An article in today’s Deseret News led me to the Mormon World Records website. The article came about because of an earlier article that apparently wasn’t researched enough: just which ward has the most twins? Who knew such things could be so controversial or competitive?
Monthly Archives: March 2006
Baby blessings?
I really don’t want to seem like I’m attacking anyone, so please take what I am about to discuss in the most charitable way:
I get rather upset by some baby blessings. I don’t think I should, but I do.
Immigration debate
Immigrants all over the country are pouring into the streets to protest new proposals to restrict immigration. This took place as Congress debates various proposals on immigration. One of these proposals, by the way, would require that churches help only legal immigrants.
I’ve been following the immigration issue for 20 years, first as a reporter in Miami (which long ago became a majority immigrant city) and now as the friend of many immigrants and immigration lawyers.
Read on to get my take on the immigration issue.
This was too funny not to share
This e-mail was sent to me today, and I couldn’t stop laughing. By the way, please don’t actually call 1-900-slacker — it is a real company that was not too pleased when I called today.
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Guest post on the early temple
This is a guest post by Pratt Hokanson
Last night I was reading a semi interesting book, “Saint Saul : a Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus” by Donald Akenson and he was making the point that after the temple destruction in about 70 AD, the Jewish religion of the time was gutted. The Essenes, the Sadducees, the Zealots et al disappeared, leaving remnants of the Pharisees to rebuild a religion without the central temple. He lumps Christianity in with the Pharisees and sees rabbinic Judaism and Christianity as two compteting Pharisaic bodies that somehow managed to survive.