Some of you may have read the incredibly inspiring stories at Bookslinger’s Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon blog. Every time I see his name commenting on a post in the Bloggernacle, I get humbled a bit. I usually hand out only three or four Books of Mormon a year, and here he is placing them every week. So, I have started carrying some Books of Mormon in my briefcase looking for opportunities as I travel. One such opportunity came up last week when I was in New York.
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Happy Pioneer Day!
Despite the fact that I grew up and still live in Utah, I don’t actually do anything for this day. Neither of my parents are from Utah, so they were not raised with any Pioneer Day traditions. Therefore, they passed no traditions for this day on to me. Occassionally I watch the parade in Salt Lake on TV (when the parade is on a non-work day, unlike today), but that’s been the extent of my celebrations.
Nevertheless, I thought I’d wish you all a happy day. Heaven knows Mondays need as many good wishes as possible. I’ll share my favorite quote from Eric Snider. “Every July we celebrate Pioneer Day here in Utah. It’s a very patriotic holiday. You can tell by all the flags flying. A patriotic holiday, the celebration of when the Mormons fled the United States and fled to Mexican territory.”
LDS filmmaker to help counter ‘bigotry’
The director of “The Other Side of Heaven” has started a campaign to help counter anti-Mormon bigotry. Mitch Davis has started a web site RunMittRun.org and is hoping to raise money and awareness to counter the large number of people who say they would not vote for a Mormon for president.
An unflattering analysis of liberal Christianity
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 numbers of adherents, a collapse of Christology and national meetings that rival those of the Modern Language Assn. for their potential for cheap laughs. And they keep telling the Catholic Church that it had better get with the liberal program — ordain women, bless gay unions and so forth — or die. Sure
Evangelicals For Mitt
No, this is not a joke, this is a new web site that looks, well, pretty darned good. Here are some excerpts: