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Monday June 8, 2009

Categories: News

What's going on in the world: GM, Tiller, North Korea.

Nothing on the LDS news wire that's hot, but there's plenty going on in the world. It's messy and getting messier. Here are a few thought-provoking links.

Thursday May 21, 2009

Categories: News

Historic LDS chapel burns

It happened on Sunday. The historic and picturesque LDS chapel near Harvard University caught fire about 10:30 a.m. and burned for two hours. Here's from the initial story at the Boston Globe:

Mormons around the country today are grieving the destruction of a well-known LDS meetinghouse in Cambridge that many encountered as grad students at Harvard or MIT. The meetinghouse, in Longfellow Park, caught fire this morning, while local Mormons were gathered there to watch the satellite broadcast of a meeting being held in Salt Lake City. Everyone was safely evacuated, and the cause of the fire is unknown.

Wednesday May 13, 2009

Categories: News

Mormon convert ... kidnapped?

You read the story and decide for yourself. From the Deseret News, "Missing Mormon convert found in Texas."

A 19-year-old girl allegedly abducted from her Holladay [near Salt Lake City] home by her Texas parents because she recently converted to the LDS Church has been found at her parents' house in Texas.

Saturday April 4, 2009

Categories: News

LDS General Conference

It happens twice a year, in April and October, as the senior leaders of the LDS Church speak to the general membership of the LDS Chruch in person (to those attending at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City) and via radio, television, and the Internet. The big news: Elder Neal L. Anderson was called as an LDS apostle, filling out that senior quorum to its full complement of twelve. Until now, Elder Anderson has been serving as the senior member of the Presidency of the Seventy (another senior LDS leadership quorum).

For the very best real-time Conference coverage, visit the Messenger and Advocate blog. If you prefer to twitter, visit the BCC comment threads. I'm traveling this weekend, but I'll be posting on some Conference talks next week. Transcripts of Conference talks are generally posted at LDS.org on Wednesday or Thursday.

Thursday March 26, 2009

Categories: News

Conference protests or service day?

A reliable-looking blog cites an email from the "outreach coordinator at the GLBT Drop-in center at the Unitarian Church in Ogden" announcing gay service projects over the upcoming Conference weekend (April 4-5). The email is trying to counter claims circulating by email that there are large protests being planned. I hope their service project is a rousing success.

Monday February 2, 2009

Categories: News

President Monson: One year at the helm

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...

Tuesday January 20, 2009

Categories: News

History is Your story

Rick Warren offered a suitably moving if rather informal invocation at today's Inauguration, using appropriately nondenominational language. Or at least he touched all the bases: God was referenced as "the Father" and as one "compassionate and merciful"; Jesus was referenced...

Friday January 16, 2009

Categories: News

Not one soul lost

Jeff at Mormanity happens to be visiting New Jersey, only miles from where a heroic pilot brought a crippled airliner safely down into the Hudson River. He posted comments about the event:Avoiding bridges, buildings, cables, and boats, [the pilot] managed...

Friday January 9, 2009

Categories: News

Stop the presses

That's what Signature Books is doing, according to its website. We have decided to take a brief hiatus (we're calling it our recession hiatus) to add the complete texts of many of our titles to our Signature Books Library site--something...

Monday December 29, 2008

Categories: News

Under the microscope

Earlier I posted a link to the "year in review" post at the LDS Newsroom. Here's a similar post at the Salt Lake Tribune, "A year of scrutiny for the LDS Church." The article features extensive commentary by Philip Barlow,...

Saturday December 27, 2008

Categories: News

2008: LDS year in review

At the LDS Newroom, "2008: A Historic Year for the Church," highlighting and discussing major LDS stories from 2008. The biggies: The passing of President Gordon B. Hinckley, with Thomas S. Monson becoming the 16th President of the Church shortly...

Tuesday December 2, 2008

Categories: News

Fame

A little bit, anyway: An online interview I did with a Deseret News journalist is featured in this week's Bloggernacle Back Bench column at the Mormon Times. And a special welcome to any new visitors who followed links from the...

Tuesday November 25, 2008

Categories: News

Race and apology: the example of BJU

According to a recent AP story, Bob Jones University has issued a statement apologizing for its past race policies. Before 1971 it did not admit black students and there was a school policy against interracial dating until 2000. The full...

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David Banack is an attorney living in Jackson Hole. He joined the LDS Church at age 15 and later served a two-year LDS mission to France and Switzerland. He has lived up and down the West Coast, as well as in Fiji, Samoa, Sweden, Utah, and now Wyoming. Dave has been running the Mormon Inquiry site discussing LDS and Christian issues since 2003. He is a website editor for Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought and also participates at the LDS weblog Times and Seasons. The views expressed on this blog are his own.

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