For some reason the other night I was poking around the White House web site, and came across the proclamations page. Apparently today (January 16, 2009) is Religious Freedom Day in the United States. I haven’t read anything on- or offline about this. The proclamation is worded very well. I particularly appreciated the following: Our
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No Comments » As I mentioned before, I get emails that go to the Family History Consultants. An email I got a while ago had a link to an address that Elder L. Whitney Clayton gave to Family History Consultants in the Salt Lake, Jordan River, and Bountiful temple districts in late 2007. The email includes a link
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Orson Scott Card has a great article up on the Mormon Times web site. He gives a lengthy intro to a couple of theories (shaken baby syndrome, global warming, recovered memories, etc) and how if we get too caught up with something, we can run into problems when that thing changes. I might not be
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Someone at work saw this in a travel trade magazine. He’s commented before that he will occasionally see information promoting Salt Lake City as a destination for conferences. The ad has a nice illustration of temple square. I didn’t say this to my co-worker, but it made me wonder why the Church does this… Is
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In conjunction with a DVD that was released by the Church for the youth, there is a new accompanying web site. The site has videos from the DVD, songs, pictures, and more. This is all to help emphasize the new theme. The site can be reached at http://abrandnewyear.lds.org/ or http://abrandnewyear.com/ I have updated the Official
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Last week mental_floss blog posted about 10 Religious Holidays Not Yet Exploited by Hallmark. Coming in at #4 was Pioneer Day. After a brief history of the Church, it describes the day as follows: And what better reason to set aside Pioneer Day every July 24 for some fireworks, picnics, Mormon folk music, and, of
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