Sorry about missing last week, folks! We spent the weekend in Boston (as you can see from the photographic evidence here and here), and I meant to get back in time to do my usual weekend roundup, but didn’t. Fortunately, it was conference weekend, so I didn’t miss much, and…
Category: General Conference
General Conference predictions
Back in the days when I paid attention to General Conference, I always attended the priesthood session with my wife’s father and brother. I enjoyed the tradition of returning to report some fantastic fictional revelation to my wife and her mother. I call this a tradition because I did it…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Conference Edition!
You can learn a lot of interesting things from reading the Bloggernacle. For example, I learned that this very weekend is the weekend of the LDS semi-annual “General Conference”. So far the Bloggernacle’s coverage of this event has been pretty positive, which can mean one of three things: (1) the…
Another Mormon celebrity in the family!
I’ll bet you thought John Hamer was my only celebrity Mormon sibling! Well, if you watched the Saturday session of General Conference attentively, you’ve learned otherwise! Recognize the singer in the center? That’s right, it’s my sister the glamorous Mormon diva!!! đ
Children — not possessions, not position, not prestige — are our greatest status symbols
OK, I know I probably shouldn’t be posting my own personal complaint about the talk that has already been deconstructed all over the Bloggernacle. But all this debate over career vs. getting your whites whiter than white seems to have missed what (to me) was the most disturbing thing in…
Who knew the spirit is so smart?
I caught this Daily Herald summary of General Conference and one point stood out to me: Apparently Richard G. Scott is of the opinion that the “spirit” can reveal “absolute truths.” Here’s the quote from the news report: Elder Richard G. Scott of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles discussed…
Conference, Ex-Mo Style
I know this image was posted on here earlier. But I had to use it again. I don’t know why, but this image spoke to me as I thought of my post for today. It takes the edge off of the nostalgic ennui that I feel in the fall when…
“Husbands, treasure your wives. They are your most valuable possessions”
As difficult as it may be to believe for some non mormons, this statement was not made in the height of 1950s America or during the nineteenth century abolitionist movement. It was made this past April 2007 by the leader of the mormon church, whom mormons believe talks directly to…
A response to the General Conference remarks regarding Divorce:
DOCTRINE[1], GUIDANCE, Or Dilution of Doctrine, or Lip service? In the last session of LDS General Conference, both Elder Oaks and Elder Faust gave talks that mentioned divorce.
Boyd Packer About Sex, Gender and the Priesthood
I want to thank my friend Todd for inspiring this post. After excommunicating the group of LDS historians and feminist theologians known as the September Six, LDS Apostle Boyd Packer explained why in his opinion women do not need the priesthood during the 1993 October General Conference. Once a man…