One Eternal Round
I’m on the road, so the podcast and notes are a little bit rougher this week. [audio: http://media.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com/Media/MormonPodcastLesson25.mp3] Right-click here to download. Partial Transcript Notes and References (more…) Read more
I’m on the road, so the podcast and notes are a little bit rougher this week. [audio: http://media.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com/Media/MormonPodcastLesson25.mp3] Right-click here to download. Partial Transcript Notes and References (more…) Read more
It’s Independence Day this Sunday, and chances are each Mormon ward will sing at least one of the three patriotic hymns in our hymnal. If my ward sings the national anthem, a friend of mine will quietly protest. She refuses to sing the United States national anthem in Sacrament meeting, not because she doesn’t like to sing it, but because she feels it’s not appropriate in that context. And she’s not the only one who questions the presence of patriotic... Read more
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 documentary. One basic question, before we dive into the details: what’s the purpose of this documentary? You might consider that a dumb question – obviously,... Read more
Lesson 24- 2 Samuel 11-12, Psalm 51 [audio:http://media.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com/Media/MormonPodcast8.mp3] 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 (more…) Read more
“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 thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” I like this exchange between Jesus and his detractors quite a lot. I... Read more
Lesson 23- 1 Samuel 18-24 [audio:http://media.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com/Media/MormonPodcast7.mp3] Right click here to download. Transcript (wasn’t linked before) Notes and References (more…) Read more
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 a literary perspective, David’s victory over Goliath served an important political purpose in terms of the book of Samuel. The material from 1 Samuel 8... Read more
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 while mostly avoiding equations. So it took a special teacher to make me like a really math-oriented science like physics. Mr. Blanchard (I changed his... Read more
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) (more…) Read more
[audio:http://media.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com/Media/MormonPodcast6.mp3] Right click here to download. Below are the podcast notes on Lesson 22, 1 Samuel 9-17. (more…) Read more
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