Archive for April, 2006

Teen Suicide in Utah – My Elder’s Quorum Lesson Today

April 23, 2006
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Today, Deseret News began a multi-part series on Teen Suicide in Utah. Some of the statistics were surprising to me: Every 11 days a Utah teen commits suicide Utah leads the nation in suicide among men 15-24 Utah has the 11th highest overall suicide rate in the nation The Utah youth suicide rate has...
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Mormon Stories Podcast Seeking Additional Hosts/Producers

April 14, 2006
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Many of you have sent me emails saying….”I’d like to come on your show.” Or “You should interview so and so.” Unfortunately, I don’t really scale that well–I can’t do more than a few quality interviews a month. So I have an idea. Any of you who want to become a host/producer of Mormon...
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Mormon Stories # 026: Blacks and the LDS Priesthood–An Interview with Darius Gray and Margaret Young

April 12, 2006
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Mormon Stories # 026: Blacks and the LDS Priesthood–An Interview with Darius Gray and Margaret Young

Recently, Brigham Young University invited Darius Gray–one of the founders of the LDS Genesis Group, and a black Mormon for over 30 years–to deliver a presentation entitled, “Blacks and the LDS Priesthood.” In this podcast, Darius re-delivers this presentation, along with Margaret Young. Darius and Margaret are co-authors of a trilogy dealing with black...
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Mormon Stories # 025: New Order Mormons Pt. 2–Ann’s Story

April 9, 2006
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Today we finally release Part 2 of our series on New Order Mormonism. New Order Mormons’ web site can be found here. According to their web site, “New Order Mormons are those who no longer believe some (or much) of the dogma or doctrines of the LDS church, but who want to maintain membership...
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