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  • Newly found revelation of Joseph Smith

    10/16/2009 9:46:14 AM PDT · by Alex Murphy · 28 replies · 1,219+ views
    MormonTimes ^ | Oct. 16, 2009 | Michael De Groote
    Nobody could prove them wrong. They said that Joseph Smith had a faulty revelation in 1830. They said the revelation proclaimed that the copyright to the Book of Mormon would be sold in Canada. They said the revelation was a failure and that Joseph was a fallen prophet. And, best of all, there was no copy of the revelation for anybody to check against their story. This all changed on Sept. 22 with the publication of the latest volume of the Joseph Smith Papers: "Revelations and Translations: Manuscript Revelation Books." For more than 160 years, there was only one side...
  • Kirby: Like it or not, churches must take shots they earn

    10/17/2009 1:40:37 PM PDT · by greyfoxx39 · 8 replies · 545+ views
    Salt Lake Tribune ^ | October 16, 2009 | Robert Kirby
     From the back of a cannon in Fort Sumter, the church steeples of Charleston are clearly visible across the harbor. Charleston is proud of its historic steeples, most notably St. Michael's Episcopal, St. Philip's Episcopal and St. Matthew's Lutheran. There are so many churches its nickname is "the Holy City." Charleston is also proud (still) of having fired the first shot of the American Civil War. In April 1861, city residents clambered onto church roofs and into steeples to watch Fort Sumter get blasted. -SNIP-Shortly after midnight on Aug. 22, the Swamp Angel began lobbing incendiary shells into the...
  • Explaining the faith

    10/17/2009 5:28:53 PM PDT · by Colofornian · 72 replies · 1,364+ views
    Evansville Courier & Press ^ | Oct. 16, 2009 | Karen Owen-Phelps
    Are Mormons Christians? That's one of the biggest issues members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints say they encounter in today's society. "To us, to be Christians is to be followers and disciples of Christ," said Steve Stanfill, president of the church's Evansville stake, a group of 12 congregations in Southwestern Indiana, southeastern Illinois and Western Kentucky. Some groups insist Mormons are not Christians. One reason is differences over the nature of God, Christ and the Holy Spirit. As "Christianity Today" once explained it, Mormons teach that God began as a finite being who achieved his exalted...
  • Reader Advocate: Two LDS stories light up the switchboard

    10/17/2009 6:05:17 PM PDT · by Colofornian · 23 replies · 907+ views
    Salt Lake Tribune ^ | Oct. 16, 2009
    Two stories published in The Salt Lake Tribune this week, as a British friend of mine would say, put the cat among the pigeons. The first story reported that members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints baptized a recently canonized Roman Catholic saint by proxy and sealed him to a wife for eternity. "Father Damien, the Roman Catholic priest who cared for lepers in Hawaii in the 19th century, apparently is a saint twice over," Kristen Moulton wrote. " ... There is no evidence Damien ever married, which would have been a violation of his vow of...
  • LDS apostle under fire for civil-rights analogy

    10/15/2009 8:58:39 AM PDT · by Colofornian · 131 replies · 2,615+ views
    Salt Lake Tribune ^ | Oct. 14, 2009 | Rosemary Winters and Peggy Fletcher Stack
    LDS apostle Dallin H. Oaks on Tuesday likened the post-Proposition 8 backlash against Mormons to the persecution blacks endured during the civil-rights struggle. Now Oaks faces a backlash himself. "Were four little Mormon girls blown up in the church at Sunday school? Were there burning crosses planted on local bishops' lawns? Were people lynched and their genitals stuffed in their mouths?" asked University of Utah historian Colleen McDannell. "By comparing these two things, it diminishes the real violence that African-Americans experienced in the '60s, when they were struggling for equal rights. There is no equivalence between the two." Oaks, in...
  • Religious Freedom

    10/15/2009 8:06:24 AM PDT · by Colofornian · 11 replies · 563+ views
    Lds Newsroom ^ | Oct. 13, 2009 | Dallin H. Oaks
    My dear young friends, I am pleased to speak to this BYU-Idaho audience. I am conscious that I am also speaking to many in other places. In this time of the Internet, what we say in one place is instantly put before a wider audience, including many to whom we do not intend to speak. SNIP And now, in conclusion, I offer five points of counsel on how Latter-day Saints should conduct themselves to enhance religious freedom in this period of turmoil and challenge. SNIP Fifth...Latter-day Saints must be careful never to support or act upon the idea that a...
  • Newest Catholic saint baptized and 'sealed' to wife in LDS temple?

    10/13/2009 11:38:13 AM PDT · by Colofornian · 172 replies · 2,842+ views
    Salt Lake Tribune ^ | Oct. 13, 2009 | Kristen Moulton
    Father Damien, the Roman Catholic priest who cared for lepers in Hawaii in the 19th century, apparently is a saint twice over. Damien, who was born Joseph De Veuster in Belgium, was canonized a saint by Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday in Rome. But Helen Radkey, a critic of the Salt Lake City-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said Monday that research shows Mormons have both baptized Damien by proxy and "sealed" him for eternity to a wife named Marie Damien. There is no evidence Damien ever married, which would have been a violation of his vow of...
  • Mormon Church Quietly Endorses Polygamous (Afterlife) Marriages of Excommunicated Fundamentalists

    10/12/2009 4:46:30 PM PDT · by Colofornian · 25 replies · 1,232+ views
    Pensito Review ^ | Oct. 1, 2009 | Helen Radkey
    More than a hundred years ago, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) outlawed the practice of polygamy. LDS records, however, indicate that early Mormon leaders, Joseph Smith Jr. and Brigham Young, have both been “sealed” (married) for eternity to hundreds of wives. Despite its current temporal ban on polygamy, the LDS Church promotes polygamy on a perpetual basis. Polygamous unions, mainly on behalf of the dead, using living Mormons as proxies, are routinely performed in LDS temples. Mormon fundamentalists — representing the sects of Mormonism which embrace early Mormon teachings that made polygamy a central part of...
  • Joseph Smith—Prophet of the Restoration - Mormon (OPEN)

    10/10/2009 10:04:23 AM PDT · by greyfoxx39 · 150 replies · 1,218+ views
    LDS.org Gospel Library ^ | October 8, 2009
    Joseph Smith—Prophet of the Restoration Elder Tad R. Callister Of the Seventy Through Joseph Smith have been restored all the powers, keys, teachings, and ordinances necessary for salvation and exaltation.Suppose for a moment someone told you these three facts about a New Testament personality and nothing more: first, the Savior said of this man, “O thou of little faith” (Matthew 14:31); second, this man, in a moment of anger, cut off an ear of the high priest’s servant; and third, this man denied knowing who the Savior was on three occasions, even though he had walked with Him daily....
  • Safety for the Soul - Mormon (OPEN)

    10/08/2009 1:09:55 PM PDT · by greyfoxx39 · 134 replies · 2,335+ views
    LDS.org ^ | October 8, 2009
    Safety for the Soul Elder Jeffrey R. Holland Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgment bar of God that I declared to the world . . . that the Book of Mormon is true.Prophecies regarding the last days often refer to large-scale calamities such as earthquakes or famines or floods. These in turn may be linked to widespread economic or political upheavals of one kind or another.But there is one kind of latter-day destruction that has always sounded to me more personal than public, more individual than collective—a warning, perhaps more applicable...
  • Love and Law - Mormon (OPEN)

    10/08/2009 1:14:10 PM PDT · by greyfoxx39 · 11 replies · 503+ views
    LDS.org ^ | October 8, 2009
    Love and Law Elder Dallin H. Oaks Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles The love of God does not supersede His laws and His commandments, and the effect of God’s laws and commandments does not diminish the purpose and effect of His love.I have been impressed to speak about God’s love and God’s commandments. My message is that God’s universal and perfect love is shown in all the blessings of His gospel plan, including the fact that His choicest blessings are reserved for those who obey His laws.1 These are eternal principles that should guide parents in their...
  • How Mormonism Built Glenn Beck

    10/08/2009 11:18:13 AM PDT · by Colofornian · 95 replies · 2,823+ views
    Religion Dispatches.org ^ | Oct. 7, 2009 | Joanna Brooks
    Glenn Beck leans forward on his elbows. His voice hushes. His eyes grow red at the corners. He presses his lips together and clears his throat. He cannot speak. The tears fall, and just for a moment the brashest voice in American conservatism today falls silent. This is what happens when Beck tells the story of his 1999 conversion to Mormonism. “I was friendless, working in the smallest radio market I had ever worked in... a hopeless alcoholic, abusing drugs every day,” Beck said in an interview taped last fall. “I was trying to find a job and nobody would...
  • 4-small town teens held in random attack

    10/07/2009 7:48:34 AM PDT · by Colofornian · 112 replies · 3,502+ views
    Boston Herald ^ | October 7, 2009 | Marie Szaniszlo, Jessica Van Sack, Laurel J. Sweet and Renee Nadeau
    MONT VERNON, N.H. - A devout Mormon on the verge of becoming a church missionary helped lead a group of machete-toting teens accused of butchering a nurse in her bed and slashing her 11-year-old daughter’s throat in what officials say was a sadistic pact to attack at random. Police said Christopher Gribble, 19 - a handyman and member of the Church of Latter-day Saints - allegedly slashed to death 42-year-old Kimberly Lynn Cates in a brutal bloodbath that left sixth-grader Jaime Cates bleeding in her family’s front yard Sunday morning after attempting to run for help. Authorities allege a cold-blooded...
  • Mormons in the Eyes of the New York Times

    10/07/2009 7:23:29 AM PDT · by Colofornian · 3 replies · 593+ views
    Mormon Times ^ | Oct. 7, 2009 | Joel Campbell
    In an occasional column, The Mormon Media Observer will look at the times when Mormons and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have made news in the New York Times. Here's a sample of front page headlines and stories since the 1970s: SNIP Mormon church strikes down ban against blacks in priesthood, June 10, 1978 (one of the few stories that have led the Times' front page) "The 148-year-old policy of excluding black men from the Mormon priesthood was struck down by the church's leaders yesterday. "Spencer W. Kimball, president of the 4.2 million members of the worldwide...
  • Ex-Mormon group offers support to those who've left the fold

    10/06/2009 7:15:27 PM PDT · by Colofornian · 26 replies · 785+ views
    Twin Falls Times-News (ID) ^ | Sept. 19, 2009 | Andrew Weeks
    Wondering what that billboard on U.S. Highway 93 in Jerome County that reads "You are not alone" is all about? Jeff Ricks will tell you it's an invitation. Ricks, 54, was raised in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints... That changed in 1993 when a business venture in Idaho Falls went under and he lost faith in the church's teachings about tithing. He expected blessings from paying a full tithe, not the hardship that came from losing his home and business. "Everybody who leaves the church leaves for different reasons," Ricks said..."Everyone has a trigger that brings them...
  • Polygamy in perspective: Historian reveals plural marriage positives in Logan talk

    10/05/2009 6:42:28 PM PDT · by Colofornian · 77 replies · 2,031+ views
    The Herald Journal (Logan, UT) ^ | Oct. 2, 2009 | Kim Burgess
    While much has been said about the heartache of plural wives living in 19th-century Mormonism, these unions could also bring happiness and unusual independence, according to a prominent religious scholar. During a lecture Thursday before a packed house at the LDS Tabernacle, Kathleen Flake said that often only the negative side of polygamy is emphasized. “I am always suspicious when I only hear one side of an argument,” added Flake, who teaches religious history at Vanderbilt University. This suspicion lead her to research polygamy in Utah during the pioneer era, a time when about 25 percent of Latter-day Saints were...
  • Carmelite nun traces path from LDS faith

    10/05/2009 6:39:28 AM PDT · by Colofornian · 82 replies · 1,688+ views
    Salt Lake Tribune ^ | Sept. 18, 2009 | Kristen Moulton
    Holladay » Barbara Whipperman was a pious teenager, a defender of the faith. When her parents bought a can of coffee, before they even could brew a pot, she saved them from themselves. "I tossed the whole can," the 76-year-old recalls, laughing raucously. "I was a good little Mormon girl. Oh, they were mad!" How that good little Mormon girl from Sugar House came to be Sister Mary Joseph, a Catholic -- and a nun, no less -- is a story she tells with relish. A member of the Carmel of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, a cloistered monastery that...
  • LDS filmmaker says Book of Mormon set in North America

    10/03/2009 8:44:17 PM PDT · by Godzilla · 30 replies · 1,175+ views
    Mormon Times ^ | Saturday, Oct. 03, 2009 | Sharon Haddock
    MIDWAY, Utah -- LDS filmmaker Kieth Merrill says he picked the background for "The Testaments" by default, and if he had it to do over, he would have sought locations in North America rather than Central and South America. Speaking Friday at the Book of Mormon Prophecies Conference at the Zermatt resort, Merrill said he believes evidence supports a North American backdrop in the "promised land" for the Book of Mormon stories, wars and visits from Jesus Christ. "I know that the Book of Mormon is true. I can't say I know where it all took place," Merrill said as...
  • Elder Tad R. Callister: Joseph Smith – Prophet of the Restoration

    10/04/2009 8:24:42 AM PDT · by Colofornian · 24 replies · 773+ views
    Mormon Times ^ | Oct. 3, 2009
    Focusing on minor weaknesses of the Prophet Joseph Smith misses the mark, the man and his mission of restoring the gospel, said Elder Tad R. Callister of the Seventy. SNIP He noted that the first thing Joseph learned was that God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ are two separate and distinct beings, a truth confirmed by the Bible. The second truth he discovered was the Father and the Son have glorified bodies of flesh and bones. Third, Joseph learned that the heavens are not closed, that God still speaks to man today. This is achieved by asking if...
  • Elder Jorge F. Zeballos: Attempting the impossible

    10/04/2009 4:27:40 PM PDT · by Colofornian · 6 replies · 402+ views
    Mormon Times ^ | Oct. 3, 2009
    Eternal life is a divine promise that is possible to achieve, said Elder Jorge F. Zeballos of the Seventy during the Saturday afternoon session of conference. "From a purely human point of view at first, this seems to be an impossible task; however, it begins to appear possible upon understanding that in order to achieve it, we are not alone." Recognizing that eternal life is made possible by a forgiving Eternal Father and the selfless sacrifice of His Son, Jesus Christ, Elder Zeballos spoke of the rewards and possibilities available for all who work, sacrifice and give the best of...