Margaret Young mentioned at BCC that CES (Church Educational System) is no longer CES. A quick look at the organization’s website seems to confirm that it is now Seminaries and Institutes of Religion. As long as they’re messing with the name of the organization may I suggest a few other changes as well?
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I’ve been reflecting recently on the need that groups of people have to demonize those they perceive as enemies. We as LDS are not immune from this tendency.

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Mormon Mentality is happy to have DCcLemon as a guest blogger.  DCcLemon is a long time lurker, first time poster.  She’s looking forward to leaving lurkerhood and joining the conversation.  Perhaps her example will encourage other lurkers to comment on occasion.

A bit of background information would perhaps be useful.  She’s a married mother of three, works part-time, and her current priority is getting her youngest to sleep through the night.

A few weeks ago Proud Daughter of Eve asked for suggestions for leading a discussion of lesson #6 of the Joseph Smith manual.

I was given the opportunity to teach the same lesson last Sunday. I took the advice that I gave PDoE and asked first off about the depiction of the Aaronic Priesthood restoration that appears with this lesson in the manual.

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I was reading I Corinthians 14 the other day and DKL’s recent posts on the KJV Bible came to mind. In particular I was reminded of PHolland’s thoughts. My understanding of PHolland’s argument is that understanding the Bible is of secondary importance because we can feel the Spirit while reading it and we have other scriptures to fill in the gaps. I think this argument has some merit, but I wonder what Paul would think…

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I’ll post this early so that those commenting from the Wasatch Front can weigh in on what they think of the new crop of Mormon DVDs about to hit Deseret Book.  My money is on The Singles 2nd Ward as best example of Mormon cinema.

Here you go readers, feel free to add your thoughts about General Conference while it happens.

This is an open thread for discussion of the Saturday afternoon session of General Conference.

As a public service we’re providing this space for people to discuss General Conference as it happens.  Act quickly and you can predict who the next apostle will be before they announce it.

I have no idea if iPhones, Blackberries, etc are kosher during this session.  Teach them correct principles and….

Reading Jeff Bennion’s post on Jospeh Smith and the Apocalyptic I noticed he mentioned building a year’s supply. This caused me to remember a conversation I recently had.

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A bill making its way through the Utah legislature has recently come to my attention and I would like to enlist the aid of the readers of this blog in attempting to defeat it. Before discussing it, I’d like to discuss a hypothetical bill.

Imagine that the legislature of Utah passed a law that outlawed all malpractice lawsuits. This law would protect doctors from lawsuits in all cases. A doctor could be completely negligent (perhaps even drunk) and maim or kill one of your loved ones and you would have no recourse.

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With Mitt leaving the race today will the bloggernacle return to normal?  Will that be a good thing?  Weigh in with your thoughts on the focus of many Mormon blogs over the last several months.

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The following is speculation on my part and not meant to offend.  If you are offended, please state why in the comments.

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Having spent a few years wasting time on the bloggernacle I’ve seen lots of people come and go. People sometimes use multiple handles and it is often hard to keep names straight. Our own annegb has asked people to introduce themselves in post dedicated to that purpose. So I suppose that Joseph Addison of Trash Calls might have had similar motives in posting a spreadsheet of many bloggernacle regulars. However I think that many will be disturbed that there is now a repository of information that connects the bloggernacle firmly with real life names and occupations. What do you think? Is this thing a helpful if snarky resource? Or is it a violation of privacy in some way?

And yes I read Snarkernacle and Trash Calls and find both to be funny, though unevenly so.