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As I was graduating from BYU with my MBA I got a piece of advice from the assistant dean, herself a single mom whose husband left after she put him...
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For the time being, I believe it is literally impossible to answer these questions appropriately, especially because the Church is far from transparent with its financial information. . . .
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Text in pink is only in the YW version; text in blue is only in the YM version. It’s more than just taking one lesson and adding/subtracting priesthood to it....
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. . . they want their magazine back.
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All those in favor of building a new sports stadium, please bring $100 cash and come down this Saturday and Sunday to help pour concrete. . .
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In the famous Stanford Marshmallow Experiment (1972), Professor Walter Mischel gave four year-old children a marshmallow, and instructed them that if they waited twenty minutes without eating it, they would...
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Why do we have such a hard time admitting to the realities of parenthood? This morning a dear friend of mine who has just given birth to her second baby...
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I love getting books in the mail. No seriously: I feel like no one could possibly understand how much I love it. It doesn’t happen often enough, but when we...
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Yesterday on ‘Rogue Cinema’ I wrote about one of my Granddad’s favourite films, the 1955 version of Oklahoma!, and pondered how this representation of the American West appealed to his...
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I watched the Twin Towers fall on TV, my oldest child safely ensconced in her kindergarten class. My toddler was playing with blocks nearby…. building towers and knocking them down. ...
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I was inspired by Andy’s post of churches around York several weeks back and decided to give it a shot where I live here in the Salt Lake area. I...
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This is a guest post from a favorite reader and commenter, Corktree. It may sound simplistic (or just serving of my purpose), but I’ve always read the parable of the...
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How much recompense can mythology – or even the scientific comforts of persistence of the body – provide in the face of human yearning?
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Legend has it that one of the roots of Valentine’s Day stem from a third century ban on marriage passed by Roman emperor Claudius II who thought married men made...
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For the most recent addition to the ‘Mormon Women Project’, Krisanne Hastings has interviewed Elaine Bradley, the drummer and backing vocalist for Billboard top #100 alternative rock band ‘Neon Trees’,...
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Today’s post is from a guest that we’ll call ‘White Cygnet’. I didn’t expect Black Swan to strike at my Mormon roots. I found the film both disturbing and moving...
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In her post today, Joanna offers an insightful analysis of Elder Oaks’ recent address, in context of the larger campaign he and other church leaders have been waging to call...
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A couple years ago, I sat in a Relief Society lesson at church about modesty. According to the rumor mill, this lesson was necessitated by the fact that some women...
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Madame Curie engages with the Garden of Eden story over on Sapphic Soliloquies, exploring a role-reversal where Adam stands as a mother figure to Eve that came from his side....
