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Just a quick bit of news: my brother Daniel got his mission call today, and he's going to (drum roll) Hong Kong! :) He's the next missionary to serve since I got back from Thailand. And he's serving in Asia! I mean, sure, it would've been splendidly ...
[Cross-posted from Blank Slate because I'm lazy. :P]
Earlier today Katherine posted "Toward a Mormon Renaissance" over at Mormon Renaissance (how fitting :)). It's an essay by James Goldberg, one he read at the beginning of New Play Project's "Thorns and Thistles" set of plays (which happened to ...
Earlier today Katherine posted "Toward a Mormon Renaissance" over at Mormon Renaissance (how fitting :)). It's an essay by James Goldberg, one he read at the beginning of New Play Project's "Thorns and Thistles" set of plays (which happened to be when my first play was performed, incidentally) ...
According to National Geographic (thanks to Sally for the link), "nearly all of today's Native Americans in North, Central, and South America can trace part of their ancestry to six women whose descendants immigrated around 20,000 years ago, a DNA study suggests."
Those women left a particular DNA legacy that ...
In one of my friends' Gmail status lines, this quote piqued my interest:
The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on proper dress and grooming, their careful observance of all the rules, their precious concern for status-symbols, their strict ...
Stake conference today. This was my second one since my calling as stake executive secretary, and it's been really interesting seeing this sort of thing from the inside -- all the preparations that go into it, how it miraculously comes together, everything. It really is a miracle.
And a ...
[Cross-posted from Top of the Mountains.]
Yet another Snowstorm post. :) (But it's the last one.) We had the encore performance of "Eccentricities" tonight, and it went quite well, even though the place wasn't completely sold out. At the end they tallied all the audience votes for ...
When I walked in to the stake offices this morning for stake presidency meeting, I found the counselors and other executive secretaries clustered around the wall. The wall that's usually blank. Except it wasn't blank anymore. This was on it:...
Interesting letter from the First Presidency in sacrament meeting today. I don't have a copy of the letter, but it solidly refuted the apocryphal "generals in the war in heaven" quote that's been floating around for years. It's this one:
You were generals in the War in Heaven ...
Back in May, I decided to start digitizing the Welsh Book of Mormon (Llyfr Mormon), dubbing the endeavor Project Cymru. It was going along pretty well for a while, but then I got bogged down over the summer and kind of forgot about the project. I did ...
