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Dirty dancing doesn’t lead to dirty deeds

Buy Nothing day is 23 November ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù also known as Black Friday in the United States ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù and I plan on honouring it. I’ll be sure to make all my purchases today or Saturday.

The New Face of Global Mormonism

You’ve probably heard of ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù if not played ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù a game called “word association”. The premise is someone says a word and the other person says the first word to come to mind. A lesser known variation involves restrict the word association to opposites only. For example, if someone said “cold”, I would probably say [...]

Farm, have 4 kids: live past 100

Two and a half years is quite a good stretch of time to serve as an elders quorum president. When I first started out, I was maintaining the status quo (e.g. focus on home teaching). After a year or so, my outlook changed, and I knew I need to focus my attention to more fundamental [...]

Big news this week for critics of the church in that the church has made a change in the introduction of the 2006 Doubleday edition of the Book of Mormon. (The introduction was added in 1981 by the then apostle Bruce R. McConkie) What it used to say: ?¢‚Ǩ?ìAfter thousands of years, all were destroyed [...]

Wal-Mar is pretty evil. Or that has been a popular perception up until late. There’s an entire Wikipedia article devoted to Wal-Mart’s faults. Now, the Globe and Mail reports something many probably never expected the consumerist behemoth to do. It’s single-handedly changing the ecological footprints of dozens of companies by the green policies it is [...]

This is a guest post submitted by David T. A friend, son of a former temple president, once shared something with me his father suggested to him, and I still mull over the implications. “You know how before we came to this earth, we were all brothers and sisters, children of our Heavenly Father?” Uh-huh. [...]

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