Recent happenings in my life- the bitter and the sweet.
Posted on July 18, 2006 - Filed Under Any | 16 Comments
I’m once again in Utah for the summer, teaching and mostly enjoying it. Anyone throwing a bloggersnacker? This is the only summer ever that all three of my brothers and I will be on campus together. I’m teaching, there’s a freshman starting, one graduating and moving to DC, and one in the middle. It’s […]
Read More..>>“This is not a volunteer church”
Posted on July 18, 2006 - Filed Under Any | 35 Comments
After teaching my first Gospel Doctrine class, I found myself in a conversation with the previous instructor, who was preparing to leave for a mission. He was the stake president when we first moved into the ward ten years ago, and is a man whose opinion I value. I asked him for feedback […]
Read More..>>The Elders Quorum Moving Company
Posted on July 14, 2006 - Filed Under Any | 49 Comments
So, my family and I are moving at the end of the month. Yesterday morning at just sayin’, I asked for advice on moving — annegb replied jokingly, “Um, call your elder’s quorum president LOL.” Then, last night I got a call at the end of dinner asking if I could help load […]
Read More..>>An unflattering analysis of liberal Christianity
Posted on July 13, 2006 - Filed Under Any | 95 Comments
Wow. This is a pretty strong article that discusses what is happening these days in the Presbyterian Church USA and the Episcopal Church as they adopt liberal politics and liberal theology. To sum up:
So this is the liberal Christianity that was supposed to be the Christianity of the future: disarray, schism, rapidly falling […]
What Should Apologetics Be?
Posted on July 12, 2006 - Filed Under Any | 107 Comments
First off my apologies for how the prior thread developed. As many mentioned I should have put a halt to things early on. Further I fully take responsibility for my own complicity in how things devolved. I’d like to start things over with a focus on my original post. That is […]
Read More..>>Discussing the Gospel in a Scholarly Way
Posted on July 11, 2006 - Filed Under Any | 121 Comments
Probably most of you have read about the whole “uproar” over apologetics the past week. It’s actually been a rather common topic on various blogs. In general though it often seems like we all talk past one an other. We have our pre-conceptions of how others view the gospel and then all […]
Read More..>>CleanFlicks and related businesses lose a court battle
Posted on July 10, 2006 - Filed Under Any | 111 Comments
via Slashdot:
Deleting swearing, sex and violence from films on DVD or VHS violates copyright laws, a U.S. judge has ruled in a decision that could end controversial sanitizing done for some video-rental chains, cable services and the internet.
The ruling stemmed from a lawsuit brought by 16 U.S. directors — including Steven Spielberg, Robert Redford and […]
Mormon Lieutenant Governor
Posted on July 9, 2006 - Filed Under Any | 12 Comments
A week and a half ago Maryland’s Republican governor Bob Ehrlich selected Kristen Cox, 36-year-old BYU alumna and former missionary to Brazil, as his running mate for his coming re-election bid. The current lieutenant governor, Michael Steele, a Catholic who attends mass regularly, is running for the U.S. Senate. According to the Baltimore […]
Read More..>>Mitt Romney’s appeal
Posted on July 7, 2006 - Filed Under Any | 11 Comments
I think Mitt Romney has two unique things to offer conservatives, both of which have been missing from the national GOP for awhile.
Read More..>>Evangelicals For Mitt
Posted on July 7, 2006 - Filed Under Any | 17 Comments
No, this is not a joke, this is a new web site that looks, well, pretty darned good. Here are some excerpts:
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