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Could we make a donation in Dan Peterson's name? Even better: Is there a T-shirt we could buy for him?

Jinx wrote:There's a New Order Mormon Facebook group that I joined with the specific purpose of finding you guys.

There is a New Order Mormon Facebook group? I may have to do some lurking there.

Josh's story on the new website is painful because it comes closest to describing the fate of being gay int he LDS church. He starts acknowledging that being single and celibate for the rest of his life may be difficult but retains faith that God has a plan for him. This is a huge amount of faith th...

Will this release of scandalous information about HRH Prince Bernhard cause a wave of Dutch disaffection and lead many former Dutch citizens over to a country with righteous leaders like France or Italy? (I'm not sure I could possibly load any more satire into this one sentence) So what is the diffe...

Is this a book that is unintentionally serving as the operating model for apologetics and conference talks?

I bought half a dozen black and green teas from the bulk bin at the store today so I could sample each one. Weird how it gave me butterflies in the stomach to do it. After brewing my first cup, I put the used teabag in the very bottom of the trash and burned the wrapper it came in. Paranoid, I know...

Oh, I forgot to say something. I have seriously been thinking about talking to the Primary President about this. I want to say, "Hey, did you know that song refers to the Oath of Vengeance? What do you think of that? Should our kids be singing that?" Current lyrics: Long shall his blood that shed b...

StarCraft is the game. What do you do that you would make WireShark a hobby? I moved from Route/Switch to network security back in June. Loads of fun. I do network security for a large company. Specifically, I look at incoming consumer web traffic looking for scans and exploits. I see a lot of traf...

You are more generous than I am. I consider several previous decades of paying on gross to be sufficiently "paid up in perpetuity". So i find other recipients of my donations.

Let's separate forgiveness from trust . Those are two different concepts and Jesus never told us to trust someone that harms us. He only taught that we should forgive everyone and discard the pursuit of vengeance or initiating a feud. If someone borrows money from me and never repays me, I may forgi...

Technically, a crazy gypsy lady with a crystal ball in a weird Romanian carnival is modelling Joseph Smith better than subsequent LDS prophets. I suspect that Brigham Young tried using a seer stone but there is no record that anything actually happened with those attempts.

Jesus would tell you to donate generously to the poor. Malachi chapter 3 is often quoted in support of tithing but that chapter is about chastising priests who are mishandling tithing funds. Your family member invented a folk doctrine from LDS culture. The LDS church is burdened with far more folk d...

This website makes the usual Mormon error of not demonstrating why the LDS church is so verifiably, absolutely compelling that someone who is gay (sorry, experiencing "Same Sex Attraction") would want to stick with it.

I have a 2PM meeting in Mesa, tomorrow. So, I could come that way, if it works better for you. Let's meet at Famous Dave's along Dobson Road just south of the 202 in the Mesa Riverview area. It's right by the Bass Pro Shop. Date: Wednesday, October 26 Time: 12:00 noon Location: 1011 N Dobson Rd, Me...

That's really hard. I was thinking of a lot of "D" words that I hoped you were talking about. This included ordering Dessert, visiting the Dentist, and possibly voting Democrat. But divorce is automatically one of the worst topics. I think we need commiseration over drinks. What days are you availa...

That's really hard. I was thinking of a lot of "D" words that I hoped you were talking about. This included ordering Dessert, visiting the Dentist, and possibly voting Democrat. But divorce is automatically one of the worst topics. I think we need commiseration over drinks. What days are you availab...

OSC may very well have been thinking in broader political terms -- but there was certainly a conflation of and emphasis on how the religion had been co-opted by Starways Congress to harness and control the people of Path . . . as an allegory for TCoJCoLDS's methods of control of members it couldn't...

I listened to most of it. I think the Mormonism he attached himself to is a hybrid of the 60's and 70's remnants intermixed with a sense of white male privilege sprinkled with a faux sense of mormon fame. I can't pinpoint it exactly but have met many men throughout the church who have a few similar...

I'm with you also on this. I am confident that Greg Prince is a great guy and an excellent scholar. His historical research is wonderful and brings an excellent perspective on David O. McKay. His history of medical research is groundbreaking. But Brother Prince did not really address all of the issu...

Clearly you need to write this up for a very special article in the Ensign about how family unity should supersede any Sabbath Day restrictions. Let us know how the editors at the Ensign feel about this bold point of view. And congratulations on a successful hunt.