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Yesterday I visited my old roommate’s married ward for the baby blessing of his son. While the gospel is the same everywhere, and the organization of the Church is …
From Times and Seasons, Orbital Sacrament quotes Don Lind about his sacrament service in outer space. And NorthTemple links to a similar situation — How does …
Remember the story of the rich young man from the New Testament?
And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may …
Today at lunch I was reading President Monson’s “Guideposts for Life’s Journey” talk in BYU Magazine, and one section particular stood out to me:
Some of you may be familiar with …
6. Looking out
I can’t remember if I’ve mentioned this before, but I’ve stumbled across what seems to be an almost surefire way to pray sincerely, at least for me. And it’s …
You know, I have a feeling there’ll be a lot of Karamazovian posts over the next few weeks. :) Here’s one from 1.1.4, the second page of the chapter, …
I realized this week that God seems to sit at the perfect balance between idealism and realism.
On the one hand we have the divine mandate to “be ye therefore perfect.” …
New Play Project’s Lost & Found show opens this week, featuring seven short plays on religious themes, and it’s going to be good. :) Yes, yes, I’m biased …
I went to my mission reunion tonight. Bittersweet. The sweetness came from seeing all my old friends, of course, most of whom I hardly ever see. Serving …
[Cross-posted from Blank Slate.]
Great post by Robert Starling (via Gideon Burton) on Mormon Renaissance yesterday, called High Expectations for Mormon Filmmakers. This part was particularly inspiring:
In …
My friends Torben and Marissa wrote and directed a film last year, Wrestling With God: A Three-Way Conversation on Mormonism. It played at the LDS Film Festival but …
13. Of small islands
Just a quick bit of news: my brother Daniel got his mission call today, and he’s going to (drum roll) Hong Kong! :) He’s the next missionary to serve …
[Cross-posted from Blank Slate because I’m lazy. :P]
Earlier today Katherine posted “Toward a Mormon Renaissance” over at Mormon Renaissance (how fitting :)). It’s an essay by James …
15. Founding mothers
According to National Geographic (thanks to Sally for the link), “nearly all of today’s Native Americans in North, Central, and South America can trace part of their ancestry to …
In one of my friends’ Gmail status lines, this quote piqued my interest:
The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their …
17. Heaven on earth
Stake conference today. This was my second one since my calling as stake executive secretary, and it’s been really interesting seeing this sort of thing from the inside — …
18. Stake spotlight
When I walked in to the stake offices this morning for stake presidency meeting, I found the counselors and other executive secretaries clustered around the wall. The wall that’s …
Interesting letter from the First Presidency in sacrament meeting today. I don’t have a copy of the letter, but it solidly refuted the apocryphal “generals in the war in …
[Cross-posted from Mormon Renaissance. We’re trying to get the discussion going over there, so if you do comment, it’d be great if you could post your comments on …
21. Good out of evil
Once again a C.S. Lewis Society meeting has graciously provided a blog entry for me. :)
A thought and then an epiphany. How could a good God let bad things …
22. Come unto Christ
The Church has a beautiful new website about the Savior, JesusChrist.lds.org:
It’s all about Jesus Christ and it’s good. …
23. Centerpieced
So, I went to Relief Society on Sunday. And loved it. And not just because I’m single and I was surrounded by dozens of females. ~innocent smile~
I’m sure …
As disciples of Christ, we talk a lot about enduring to the end and just how on earth (since heaven’s still a bit out of reach) we’re supposed to make …
As you may have noticed in the screenshot on my last post, something new’s afoot. It’s a blog called Mormon Renaissance, and if you’re interested at all in …
Found an interesting post by Jeff Savage on the quality of LDS fiction:
I would tend to believe that in general the feeling…was that the quality of novels by most …
One of my mom’s friends recently wrote her a letter explaining why she (the friend) had recently decided to leave the Church. I’ve had other friends do likewise, and …
28. Yes, we can?
From Torben, an interesting blog post on why Mormons should consider backing Obama, now that Romney’s out of the race.
May I suggest that, in my opinion, the best …
On A Motley Vision, Anneke Majors has written the post I intended to write. :) Actually, not exactly the same, but I did plan to read Stephenie Meyer’s …
From the LDS Newsroom via NorthTemple: A flash mob of teenagers wore Sunday dress to school on Monday in honor of President Hinckley.
Preparing for school on Monday morning …
31. Season for hymns
Earlier today I came across an interesting post on the Mormon Artists Group blog:
What will the hymnal of 2043 be like?
If the evolution of our hymnbook is any indicator, …
President Hinckley died an hour or two ago.
So far I haven’t been able to verify it, but it’s all over the place (it brought down my cell phone network at …
33. Goose girl
Last night I finished Shannon Hale’s The Goose Girl, and wow, it’s good. Spun into a novel from the Grimms’ fairy tale of the same name, Goose Girl …
This morning I was reading in the Joseph Smith manual (Teachings of the Presidents of the Church), and it just struck me that Joseph was only 23 years old when …
35. Letting go
Isn’t it funny how we forget things so easily? Just a month ago I wrote about trusting in God, then promptly forgot pretty much everything I’d said in …
In the mythsoc digest that came through last night, there’s a fascinating article by Jef Murray as part of the January 2008 issue of his Mystical Realms newsletter:
In …
The other day I came across a quote about happiness that I can’t get out of my head:
It has given me much of trouble, and a great amount of perseverance, …
Liz has a great post today called A Heresy against Feminism:
I guess this gets me right down to the reason I am afraid to write about marriage: I believe …
Twenty-five percent of girls graduate from BYU without getting asked out on a single date.
I don’t have a source on that statistic, so take it with a grain of salt, …
40. Using new media
From ldsWebguy, earlier today I found a talk Elder Ballard gave today at BYU-Hawaii, Using New Media to Support the Work of the Church:
While you studied here at …
My reader’s edition of the Book of Mormon is now part of Special Collections here at the HBLL (thanks to Hilary for letting me know it had …
Spinning off the thread of yesterday’s post: I’m very imperfect. Sure, there are parts that I can tell are getting pretty polished, but for the most part I’m a …
43. The platonic God
Thanks to Leandro for tipping me off to a Deseret News article Orson Scott Card wrote this past Friday.
It all comes down to what we mean by “God.”
In one …
44. One step closer
I’m tired and it’s been a full day, but I had a thought on the way to stake priesthood meeting that kind of hit me. I’ve spent a lot …
And now, a NaBoMoReMo reading chart specifically for the Riverglen Press reader’s edition of the Book of Mormon:…
46. Heart to heart
I love talking with people. Whether in person or via blogs or e-mails or phone or any other medium you can think of (smoke signals, anyone?), communication — good …
47. The pied piper
So, today at church they asked me if I’d play the organ for the choir’s rendition of “What Child Is This?” at the ward Christmas program in two weeks. …
48. I, Nephi
Today marks the beginning of National Book of Mormon Reading Month (NaBoMoReMo), and to help clunk the bottle against the helm, here’s a reading chart I put together:…
49. NaBoMeReMo
Having just finished NaNoWriMo yesterday, and with a few days of NaBloPoMo still left, my reaction to seeing the NaBoMoReMo website (National Book of Mormon Reading Month, and …
First, a story about President Spencer W. Kimball, quoted by President Hinckley in the December 1991 Ensign. Many of you may have heard it before:
I would like to …
