Recent Links
- ‘Mormonia’ one of the 7 Somewhat United States of Facebook
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- Huge Church Project Renews Downtown, and Debate – NYTimes.com
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- Panel on PBS documentary “The Mormons” at UVU February 12th
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Filmmaker Helen Whitney will participate with several local scholars who appear in the film. #
- John Dehlin lists resources, suggestions and links for people struggling with faith in the LDS church
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- T&S mention in US News & World Report
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- Oakland Stake Tries to Heal Prop 8 Rifts
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- Probably the most unusual Mormon you’ll meet this week.
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- Monogamy does not mean what you think it means, for many gay couples.
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- Two cheers for Tim Tebow … from a WaPo columnist.
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- International Week Coming on M*
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- Wrong approach: criminal homicide for provoked miscarriage
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- BYU Grad Lorianne Updike Toler finds early draft of the Constitution in Philadelphia (HT: Sheldon Gilbert)
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- LDS Church misses deadline, declared illegal in Tajikistan
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- Ballard on the media
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- Cameron Sawyer doing for Orem, Utah what Jared Hess did for Preston, Idaho. An 18-Minute Short. Enjoy.
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- “That’s alright! That’s okay! We’ll baptize your dead someday!”
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- Study finds focus on abstinence in sex-ed classes can delay sexual activity
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- Association for Mormon Letters 2010 Annual Meeting Info
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February 27, 2010 #
- DOJ Clears Bybee, Others of Unprofessional Claims for Writing Torture Memo
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- What’s the secret to an “oak” anniversary? “[P]rayer, love and unity. That, and a little kissing on the sofa, when the children aren’t around.”
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- Internet Argument Techniques 101 (HT: Robert Gibbons)
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- Stranger than Forgiveness | The Red Brick Store
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- BOM-era fortifications? or earth art?
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- Marriott school a buzzin’
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- Utah Lawmakers Won’t Take Up a Ban on Discrimination Against Gays
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- Very thoughtful discussion about Adam, the fall, and interfaith marriage.
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- Missionaries die in Romania
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- Excellent news: Exponent II resumes publication, and calls for submissions.
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- Who is mourning J.D. Salinger?
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- Mormon Church declared illegal in Tajikistan
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- True or bizarre?
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- National Geographic spread on FLDS polygamists
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- It’s official… BCC has been damned
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- How to bring an end to the war over sex ed
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- Thread, Constitution hanging by
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- Who R LDS? They R LDS!
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- Payson, Utah, temple announced
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- The Niblets are here! Vote early, vote often, and most importantly, Vote for Pedro.
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- What Could You Live Without?
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- “In many ways women are their own worst enemies — we want men to do it, but we want to tell them how they should do it”
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- “In the end, we all want a wife. “
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- Hanging by a thread…
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- Church take on Cowan Prop 8 Film: “It appears that accuracy and truth are rare commodities in this film”
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- Segullah asks: What do you do when a spouse leaves the church?
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- Women’s independence up, divorce rates down
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- Ben McAdams talks about politics and faith with the SL Trib
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- Orlando Sentinel spotlights Bronco Mendenhall and his “unusual” approach to coaching
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- Richard Dutcher talks Mormon cinema as the 10th anniversary of God’s Army approaches
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- First Presidency Appeals to Church Members to Help People in Haiti
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- SF Chronicle: “[I]n a democracy based on individual religious and political freedoms, seeking to exclude – or completely ban – others for not sharing your politics is just as wrong.”
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- The wife responds to “possibly the most awesomely terrible mission letter in history”
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- “I smiled because I was free – I smiled because I was alive.”
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- Three Facebook privacy settings you should check now.
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- Possibly the most awesomely terrible mission letter in history.
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- LDS former telecom exec to challenge scandal-ridden AK Rep. Don Young
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- Program for the Brazilian Mormon Studies Conference this Saturday
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- In which your author corrects Andrew Sullivan on his use of the “plausible deniability” language.
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- J. Thomas points to Prop 8, dissenting in part in Citizens United over mandatory disclosure and reporting (Pg. 178)
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- George Will on “the curse of opportunity.”
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- Political, gender, and religious typecasting. So what is it that Mormons do?
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- Prop 8 proponents arguing that two lesbian parents are “substantially indistinguishable” from a heterosexual couple? (ht:sb2)
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(Argument may be limited to logos) #
- 2000 plaintiffs’ exhibits in Prop 8 case (ht: Chino)
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- Feast upon… the Word?
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Or, how to capitalize on tragedy to score some advertising. #
- Austin Collie in focus…
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- So long David O. McKay Center…
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- BYU scientists convert matter into Mormonism
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- The Jewelry Commercials of 2009: A Retrospective
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- Mormon Stories blog & podcast to return
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- Oxford Press and Mormon Scholars
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- The forgotten origins of the veil of forgetfulness.
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- Daily Universe: Reid awarded 2009 ‘Mormon of the Year’; students unsure
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- The true cause of the Haiti earthquake: A pact with the Devil (ht: EmJen)
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- Lengthy Reid Profile in the NYT: “Reid Faces Battles in Washington and at Home”
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- Game Change: Why Harry Reid Said What He Said – Video – TIME.com
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- Las Vegas Review-Journal notes Reid being named Mormon of the Year.
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- “The doctrines of the Restored Gospel are what should govern our worldview as Mormons, not the convoluted inferences drawn by fundamentalist creedal Christians from their Bibolatry.”
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- Join the “Most likely to get your email account hacked” group!
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- Gallup: Mormons most conservative religious group
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- “because knowing your christian princess is waiting is half the battle” (hat tip: Sheldon)
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- Marriage & Redemption: Mormon Polygamy in the Congressional Imagination, 1862-1887
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- The natural boy… (hat tip: GST)
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- Liveblogging the California SSM case (hat tip: Sheldon)
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- Ted Olson’s eloquent iteration of the conservative case for gay marriage.
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- The Salt Lake Tribune on the “Mormon of the Year”
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- and BCC names their “Gentile of the Year”
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- BCC Post: Harry Reid is the Mormon of the Year
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He is, in short, big news… #
- Reid’s actions speak louder than his gaffe
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- No real-time video coverage of “the Prop 8 trial.”
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- Ready? Aim! Hit the fly!
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NPR Morning Edition, January 9, 2010. #
- Sacrament of the sneer: how the secular media disses religion.
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- Kristof discusses the links between religion and women’s oppression: “While religion is part of the problem, it can also be part of the solution.”
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