The LDS Church has announced the closing of another school, this one the 49-year-old Benemerito of the Americas in Mexico City. (link) This is said to be done as the only feasible option for providing training facilities for a surge of new missionaries, but it had probably been desired for some time to close the school. A drastic, permanent loss like that isn’t allowed merely to smooth over some facilities crowding issue elsewhere.

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Here is a feast of Christmas writings. Enjoy. (more…)

And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.

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Read this article by apologist extraordinaire Dan Petersen. (more…)

Today would be Betsey’s 11th birthday. This is what I wrote on her birthday seven years ago.
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Why is it Korihor who preached against original sin? (more…)

This Christmas we will take the sacrament together. The ordinance will be, or can be, bigger than the time and place. Bigger than the place, because it binds us to all the Saints who are taking it with us worldwide, and to God in his heaven. Bigger than time, because it brings us to the foot of the cross and to the times when we made our covenants. (more…)

Brigham Young had a lot of zest for life, but you wouldn’t know it from some of his preaching. He seemed to take the position that this life is the time to prepare to meet God and only valuable insomuch as it prepares us. (more…)

Today would be Betsey’s 10th birthday. This is what I wrote on her birthday six years ago.

I closed comments to this year’s post to keep the comments all in one place.

Christ chose to let himself be in Satan’s power and in the power of the Romans. Its important that he chose, because it made him a willing victim. Its also important that he did not directly choose the garden agony or the cross. These were the choices of his tormentors. If he had chosen them himself, he would have been willing but not a victim. (more…)

My review of The Great Divorce from the perspective of a Latter-day Saint is up. I think you’ll like it. Let me know what you think.

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Read this interesting interview with a woman who realized that her recovered memories of child abuse were false. (more…)

Here is a short theory of the atonement. (more…)

On the sweetness of Mormon life. (more…)

On the sweetness of Mormon life. (more…)