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In any case, “Let the dead bury the dead” is an absurd notion. The dead do not “bury” anything. Yeah, with you all the way on that one. He actually said that? Yikes. He did. A while back there was a thread that dealt with whether the Church’s missionary program possessed the characteristics of a cu...

My mother passed away during my mission. After giving me the bad news, my mission president went on to say he expected me to remain in the mission field because, as Christ said, “Let the dead bury the dead.” I stayed. File that one under Behavior Control. Now that I’m older and (slightly) wiser, I v...

Do you watch Big Love? The specter of a TBM in the White House brings to mind season five of Big Love, wherein a practicing Fundamentalist Mormon (a TBFM?) fights to serve out his term as a state representative in Salt Lake City. In the show, TBM politicians fear and despise the lone TBFM on Capitol...

The presence in a recent thread of terms like “anti-Mormon” and “anti-Semite” has me wondering whether the Church has made any official pronouncements regarding J. Reuben Clark’s “avid” anti-Semitism. From Wikipedia: According to Quinn, Clark's attitude toward Jews was more consistent. Clark was an ...