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Mormon Stories and John Dehlin’s Mystery Cycle

Holly, December 22, 2025December 27, 2025

Over the past five years or so, I’ve tried every so often to track down a particular conversation here at MSP about one of John Dehlin’s failures to tamp down a crisis he created for himself. Something about it nagged at me, and I wanted to review it. I was…

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BYU Honor Code open thread

Chino Blanco, March 3, 2011March 3, 2011

No links. Just a rant. And then the floor is yours, commenters. Anything goes, but reminiscence and nostalgia related to good times at BYU are highly encouraged. 😉 But before that party gets started, let me just say … My sense is that Brandon Davies has been offered up as…

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  1. Donna Banta on Thanks Gloria!September 15, 2026

    There were years of cognitive dissonance, at least in my case. I told myself that the church was a compassionate,…

  2. chanson on New church schedule! Good? Bad? Inspired?September 14, 2026

    I can't help but feel like in today's church you wouldn't even have had the opportunity to mention Santa's not…

  3. chanson on Thanks Gloria!September 14, 2026

    That's wild that she thought they wouldn't excommunicate her. That's their first line of defense against people who provide any…

  4. Holly on Thanks Gloria!September 14, 2026

    One day in seminary we had a substitute, Sister Daley, who insisted we all write letters to all the Arizona…

  5. Holly on New church schedule! Good? Bad? Inspired?September 14, 2026

    In the 1980s I was fired from teaching Relief Society in my Institute ward because I mentioned in a lesson…

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