Monthly Archives: May 2007

Really — What is Mormonism? Most Evangelicals Would Be Surprised.

On May 31st Christianity Today online posted an article which addresses the issue of Mitt Romney and Mormonism, asking, “Can conservative Protestants vote for a member of what they consider a cult?” The article is co-written by Mormon professor Robert … Continue reading

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Latter-day Saints Don’t Care for Sugar-coated Mormon History

Sunday’s Deseret News (27 May) published the results of an email survey conducted by the LDS Department of Family and Church History. “LDS in survey call for unvarnished history” reports that active Latter-day Saints want their church to provide a … Continue reading

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Preach the Gospel? Don’t Bother.

The March 17th issue of Church News included an article about the LDS Church in Yonkers, New York. The article highlighted the work of a senior missionary couple that sparked “needed growth” of the Church in that area.According to the … Continue reading

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So is Frank Pignanelli admitting Mormons are bigots?

I apologize. I really was hoping to move on from this soapbox, but I could not pass up commenting on a recent article that appeared in the Deseret News titled “Romney campaign has LDS in spotlight.” Here, Frank Pignanelli starts … Continue reading

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IOUs of Mormon History

On May 10th at Promontory Summit near Brigham City, Utah, visitors celebrated the 138th anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike which completed the transcontinental railroad in 1869. The day before the commemoration Lee Benson of Deseret Morning News … Continue reading

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Joseph Smith for President

There’s another movie about Mormonism in the works. A French magazine reports, A Mormon President, the first documentary film to explore the Mormon Prophet, Joseph Smith’s campaign for the US Presidency and its implications for the candidacy of another Mormon, … Continue reading

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Anti-LDS Bias

On Saturday, 17 May, LDS Church-owned Deseret News ran a story titled, “Anti-LDS bias running high” in which was reported the findings of a two-year study done by the San Francisco think tank Institute for Jewish and Community Research.The survey, … Continue reading

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The Awful Works of Abraham

A decade after plural marriage was announced publicly in a special session of conference, Brigham Young declared, “Why do we believe in and practise polygamy? Because the Lord introduced it to his servants in a revelation given to Joseph Smith, … Continue reading

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Shame on Sharpton, Shame on Romney

There are times when listening to people in the public arena that I feel like I’m back on the playground at Bostonia elementary school in the 1960s. Case in point: the “Reverend” Al Sharpton decides to take a swipe at … Continue reading

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Regarding Holland’s remark about hate-filled DVDs

On the BYU NewsNet blog it stated that Mormon Apostle Jeffrey Holland was the keynote speaker at “The Utah Valley celebration of the National Day of Prayer.” The article reported: The keynote speaker of the evening, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland … Continue reading

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