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Spiritual History
General Relief Society President recently said at Women’s Conference in regards to the upcoming manual on the history of the Relief Society, “There are some things that have come out in that...
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Easing the transition from Young Women to Relief Society
So I understand we have a problem retaining our young adults, who tend to go inactive once they leave the youth program and transition to being adults in the church. The good news is that I don’t...
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Church-Hacker #4: The Fifth-Sunday Swap
We make it a yearly tradition on 5th Sundays to swap presidencies in Elders Quorum/Relief Society
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Church-Hacker #7: The End Time
Why is it acceptable to go over the allotted time in meetings, but taboo to end early? Shouldn't it be the other way around?
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Resource Constraints & Shifts In Religious Behavior Patterns
The recent issue of BYU Studies contains a paper written by my co-blogger Jonathan Stapley regarding the Relief Society’s burial services the early 1900′s. The paper addresses a decline in Relief...
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Chieko Okazaki (1926 – 2011)
What is the appropriate way to mourn the passing of an individual with such limitless optimism and cheer as Chieko Okazaki? How can our hearts not ache and rend at the loss of someone whose life deeply...
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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich lecture: “Stirring up LDS History” Live Blog
[caption id="attachment_31737" align="alignleft" width="180" caption="Laurel Thatcher Ulrich"][/caption] Sponsored by Sunstone and Friends of the Marriott Library at the University of Utah Relief...
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Poll: Home and Visiting Teaching edition
It’s that time of year again, vowing to lose ten pounds, read your scriptures daily, hold FHE, and become the ward’s world’s best home or visiting teacher! (poll below the fold) How does your ward...
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Some random thoughts about Relief Society
Last month I was visiting my father’s ward and happened to notice a blurb in the ward bulletin about the upcoming Relief Society birthday. It gave a (very) brief history of Relief Society’s origins...
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Review: Joanna Brooks, “The Book of Mormon Girl: Stories From an American Faith”
Title: The Book of Mormon Girl: Stories From an American Faith Author: Joanna Brooks Publisher: Self published (but not for long…) Genre: Memoir Year: 2012 Pages: 204 Binding: Paperback ISBN13:...
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Laying on of hands and other new church history website content
I don’t know if you are following all the new releases on the JSP and Church History websites, but much of it is completely fascinating. For instance, did you see this story about “A Bit of Old String:...
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A new (but actually old) list of suggestions for increasing opportunity for...
Look at that beautiful missionary choir! How about filling in some of the seats below them as well? Quiz time! When was the following suggested? “Within the Church, changes in four key areas would...
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Mormon Marriage Equality
Are men and women partners or competitors? What about in marriage? Do men feel threatened by wives with successful careers? Are Mormon marriages more equal or less equal than other marriages? Do...
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Plan of Salvation: Shark Edition
As I was reading chapter 3 the Joseph Fielding Smith manual for tomorrow, I came across the awesomest sentence fragment I have ever read in a Teachings of the Prophet manual. It also happens to be the...
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Many Are Chosen, But Few Are Called
In a well publicized pre-emptive move, the church issued a statement last week that women seeking tickets to the April 5 Priesthood session would be relegated to the “free speech zone,” traditionally...
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Emmeline B. Wells
MLP Mormon Lectionary Project With this post, the MLP inaugurates something we’ve been meaning to do for a while: use the lectionary format to celebrate specific LDS figures. In the spirit of the 1978...
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How to “know Brother Joseph again” using the First Vision
[Another part of my ongoing "Tips for Teachers" series. See the associated links here.] My friend’s ward has an interesting Elder’s Quorum lesson schedule and I’m not sure how wide-spread it is in...
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Temple Prep for Daughters: Brace Yourself
This post is an honest and personal admission of my raw feelings about attending the temple as a woman and my budding concerns as the mother of a daughter. As my daughter has entered Young Women this...
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Zina D. H. Young
Along with her close friend (and sister wife twice over) Eliza R. Snow, Zina D. H. Young was part of the power duo of Mormon women in the second half of the nineteenth century. Popular wisdom held that...
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Uchtdorf at the Women’s Session: Something for Everyone #ldsconf
The silver fox is my animal spirit guide at General Conference. Pres. Uchtdorf, aka the “Silver Fox” as he is known in my ward and probably everywhere else, hit yet another home run in the Women’s...
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