There was quite a bit of discussion this week about our physical bodies ! (Perhaps in honor of Suntone’s material culture theme …? BTW, check out these cool Mormon artifacts ! Did anyone else get awards like those?) Specifically, it turns out that (despite that whole mo...

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Today’s trivia question: Which band wrote the song alluded to in my title this week, and the song in this one ? The good news is that the gay marriage question is going in the right direction . Of course the GLBTQ community’s problems are far from solved — indeed...

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I probably don’t need to tell you that there have been some amazing Gay Pride events recently . Which didn’t go unnoticed by the LDS church . (Sadly, I didn’t get to go — at least not this year .) On a related note people are analyzing and ret...

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I love this video — it’s great to see that sometimes random strangers will stick up for someone who is being mistreated. Sadly, some states are still voting to keep legal protections away from some families . And, sadly, some LGBs want to jettison the T from LGBT, and let the Ts f...

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The big news is (as I’m sure I don’t have to tell you) Osama Bin Laden is dead. And reactions are all over the spectrum. My own reaction was like one of Leah’s commenters : I think that Due Process is a civilisatory achievement designed to remove bias and with it reven...

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I’ve never quite committed to memory the algorithm for figuring out the date of Easter each year (other than “look on my calendar&# 8221;) . Anyway, it appears to be Easter here in Switzerland today, and probably elsewhere. Also, many people celebrated Earth Day as wel...

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This week’s journey through Mormonism covered the ground of caring or not about others’ opinions and possible reactions . Sometimes it’s fun to make a big stink and a smackdown . And Simply Sarah and Andrew S are simply examining and expressing their own place in the X-...

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It’s not just a musical anymore , it’s in sci-fi films , books , and other interesting plays , even politics — everything is coming up Mormon !!! Meanwhile — rather than capitalizing on it with another shocker-conference — the CoJCoL-dS decided...

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