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Meditating on Mormonism
A compilation of musings about religion and religious life.
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A Blog about LDS Family life, LDS Philosophy, LDS Information and Missionary work. How we can improve as a Faith, LDS Inspirational Topics and ways to inform non-members about our Faith. A common place to meet and discuss Gospel topics. 
Families are Forever
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Interesting information and discussion about a variety of current and past religious topics, especially those related to Mormonism.
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This is a personal religious blog by me. The inspiration was President Eyring’s encouragement to begin a journal about being thankful. I decided to begin doing that here. I also realized I have tons of great notes that I have taken with personal insights that I have never done anything with. It’s my hope to be more diligent at recording those things for my children and others I care about.
Desde Cumorah
Este es un blog de tendencias amables y suaves
Delightfully Gluten Free
Documenting my gluten-free life, while hoping to inspire and help others.
We Love 2 Learn
A homeschooling family of 9!
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Sen. Reid has asked the Justice department to look into federal efforts to deal with polygamous criminal behavior. And it’s not a recent concern.
Two years ago, Reid wrote former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales that the federal government needs to work with state officials to look at the “broader pattern of serious criminal conduct by all those who use multiple marriages to abuse women and children.”
Reid wanted a federal task force to specifically investigate interstate crimes by polygamist communities, but told Mukasey in an April 18 letter that he is “not satisfied that a comprehensive federal strategy has been implemented.”
The Mormon Organon
Evolution, Ecology, and Ethics: A Froward BYU Biology Professor Looks at Science and the LDS Faith
The Mormon Organon (named after Aristotle’s book on logic), explores issues in science and religion. It is serious, satirical, and meant to be fun and informative. I am especially going to focus on understanding science, the place of evolution and ecology in the LDS faith.
What Mormons Like
The Blog looks at Mormon culture. Its purpose is to help Momons laugh at themselves because they feel too guilty making fun of others.
One LDS Girl From Provo
My Blog is about the life I’m living. Through trial and blessing I post. My insights on doctrine and how it is helping me through life.
134:2
Oxymormon: Active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a liberal and a democrat. Musings of a Liberal Mormon
Thinkworx
Adventures on the web, emerging technologies, random thoughts and more
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The LDS Church responds to Judge Walther’s suggestion that LDS officials supervise FLDS prayer sessions. Besides not understanding what exactly was being proposed or directly asked, it wouldn’t be appropriate.
[Scott Trotter, spokesman for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] also acknowledged that such a request would not be fair, either to the polygamous FLDS, which “long ago chose a different path from ours. In fact, many in these isolated communities view us with some hostility as part of the outside world they have rejected.”
Another contender in the arena of Mormon Blog aggregators: Mormon Blogosphere. This one caters to solo bloggers. Thanks for including ASA.
Things Unutterable
Occasional reflections on ancient temples, celestial ascent, and deification.
A Ton of Authors and a Wannabe
When you get a ton of authors and one public relations director together, you would think all we talk about is books. Read our blog and you will learn we talk about a lot more.
Shelly…Meadow On A Ledge
Cherish forever what makes you unique ‘cuz you’re a real yawn if it goes! Bette Midler
TheWrightFam News
Where the Wrights in Virginia post about random happenings and not-so-random rants!
My Life
Michelle’s Weight Loss Journey
Daniel Carmichael’s Story
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Vanity Fair blogger explains that Mormons can live in NY and be somewhat normal.
I see you are carrying the latest Carolina Herrera bag. Aren’t Mormons supposed to pay 10 percent of their income to a tithe offering?
Yes, we are asked to, and I do. Just imagine all the money I save from not drinking, smoking, or going to Starbucks everyday.
Claims that Mormons married in Disney World or that we can’t dig the ground were new to me.
It sounds like the Texas judge supervising the FLDS matter could not be more clueless or insensitive. After ruling that nursing mothers could not stay with their children, Judge Barbara Walther graciously allowed that the mothers could meet and pray with their children twice a day on the condition that they were supervised by an “appropriate religious person.”
Who is an “appropriate religious person”? Not anyone from their own church but the judge recommended someone from the “mainstream LDS Church” or another church! Understandably local LDS leaders are “baffled.”
Not content to break families apart, Judge Walther now seeks to manage the religious life of the FLDS. What authority does she have to determine who is an “appropriate religious person”? How much clearer does the LDS Church have to be that it has nothing to do with the FLDS? Hopefully the ACLU or someone will kindly help the judge to find a clue.
Lehi’s Library
Studying and Defending Mormonism
This website is focused on Mormon apologetics and Mormon studies. It contains notes from research and discussions I have had while studying and defending the gospel.
Mormons Can Rock too
This Blog proves you Can Be Mormon and Still rocking Cool.
The Little Window Shoppe
Hi, I am a Mormon Blogger and have a site called The Little Window Shoppe, it’s all about cute ideas on fashion and shopping. Myself and all of my writers are LDS.
It’s Hard to be Perfect
Just a G-rated daily random of life in my time zone.
in DrY climaTe, a Tree’s R00Ts diG DeePer
things worth reckoning by the Undefeated Street Poet
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The Catholic News Service had a positive take on Elder Ballard and Cook’s participation in last week’s papal prayer service for Pope Benedict XVI.
For the first time, representatives of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints participated in a papal prayer service — and it all started over coffee. . .
“My reaction was, ‘Why not?’ We have shared values and there is a possibility of collaboration on a number of social issues while respecting our theological differences,” he said.
Father Massa said, “We’re not making any theological statements today,” adding, “This is a very big statement they (the Latter-day Saints) are making.”
On the heels of attending a prayer service for Pope Benedict the 16th, Elder M. Russell Ballard spoke at the BYU Management Society dinner this weekend. The dinner is an annual gathering in Washington, D.C. that includes area members as well as prominent people and dignitaries.
Elder Ballard’s speech surveyed the church’s experience in the public eye for the last year and repeated his recent calls to engage in public and online discussions about the Church. His overall conclusion was that the past year has been a good experience, saying “I’d much rather have people talking about us than ignoring us.” Most of the confusion results from those caught between two extremes of critics: conservative Christians who try to marginalize the Church as a cult and those opposed to the Church’s political stands on moral issues.
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Marriott hotel officials agree to meet with family groups protesting pornography in its hotels.
Roger Conner, vice president of communications with Marriott International, told Cybercast News Service that officials from the corporation will meet with representatives from some of the groups that signed the letter on May 14 in Washington, D.C.
While this has seemed like a pretty clear-cut issue for many of us, it at least sounds like it’s not that simple.
But he said it is a complex matter to make broad policy changes for a publicly traded company with properties that have individual owners. . . .
Conner said individual properties, not Marriott International, receive compensation from Lodgenet or other providers from movies, including adult movies, sold to consumers.
“Church leader appeals to media to make distinction”
Drawing contrasts between the Church and polygamists, Elder Cook said that Church members do not live in isolated compounds, arrange marriages, dress in old-fashioned clothing or wear unusual hairstyles.
Rather, they are participating members of the communities in which they live throughout the world, get married at the average age of 23 and are well educated. In fact, 60 percent of Church members in the United States have some college education, which is 10 percent above the national average.
This is the first of occasional posts looking at various Mormon-related grassroots political organizations. To inaugurate this series, Crystal Young-Otterstroman, co-media director of Mormons for Equality and Social Justice was very gracious in subjecting herself to the following email interview.
1. Why and when was MESJ formed?
Mormons for Equality and Social Justice (MESJ, pronounced “message”) was formed in January of 2002. James Tobler founded MESJ after some spending some time post-mission thinking about social justice. In his words:
The message of social justice very much connected with my sensibilities of goodness and of the struggle between right and wrong. I started to get involved in different political organizations and labor unions but found them lacking, for the most part, a spiritual element. That, to me, is essential to any movement that claims to be fighting for the greater good.
2. What are the priorities of MESJ?
MESJ dedicated to being “anxiously engaged” (D&C 58:27) by working on the gospel values of peace, equality, justice, and wise stewardship of the earth in a spirit of Christ-like charity and concern. We do this by (1) by raising awareness in LDS communities of the inequalities and injustices that exist in the world today, (2) by actively participating in political processes to resolve these issues, and (3) by promoting and engaging in humanitarian service.
Last night Mitt Romney gave his top 10 reasons for dropping out of the race.
Link: sevenload.com
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Pretty good. I especially liked numbers seven and two.
10. There weren’t as many Osmonds as I thought.
9. I got tired of corkscrew landings under sniper fire.
8. As a lifelong hunter, I didn’t want to miss the start of the varmint season.
7. There wasn’t room for two Christian leaders.
6. I was upset that no one had bothered to search my passport files.
5. I needed an excuse to get fat, grow a beard and win the Nobel prize.
4. I took a bad fall at a campaign rally and broke my hair.
3. I wanted to finally take off that dark suit and tie, and kick back in a light-colored suit and tie.
2. Once my wife Ann realized I couldn’t win, my fundraising dried up.
1. There was a miscalculation in our theory: ‘As Utah goes, so goes the nation.’
“LDS Church sends leaders to greet the Pope”
The Church is sending Elder M. Russell Ballard and Elder Gene R. Cook to represent the Church as the Pope visits the U.S. . .
The Church says it doesn’t expect to have a face-to-face meeting with the Pope. But [Robert] Millet says there have been many meetings with Church leaders and Catholic cardinals over the years.
As Dave mentions the FLDS/Texas situation is one that “makes everyone look bad.” So bad that even the ACLU is “confounded.”
The American Civil Liberties Union doesn’t shy away from the issues, and the ACLU of Texas certainly has spent its share of time talking about this one. It talked about the issue basically all day yesterday. The group even came up with a three-page statement. But it decided it sounded arrogant and scrapped it. Now the group is just acknowledging that this is a complicated case because there are conflicting issues.
My snarky thought is that the ACLU can’t pick which side is more wrong or unpopular to side with. But then neither can I.
“Advertisers: Men Are Not Idiots” A message that is sadly necessary.
While the advertising industry’s negative depiction of fathers certainly isn’t the cause of fatherlessness, it is part of the problem. In a TV culture like ours, the fact that the only fathers one can see on TV are buffoonish (at best) does influence young people’s perceptions of fathers.
For young men, it makes it less likely they’ll aspire to be fathers, see their own value as fathers or, as Mr. Pitts explains, want to do the “hard but crucial work of being Dad.” For young women, it means they’ll be more likely to be misled into thinking that their children’s fathers aren’t important, that divorce or separation from them is no big deal, or that they should, as is the increasing trend, simply dispense with dad altogether and have children on their own.
Mormon Philosophy and Theology
This blog explores both explicitly “Mormon” philosophy and theology as well as philosophy and theology proper and how these subfields relate to and intersect with Mormon thought.
Book of Mormon Stories: Lessons for Everyday Life
Upon hearing Elder Ballard’s advice I decided to start my own blog. People turn to blogs for infromation on the subjects that interest them. The key to a sucessful blog is to keep it interesting and updated regularly. In other words you have to hook your reader and keep them hooked. Since everyone likes a good story-and there isn’t a better one than the Book of Mormon - it is my hope that my blog, Book of Mormon Stories: Lessons for Everyday Life will get people hooked the stories about Nephi, Alma, General Moroni, the Br. of Jared - and oh so many more. Of course the blog will strongliy emphasize the roll of Jesus Christ in the lives of these characters. There will be no preaching or defending of the church in the blog - just a good plot and applying the lessons therein to daily life.
An Ordinary Miracle
This is about my family, our adventures and lessons learned along the way.
Say What You Really Mean!
This blog covers politics, religion, poetry, inspiration, humor, political opinion, current events, self help and other general topics.
Tales from Simons House
A blog about my life with my family and pets, my hobbies and home.
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For those who haven’t followed Lost, you now have a chance to be brought up to speed with the rest of us for next week’s return. It’s just two minutes long but it does the job surprisingly well.
See more funny videos at CollegeHumor
History repeating itself. How effective are the FLDS raids?
The recent raid on a polygamist sect’s compound by child welfare investigators has been tried before - but only temporarily interrupted the sect’s way of life.
Authorities previously burst into the rural Utah-Arizona border home of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1935, 1944 and 1953.
Children were shuffled off to foster care and their parents imprisoned. But the families came back, time after time, more committed to their religion and to polygamy.
“It ended up strengthening them in the long run,” said Ken Driggs, an Atlanta attorney and polygamy historian.
Why can’t individual cases of abuse be prosecuted instead of ripping apart so many families? Is this supposed to stop the practice for good?
Messenger and Advocate is the go to place for coverage.
At BYU-I graduation, Elder Ballard renews call to participate in new media:
With all the falsehoods and misconceptions about the Church found online, Elder Ballard urged the graduates to use their knowledge and testimony of the gospel to influence seekers of truth. “Today I want to encourage you to reach out to others in the world to help change the perception and even the hearts of millions of our Heavenly Father’s children by correcting misunderstandings by sharing with them the message of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ,” he said.
Elder Ballard suggested that graduates join in conversations on the Internet to share the gospel and to explain the message of the Restoration in simple, clear terms. As they participate in these new media, Elder Ballard continued, the graduates should remember first and foremost that they are followers of the Savior Jesus Christ.
[via Latter-day Commentary]
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