…and soon thereafter negotiate for missionaries on the Caribbean island?
Many conservatives, including myself, have favored normalizing relations with Cuba for years. One Republican senator says it’s time to lift the embargo. Politics have been the principal reason for the embargo lasting this long: nobody can afford to lose the Cuban-American vote in Florida. But a recent poll shows that a majority of Cuban-Americans now opposes the embargo.
One of the more reassuring doctrines of the Gospel is the idea that we can resist Satan’s power. As this talk puts it, “the adversary can go no further than the transgressor permits him to go.”
What, then, are we to make of the First Vision?
Critics have accurately called Slumdog Millionaire a masterpiece and a hymn. Director Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire is a modern day fairytale set in Mumbai, India. Slumdog Millionaire explodes with rich cinematography revealing the horrific vibrant tapestry of the Indian slums.
Jamal Malik, an uneducated eighteen-year-old Muslim orphan, has survived a lifetime of deprivation in the most gut-wrenching poverty imaginable. Young Jamal searches for his childhood sweetheart Latika. A stroke of good luck propels him onto the Indian version of the TV game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. As the time clock ticks loudly, and each question answered, a nervous Jamal finds himself on the edge of winning an astounding twenty million rupees. Jamal’s success results in accusations of cheating. During police questioning, Jamal reveals his hope is not the jackpot, but of finding Latika who is his destiny.
Ok, movie fans, it’s time to vote on your favorite Mormon-themed movies. After several days of voting, M* will announce our choice as the best Mormon-themed movie, based on the poll results and our own set of random artistic criteria.
Here are the movies (we are open to other suggestions, but anybody suggesting “The Book of Mormon Movie” gets banned).