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- Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:02 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Latter-day Saints have the highest rate of weekly church attendance
- Replies: 9
- Views: 339
Re: Latter-day Saints have the highest rate of weekly church attendance
Some people will be very disappointed by this report: How many Mormons are actually in church every week in the US? I'm curious if he is related to Rulon and Clayne Pope, from the BYU Econ Department. I have fond memories of them and my time there. I especially enjoyed Professor Kearl, one of the b...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:13 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Latter-day Saints have the highest rate of weekly church attendance
- Replies: 9
- Views: 339
Re: Latter-day Saints have the highest rate of weekly church attendance
If you were to ask Marco Rubio his religion, he’d say Catholic (but might try to play up a Mormon past if campaigning for Utah voters). He wouldn’t have been counted in this survey as an inactive Mormon.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:37 am
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Latter-day Saints have the highest rate of weekly church attendance
- Replies: 9
- Views: 339
Re: Latter-day Saints have the highest rate of weekly church attendance
612 might be a sufficient sample size. But the survey probably relies on participants self-identifying as Mormon. Among that group, it wouldn’t surprise me to see a high activity rate. But that groups is also much smaller than what the church counts as being on its membership rolls. I haven’t attend...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:58 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: A Darkness Settles Over "6 Days in August"
- Replies: 84
- Views: 24683
Re: A Darkness Settles Over "6 Days in August"
STW: "Daniel do you have any updates on Six Days? Are you still hopeful for a theatrical release this summer?" We've done roughly 90% of the filming. Maybe more. But a big and complicated scene -- the opening scene, in fact -- remains to be done. We have it set up for late April. That will happen, ...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:01 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: LDS volunteer hours in decline
- Replies: 2
- Views: 181
Re: LDS volunteer hours in decline
It would surprise me if the accounting here came down to something like: our ward has been assigned to fill four 4-hiur slots this Thursday night. Any volunteers? And then 16 hours is written down regardless od how many showed and how long they stayed. That wouldn’t necessary account for a decrease,...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 7:39 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Scott Gordon Attacks Tyler Livingston Over CES Letter
- Replies: 254
- Views: 131735
Re: Scott Gordon Attacks Tyler Livingston Over CES Letter
I was sent this tidbit by an anonymous informant: Really Tyler? There are reasons that people might want to leave the church, but I would hope that the CES letter is not one of them. There's a little problem with being factually inaccurate. If 1 of my students wrote that they would get an F for the...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:12 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Who's who...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 469
Re: Who's who...
I would just say Mormon. I don't really invest in the concept of "believing" as in "affirming propositions that I cannot possibly prove." At the same time, I think we all live our lives doing things that are driven by our investment in narratives and assumptions that we don't feel the need to defen...
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 6:11 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Serving bishop resigns from the stand at sacrament meeting
- Replies: 44
- Views: 13182
Re: Serving bishop resigns from the stand at sacrament meeting
Seriously? Yep, I can envisage that is where he is heading. I could be wrong of course. But as I said, google “cynical” and you’ll get me. I think there's reason to be cynical. Not about his motives for resigning, but about his reasons for resigning in such a public way. After all, he could have ju...
- Fri Dec 01, 2023 12:08 am
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: DCP’s never ending list of meeting famous people
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6565
Re: DCP’s never ending list of meeting famous people
If only he had kept it more realistic, like the time he ran into Donny Osmond at the CougarEat.Everybody Wang Chung wrote: ↑Fri Dec 01, 2023 12:04 amJust like 99% of DCP's stories, this too never happened.
- Thu Nov 30, 2023 7:05 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: DCP’s never ending list of meeting famous people
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6565
Re: DCP’s never ending list of meeting famous people
I once ran into Thomas Monson in the temple. My wife and I were waiting for the elevator. The doors opened, and he was in car with I think two others, but it was full. So we waited. I believe he smiled. Said hello once to Dominique Wilkins while waiting at the baggage claim in the SLC airport. He ig...