Posted in Current Events, Movies, Politics on Jun 28th, 2010
8: The Mormon Proposition is described as being “an indictment of the Mormon Church’s historic involvement in the promotion & passage of California’s Proposition 8”. Directors Reed Cowan and Steven Greenstreet (This Divided State) – both former Mormons — have spent the year and a half since the November 2008 election researching and compiling this [...]
Posted in Bible, History, Podcast, Scripture on Jun 23rd, 2010
Lesson 24- 2 Samuel 11-12, Psalm 51 [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Right-click here to download. (Opening clip- Allegri, Miserere Mei, King’s College Choir.) Transcript (trying something new with the transcript. Let me know what you think.) Notes and references
“Master, which is the great commandment in the law?” asked the Pharisees. Jesus answered, “Thou Shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all they soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as [...]
Lesson 23- 1 Samuel 18-24 [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Right click here to download. Transcript (wasn’t linked before) Notes and References
One of the most famous stories of the Old Testament includes the account of David killing the Philistine Goliath. This event serves as an important segue to Lesson 23 in the Sunday School curriculum for the Old Testament. This lesson covers the origins of the Davidic monarchy and king Saul’s fall from divine favor. From [...]
Posted in Doctrine on Jun 18th, 2010
Science appeals to me because of its ability to identify objective truths. You can describe something true about carbon in a way that’s much harder to do about a novel or a painting. But although I like science, I’m not a math person - I studied biology in college because it let me learn science [...]
Let’s take a quick glance at box office figures for LDS films released since 2000: (films are arranged chronologically by release date — box office figures are in thousands)
Posted in Bible, History, Podcast, Uncategorized on Jun 11th, 2010
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Right click here to download. Below are the podcast notes on Lesson 22, 1 Samuel 9-17.
Posted in Doctrine, Speculation on Jun 9th, 2010
Timothy Ferris concludes his book on cosmology, The Whole Shebang, with a “Contrarian Theological Afterword.” Here, he writes that if God is omnipotent, then He must have free will. And if so, He was free to make the universe in any conceivable way. But if God was constrained in some way in making the universe, [...]
Gospel Doctrine Lesson 22 presents students with an invitation to see others in the way God sees them, by looking carefully at the human soul rather than a person’s physical appearance. The lesson title derives from the story of the anointing of David as king over Israel, when the Lord declared unto the prophet Samuel, [...]
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