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by toon
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: 322

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...
by toon
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: 322

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.
by toon
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: 322

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...
by toon
Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:58 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: A Darkness Settles Over "6 Days in August"
Replies: 84
Views: 24659

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, ...
by toon
Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:01 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: LDS volunteer hours in decline
Replies: 2
Views: 179

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,...
by toon
Mon Mar 18, 2024 7:39 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Scott Gordon Attacks Tyler Livingston Over CES Letter
Replies: 254
Views: 131603

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...
by toon
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...
by toon
Mon Feb 12, 2024 6:11 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Serving bishop resigns from the stand at sacrament meeting
Replies: 44
Views: 13165

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...
by toon
Fri Dec 01, 2023 12:08 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: DCP’s never ending list of meeting famous people
Replies: 21
Views: 6563

Re: DCP’s never ending list of meeting famous people

Everybody Wang Chung wrote:
Fri Dec 01, 2023 12:04 am
drumdude wrote:
Thu Nov 30, 2023 9:58 pm
It strains credulity, but then Daniel is a master at weaving stories for the credulous.
Just like 99% of DCP's stories, this too never happened.
If only he had kept it more realistic, like the time he ran into Donny Osmond at the CougarEat.
by toon
Thu Nov 30, 2023 7:05 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: DCP’s never ending list of meeting famous people
Replies: 21
Views: 6563

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...