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Troy Williams @ Sunstone 2011: Thoughts on the Sacred and Profane

Chino Blanco, September 15, 2011September 16, 2011

Troy tried to buck me up after my latest mini-meltdown over l’affaire Lyman and it reminded me that I need to remember to catch Tabloid (91% “Fresh”!) at my earliest convenience. Here’s Troy riffin’ at Sunstone (go show their Youtube channel some love) on his role in the Errol Morris…

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Top-Secret Mormon Web Traffic Stats Revealed!!

Chino Blanco, January 24, 2011May 17, 2011

Check out the official December 2010 web analytics that LDS Inc. doesn’t want you to see: How many people visit Church sites? The family of official Church sites (LDS.org, Mormon.org, FamilySearch.org, etc.), gets about seven million unique visitors per month. What are the biggest Church sites? FamilySearch.org is our biggest…

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Church Handbook of Instructions – 2010 version available online

profxm, November 11, 2010January 15, 2011

Not sure who or why, but you can download a full scan of the Church Handbook of Instructions – 2010 version here: http://martinluther537.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/2010-church-handbook-of-instructions-book-1a.pdf http://martinluther537.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/2010-church-handbook-of-instructions-book-2a.pdf Here’s his summary of what is in them and why he’s doing it: http://martinluther537.wordpress.com/

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Mormon homophobia is so pass

profxm, October 25, 2010November 9, 2011

Even major corporations in Utah have seen the benefits of equality, like Intermountain Healthcare, which extended “domestic partner” benefits to same-sex couples last week. Props to IHC! Of course, what I mean by pass is that it is really only pass in corporate America to be homophobic. That same is…

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the elusiveness of the LDS Newsroom

Alan, October 15, 2010May 17, 2011

You know what’s interesting is that the LDS Newroom is currently in beta format, which means some old articles don’t exist anymore. For example, Bruce Hafen’s speech to Evergreen last year is gone. There’s this page that says Hafen gave a speech, but then you can’t access the actual speech…

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Interview with Daymon Smith, author of “The Book of Mammon”

chanson, June 4, 2010October 20, 2010

LDS anthropologist Daymon Smith has done some fascinating research on the history of correlation in the CoJCoL-dS and has written an entertaining and informative book about working at the Church Office Building (which I reviewed here). He’s also been kind enough to do an interview for us here at MSP….

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