Senate Leadership

Posted on November 30, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 34 Comments

Last week a member of Representative Tom Udall’s staff led some relatives and me on a tour of the U.S. Capitol. It was quite enjoyable, and it also got me thinking about the contest in the coming year for control of the Senate. Control of the Senate has changed hands five times* over […]

Temple Thoughts: Prologue

Posted on November 29, 2005 - Filed Under Any | Leave a Comment

Practical Ethics: Teaching

Posted on November 29, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 35 Comments

I thought I’d put up an other practical ethics post. A blog I frequently read, Siris, linked to an interesting discussion at the blog Cantanima. It concerns a Catholic school teacher who became pregnant out of wedlock and was fired. Now the blog in question takes the perspective that the Christlike thing […]

Reading Bushman 1

Posted on November 28, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 55 Comments

Reading Bushman Chapter One
Preface, Prologue, and The Joseph Smith Family
Welcome to our inaugural reading club for Richard Bushman’s Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling. To start with I thought we’d cover the preface, the prologue and then the first chapter which is about Joseph Smith’s family. Primarily his parents. I would ask, in […]

The Burden of Leadership

Posted on November 28, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 16 Comments

There has been quite the discussion in various blogs about Bishops and exactly what their role is relative to the Church. Are they full representatives of the Church in everything they do? Should they be? I don’t really wish to address those questions. Rather I wish to address the other side […]

Mormons and EV/BAC’s in Narnia

Posted on November 23, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 37 Comments

A reader sent this in to us.
Check out the Utah organization using ‘Narnia’ to bring together
evangelicals and their Mormon neighbors.
http://www.standingtogether.org/
Quotation:
The following is a list of requirements to receive your 2 free tickets:
* You must be 18 years of age
* You must be an evangelical christian or a latter day saint
* If […]

Israelite History

Posted on November 23, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 6 Comments

My program is primarily a (dead) language program, but everyone in the department has to take a series of three history courses early on in 1) Syro-Palestine/Hittite History, 2)Egyptian History, and 3) Mesopotamian History. Those are the only history classes I’ve taken.
Most of my exams are language related, but I have a half-exam in […]

Invitation to Primary

Posted on November 22, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 9 Comments

It was in fifth grade that the oldest daughter in the Anderson family invited me to come to Primary. The invitation was mildly enticing but also a little frightening to an unsocial boy, so I declined. My sister was the fearless one, though. When the oldest son in the Anderson family, who […]

Thanksgiving

Posted on November 22, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 8 Comments

I’ve never been a huge fan of Thanksgiving. Partially because it often seems more a celebration of gluttony than thankfulness. Partially because for me, Thanksgiving took place last month. Add on all the dangers of ill cooked turkeys, improperly cooled foods at large gatherings, and food poisoning becomes a real likelihood. […]

Random Acts of Kindness

Posted on November 22, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 11 Comments

It was a cool mid-December morning, and Iâ€™d just finished my final final of the semester (one of those cruel 7 a.m. finals). What a relief. A couple other roommates had returned from their 7 a.m. finals, and we found ourselves with five of our six roommates all in the apartment together with […]

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