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Facing Faith and Society: What Does Tolerance Really Mean?

The Wall Street Journal featured a story Friday on “Mormons and Baptism by Proxy.” Mormons believe in performing a temple rite that gives members an opportunity to obtain salvation for their ancestors. The pr…
Salt Lake City: My Visit to Temple Square

The first leg of my trip ended at Salt Lake City on Tuesday afternoon. It's the second time I've been there. When I was there before it was in August and the snowtop on the surrounding mountains was all melted whereas th…
Defending the Honor of My Bride-Groom

This is a post with a purpose. I want to say that up front because the point I am about to make is meant to cause you irritation and annoyance if you are a Christian -- and hopefully cause you to represent Christ more…
News: the Week in Review

By The Closet Calvinist Again, not really sure what to title this. But, these are some things I came across in the last couple weeks that I thought were worth sharing. Ten Reasons Why the New NIV is bad for women - Is…
Mormon Than a Feeling

by JDK from The Mockingbird Blog I find the Mormon religion fascinating; I’ve been known to watch BYU TV for hours and am slowly making my way through the vast literature written about its church’s history and developme…
Would You Be Left Out?

The Census Bureau said that Mormon missionaries from Utah — however visible they are all over the world in their white shirts and ties — would be left out of the 2010 census. In 2000, more than 11,000 foreign missionari…
Are Mormons Christians?

I just graduated from a Christian high school. In that school, I had three friends who were Mormons. They considered themselves Christians, but from everything that I had been taught, Mormons are not Christians but onl…
Advice Needed: My Boyfriend and I Disagree on When to Baptize Children

My boyfriend and I were discussing a book about religion I'm currently reading and somehow got onto topic is baptizing babies. I told him that I wouldn't baptize my baby. This mostly ties in with the Mormon belief that…
Church Membership: Baptists and Catholics are Sinking, Guess Who's Rising?

Just read an interesting article on The Washington Times: it seems that the Catholics and Baptists are losing members. Church demographers have been saying for awhile that Catholics are in big trouble if you take away g…