Posted in Mormon-speak on Jun 18th, 2007 23 Comments »
Just for fun, I thought I’d mention a couple of funny things I’d heard lately. We have a little boy in my son’s primary class who always talks about the “Holy Toast” and my seven-year-old daughter today asked me why we always talk about “Agent Z” in church. (For what it’s worth, my kids […]
Posted in Mormon Humor, Mormon-speak on Jun 10th, 2007 10 Comments »
I am a huge fan of John Dehlin’s Mormonstories Podcasts. He has a new series up now on “Women in the LDS Church.” I haven’t listened to them yet (I’m saving them for my flight to Tokyo tomorrow) but I was thinking about the idea of it during sacrament meeting today, and at […]
Posted in Mormon Humor, Mormon-speak on Jun 2nd, 2007 1 Comment »
Thanks to frequent commenter Jessawhy, I have a link to a great list of funny sacrament meeting stories over on Mormon Mommy Wars. I think that this posting has a lot of relevance to Glenn’s recent posts on Mormon humor. Like any group, Mormons have their own genres (or types) of stories, that have some […]
Posted in Worldview, Mormon-speak on May 31st, 2007 4 Comments »
Our words, like our deeds, should be filled with faith and hope and charity.
This was Jeffrey R. Holland’s message in this last April 2007 conference. (“The Tongue of Angels,” Ensign, May 2007, 16–18). Specifically, he said:
“Our words, like our deeds, should be filled with faith and hope and charity, the three great […]
Posted in Mormon-speak on May 21st, 2007 53 Comments »
When I was a teenager in Anchorage, Alaska, a friend of mine and I would sit in testimony meetings and make bets (don’t worry, Stephen, not for money!) about how many people would get up and say “I would indeed be ungrateful if I did not stand today and bear my testimony of the truthfulness […]
Posted in Mormon Humor, Worldview, Language Blunders, Mormon-speak, Hoaxes on May 18th, 2007 5 Comments »
My mom sent me this sound-byte by email. From all the “from and to” email addresses I could see it had changed hands a few times. Anyone else heard this? Is it for real, or a hoax?
Posted in Worldview, Missionary Folklore, Mormon-speak, Lost Tribes on May 17th, 2007 19 Comments »
Glenn has invited me to be a guest poster on his blog, so I thought I’d start by posting on a topic I did some research on a number of years ago: the use of etymological/source language arguments to prove Gospel points. I have four examples:
Perhaps the most common example of this topic I’ve heard […]
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