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And then came your description of those whom you “served” as bishop. She took off the head phones, quite upset, and would listen no more. We both reflected on how those who have served missions among a downtrodden people would speak of their love for that society and people after serving them. Your...

Oh really? Then why did you make a big deal of it, saying it was highly unusual as if there were pressing circumstances related to Ritner's anti-Mormonism? According to Morely it isn't a big thing at all for doctoral committees to change at all. Pretty much what Ritner said too. But now you say tha...

So don't.

And don't comment on them, either. You'll be happier, probably, and I won't mind.

I didn't choose my dissertation committee.

Doctor Scratch wrote:you generally pick the members of your doctoral committee yourself

That certainly wasn't true where I went to school.

I'm not sure why there's any big deal to any of this. Doctoral committees change composition for any number of reasons. There are personal, professional, and political animosities in many doctoral processes. (I think the procedure is set up to be a tiny bit of hell.) Candidates are hired ABD (all b...

I loved the members of my ward, and I tried my best to serve them. I spent hundreds of hours each year counseling with them, trying to help them (materially and in career terms, as well as spiritually). They lined up outside my office door by the scores every Sunday and every Wednesday, and contacte...

What I found sad is in his recent interview he claimed to have spent much time helping those that struggle. You think I shouldn't have? I remember my first post here, and my attempts to seek advice from DCP. But of course his only interest in this board is a continual round of battle with Scratch o...

Any information you have on this would be most helpful to me, Dan. I'm somewhat aware of the story, but have no specific information on it. I'll have to check. My faith doesn't, of course, rest on the sinlessness of bishops, whether historically or in the present. I've been a bishop myself, and I l...

I'm not healthy. There is something addictive about gawking at road accidents and reading this board.

But I don't spend nearly as much time here as I could, and as others are, at this very moment, elsewhere in this very place, demanding that I do.