Clark Goble

Catholics, Genealogy and Baptism for the Dead

Posted on May 21, 2008 - Filed Under In real life | 8 Comments

There was an interesting show today on Radio West. (The MP3 should be up later today) It was on last month’s reaction by the Vatican regarding baptism for the dead. As you may know the Vatican sent a letter to all dioceses telling them to not give parish records to the Church […]

Is Harry Reid a Hypocrite on the FLDS?

Posted on April 29, 2008 - Filed Under In real life | 59 Comments

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 […]

Some Thoughts on the FLDS

Posted on April 15, 2008 - Filed Under General | 47 Comments

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.

FLDS, Texas and Double Standards

Posted on April 11, 2008 - Filed Under General | 13 Comments

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 […]

Fun with Genealogy: Billy the Kid and the Mormons

Posted on April 6, 2008 - Filed Under General | 16 Comments

So here’s where I give you all a break from conference discussions to talk genealogy. I figured I’d try and join the trendy “Mormon history” posters and do an interesting story from history many of you might not know. The story of Billie the Kid and the Mormons. And, this being genealogy, […]

What is Creation Ex Nihilo?

Posted on March 31, 2008 - Filed Under General | 13 Comments

I’ve often mentioned that the main difference between us as Mormons and other Christians is our rejection of creation ex nihilo. However a lot of people don’t understand what this means nor why we reject it. For that matter a lot of people don’t quite see what the big deal is. After […]

What Mormonism Offers to the World

Posted on March 12, 2008 - Filed Under General | 19 Comments

I don’t know how many of you read the transcript of Richard Bushman’s talk up at Weber State. If you haven’t you really should. It’s very well written and really makes one think. I’d really like to comment on one paragraph that really stood out to me. It was the question […]

Trinitarian Mormons: Orson Pratt

Posted on February 27, 2008 - Filed Under Scripture Discussion | 12 Comments

As I promised before I wish to expand my view that the Trinity is compatible with Mormon theology by examining a Mormon theologian who, I feel, adopted a position quite in line with the Trinity. Now please note that I am not saying that the Trinity is necessarily entailed by Mormon theology. Clearly […]

Mormons and the Trinity

Posted on February 25, 2008 - Filed Under General | 18 Comments

This is the sort of post I’d probably have put on my philosophy blog. But since my blog is “between” right now I’ll post it here but try and make it accessible to non-philosophers. (i.e. not technical)
One thing that is often presented as the main point of difference between Mormons and ‘traditional Christians’ is the […]

The Hypocrisy of Mormon Views of Evangelical Voting

Posted on January 7, 2008 - Filed Under Any | 41 Comments

First let me say up front that I don’t care for Huckabee. To me he reminds me a tad too much of “slick Willie” for my tastes. Further on many issues I just disagree with him. But I also don’t care much for Romney and think he’s been the cause of most […]

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