Good thing Yahoo! Answers is around to help people with these pressing questions (don’t forget this one)…
Are any of the latter day saints still alive?
Check out this Yahoo!Answers question and the responses… Are any of the latter day saints still alive? Just wondering.
Diversity, tolerance, and choice
I attended our Stake General Priesthood Meeting on Sunday Night. There were several speakers, with the Stake President being the concluding speaker. He spoke about a number of topics, and at one point he talked about how some of the school districts in the area will be modifying their curriculum to teach more about same-gender
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What’s Love Got to Do With It
A couple of months ago the Toronto Star report on a recent study on relationships, love, and marriage. The study “tracked nearly 2,500 couples – married or living together – from 2001 to 2007 to identify factors associated with those who remained together, compared with those who divorced or separated.” Here are a few of
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Mormon.org sponsors “100+ useful bookmarklets”?
I commented back in June about how a commercial/ad for the Church showed up on CNN while I was letting some videos play. One of the entertainment news videos that came up was about Lindsay Lohan posting a nude picture of herself on Twitter. Well, here is another weird one. I followed Digg link to
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A recent Sacrament Meeting Talk – Conversion and The Ship of Theseus
One of the things that does separate us from other Church’s is the fact that we don’t have the same person giving a sermon each week. Most members are usually given an opportunity to speak in Sacrament Meeting. As bishop, I usually speak 4-6 times a year. A few of those are “big” talks. These
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A recommend to move into a singles ward?
I have a friend who is a bishop of another ward, and he had a student recently move. This student is a “mid-single”, and was told that the Single Adult ward he tried to go to wouldn’t request his records until the former bishop wrote a letter of recommendation. I won’t give the name of
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$3M show gives Hawaii center ‘breath of life’
I’ve never been to Hawaii, but I’d love to go. While there, I would definitely want to go to the The Polynesian Cultural Center. This article in the Business First chain of newspapers talks about a new attraction that opened in August (the article was from July): One of Hawaii’s top visitor attractions will debut
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Play ball! ‘Mormon Night’ is big in the big leagues
About a month ago Mormon Times had a nice article about “Mormon Night” at various Major League Baseball ball parks. I’m a huge baseball fan, and live close to Toronto, so it’d be great if the Blue Jays did that. A couple of years ago the missionaries sang the national anthems, and members could get
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Meeting with Brother Adrian Ochoa
In April, the YM General Presidency was changed. Brother David L. Beck was called as the general president of the Young Men, with Brother Larry M. Gibson as first counselor and Brother Adrian Ochoa as second counselor. I had the opportunity to attend a training meeting with Brother Ochoa a few weeks ago. For the
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