A Mormon Image: Generations
In honor of my grandfather, who passed away yesterday at the tender age of 93, I thought I’d post a few photographs. He was a kind and generous man who was always upright in his dealings and loved to surround himself with family. He was not a member of the Church (my mother is a convert), but he led a moderate and principled life that will continue to serve as an example to me. His memory will be carried by his children and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren. This last fall, my wife and I were lucky enough to sneak away to Switzerland with our son and spend some time with him while he was still in good health. Here we are visiting the grave of my late grandmother–my grandfather’s wife of 65 years. by Marc Bohn ___ These pictures are part of our ongoing series highlighting Mormon images.
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A Mormon Image: Generations
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Non-proliferation Conference. Shattering a taboo dating from the Cold War, the Obama administration revealed Monday the size of the American nuclear arsenal — 5,113 weapons — as it embarked on a campaign for tougher measures against countries with hidden nuclear programs.
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We are Exiles Who Follow an Alien, Undocumented, Migrant Messiah
There’s a scene in the film Food, Inc. that reveals the hypocrisy at the heart of U.S
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We are Exiles Who Follow an Alien, Undocumented, Migrant Messiah
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NYC Failed Car Bomb. The car bomb discovered in Times Square would probably have killed or maimed many people, police officials and federal investigators said Sunday as they began assembling evidence collected from the homemade device, video surveillance footage, and the vehicle itself.
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Taking Happiness at Face Value
“…wickedness never was happiness.” — Alma 41:10 I’ve only ever heard this phrase from the scriptures used as an encouragement toward righteousness — “if you are wicked, then you won’t be happy, so be righteous!” But reducing the scripture to a causal relationship like “if ( wicked ) then { not happy }” necessarily implies the contrapositive: “if ( happy ) then { not wicked }”. Both of these readings reduce the rich context of the passage to a logical proposition, and these sorts of shallow reductions don’t often translate well to the complexity of real life. Even so, I think it’s worth considering the passage from both directions
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Taking Happiness at Face Value
Requesting Priesthood Lines of Authority
In the course of an interesting email exchange today, I learned that a good friend and I had had similar experiences in trying to track down our priesthood lines of authority. After being ordained Elders, we both asked our fathers if they had copies of their lines of authority, both said they thought they did somewhere, but both ultimately could never come up with them
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Requesting Priesthood Lines of Authority
Slavery is Alive and Well … For Now
It’d be nice if enacting a law would solve the problem, wouldn’t it? Sadly, despite slavery being declared illegal in nearly every country in the world, it persists—a blight and cancer on our communities, our consciences, and our common humanity.
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Slavery is Alive and Well … For Now
LDS Church unveils green meetinghouse prototype
This week the presiding bishop of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints unveiled the first solar-powered LDS meetinghouse in Farmington, Utah. The building is one of five green prototypes being developed for LDS chapels in Utah, Arizona, and Nevada—and the building program will eventually expand across the US and around the world.
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LDS Church unveils green meetinghouse prototype
Why My Conservative Business Friends Support Immigration Reform
Recently I turned to a conservative, white businessman friend to get some insight into how immigrants enhance our culture. He might seem like a strange person to go to for insight into immigrants, but over the years I have come…
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Why My Conservative Business Friends Support Immigration Reform
OT Lesson 17 Study Notes: Deuteronomy 6; 8; 11; 32:1-4, 15-18, 30-40, 45-47
Background Feel free to skip this background discussion if you aren’t interested in it. You can skip to the study questions without losing anything.
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OT Lesson 17 Study Notes: Deuteronomy 6; 8; 11; 32:1-4, 15-18, 30-40, 45-47
Luke’s Spiritual Journey
I’ve asked several of my friends from different religious backgrounds to share the stories of their spiritual paths through life — what they believe, and why. This is the response of my friend Luke
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Luke’s Spiritual Journey
A Mormon Image: Joy On A Cattle Truck
This is a group of mostly single Latter-day Saints from the D.C. area who volunteering in a remote Guatemalan village in the Polochic Valley– one of the poorest in the world. Many of the villagers from this area are themselves Latter-day Saints.
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A Mormon Image: Joy On A Cattle Truck
‘Jim Wallis Loves His Enemies’ (With a Little Help From His Friends)
When a Fox News pundit who has helped force the resignation of White House advisers is promising he’ll be “hammering hard and all through the night, over and over,” it’s good to have some friends standing beside you.
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Jesus-Focused Conversations in Occupied Bethlehem
I arrived in Bethlehem last Sunday evening to speak at a conference called “Christ at the Checkpoint: Theology in the Service of Peace and Justice.” I’m not a theologian or an expert in anything. In fact, it’s likely that I…
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A Flawed Step Forward on Health-Care Reform
We all know how much the media love conflict, and they have fallen in love with the health-care debate. Yesterday’s New York Times story on the final House vote expected this weekend simply said, “Showdown Near.” That says it all about…
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A Flawed Step Forward on Health-Care Reform
We All Share Responsibility for Going to War — and for Stopping It
A comment on my recent blog about The Hurt Locker really got my blood boiling. Fortunately, after having a good chat with another combat veteran, I realized that my frustration was not really with that particular comment, but the fundamental sentiment…
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We All Share Responsibility for Going to War — and for Stopping It
Jon Stewart: ‘How Oscar Romero Got Disappeared by Right-Wingers…for the Second Time’
Jon Stewart has pointed out that one of the revisions of the recent Texas high school curriculum controversy is the omission of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero from a list of great political/moral figures of the twentieth century. It saddens me to think that there…
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America’s Health Care: Paying More for Poorer Outcomes
Soon, they tell us, Congress will or will not pass a health-care bill. Detractors think universal health care will raise health-care costs, lower health-care outcomes, and dangerously increase the power of the federal government.
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America’s Health Care: Paying More for Poorer Outcomes
Do Titles Matter?
There is a long-standing tradition in the church to use honorific titles identifying priesthood positions for men at just about every level beginning when they become missionaries. Elder, Bishop, President. Women — even those who hold similarly named positions — are generally referred to as simply “sister.” In my 45 years in the church, I can recall less than a handful of times when a woman was referred to by title
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Do Titles Matter?
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