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Archive for April, 2008

My Altar Ego

ZD had a great post a few weeks ago for April Fools day. They called it: Renouncing The Philosophies of Women, Mingled With Scripture.
The title alone is brilliant, and it’s just a great tongue-in-cheek send up of several things they believe. I loved it.
In the comments, however, there arose some debate about […]

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How to prepare the Sacrament

I usually don’t eavesdrop on other peoples’ conversations, because that in and of itself can be a sin, but I couldn’t help but overhear the couple in front of me at church yesterday during the passing of the sacrament. Maybe if they would have been silently praying, as they should have been, to […]

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This site is called Mormon Folklore because there is a lot of false information out there that someone has to set straight. One of my gifts is discernment, so I am happy to do it. But I cannot always be there to help those of you who are so much weaker at discerning […]

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I recently saw a wise comment from a wise brother over on cougar boards. He was saying we should not shy away from the historical doctrine of polygamy just because it is a nasty PR situation. His conclusion was:
I think a little persecution would be good for the Church. Persecution is like a […]

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…without the Scriptures, or the Church, or the Gospel of Jesus Christ (they are all basically the same amazing thing).
I met a 55-year-old man the other day who is not from a Christian nation. He is from the heathen country of Japan (it’s okay to say that, because it’s true) and last December he […]

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Polygamy is for the birds

Seriously. I’m pretty sure that birds mate with more than one spouse. Which makes perfect sense, because at times such things are ordained of God (although he has put it temporarily on hold because the world is too wicked to recieve it). But all the animals are God’s creation, and birds fly […]

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Righteoeus Indignation, Pt. 2

Whenever any potentially sinful thought even attempts to enter my head, I sing it away with a hymn. It’s like taking an empty cardboard toilet paper roll, and shoving dirty cotton balls in it, and then shoving clean ones in to get the dirty ones out. Except that I never put the dirty […]

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Last night I heard a wise brother say a very wise thing. The first part of the discussion was about how much worse California Mormons are than Utah Mormons, which created a foolish debate not worthy of much consideration. Someone rebutted that there are more Mormons in California than in Utah, and at […]

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