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Flattering Words
Christmas Eve represents an immovable endpoint to the busiest time of my wife’s year. As a piano studio director who also runs a charitable foundation, projects and performances crowd into December....
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Let Them Eat Platinum
Marie Antoinette couldn’t get her head around the concept that peasants might resent a lack of bread. I mean, look at her bedroom! So, eventually, her head was forced to observe the resentment in a...
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Can’t Anybody Here Make a Good Conspiracy Theory?
Not Catholic? Seriously?Mystery guest number 1 was never a practicing Catholic. Mystery guest number 2 never believed in Temple rites. Now, there’s a good conspiracy theory.Sometimes a conspiracy...
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CofChrist News Beat: World Conference Legislation
Salt Lake City sees General Conference every six months. In the CofChrist, “World” Conference occurs every three years, and 2013 is the lucky year.A Community of Christ World Conference is far more of...
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Remapping the Eternal Family
Human brains naturally use locations in space and time to make sense of events. Why should we expect eternal spirits to follow that protocol? The question has always bothered me.What follows is...
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Sin is Not Separation
The Ten Commandments was one of the first Biblical epics to command a mass audience, and so my parents took me into downtown Detroit as a boy to be sure I saw it in its full widescreen glory in one of...
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Classy Marriages
Pending the birth of Princess Kate’s baby, Lady Cosima Rose Alexandra Windsor is currently 24th in line for the British throne. Lady Cosima is the nearly three-year-old great granddaughter of a...
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CofChrist News Beat: World/USA Conference After-Action Reports
The headline is clear. Community of Christ will provide sacramental ordinances of marriage, commitment ceremonies, and ordination independent of sexual orientation in the USA.Specifically, after two...
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When the Languages Have Been Confounded
In my living room, I have an oil painting of the grove in Palmyra where Mormonism’s First Vision occurred. It is a family heirloom painted by the wife of a well-known RLDS Seventy of my parents’...
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Lust or Gluttony — The Persistence of Puritans
“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” — H. L. Mencken, from A Book of Burlesques (1916).Historians, unlike satirists, say Puritans may have gotten a bum rap. Most...
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