Category Archives: Mormonism
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JESUS’ BIG FENCELESS BACKYARD
4August 31, 2017 by Ron Madson
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“My Church Shackles are True”
15June 13, 2016 by Ron Madson
“What demon possessed me to have behaved so well.” —Henry Thoreau This past year my “ward” —-for some reason …
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A Radical Responsibility
6November 16, 2014 by christopherpdavey
The apparent focus on fasting and the “poor and needy” in the most general conference, granted me fresh energy to …
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Courts of Love: LDS Church Discipline, the Smiling Face of Spiritual Repression
6June 13, 2014 by Tariq Khan
George Orwell’s classic novel 1984 was set in the fictional dystopian country Oceania. The apparatus of government in Oceania was …
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A “May Day” Reading of Matthew 25
16May 2, 2014 by Ron Madson
A “May Day” Reading of Matthew 25 “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these ye have …
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Kindness and Civility: the Smiling Face of Oppression
7January 27, 2014 by Tariq Khan
Following recent court actions in Utah regarding the fight for same-sex marriage, the First Presidency and the Quorum of the …
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History is Made by the Many: A response to Margaret Young’s “Shall We Protest?”
16September 10, 2013 by tristan savage
by Tristan Call Earlier today, Margaret Young published “Priesthood Restrictions – Shall We Protest?” on her blog on Patheos. She …
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LDS Sign Declaration Renouncing Wars!
14August 22, 2013 by Ron Madson
“There comes a time when silence is betrayal..”–Martin Luther King. A “Declaration Renouncing War” has been prepared for LDS members …
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The Connection Between Hate Speech and Hate Crime
8December 30, 2012 by Tariq Khan
In America’s Gilded Age, mainstream anti-immigrant voices railed against immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe, warning that these foreign “savages” …
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Romney and Romero
18October 22, 2012 by Kate Savage
(and Ryan, and Rand) For several months now, whenever I hear about Mitt Romney, the image of Oscar Romero creeps …
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