He Said: Symonds Ryder An Orthographically Challenged ExMo
During the Ohio years of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Symonds Ryder was one of several converts made in Hiram, Ohio in 1831. He was the presiding elder or overseer of the Disciples...
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She Said: Symonds Ryder and a Crisis of Faith
On Wednesday, John Hamer at BCC put up a post about the Thomas B. Marsh strippings of milk story. This is one with which most members of the Church are familiar, as it is often used to illustrate the...
View ArticleHe Said: Mormon Date Night
I have tried date night on a few occasions in my married life but not consistently. Part of my problem has been I am constantly broke and I am lazy. My wife likes to do different things like go for a...
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She Said: Mormon Date Night
I'm not so sure this is counsel we hear from GAs or over the pulpit at General Conference (I'll let Dr. B. search around for it), but I know that local leaders often counsel married couples that they...
View ArticleHe Said: In a Good Mormon Marriage, Who Holds the Trump Card?
I read with great interest BiV's post on who holds the trump card. In a world where relationships really are patriarchal I would see better her position and respond that men actually have a...
View ArticleShe Said: In a Good Mormon Marriage, Who Holds the Trump Card?
These days, I don't know of anyone who DOESN'T believe that husbands and wives should be equal partners in a marriage. Optimally, a married couple should work together to solve problems. But we all...
View ArticleHe Said: Retire to Thy Bed Early
In Section 88:124 the Lord instructs:Cease to be idle; cease to be unclean; cease to find fault one with another; cease to sleep longer than is needful; retire to thy bed early, that ye may not be...
View ArticleShe Said: Victimless Sin #1
Hmm, Dr. B's last post sure sounded like a reprimand to me, did it sound like that to you? He's right -- I do burn the candle at both ends. I used to be a "morning person," retiring at about 10pm and...
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She Said: Letting Missionaries in the Door
Latter-day Saints have a strong missionary tradition that commenced from the very first days of the Church. We are known in many countries for our proselyting missionaries. For a long time I only knew...
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He Said: When Gospel Conversations are a Waste of Time
Having grown up a Roman Catholic I haven't always been as open about listening to other religions as BiV. In fact I told the LDS missionaries to get lost on at least two occasions in my life. Both...
View ArticleHe Said: Victimless Sins
I have heard the term victimless sins used by LDS bloggers this past year as something that is just between the person and God. Victimless sins I have read arguments or comments about include the Word...
View ArticleHe Said: Judging Righteous Judgment
As a Latter-day Saint I have seen a dichotomy about this concept of judging one another. I think BiV and her friends have some merit in discussing the term “omniscience mechanism”but I don't think they...
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She Said: Should Mormons in the Diaspora Celebrate Pioneer Day?
It has only been in recent years that I have slowly become aware that not every convert to the Church shares my deep identification with the Mormon pioneers. I have loved the epic story of the trek to...
View ArticleHe Said: Reverencing Pioneers: I Don't Relate
I am a convert to the church and don't really have any members of my family that walked across the Plains in 1847 nor in fact associated with it until 1974. The fact is my relatives didn't get off the...
View ArticleHe Said: A Perspective on Being Honest in Dealing with Your Fellow Man
Several years ago my wife broke down and admitted that in her temple recommend she admitted to her bishop that she wasn't always honest in her dealings with her fellow man since she told small lies to...
View ArticleShe Said: Is it True? Is it Kind? Does it Improve on the Silence?
When Dr. B. told me he was going to write on this topic (being honest) and the perspective he was going to take, I replied that I would take the position that "Some things that are true are not very...
View ArticleLiving the United Order Today
Today I'm going to write about what's on my mind--the United Order; and specifically how it is being lived today by a group of people living out on the Utah/Arizona border. I wrote a post giving the...
View ArticleHe Said: Redeeming Zion
My wife has been enamored of a bunch of minor attempts at living the United Order. She thinks building a house or two makes them righteous. I know of Habitat for Humanity which built thousands of...
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She Said: How to Stay 29 Forever
Most of you must know by now that I am close to having that BIG birthday. And you also know that I'm really fighting it. An upcoming event that exacerbates the problem is that my first grandchild will...
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He Said: On Turning 50
Anthony Stewart HeadBiV for the past ten years has been fighting a losing battle with age. I discovered a few years back that in her mind she thought she was still 18. Now as a decade has moved on she...
View ArticleHe Said: Suicide
I read a very shocking piece in Time Magazine piece last week by Nancy Gibbs entitled Going Too Far with Assisted Suicide? Nancy Gibbs questioned a growing liberal practice in Switzerland where doctors...
View ArticleHe Said: Situational Religion in Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy
Today I was talking to a relative who was visiting some friends for the Labor Day weekend. She told me that her LDS friends were planning a big Barbecue for her tomorrow on Sunday where many people she...
View ArticleShe Said: Gradations of Sin
OK, I take your point, and I guess I agree that there are no victimless sins. For one, if ransom or substitution atonement theory holds any water, Christ at least had to suffer for my sins, even when...
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