Can a Faithful Latter-day Saint Vote For Donald Trump?
If you’re familiar with Betteridge’s Law, you already know what the answer here is going to be. The initial skeleton for this post came several weeks ago, when attendees at the Republican National...
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Head’s-Up On Huntsman Suit
DOUGLAS C. PALMER I last wrote about James Huntsman’s suit against the church about 11 months ago. (Short version: he sued for the return of some or all of his tithing, saying he’d been fraudulently...
View ArticleA Huntsman Twist?!?
As I mentioned a week and a half ago, oral arguments in James Huntsman’s suit against the church are scheduled for the 25th of this month, when the Ninth Circuit will hear them en banc. I’ve been...
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Anti-Nephi-Lehies for Our Day
Right around the mid-point of the Book of Mormon, we read about the Anti-Nephi-Lehies. There’s some interesting politics going on at the time that are beyond the scope of this post, but the short...
View ArticleHuntsman Hearing Today (Wednesday 9/25)
Today’s the day that Huntsman and the church (or, rather, their attorneys) argue in front of the en banc Ninth Circuit. The hearing is set for 2:30 pm Pacific time. If you want to watch, it looks to...
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The BCC Best Albums Project
The other day, I came across the Apple Music 100 Best Albums. Intrigued, I took a look … … and, well, it’s precisely as bad as you’d think it would be, as long as you think it would be really bad. I...
View ArticleSam’s BCC Best Albums Project
So now we get to my slate of best albums for the BCC Best Albums Project. As I explained in my inaugural post, I’ll lay out my criteria, then the albums and why they meet my criteria. I’ll also link...
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A Bedrock Moral Issue and the Election
I’ve written in the past about our scriptural obligation to love and care for immigrants. But it’s not just ancient scripture: the modern church teaches that we have an imperative here too. A little...
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Relative to Abortion and Sanctity For Life
Over the last couple days, ProPublica has reported on at least one woman and one teenage girl who have died in Texas as a result of the state’s strict anti-abortion laws. The teenage girl went to the...
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So What Now?
I woke up this morning with Mosiah 29:26-27 in my head. In this chapter, King Mosiah is proposing that, instead of a hereditary monarchy, the Nephites shift to some level of democracy. Hereditary...
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