I am not an expert or scholar, but I love Church History. I try to read as much as I can, and it doesn’t matter how obscure or odd things may seem, I just love it. None of the “controversial” things have bothered me at all. In fact, I often find comfort in knowing that [...]

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The Director of the Internet Coordination Group for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Larry Richman, runs a blog called ldsWebGuy. Yesterday he posted that according to BlogPulse, Gordon B. Hinckley was the 3rd most referenced person in the blogosphere on Monday.

As you can see from the screenshot, almost all of the top [...]

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Compared to Stephen Colbert’s “conspiracy theory” bit, Glenn Beck of Headline News and the self-titled radio show, had a much more compassionate tribute to President Hinckley.

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I can’t decide whether this is funny, sad, mean, or none of the above. On Monday night Stephen Colbert had a bit on his show where he said that either President Monson or his (Stephen’s) own writers killed President Hinckley.

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The Daily Universe is the newspaper at BYU. They have a special section about the life of President Hinckley that can be downloaded from the BYU web site in PDF format. It looks pretty good.

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I was reading a blog posting at By Common Consent last night, and someone posted a one-line comment that said President Hinckley had died. It seemed kind of random, but I went to the Salt Lake Tribune web site and there was nothing there. Deseret News wouldn’t load at all, so I figured something was [...]

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For years now I’ve had plans to start a web site where I can post my thoughts, impressions, and links to useful Church-related material. I registered the Mormonopia name a while ago, and I’ve finally put something up. If you’re wondering about the name, here’s how I look at it:
Mormon - This is the nickname [...]

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