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Category Archives: LDS Church
Keeping Up with the Mormons
In the Mormon Coffee discussion regarding recent changes to Gospel Principles, one commenter wrote, ” The Church started out and was against something, and in a few years, they were for the thing they were against, a few years later … Continue reading
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Raising the Bar: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
LDS missionary Jose Calzadillas finished his mission to Ohio last month (April 2009). When he tried to board a plane to head for home, he was arrested on the charge of being an undocumented immigrant. Mr. Calzadillas, like all other … Continue reading
Mormonism’s First-Ever Black African General Authority
History was made at the April 2009 General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. During this conference, the LDS Church appointed its first black African as a General Authority. Twenty-three years after joining the LDS Church … Continue reading
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Mormon Church Growth & Retention
(I will be traveling over the next few days. This will be the last Mormon Coffee post until August 7th or 8th.) On July 18th the LDS Church released this to the press: SALT LAKE CITY — The Church of … Continue reading
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Twelve Million Mormons
This morning when I checked my email inbox I found a message with a subject line that read, “Millions of customers can’t be wrong!” The message was a spam ad for “alluring pheromones” that promise to attract women of all … Continue reading
LDS Growth Statistics
Last week the Associated Press reported: “The Assemblies of God, the Mormon church and the Roman Catholic Church were the fastest-growing major denominations in the United States last year, according to the just-released 2006 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches. … Continue reading
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