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Hedges about the law, relaxations within it
Photo by Robert Klank on Unsplash I think it was a podcast host I heard (perhaps John Larsen or John Dehlin—it has been years since I listened to podcasts regularly, so I don’t recall) who used to ask...
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Ways the Church is like a large corporation (other than money)
Photo by AI25 Studio on Pexels. I spent a number of years in higher education, first as a graduate student who was slow to finish, and then, for a little while, as a professor. I wasn’t terribly good...
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Interesting precursors of Mormon ideas I stumbled on in a couple of history...
This is exactly how I look when I’m reading. Except that I’m not this attractive, nor do I dress this fashionably. Also, I don’t read in such lovely rooms. But other than those tiny details, this is...
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Glacial improvement: Women can be Sunday School presidents
Photo by Library of Congress on Unsplash In the early days of the Bloggernacle, I recall reading a post that listed changes the Church could make in its policies that would improve women’s equality and...
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A Bible! A Bible! We have got a Bible, and now there can be more Bibles.
Photo by Priscilla Du Preez ?? on Unsplash The Church announced last month that the latest edition of the Handbook encourages English-speaking members to read different versions of the Bible in...
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Increase, decrease; To-may-to, to-mah-to
The Church announced a few days ago that the Saturday night session of General Conference will be dropped. You probably remember that this was a Nelson-era change from 2021 that was promptly reversed a...
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Nine things I’m curious to see about the Oaks presidency
Image source: Wikimedia. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Who will he choose as his counselors? Will Henry B. Eyring be given a break...
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How the Church could change
How can the Church change? This is often a question on my mind, as there are so many things I’d like to see changed, such as ordaining women, for example. To say the Church is resistant to change...
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Why does the Church copy the world’s hierarchies?
There’s a certain flavor of criticism of the Church that I’ve seen before that I think of as criticism from first principles. It doesn’t criticize the Church in comparison with other churches, or with...
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When in doubt, leave women out.
A few days ago, Peggy Fletcher Stack reported in a Salt Lake Tribune article that wards in the San Francisco Bay Area, where Relief Society presidents had been sitting on the stand during sacrament...
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Harm by Individuals, Harm by Systems
What makes a particular action a sin? A simple definition might be that it violates one of the two great commandments to love God and love our neighbor. Violations of the first great commandment are...
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Making Righteousness Easier
In a devotional for young adults a couple of months ago, Dallin H. and Kristen M. Oaks urged them to, as a Salt Lake Tribune headline put it, “stop delaying marriage and start having kids.” They...
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Disavowing old teachings could reduce leader roulette
After Elder Uchtdorf introduced the new, more principle-based For the Strength of Youth pamphlet last October, my YW-age daughter came home from a church meeting where she said her leaders told her...
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Why no Christmas-and-Easter Mormons?
My tween daughter recently asked me about people who attend church only at Christmas and Easter. She said that she likes going to church, but that if she ever quit, she couldn’t imagine still attending...
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Which Issues Do GAs Consider Unimportant?
Here’s a quote from Jeffrey R. Holland’s talk this last conference: Of course, in our present day, tremendously difficult issues face any disciple of Jesus Christ. The leaders of this Church are...
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“Temple patrons and workers are ASKED to wear face masks”
I was happy to see the First Presidency’s letter this week where they asked temple workers and patrons to wear masks. But I have to admit that I’m really puzzled by the wording. They’re asking patrons...
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How could the Church take unrighteous dominion seriously?
I was in a ward once where the Gospel Doctrine teacher loved to quote from the end of D&C 121. You’re probably familiar with it; it’s the piece that talks about how priesthood authority shouldn’t...
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Did the First Presidency letter increase masking at church?
Like many other people, I was very happy to see the First Presidency’s message last week where they urged members to get vaccinated against COVID and to wear masks. Sure, I can quibble with the timing...
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Ten More Changes the Church Could Make and Un-make before Next Conference
The Church has announced that the Saturday night session of General Conference will be held after all, although it’s not going to be a priesthood or women’s session, but another general session. I...
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General Conference, Now 20% Shorter!
The Church announced yesterday that, starting with October Conference this year, the Saturday evening session (priesthood in April, women’s in October) will be discontinued. I have a few thoughts on...
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