Such is the state of modern-day academia: a Princeton professor writes in her blog that she misses Mitt Romney because if he were still in the race he would be getting all of the tough questions these days rather than Obama. The reason: because of the “Mormon” FLDS church to which she implies Mitt belongs. She even mentions President Monson!
While recently checking my Facebook account, I noticed an invitation from an old friend to participate in an application called “OWNED!”
Own Your Friends! Give Human Gifts! Put yourself on the market and find out how much you’re worth!
A novel idea, I thought, so I signed-up for the application and quickly discovered my value, or lack thereof, on Facebook. Read more…
There was an interesting show on this morning on KSL. They had an interview with Harry Reid, Senator from Nevada and Majority Leader, on the FLDS situation. Reid blasted the Attorney Generals of Utah and Arizona for not doing more about the FLDS.
I’d put up the link to the interview but unfortunately KSL doesn’t have up just the interview. However this morning at 10:00 they replayed the interview and then had some responses by Mark Shurtleff and a few others. They have put that up as a podcast. It’s about 5 minutes into the show. Listen and give your view.
Saturday afternoon, M*’s webmaster Scott Barber emailed me a link to a Mormon Times article announcing a temple for Gilbert, Arizona.
My first reaction to the news was, “Wow!!”
Even today, I am still stunned and excited that another temple is to be built in Arizona. What excites me even more is that I will likely be in the new temple district. Read more…
In 1888, a utopian novel arrived on the scene that, for almost two decades, heavily influenced nearly every area of public life. It spurred the creation of a political party that furnished the first socialist to run for national office. Several hundred clubs formed around the idea of promoting the ideas in the book. And it doesn’t once mention Mormons, which is not surprising. So, in doing research on this book, the last thing I expected was to find a “defense” of Mormonism coming from a New York Lawyer.
I think there is a pervasive and instinctive need among mankind for a prophet, or seer, one who can “see” into the future to prepare us and warn of impending events. We see evidence for this all around us, particularly today. Read more…
Sunday night my stake hosted a fireside where Brother Mark Mabry and others involved in the “Reflections of Christ” exhibit shared their testimonies of Christ through the spoken word, music, video and pictures.
Sadly, my words can do little to convey the power of the music, video, testimony and spirit present during the fireside. Sufficient to say, many eyes were filled with tears throughout the entire presentation.
I noticed that among the various LDS blogs the main one discussing the FLDS situation in Texas is Messenger and Advocate. There the coverage of Texas has been uniformly negative. While I can understand being upset at some of Texas’ actions I think perhaps the other side ought be pointed out as well.
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I don’t want to talk about the actions of the Texas police. I’ve made my opinion known on the various other posts elsewhere. Basically I just don’t think we have the facts one way or the other. There’s way too much uninformed speculation by all sides in the matter. And once again the media shows that they are about sensationalism and not news.
Having said that though I want to ask the question of double standards.
This story certainly will raise some eyebrows. Apparently, a charter school in Minnesota has mandatory Muslim prayer and ritual washing on Friday, the holy day for Islam. Yet another reminder why the First Amendment is a very good thing, both because this school is being exposed by the free press and because issues involving the establishment of religion are being discussed.
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