Archive for January, 2010
Title: Learning in the Light of Truth by Merrill J Bateman
Title: Learning in the Light of Truth Author: Merrill J Bateman Publisher: Deseret Book Genre: Non-Fiction/Faith Promoting/Talk Collection Year Published: 2005 Number of Pages: 269 Binding: Hard ISBN10: N/A ISBN: 1-59038-537-3 Price: $19.95 (List Price, now out of print) Reviewed by Andrew Hamilton By way of disclaimer, I attended BYU from 1997-2000. This was during [...]
New LDS emphasis: Care for the needy
New LDS emphasis: Care for the needy Salt Lake Tribune December 9, 2009 By Peggy Fletcher Stack Compassion for the elderly and infirm that has come to characterize Thomas S. Monson’s ministry soon will be embraced more fully by the worldwide church he leads. The LDS Church is adding “to care for the poor and [...]
Corvallis doctor tells of day in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Corvallis doctor Mark Rampton said Wednesday that he’d seen 80 patients — “and more tragedy in one day than I want to see in a lifetime.” Rampton arrived in the earthquake-flattened nation Monday with a 20-member volunteer medical team from Salt Lake City, assembled by the Humanitarian Aid branch of the Mormon [...]
Former LDS missionaries wanted for service in Haiti
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Bookclub – CROSSFIRE By Traci Hunter Abramson
CROSSFIRE By Traci Hunter Abramson Special Agent Vanessa Lauton is living a lie. For the past year, she’s been posing as a member of the Dominican Republic’s …
What was the most positive result of the “Cash for Clunkers” program?
QUESTION? What was the most positive result of the “Cash for Clunkers” program? ANSWER: It took 95% of the Obama bumper stickers off the road.
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-28
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LDS books: Oxford Press finds profits in prophets
Bouncing around on the trend-tossed seas of 21st-century book publishing, Mormon scholarship seems to have docked at the granddaddy of all prestigious presses: Oxford University. By all accounts, the unlikely partnership between the oldest university in the English-speaking world and an upstart American faith seems to be working. Mormon writers, particularly historians, get the academic [...]
Redneck Water sking in a Mudhole
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Understanding Engineers
Understanding Engineers – Take One Two engineering students were walking across campus when one said, “Where did you get such a great bike?” The second engineer replied, “Well, I was walking along yesterday minding my own business when a beautiful woman rode up on this bike. She threw the bike to the ground, took off [...]