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Wheat and Tares · 6h ago

Sad SAHM: You’re the Bishop! (poll)

A very faithful sister in your ward named Mary asks to speak with you after church. She enters your office and starts to tell you her story. She tells you that in 1987 she was a newly married 22 year old who wanted to be a nurse. She had always wanted to be a nurse [...]
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Wheat and Tares · 20h ago

Cain, Abel and Statism

A couple of months ago, while gathering up all of the data required to “render unto the IRS” and trying to feel better about all of the work involved in doing so, I ran across an interesting piece of Biblical literary criticism. It became even more interesting to me when I started thinking about the
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Wheat and Tares · 1d ago

How to teach about Same Sex Marriage

The following is how we ought to teach about Same Sex Marriage in the Ensign and in Sunday School Historically, there have been the following reasons for opposing SSM (I’m using short names for the issues that are more for ease in remembering them than for any other purpose, feel free to change the
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Wheat and Tares · 3d ago

Is “Born Mormon” Enough?

I am a Mormon.  I haven’t made a fancy ad of me skateboarding or anything like that, but still, I’m a Mormon.  But “why” am I a Mormon?   What makes me say that? Like many people in the Church, I was “born Mormon”.  I have ancestors who were born in Winter Quarters in 1846 on [...]
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Wheat and Tares · 4d ago

Metaphors for Dealing with the Tough Issues

Today’s guest post is by M. Taylor McKeown. I consider myself a believer in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  I would call myself a “True Believing Mormon” except that term has taken on a whole lot of baggage that I’m not sure I fully understand.  But I believe in the basic [...]
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Wheat and Tares · 4d ago

The Downside of Diversity

We believe in diversity.  Accepting others is virtuous.  God is no respecter of persons.  After all, diversity creates more equality for everyone, and communities with a varied background certainly have advantages over homogenous provincial groups with unquestioned assumptions. Maybe not. From a 200
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Wheat and Tares · 5d ago

Maybe All Roads Lead to Rome After All

This is a guest post from commenter Paul.  He runs his own blog A Latter-day Voice. I had a missionary companion who presented a paper at a forum at a local university.  The title of his paper was “All Roads Do Not Lead to Rome.”  His position, as one would expect from an LDS missionary, was that [.
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Wheat and Tares · 5d ago

The Word of Wisdom pre-1843

For the most part, discussions of the Word of Wisdom on the Bloggernacle tire me out.  While I agree that the modern church’s stress on abstinence from alcohol isn’t what the Word of Wisdom actually says, and it should be noted that saints in Nauvoo were encouraged to grow grapes for making wine in
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Wheat and Tares · 6d ago

Lazarus, the Widow, and Other Heroes

He smiled warmly at me when I walked into the store, his wife having called ahead to brief him on my need. Motioning me to follow him, he checked to see that someone else would take care of the customers at the parts counter and we went out back to his pickup. I was sure [...]
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Wheat and Tares · 1w ago

Mitt’s Bully Pulpit: Weekend Poll

A recent news story about Mitt Romney’s highjinks or bullying, depending on your perspective, at a prestigious boys school in 1965 has raised questions about his character. Discuss.
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