Yesterday was my first day in the midst of the koolaid-drinking Pepperdinians. (Aside: I told my Apple-coworkers that I felt that the Pepperdinians were a little koolaid for me and one responded, “Didn’t you find that when you came here…?” I hadn’t, but I’ve been drinking the Apple koolaid for a while, so hadn’t noticed.) [...]

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One of my cousins visited recently & we watched part of the opening ceremonies of the Olympics as well as Women’s Beach Volleyball, which she proclaimed to be simply “Olympic Porn”. I thought this was an entertaining commentary, especially in light of the video game based on beach volleyball. Until I realized that it was [...]

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I enjoy Religion Clause, because it gives me bite-size news about religion & the government. More often than not, there is an article about the election. But this one just blew me away.

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I’ve been taking unscheduled time off of MoF recently as I deal with trying to get ready for school and traveling to visit my dying father. I believe that I have successfully done both, which is good, since school starts tomorrow! But I have not forgotten you, faithful reader, and have a sleeveful of goodies [...]

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These are my remarks from the Sunstone 2008 panel #331,  “Raise up a child in the way she should go…and which way is that?”  Several of you have asked Jana and I about how we’ve approached the spiritual aspects of raising our two precocious children, and two years spent outside the church have given us [...]

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If the LDS Church had a tagline, it would probably be “families are forever.”  As a Mormon missionary, our focus really was on the family: “All those other religions are until death do us part.  Become a Mormon and you can be with your children and husband/wife forever!” (admittedly, this probably would not have been [...]

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Yesterday, the LDS Church issued a lengthy press release clarifying its positions on marriage and its motivation for vigorously supporting Prop 8.  I’m going to try to dissect this later.  (via Kaimi of BCC) John Dehlin of Mormon Stories has a new project called Understanding LDS Homosexuality, in which he uses “personal stories and video [...]

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Oops, something got in the way. This happens sometimes. Let me explain what’s going on here–the Mormon Church is using its considerable organizational and monetary resources to mobilize its troops to fight for Prop 8. My name is still on the official ward roster (working on that problem), which is how they knew to send [...]

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Love Makes a Family, originally uploaded by waiting line. From wren, and worth spreading around all of blogdom.

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Mormons in California are being torn apart by the Church’s support for Prop 8. While many, perhaps even the majority of regularly attending Mos support the discriminatory ban on gay marriage, I’m surprised at how many are openly against it.  And they’re not all liberal Sunstone-types either. Many are card-carrying Republicans, but have gay friends, [...]

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