We have always been clear that that our married children have two sides to their new families and we have also made it clear that while we may invite them to everything we also don’t want to hog their time or force them into difficult choices.
I Don’t Know It All, But I Know Some Things
I once spent an uncomfortable few hours wedged in economy class on a flight from Boston to Salt Lake City.
Welcome the Season!
Since we are entering the holiday season I am thinking about building some of my posts around the holidaies and maybe some of my evolving ideas of a personal liturgical calendar. I seem to have needed this calendar all of my life and over the last ten years or so I have been actively and successfully pursuing it, including a thoroughly Mormon Passover and some beginning stabs at celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles.
The Muddle
This last week has again brought into sharp focus one of my more important discoveries of the past decade. It is “The Muddle†and I am surprised and appalled that I was so old before I figured it out. On the off chance some of you have not yet figured it out, here is my take on the subject.
Welcome, Marjorie Conder
We are very pleased to have Marj Conder guest blogging for us for the next few weeks.
I am thankful for my appendectomy
One night last March, I went to bed feeling fine but woke up four hours later with abdominal pain that wouldn’t go away. I finished the ensuing day in the hospital recovering from an appendectomy, for which I am very grateful.
Primary Lesson #42 Supplement
Ellen Briggs Douglas Parker: Where Her Treasure Was
Nauvoo, June 12, 1842 Dear father and mother, I am at a loss what I can say to you. I feel so thankful for what the Lord has done for me and my family, for truly all things have worked together for our good. …
A Milestone
Today is the first time I’ve seen advertising directed at Mormons that didn’t scream ‘priestcraft.’
Kolob
Some fellow who has clearly never talked to a Mormon gives a nice (mis)summation of LDS beliefs in a local paper. (Hat tip: Voldemort). Like many such, he has things to say about Kolob — a lot more, really, than I’ve ever heard at church. Is Kolob even really part of LDS doctrine any more?
Words and Music
Here’s a short quiz, for fun: For each of the following, name the modern-day green-book hymn whose tune was originally associated with these lyrics. 1. To Anacreon in Heav’n, where he sat in full glee, a few Sons of Harmony sent a petition,
Maggie’s Argument Against Atheism
Oddly enough, I have never really struggled with belief in God.
Slovakia!
The government of Slovakia granted the Church official recognition on October 18.
Two ladies
As soon as my friend said I was a Mormon, the two ladies wanted to know more.
Sunday School Lesson #43
Lesson 43: Ezekiel 18, 34, and 37
Sunday School Lesson #42
Lesson 42: Jeremiah 16, 23, 29, 31
Johanna Tippett Porter: In Active Service to the End
LDS missionaries working on the Isle of Wight, off the coast of England, found the Tippett family in 1859.
St. Martin’s Day
Or, Notes from a modern theocracy Continuing the periodic series on Holiday Envy, November 11 is St. Martin’s Day.
Welcome Aboard, Ardis!
In case it may have escaped your notice, Ardis Parshall has been posting and commenting a great deal lately. Actually, she’s so quickly made herself at home here at Times and Seasons, with her superb series of historical posts, as well as her reflections on everything from running a business to doing archival research, all from her own unique yet thoroughly Mormon perspective, that it almost escaped our notice as well. But not quite! So allow this to be a somewhat delayed official introduction of Ardis to the Bloggernacle as T&S’s newest permablogger. Welcome, Ardis! (We’ll be getting you your own set of keys any day now.)
“For this [blog] was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.”
It appears that the reported demise of the Millennial Star blog may have been premature. The blog appears to be alive once more.
What If The Woman Taken In Adultery . . . Wasn’t?
In the abstract, there are three possibilities: she was guilty, she was innocent, or she was raped.
To accompany Kaimi’s post
How about lyrics which folks (especially children) often mis-hear? My mother was terribly ashamed of her parents when she saw that cherries were included for Sunday lunch, since they had just sung, “Cherries hurt you, cherries hurt you…” (Cherish virtue…)
Fixing the Minimum Wage
It seems pretty clear that we are heading for a hike in the minimum wage. For the many of us who care about poverty reduction, which would be basically all of us, this could be a big deal. The problems with the minimum wage are that it:
Grace shall be, as your day
I was well into my twenties before I finally deciphered one particular line from I Need Thee Every Hour. It was a line that I had certainly sung a hundred times or more: “No tender voice like thine can peace afford.”