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Troy Williams @ Sunstone 2011: Thoughts on the Sacred and Profane

Troy tried to buck me up after my latest mini-meltdown over l’affaire Lyman and it reminded me that I need to remember to catch Tabloid (91% “Fresh”!) at my earliest convenience. Here’s Troy riffin’ at Sunstone (go show their Youtube channel some love) on his role in the Errol Morris documentary and his thoughts on ...

Top-Secret Mormon Web Traffic Stats Revealed!!

Check out the official December 2010 web analytics that LDS Inc. doesn’t want you to see: How many people visit Church sites? The family of official Church sites (LDS.org, Mormon.org, FamilySearch.org, etc.), gets about seven million unique visitors per month. What are the biggest Church sites? FamilySearch.org is our biggest site with about 3.5 million ...

Church Handbook of Instructions – 2010 version available online

11.11.2010 · Posted in COB, Priesthood, Prophets

Not sure who or why, but you can download a full scan of the Church Handbook of Instructions – 2010 version here: http://martinluther537.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/2010-church-handbook-of-instructions-book-1a.pdf http://martinluther537.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/2010-church-handbook-of-instructions-book-2a.pdf Here’s his summary of what is in them and why he’s doing it: http://martinluther537.wordpress.com/ Views: 20788 ...

Mormon homophobia is so passé

10.25.2010 · Posted in COB, Health, Homosexuality

Even major corporations in Utah have seen the benefits of equality, like Intermountain Healthcare, which extended “domestic partner” benefits to same-sex couples last week.  Props to IHC! Of course, what I mean by passé is that it is really only passé in corporate America to be homophobic.  That same is not true in pseudo-corporate, religious ...

the elusiveness of the LDS Newsroom

10.15.2010 · Posted in COB, Uncategorized

You know what’s interesting is that the LDS Newroom is currently in beta format, which means some old articles don’t exist anymore.  For example, Bruce Hafen’s speech to Evergreen last year is gone.  There’s this page that says Hafen gave a speech, but then you can’t access the actual speech anymore.  Maybe it’s just a ...