Column: We should all talk about God as freely as Mormons Daily Eastern News I was in the middle of unpacking boxes on Friday when two Mormon boys came knocking on my apartment door. Most people would find this an annoying distraction, if not an imposition, but I'll admit feeling a sense of giddiness when I opened the door to ... |
Entries from August 2011 ↓
Column: We should all talk about God as freely as Mormons – Daily Eastern News
August 21st, 2011 — Uncategorized
B.C. could learn a lesson from Jeffs prosecution – Montreal Gazette
August 21st, 2011 — Uncategorized
B.C. could learn a lesson from Jeffs prosecution Montreal Gazette Jeffs, 55, a fundamentalist Mormon leader, was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted this month of child sexual assault and aggravated child sexual assault against two girls, one 12 years old, the other 14. At the age of 15, the older girl ... |
Mormonism as a business model – Deseret News
August 21st, 2011 — Uncategorized
 Deseret News | Mormonism as a business model Deseret News Referring to Mormons as "the original organization men," Boston Globe columnist James Carroll looks at LDS history and doctrine today on the Globe's website and concludes that "outsiders attempting to understand the ... |
Washington Post examines Mormon church’s ‘powerful use of the Internet’ – Deseret News
August 21st, 2011 — Uncategorized
 Wall Street Journal | Washington Post examines Mormon church's 'powerful use of the Internet' Deseret News In an article called "Mormons using the Web to control their own image," Post writer Michelle Boorstein indicated that "image experts and researchers who study how people search the Web have been impressed by the church's powerful use of the Internet. ... The ultimate organization men A True Insider at 'Book of Mormon' THIS WEEK Web Extra: Huntsman on a Mormon Controversy |
Mormons in the Media: Holy places, fasting and an auction – Deseret News
August 21st, 2011 — Uncategorized
 Deseret News | Mormons in the Media: Holy places, fasting and an auction Deseret News As an example, he wrote, “It is difficult to imagine Roman Catholics without the Vatican with its St. Peter's Cathedral or Latter-day Saints without the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City. An 1830 first edition of The Book of Mormon will be auction ... |
Mormon leaders meet with El Salvador president – Deseret News
August 20th, 2011 — Uncategorized
 Deseret News | Mormon leaders meet with El Salvador president Deseret News At the conclusion of their visit, President Eyring presented Funes with a bronze statue depicting Mormon pioneers walking alongside a covered wagon. He told the president that his own ancestors were part of that pioneer experience. ... |
The ultimate organization men – Boston Globe
August 20th, 2011 — Uncategorized
Wall Street Journal | The ultimate organization men Boston Globe THOUGH PERSECUTED early on, the Mormon religion not only survived but thrived. The faith has found a way to make God and a genius for commerce work together. The reasons begin not in business but in theology. For the Mormon God is not ... Once Upon A Time in Quincy: Town provided refuge for persecuted Mormons A True Insider at 'Book of Mormon' Five myths about Mormonism |
THIS WEEK Web Extra: Huntsman on a Mormon Controversy – ABC News (blog)
August 20th, 2011 — Uncategorized
THIS WEEK Web Extra: Huntsman on a Mormon Controversy ABC News (blog) You're Mormon. Until you were 18, your church had racist rules. It would not allow anyone with African ancestry to become a priest and blacks were also banned from participating in certain Mormon ordinances, such as temple marriages. ... |
Joanna Brooks Proves That Feminist, Gay-Friendly Mormons Can Exist – Autostraddle
August 20th, 2011 — Uncategorized
Joanna Brooks Proves That Feminist, Gay-Friendly Mormons Can Exist Autostraddle “Individual Mormon families donated millions — by some estimates more than $20 million — of their own money to the campaign.” So what could possibly be redemptive about a religious group who allegedly uses Pavlovian “treatments” on students at ... |
Young Mormons Teach the Faith in Tiverton and Little Compton – Patch.com
August 20th, 2011 — Uncategorized
Young Mormons Teach the Faith in Tiverton and Little Compton Patch.com Elder Dylan Lawter of Las Vegas, NV, left, and Elder Cesar McQueen of Christ Church, New Zealand, are Mormon missionaries, covering the Tiverton and Little Compton areas. Sitting at one of the tables outside Black Goose Café ... |