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Very thoughtful and thought provoking post Kish, I spent years, a decade actually, on the various Mormon boards while harboring different levels of frustration, loss and anger at the LDS church and myself. Now, today, I don't even remember when the inner acceptance and peace became overriding and co...

My neighbor in Salt Lake City when I just got back from my mission years ago started a company with his brother that manufactured tables and chairs. As luck would have it, they knew the right G.A.'s and got some church contracts. Almost instantaneously, they were millionaires. What's going on with ...

A very interesting story that has unfolded. One hundred billion dollars. Woowee! Is 100 billion really all that much money in this age of Federal Reserve quantitative easing and easy money? Seems like a lot of folks, institutions and sovereign wealth funds have that sort of change nowadays. Hell, th...

It's amazing that you could reach and strain to try to spin this in a negative way. So somehow giving $40 million to help non-members, on top of the many millions of dollars that the Church spends to help needy members, is really not very charitable at all. Okay. "Non-members"? is that a ...

I don't know what the experience of death will be, if any. However, if we start with a presupposition that many philosophers, or mystics like to state: That there is only the "NOW" and that all things have a deeper interconnectedness, then one position is to treat death as an illusion that...

“Picture me as your grandfather who believes in you and is cheering for you,” Ballard counseled thousands of students and faculty attending the speech at the Marriott Center in Provo. “I am a general authority but that doesn’t make me an authority in general,” he then quipped. “I worry that members...

Years ago I sat in the audience as Boyd Packer said the greatest threats to the church are the feminists, the gays, and the so-called intellectuals. 24 years later I am convinced that what is destroying the church is narrow dogmatism. More and more, the thoughtful are marginalized, the conscientiou...

For the LDS church, purchasing an integral piece of its history is worthwhile...35 million worthwhile, well maybe so, maybe not. If true, that the church passed on the opportunity to buy the manuscript at the turn of the century for much less, then that should illustrate the power of inspiration tha...

Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:$35,000,000.

For some paper.

Paper.

$35,000,000. Millions for paper.

- Doc

Well, not just paper, there is some ink on the pages too.

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