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I've even heard some apologists spin the Comoros connection as another hit for the BoM's truthfulness, that Nephi's ship might have stopped there on the way to the Promised Land, and that's where the Nephites picked up the names Cumorah and Moroni, and liked them so much they apparently kept passing ...

I could read it if it were subtitled "Saints 2: The Legend of Brigham's Gold".

Burial for me. I say the only true immortality is to have a headstone so garish and ostentatious that future people will look at it and say, "Who the hell did this guy think he was!"

But really, is two-hour church and these other changes enough to make a legacy? Does that mean if SWK hadn't lifted the Priesthood Ban, his presidency might he best known for introducing the consolidated block?

I have no idea how much money the Mormon Tabernacle Choir generated, but I would hazard a guess it was more than the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square will generate.

There is still the nonsense of the timeline for oceanic crossing being longer than a year. After reading Margret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa , it would make sense for any red-blooded Lehite boys (or Palmyra boys) to want an extended shore leave at that port of call. Which would make sense if ...

...so I figured the sins of omission were just one of those "grace after all we can do" sort of things. Which throws you into an infinite spiral, since the very nature of sins o' omission is that you aren't doing enough to achieve the status of "all we can do." In Mormonism Jesus saves us after we ...

Growing up in the church, I think I actually had a pretty healthy view of sins of omission, though probably despite the church's teachings rather than because of them. I knew there were a million good things I could be doing , but I couldn't possibly do good every moment of every day, so I figured ...

I attended priesthood session last night and was pleased with how that meeting was used by Nelson. It was very different than previous meetings. I was also quite surprised with the changes. It takes balls to demote your most faithful group of supporters. So you think the High Priests will see it as ...

What caused the bar to be placed so low for what constitutes a miracle? Personally, I blame the advent of Miracle Whip.

It's a better story than the one he told about the guy who got all dressed up for work because he knew Elder Eyring was coming to give him a blessing. He got the blessing, he didn't go to work that day or any other day, he died a short time later. Yet somehow Elder Eyring feels like he can call it ...

I wonder how bad the slowing growth will become before the church stops reporting membership data at all. Will they wait until it's negative growth? They already fudged the numbers once when they began counting blessed babies as members. What more can they do? Start leaving dead people on the roles ...