]
Parker on Excommunication
Natasha Parker, who blogs at the Mormon Therapist has written several Facebook posts that I think are spot on.
Kirby on Kate
I stayed up really late trying to find out what would happen to Kate Kelly, and now we’re told that a decision will come Monday or Tuesday. Hmmm, I need a humor break. So here are some of Robert Kirby’s words from the Salt Lake Tribune.
San Antonio MHA 2014
I thoroughly enjoyed MHA 2014 here in San Antonio, and getting to meet some other bloggers like Clean Cut and Matt W from New Cool Thang. I didn’t live blog MHA like Kevin Barney did at By Common Consent, but thought I’d give a “quick” recap of the happenings there. (Kevin and I obviously overlapped […]
Does Public Opinion Cause Revelation?
Russell Stevenson proclaimed on a Radio West interview last year that the priesthood and temple ban on black church members lasted so long because church members were as much to blame as church leaders. I was one of the first to dismiss his idea. As I’ve had time to think about it, I’m beginning to […]
Oaks Lights up the Bloggernacle
Facebook was ablaze with comments about Elder Oaks General Conference talk on Saturday night. Disappointed that the church website didn’t have a transcript, I created one so that we could better discuss what he actually said. I decided to let that post stand on its own without any commentary. But in this post, I will […]
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
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