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Don’t be mislead by my title, some of the greatest soldiers ever were of the Mormon faith… and Mormons make excellent soldiers, marines and sailors.  Our faith teaches loyalty, honesty, integrity, courage and all those other great values that the military emphasizes.  Mormons are incredibly patriotic!  If you don’t believe me, check out the Book of Mormon — about half the book is about wars and fighting for your beliefs and the freedom to worship.  But when it comes to military culture and tradition, we Mormons can stick out like a sore thumb. For those of you who don’t know much about the Mormon faith, we (the ones living our religion, anyway) don’t drink alcohol, coffee or tea.  We don’t smoke either.  And if you grew up in Utah, that Mormon culture is everywhere, especially consecrated in the small towns outside our state capital, Salt Lake City.  You won’t even find beer... Read the rest of this entry »

The headline here is revealing. So I’ve been reading yet another set of press articles, where “journalists” interview a Baptist pastor about the “Mormon” faith? (Deep breath.) Anyhow, there have been about a billion blog posts, where Mormons argue that their church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is a Christian church, because [...]  Read More →

Written by Brittany Spencer, a BYU student, studying a volume of scripture known as the Pearl of Great Price, which is written by prophets; members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints “Mormons” revere it as sacred text. This post comes from a book within the Pearl of Great Price known as The Book of Moses; it is an extraction from the translation of the Bible as revealed to Joseph Smith the Prophet, June 1830—February 1831. We Are All Blessed by Being Children of God the Father In a book of scripture, held sacred by Latter-day Saints “Mormons”, known as the Pearl of Great Price, we learn in Moses chapter one, that a vision Moses had begins after he has been caught up to a mountain. The phrase caught up seems to imply that Moses did not reach God’s presence entirely of his own accord. In addition, Moses could only endure God’s presence because “the glory of the Lord was upon [him]” (See Moses 1:31). These versus seem to imply that... Read the rest of this entry »

Written by Daniel Derricott, a BYU student, studying a volume of scripture known as the Pearl of Great Price, which is written by prophets; members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints “Mormons” revere it as sacred text. This post comes from a book within the Pearl of Great Price known as The Book of Moses; it is an extraction from the translation of the Bible as revealed to Joseph Smith the Prophet, June 1830—February 1831. Moses Learns about His Relationship With Heavenly Father In Moses’ vision of God in the Pearl of Great Price (a book revered as scripture by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) and in the account of Moses 1:1-23, he learned a great deal about his relationship with God. Moses’ learns it is one of Father and son and of the familial relationship he has with the Jesus Christ, the Messiah. At least four times in these verses, Moses is referred to as a son of God, three of which come from Heavenly Father... Read the rest of this entry »

Written by Amanda Keating, a BYU student, studying a volume of scripture known as the Pearl of Great Price, which is written by prophets; members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints “Mormons” revere it as sacred text. This post comes from a book within the Pearl of Great Price known as The Book of Moses; it is an extraction from the translation of the Bible as revealed to Joseph Smith the Prophet, June 1830—February 1831. Heavenly Father Knows Us All In a book of scripture, known as the Pearl of Great Price, Moses was shown the world by the very creator himself, Jesus Christ, and during this time he realized, to a degree, how insignificant he and all of mankind are compared to the greatness and many works of God (See Moses Chapter 1). This idea is supported by Moses saying “And for this cause I know that man is nothing, which thing I never had supposed” (see Moses 1:10). However, before Moses was shown some of the creations of God, He... Read the rest of this entry »

Everyday I read major news articles online, and have read many articles about our religion over the last couple of years.  The good news?  As a whole, journalists and news outlets are getting better and smarter about separating urban legends from facts.  It’s been an upward trend for a while.  It’s so refreshing! However, there are a few establishments who cannot resist the gutter sludge temptation to malign and sensationalize.  A couple of these major news organizations have a standard of journalism so low, they are commonly comfortable citing both half-facts and non-facts on a regular, ongoing basis. L. Tom Perry had this to say about such individuals and organizations last LDS Worldwide General Conference: “The Church is receiving more attention across the world than ever before. Members of the media write or talk about the Church every day, reporting on its many activities. Many of the most prominent news outlets in the United States regularly... Read the rest of this entry »

Missionary Me! I have been writing this blog for about 3 years now (wow, has it really been that long?), and most of my long time readers are well aware of my religious beliefs.  Some of you newer peeps, might not.  I am a Mormon.  I know I don’t talk about it a lot.  It isn’t because I am ashamed, because I am not.  I guess the reason I don’t talk about it much is because my religion is something that comes so natural to me, that I don’t have to talk about it, I just AM.  Everything I do and say is all part of what I believe.  I don’t have to cram religious doctrine down people’s throats for them to understand who I am and what I stand for. So who am I? I am opinionated.   I seek truth and reason.  Things have to make sense to me, and if they don’t I put them aside and search for the truth.  I don’t believe things simply because someone tells me to.  I want to be happy.... Read the rest of this entry »

I can’t believe how much I’ve seen the “Mormons” in the media thesedays. Whether it’s on the TV, news spots, news papers, blogs or internetarticles, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. With an award-winning satiricalmusical with Mormons as their main dish, those “I am a Mormon” TV spots and aMormon running as a GOP Presidential candidate… it kind of begs for all theattention right? Recently I’ve read several articles featuring the “darkside” ofMormonism or how Mormons don’t get the “real world”. Really? I find thesearticles very, for lack of a better word, irritating. Most of the time theyseem like they are grasping to make some point they can’t defend. I get to theend of the article and feel like they are missing their punch line. They gatherthe most random of rumors or the peculiararities of the faith and place themout of context. It seems they just want to point out every bad or strange thingthey’ve ever come across pertaining... Read the rest of this entry »

Snippets for Relief Society 2012 Use search term George Albert Smith to view more for this week or for other weeks This post is also “George Albert Smith – Lesson 3 (cont.)” The comment below is in response to a journalist named Bethany Blankley who wrote the article “Mormonism is not Christianity” over at Huffington Post. She then proceeded to name an exhaustive list of doctrinal differences between her Christian denomination and ours. Some of those doctrinal points were positively obscure and unknown to the average Christian. Several of her “Mormon” doctrinal points were skewed and incorrect. It was with this list of differences she triumphantly “proved” her article’s title. My response: “The problem is not whether all the minutiae doctrine is the same. The problem is whether “Christian­” refers to the minutiae doctrine or does it mean a follower of Christ? Most Christian people have no idea what you’re... Read the rest of this entry »

Life after Ministry has devoted a series of articles titled Mormon Dilemmas. Currently, 153 short blog articles attempt to provide information to counter the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Located in the Pacific Northwest, the … Continue reading →  Read More →

View of Grants Pass from my balcony. I was at Mt. Shasta all day yesterday (attempting to snowboard) with my kids.  Today, my daughter and I signed up for a cheese-making class (all day).  Tomorrow our podcast group meets.  Time has been swamped even more than usual and blogging has to go on the back burner for a few days. So I was thrilled to find this gem today…it fits! “There should be less wringing of hands and more loving arms around our families.”  -Elder Maxwell We all need an occaisional re-grounding and to be reminded what’s really important.  The only thing we’ll have 50 years from now and100 years from now are our memories of how we loved, how we acted and how we served.  None of the rest will stand. It is with great gratitude I belong to the LDS Church which keeps my worldly focus on my children and my husband and my heavenly focus on Christ.  It has blessed my life immeasurably.  Read More →

By Amy Choate-Nielsen Deseret News Published: Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012 7:00 p.m. MST David Letterman knows how to get a laugh.Like most comics, he riffs on the day’s news, deadpans the camera and revels in audacity.”Oh, did you hear about this?” the host of CBS’ Late Show with David Letterman asked his audience recently. “A campaign staffer on the Newt Gingrich campaign was fired because he was making negative comments about Mormons. I thought, now, wait a minute — isn’t Newt in favor of multiple wives?” Laughter rumbled from the audience followed by applause. The polygamy punch line is a familiar one when it comes to poking fun at Mormons — as though Mormons and polygamy are synonymous in mainstream media. Ironically, the practice that’s most linked to Mormons is a practice most Mormons oppose, according to a groundbreaking new study of Mormons in America released Thursday by the Pew Research Center‘s... Read the rest of this entry »