The LDS Newsroom released a statement correcting media misstatements regarding the recent filing of its final report of financial assistance to the Yes on 8 campaign. On Friday, 30 January, the Church filed the final report of its contributions (all of which were non-monetary) to the ProtectMarriage.com coalition. The report, submitted in advance of the…

Great ideas … but who’s got the time? This morning I touched the bases on “slow blogging” by reading Emily Jensen’s column, then the LDS Media Talk post “Slow Blogging,” then the New York Times piece “Haste, Scorned: Blogging at a Snail’s Pace,” then finally visited ground zero of the movement, the Slow Blog (tagline:…

As reported at the Mormon Organon, Brigham Young University is hosting Charles Darwin Bicentennial Week, running February 9 through 13. A schedule of the presentations, including one by the Dean or Religious Education, is posted at the site. This highlights one of the advantages of BYU over other Christian universities: in Mormonism, Science is not the…

The Salt Lake Tribune did a short one-year review of the tenure of Thomas S. Monson as President of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The article notes that “impetuous acts of kindness are the hallmark of Monson” and offers some comparisons between his style and that of his immediate predecessor in office, President…

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