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Kudos to the Shanghai Mamas 26 Aug 2013 | 05:16 am
There's a group in Shanghai called the Shanghai Mamas. These are expat (foreign) women from all over the world living in Shanghai, organizing together to help each other and do good. To me, it looks a...
Trivial Miracles and Petty Prayer: How the Accuser Teaches a Man Not to Pray 21 Aug 2013 | 08:48 pm
Sometimes we create our own barriers to spiritual experiences. Many people, including some Latter-day Saints, struggle with the notion that God would or could answer individual prayers, especially th...
Lawyers With Souls: Sang-Ick Han and Unexpected Help in Law School 14 Aug 2013 | 02:44 am
I apologize for once quipping that the "Chicken Soup" book, Chicken Soup for the Lawyer's Soul, was pulled from the press once the publisher realized that lawyers actually don't have souls. Fortunatel...
An Eve I Like: The New Temple Movie 11 Aug 2013 | 08:01 pm
On Thursday while visiting family in Utah, my wife and I went to the Mount Timpanogos Temple in American Fork and saw the recently released new movie that is used in portions of the LDS temple ceremon...
New Edition of the Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 8 Aug 2013 | 07:39 pm
Great news! Yesterday a new edition of the Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture became available online at the Maxwell Institute. You can download the entire journal as a PDF ...
Recycled Horse News? 6 Aug 2013 | 07:28 pm
I received an email this morning giving the exciting news of horse bones being found in Carlsbad, California that predate the arrival of Spaniards in the area. Could the horses be evidence of pockets ...
Mormons Who Leave and Come Back: Insights from the 2013 FAIR Conference 4 Aug 2013 | 07:29 pm
Blair Hodges provided some notes from the recent FAIR Conference held in Provo (transcripts to be available soon). On day two of this conference, there were several speakers who had left the Church in...
Weighing Mormonism: Thoughts for Mormon Doubters (and Readers of the New York Times) 26 Jul 2013 | 03:57 am
The New York Times and Shaken Faith in Sweden The arguments that weigh against Mormonism and the LDS story of a divine Restoration came to the front page of the New York Times recently in an article ...
A Limited, Finite God? 21 Jul 2013 | 04:55 am
"Do Mormons believe in a limited, finite God, not the all-powerful, unlimited God of the Bible?" Ever get that question? Sometimes we are accused of worshipping a limited, finite God because we belie...
For Reference Only: A Serving Suggestion from a Shanghai Restaurant 17 Jul 2013 | 07:53 pm
For lunch last week I strolled into a nice restaurant on Henan Street a little north of the Bund Center where I work and decided it was time to try a more expensive and seemingly interesting dish. The...
