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The efficacy of Dumbos black feather or a crucifix for warding off vampires readily comes to mind as counter examples to Elder Renlunds dismissiveness of inanimate objects in a faith setting. More to the point, the object really doesn’t matter at all. It’s faith that’s the active ingredient, or at l...

You’re free to imagine whatever baby you need to get you from one day to the next. Just as long as you don’t think that imagining a baby puts you on some sort of moral high ground. If you’re doing Mormonism right then you don’t think you have the moral high ground, you know you do. If you’re ever c...

I think that the vast, vast majority of bishops and stake presidents are good people trying to look out for the best interests of their flock. Kind of like a local manager just trying to muddle through whatever bs is passed down from corporate. The problem of leadership roulette, as has been mention...

The important thing, when giving blessings, is to use the recipients faithfulness and God’s will as a hedge. That way no one is chagrined if the blessing doesn’t cause the desired outcome. Something along the lines of “I bless you to be healed according to your faith and according to God’s will...” ...

I also think a good demarcation line between civility and incivility is to debate a point or idea and not the poster. For example, making fun of a certain prominent apologists appearance, to use Kishkumens phrase, seems “puerile and indecent.” Additionally, that apologists do not act Christlike towa...

I think we need to look at the problem of child predators having access to children from a birds-eye view. It is true that a Mormon bishop could potentially be a child predator, but this could be true of any man, or any woman to be frank. The solution becomes simple when you give the problem any ser...

Mormon dialogue & discussion board I point out that the witnesses must have the authority that they would need if they were to perform the baptism themselves (i.e. be priests in the Aaronic Priesthood or hold the Melchizedek Priesthood). I think Libs is correct in the assumption that, because i...

A few years ago while visiting family in Texas I attended a Stake Conference. The GA speaker (who’s name I don’t recall) lamented the fact that local Christians would get together and talk crap about all the weird Mormon beliefs. Later in his talk this GA referred to the trinity as a “stupid” belief...

Ok, I haven’t listened this podcast yet but I promise that I will so I guess I’m still qualified to make a comment. If I recall correctly from the Bible dictionary, God has all sorts of blessings available for us, but they are contingent upon our asking first. But of course our wish list needs to be...

Maybe we should only praise the good behavior of 100% good corporations or 100% good people. The upside of this tactic is that you’ll never have to waste your time praising anyone. Also, what if we assume the worst case scenario: that the church is intentionally causing certain members to commit sui...