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A British bus company is asking Mormon missionaries to stop proselytizing its riders, especially telling passengers that their faith is all wrong. “We do not permit any commercial or other organization to promote their products, services or views,” Stephie Barber, operations manager for the company, Stagecoach in Lancaster, told the Lancaster Guardian, “through direct engagement with passengers on our services.”
Some Mormons may think that lowering the age of the LDS Church’s female missionaries to 19 from 21 is no big deal. Andrea Radke-Moss, who teaches at Brigham Young University-Idaho, is not one of them. To Radke-Moss, who teaches history, the move is nothing short of revolutionary — especially given how far the Utah-based faith has come in its approach to "sister missionaries."
In my line of work, I get to read what a lot of people say about my church.
Conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck [devoted] his entire show Thursday on his online TV network to answering questions on a topic he almost never talks about: his Mormon faith. In an e-mail exchange with BuzzFeed, Beck said he typically avoids talking about the religion he converted to in 1999, in part, because he's "not a spokesperson for the church by any means."
People have been criticizing the Book of Mormon for more than a century. In fact, the first articles criticizing the Book of Mormon appeared before it was even published! It is interesting to look at criticisms people made of the Book of Mormon in the past and see how modern research has shown that those criticisms are not valid.
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I recently took a personality test online and—to nobody’s surprise, including my own—it labeled me an introvert. I prefer to turn off the music when I’m driving, I’m more at ease speaking in front of 500 people than mingling with them afterward, and I’m happy typing for hours at my computer, alone. In fact, I always find it amusing in movies when a prisoner is locked in solitary confinement as a horrific punishment—because, to me, it sounds rather relaxing.
Often, in my field of mental health counseling, I am asked by parents, “How do I teach my children about sex as well as morality?” to which I respond, “You don’t.” To such a statement I usually get bewildered looks. I quickly reply, “You teach them healthy sexuality, which is morality.”