Recent lessons in Gospel Doctrine have discussed “The Law of Consecration”. But sadly, these lessons have typically skipped over the two most interesting aspects of this Law:
1. The original version of the Law of Consecration (1.0) didn’t allow people to keep the deed to their property. The Church owned it.
2. There is nothing stopping modern [...]
As the evidence for evolution mounts, more and more LDS are looking for the middle ground and adopting some hybrid theory of creation, usually adopting some form of “Theistic Evolution” in search of a middle ground that doesn’t make their heads explode.
I’ve heard many interesting and creative theories that blend the two (evolution and “God”), [...]
USA Today has an interesting article on religious growth (or lack thereof) in the US over the last few decades. We awesomely beat the mainline Protestants and Catholics, but lost out to the Wiccans, Muslims and Pentacostals .
And they peg US Church membership at 3.2 million members. I wonder if the Church will revise [...]
An interesting comment was made regarding this site under the heading “Amazed and Saddened”. The author apparently developed some misconceptions about me and this site, so I would like to take a minute to clarify what was unclear.
Here’s the comment:
What amazes me about sites like this is the amount of time the hosts put in [...]