Roy Moore is being persecuted by the Republican Establishment and the News media. As he rightfully should be. Same for Joe Smith and those who followed him. Loved the You Tube Vid, one of my favorite GBH quotes: Aberrations Gordon B. Hinckley "We live in as society that feeds on criticism. Faultfinding is the substance of columnists and commentators, and there is too much of this
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Think Roy Moore.
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The Southern Utah Ex/PostMormon Association will be meeting the second Sunday of November, on the 12th. Please join us at 2 PM at 195 W 900 S Bluff Street for a great discussion and social hour.
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MormonLeaks™ Receives and Responds to DMCA Take Down; Publishes 53 Additional McConkie Papers https://mormonleaks.io/newsroom/2017/09/19/mormonleaks-receives-and-responds-to-dmca-take-down-publishes-53-additional-mcconkie-papers/
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The Southern Utah Ex/PostMormon Group is privileged to welcome Ryan McKnight, the founder of MormonLeaks, as our speaker in October. Please reserve Sunday, October 8th to join us in learning how MormonLeaks has changed the way LDS, Inc. does business, and what we might expect in the future. We expect high attendance at our October meeting, so have reserved a room in the Red Lion Hotel 2 P.M.
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As we begin a new program year we look forward to seeing as many of you as possible, especially since it was decided to start a month earlier than usual. Our first gathering will take place this coming Sunday, September 3rd, at the regular time of 2 P.M. and at our new location in Holiday Square, 195 W. 900 S. (just across the street to the south from the hotel we used to meet in). Our progr
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Listen on line: http://radiowest.kuer.org/post/mormons-and-sex 06/29/2017, we’re talking about Mormons and sex. LDS therapist Jennifer Finlayson-Fife says that Mormon theology of the body is very different from many Christian traditions. Within marriage, sex isn’t just for procreation, but also for pleasure, intimacy and becoming god like. So, what’s the disconnect in a culture where the
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Sunday’s lecture will consist of a heartwarming postimony from a young woman who came upon an avalanche of new information. It will detail her journey from True Believer to Apostate, with almost dumping her husband to be over the status of his testimony. After which her husband will share highlights from his Ph.D dissertation in Historical Linguistics from Purdue University, where he studied
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We have a new meeting location! 175 West 900 South Holiday Square Shopping Center Directly across the street from our old location. 2 PM April 2nd, come meet like-minded people and hear a great enlightenment story.
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Yes, Facing East! Theater in the round, centered around the casket. Father of the deceased was a bishop as I recall.
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A number of years ago I took in Carol Lynn's play, have to day it was very powerful in its support of the LGBT community.
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We here in Southern Utah lost a giant of a man, Larry helped found our Support Group. He will be greatly missed. Larry and his wife Tammy were in the Manti Temple presidency when they discovered the fraud. When in recovery and having much anger, I asked Larry how to deal with my anger, his advice… to help others in their journey out of Mormonism. I’ve followed Larry’s advice to this day
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Carol Lynn is a poet, author, playwright, screenwriter, performer, speaker, general free-lance philosopher. She was born in Salt Lake City and earned an M.A. in theater from Brigham Young University. Her two bumper stickers over the years are instructive: “Loving Kindness is my Religion” and “Question Authority.” Carol Lynn Pearson will speak to us about her latest book, The Ghost of
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Southern Utah Ex/PostMormon’s will meet Sunday February 5th 2 PM in St. George. The meeting will focus on getting to know members of the group better through the sharing of Enlightenment stories or as many of us call them Postimonies. Where: Red Lion 850 S. Bluff Street St. George Utah.
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adio West- Monday, we’re exploring MormonLeaks, an online platform where LDS Church employees and insiders can leak private Church documents. Nothing all that incriminating or even interesting has come out yet. The videos and papers have basically shown the LDS Church to be a byzantine bureaucracy run much like a business. But MormonLeaks founder Ryan McKnight says he’s not looking for scanda
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Note: With New Year’s falling on the first Sunday we will meet the second Sunday. Those attending will enjoy a presentation by artist Leslie Peterson. About our Speaker: Leslie O. Peterson came to art, not by design but by serendipity. In 2011, she enrolled in a community art class with a son-in law who had recently suffered a stroke. Through she meant the course as a form of therapy f
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December 5th at 11 AM Listen Live on the net: http://radiowest.kuer.org/post/religion-and-brain Researcher Jeffrey Anderson says Karl Marx wasn’t far off when he likened religion to opium. Anderson is a neuroradiologist at the University of Utah, and he’s been studying how the brain reacts to religious experiences. What he’s found is that religion works like love, gambling, drugs, and mu
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Thanks Amyjo. Let's not forget the time change, fall back one hour.
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When the Mormon Church’s LGBT policy made headlines last November, it shocked a lot of people. Most mainstream Mormons have worked through it with official clarifications, but faithful LGBT members are still in pain and struggling to understand their place in the LDS Church. Critics say it’s also led to increased youth suicides, broken families, and mass resignations. Thursday, we’re talkin
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Marilyn Bushman is a poet and author. She has won awards from the Association of Mormon Letters, the Comstock Review, and the Utah Arts Council. She has five published books, including 3 poetry books, a children’s poetry book and a biography: “Worthy.” One of her poetry books, “Cheat Grass,” about her southern Utah grandparents, was chosen for the Pearle M. Olsen Award in 1999, making h
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Southern Utah Ex/PostMormon Association to meet Sunday October 2nd The Southern Utah Ex/PostMormon Association will fire up its Fall Lecture Series, come and join the discussion on the "Leaked Documents" along with recent Sunstone presentations. Time: 2 PM Place: Red Lion (850 South Bluff St. Street) George Utah
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The LDS Church ended the practice of polygamy more than a century ago, but author and activist Carol Lynn Pearson says the idea is “alive and unwell” in Mormon theology. According to doctrine, a man can still be spiritually sealed to multiple wives and those plural marriages are a reality in heaven. Pearson has gathered stories from more than 8000 faithful and former LDS Church members, and j
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Did you know that in the 1850s some Mormons argued that Jesus was married and had children? Or that even today, there’s LDS theology around Jesus Christ that leads Evangelicals to say The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints isn’t really Christian? Thursday, scholar John Turner is Doug’s guest. He’s written a book called The Mormon Jesus and he joins us to discuss how the LDS conce
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Wow, another excellent Radio West Program!
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11 AM Repeats at 7 PM listen live on the net http://radiowest.kuer.org/post/leonard-arrington-and-mormon-history Thursday, we’re talking about the controversial career of Mormon historian Leonard Arrington. Arrington was the first professional head of LDS Church History, but his academic rigor and candor didn’t sit well with everyone in the hierarchy. Within a decade, he was removed from
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Joseph Smith claimed that God and Jesus appeared to him in 1820 to tell him all churches were wrong, which led him to found the Mormon faith. Late LDS President Gordon B. Hinckley once said the Church’s “whole strength rests on the validity of that vision.” Smith told multiple versions over the years though, and critics say discrepancies are proof he made it all up. Monday, we’re talking
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Teachings of the First Presidency: First Presidency Message We Believe in Being Chaste By President Marion G. Romney Second Counselor in the First Presidency Marion G. Romney, “We Believe in Being Chaste,” Ensign, Sept. 1981, 3 You will recall Alma’s teaching his son Corianton that unchastity is the most serious offense there is in the sight of God, save murder or denying the Holy Gho
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AUTHOR, SPEAKER, EDUCATOR, LIFE COACH, ADVOCATE & GENTLE ACTIVIST Kristyn Decker was a 7th generational polygamist. She is the 12th of 23 biological children of “prophet” Owen Allred. While raising her seven children to believe in polygamy, Kristyn taught school off and on for 18 years in the AUB private school her children attended while also struggling with years of un-answered questi
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Thoughts from the program: Religions have the freedom to discriminate under the law, but religion is in a moral market place. When it can not longer market its outdated dogma does it change to keep its core customers? Tuesday, we’re broadcasting our conversation from a conference on religious liberty hosted by Claremont Graduate University over the weekend. Doug was joined by guests to tack
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Navigating a path forward after Mormonism can feel daunting at first. Peter and Mary will share songs, stories and anecdotes from their own journey as well as insights gleaned from Peter's work as a therapist working with people going through faith transitions. About Peter and Mary Danzig The Danzig's resigned their membership in the LDS Church in 2007 after enduring ecclesiastical abuse ins
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