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Wow, I think Kwaku was a little butt-hurt there.. I was trying to follow his rebuttal, but it was less than clear and it was just miserable to watch with all of the personal attacks sprinkled in. I ultimately decided I had better things to do with my life than listen to an "internet comedian" try to...

It’s hard for me to see it as anything but a tacit admission that they knowingly deceive the members. Yup, that's exactly what it is. Omission is deception. They know they don't have good answers, and once a person starts down the rabbit hole they end up in a much less faithful position. The best t...

I think the things the youth will be picking their own goals are things like the YW have been doing now for a long time. They have a book with lots of suggestions for each YW’s value, or they can name one they would rather do. So, under “Devine worth” the girls have a long list of suggested project...

This really helps to shed light on how the church's foundational stories probably grew into miracles out of very mundane events and personal emotions/imaginings by providing a modern-day example. The difference is that the speed and interactivity of modern media has made it possible for astute obse...

I grew up in the church, RM, married in the temple, all that. I live on the east coast so blessedly Mormons aren't too numerous here. Started researching polygamy a few years back because it always bothered me and I thought if I got a better understanding of it then I would come to peace with the co...

Think of this as a means to introduce these youngsters to the Way of Apologetics. Not only do we have to inoculate the youth to church history, but also they have to be inoculated to bad apologetics. What's funny to me is that the story is not that miraculous. He gave advice to the captain. So bori...

Great podcast. The temperature has been so high on this it was good to hear a reasoned take on what has happened and what the ramifications of this are.

A couple of things came up in bishopric meeting today that I thought were interesting. 1. We were going over the sacrament meeting agenda and the bishop saw that "Praise to the Man" was one of the hymns. There was some discussion about whether it should be left on there because evidently there was s...

I was always taught to call the former bishop on EVERY MEMBER that moved in. Currently an executive secretary, and I have to send an email to the bishop of every move in to ask about any issues "that should be considered as the bishop counsels and makes callings". Last year we had a move in that wa...

I don’t see the problem. The scoutmaster will be converted to the priesthood camping expert with the new system This is exactly what was being discussed in our bishopric meeting recently. People were complaining about how leadership was continuing to fill positions in a dying program, and the bisho...

Loved the kitten analogy; it was spot on!

Have you gotten any letters to leadership in your ward where they are asking wards to increase name submission? There is a huge push right now to increase name submission coming from at least above the stake level, especially with the youth and new members. It's kind of this "chicken or the egg" ar...

Question: how is the "number of people submitting names to the temple" calculated? I assume the temple recommends still have bar-codes,...or when someone submits a name, do they cross-reference a name with a membership record? How is that calculated and tied to a unit code? To submit names now you ...

We all know the church is well aware of what their active rate is, yet they will *never* release that info. Oh yeah, the church is RIDICULOUSLY aware of what the activity rate is.. I was just looking at the quarterly report for our ward. They also have KPI graphs tracking attendance, activity rates...

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Sun Apr 07, 2019 9:39 am

Appeared in my FB feed yesterday...

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LOL is that for real? I seriously can't tell if that is a joke or if there truly is an article where a TBM is using gold medal winning mental gymnastics to explain how policy reversals should indeed strengthen one's testimony.

By the way did anyone see Ned Flanders singing in the Tab Cats? When did they start allowing mustaches? Oh yeah, I saw that. It made for a fun "Where's Waldo" style game for me and my daughter. This conference was a fundamental shift for me in the way I think about the Q15 and other leaders. I used...

I feel like Ralphy in Christmas story decoding the message "Drink your ovaltine". Wow, what a let down. I thought on some level the Q15 wanted to make life easier and better for the average lay member. They really don't care. Whatever the reason for shorter church and all that, I doubt it had anyth...

-100 Rasband for that patronizing voice and his general suck-upiness.

wow, a couple of name removal callouts...

RMN: -100 I thought I was supposed to take my vitamin pills.. the only pill I need so far is Vivarin. This conference has been SOOO boring. So he likely spent TONS of time away from his family as a doctor and then yells at me for not spending enough time with mine.