When we got to Rex’s parents’ house, the three boys immediately rushed upstairs to put their backpacks in Jared’s room. Rex’s mother met us in the entryway and took my jacket. “Hello, Lynn,” she said, “It’s nice to see you again.” Then she yelled up the staircase, “You boys come…
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See? There’s no problem. (TW continues…)
Once Grandma and Grandpa’s new business was cleared off the table and put away, I started showing everyone how to fold the little silver slips of paper into birds. I figured that it would be better to keep it simple and have everyone fold the same animal. With so many…
How I came to sympathize with the Mormons…
Step one was to finish my degree at BYU and go somewhere else. When you’re at BYU (or you’re a kid in a Mormon household), Mormonism seems huge and powerful (in a bad way, since LDS Inc. aspires to be kind of a mini taliban). As soon as I was…
WSJ on Mormon Contributions to Proposition 8
Jim Garlow, pastor of the evangelical Protestant Skyline Church near San Diego and a leading supporter of Proposition 8, said, “I would not, in all candor, have been meeting them or talking with them had it not been for” the marriage campaign. Rev. Garlow said he had developed a “friendship”…
How little do you know me? (TW continues…)
Friday morning April dropped off Rex to visit his family and dropped me off at Matt’s parents’ house to see if I could help with any of the preparations for the reception. April and Susan and little Judy set off to do some picnicking and nature-walks in the canyons. Read…
Temple Wedding begins
It looks so small from a distance. Read the rest of the story »
Nephites in the Amazon?
Here’s some good news for those Book of Mormon believers who’ve been hodling on to the “we just haven’t found them yet” theory of where all the Nephite cities went: Unlike ancient Andean civilisations, the Kuikuro and other indigenous peoples from the Amazon had little stone close at hand. They…
Thoughts of Nancy
It’s kind of a strange family history claim to fame: My great-great-great-great aunt, Nancy Winchester, was one of Joseph Smith’s youngest teen brides. She was fourteen or fifteen years old in 1842(3?) when she married the prophet; he was in his late thirties and was killed a year or so…
More about the LDS Church’s efforts on Proposition 8
John Remy has posted a letter In Which [he is] asked by LDS Church Representatives to Support Prop 8 Canvassing Efforts. Jana also has some comments on love and families. MoHoHawaii weighs in on the latest [press release] from 50 E N Temple St. And John Dehlin talks about preventing…
The Lord Helps Those Who Help Smite His Enemies
Remember California’s Proposition 8? Well, I hardly know what to make of this post…