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That the 12 Apostles “do business” kind of says it all...

Blogger Emily Gilkey Palmer thinks it does. But the pattern that keeps striking me, and is indeed the reason I stopped reading the Book of Mormon several years ago, is the reification of women. Reification, or objectification, is a term in feminist theory that signifies the act of treating someone a...

Chap wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 28, 2020 8:08 am

What if the board started to ignore him? Would that be such a terrible loss? He says or does very little nowadays that is either interesting in itself or significant outside his own shrinking clique.

Chap, as per usual you make a very good point. I'm going to commit to doing just that.

A Springville man was charged Thursday with sexually abusing a student while he was an associate professor at Brigham Young University. Michael James Clay, 45, is charged in 4th District Court with two counts of forcible sexual abuse, a second-degree felony. Clay was head of the Urban and Regional ...

Despite the Executive Co-Producers previous public statements on the subject... Again, I implore readers of this blog to take the pandemic seriously, and to encourage others to take it seriously. It has not gone away. It isn’t finished. It’s not merely like a bad cold. It doesn’t only affect (dispen...

From the outside, my family seems perfectly “Mormon.” With two darling kids, and a husband sporting BYU blue, you wouldn’t look twice if you passed us at Costco. But here’s my secret: I’m transgender. For years, I gave my best performance of “being a girl.” I wasn’t completely convincing. My tomboy...

I offer three more items from Paul McFate, 52 Good Reasons to Go to Church, Besides the Obvious Ones (Chicago: ACTA Publications, 2004) — a little book or booklet that I commend to you (though it may be hard to find). Every single one of the three has been officially board-certified as appropriate ...

Unlike the golden plates used by Smith to produce the Book of Mormon, the existence of Strang's plates was verified by independent, non-Mormon witnesses, including Christopher Latham Sholes, inventor of the first practical typewriter. Strang was accused of having fabricated the plates from a brass ...

It would seem that there is a wider discussion under way about whether or not Mopologists are respectful towards others' religious beliefs. Just check out this latest entry on "SeN" : Quite a few years ago — I wish that I could find the actual discussion, but I no longer remember where or exactly w...

But there's nothing to be done, except to studiously ignore them.

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He just can’t help himself