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Madrid hotel puts books left behind by guests to good use

Monday, December 15th, 2008

From Sify News:

Madrid: A hotel in the Spanish capital has created a library of books left behind by the guests.

Many travellers leave books behind in their hurry to catch flights or get to the railway station on time. The hotel has created a 250-book library out of the forgotten items.

The downtown Conde Duque hotel’s collection includes paperback novels, travel guides and art books in English, Spanish, Japanese, Greek, Chinese, Dutch and other languages.

The wide variety of languages is due to the fact the guests of the hotel, located in the Chamberi district not far from Madrid’s famous Gran Via thoroughfare, are mostly foreigners and business travellers who often carry books inside their luggage.

The eclectic collection includes a cookbook with traditional Roman recipes, a title about Michael Jackson’s dance steps, the memoirs of Spanish bullfighter Jose Ortega Cano and handbooks of natural remedies.

Of course, the library’s shelves also contain such expected volumes as bestsellers like Dan Brown’s “Angels and Demons” and a variety of religious texts.

Indeed, one of the titles that attracts the most attention of visitors to this unusual library is a Spanish translation of “Book of Mormon” (a sacred text in churches of the Latter Day Saints movement) with a dedication inside the front cover. (cont.)

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Hawaiian Book of Mormon unveilled in Laie

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

From Ke Alakai:

One of the 30 surviving 1855 copies of the Hawaiian Book of Mormon was presented on display Friday at the La’ie Hawai’i Temple Visitors Center after an unveiling ceremony. “Ka Buke a Moramona” or the Hawaiian Book of Mormon was a result of a two and half year work of Elder George Q. Cannon’ s inspiration with the help from Judge Ionatana Napela, a descendant of the great chief of Maui. Three thousand copies of the Hawaiian Book of Mormon were printed in 1855 and later were burned in fire, except for 200 copies. Most of them were destroyed, but 30 survived.

Mark James, from the English Language Teaching and Learning Department said, “My main interest in seeing this rare edition is because I am serious student of LDS Hawaiian history. It’s so amazing to me that BYU Hawaii has three copies of one of the rarest books in church history. A copy of the 1855 Hawaiian Book of Mormon is more valuable than an original 1830 Book of Mormon.”

Elder George Q. Cannon wrote in his journal that he felt like a stranger among the native Hawaiians while he was on his mission and was homesick. He found comfort through the Book of Mormon. At that point of his life, he said that he found more value in the Book of Mormon than he ever has before.

“But there was no Book of Mormon in Hawaiian that he could share with the Hawaiian people that he loved so much, and so he said, ‘Well, we’ve got to get this translated,’” said Elder Jacobs of the Hawaii Temple Visitors Center.

In January 1851, the translation work began with few pages and finished in July 1853. In January 1855, 3000 copies of the Hawaiian Book of Mormon were printed.

Only about a dozen of the 200 remaining books survived this one because in 1920, it was given to N. Ford Clark, as a gift after in three and half year mission in Hawaii.

James said, “What I really enjoyed the most about the unveiling ceremony, was listening to brother Ellis read from his grandfather’s Journal about the experiences he had as a missionary from 1917-1921. Because he loved the Hawaiian language so much, a Hawaiian family decided to give him such a valuable possession–an 1855 edition of the Book of Mormon. And of course it’s such a beautiful thing that his descendents would want to give it to the BYU Hawaii archives, to preserve it and show it.”

Dean Clark Ellis, grandson of N. Ford Clark said.”He was a collector of books, and I’m sure this was his most prized possession.”
Two Hawaiian ladies, who are the descendants one of the people that Elder Clark taught, were introduced as special guests in the meeting.

Rhonda Martinez, from Colorado explained that she and her husband had never seen the Hawaiian Book of Mormon before. Both found out about the conference through the newspaper. She shared that her favorite part of the conference was when the descendants of the people that elder Clark taught were introduced.

Martinez said, “My favorite part was when he’s introduced the ladies who are part of the history.”

In order to gather pieces of history of this Book of Mormon, it took a year and $15,000 to restore it page by page. Moreover, Ellis was able to trace back the history of his grandfather’s mission companion who liked to take pictures and negotiate to have his grandfather’s mission pictures donated to BYU-Hawaii as part of the history.

Spencer Haynie, senior in psychology from California, said, “I liked the presentation by Dean because I liked the story about how they got pictures from his grandfather’s companion and donated them to BYUH.

James said, “The stories that Dean Ellis read from his grandfather’s journal remind me also of how important it is for each of us to keep a journal.” He continued, “And most importantly, I thought about how little of our church history is available for people to read and see and learn about. We have thousands of people coming to Laie every year, but if visitors want to learn about the history of the Church and the people of this community, there is nothing for them to see and no place to go. I think we really need a small church history museum somewhere in our community. This would be a great benefit not only to visitors but to each rising generation here in our community.”

Ellis said. “This is where it belongs. This is where my grandfather wanted it to be, where my parents wanted it to be, and I’m glad now instead of it being in a vault that is on display.”

You can see “Ka Buke A Moramona” at the Visitors Center near the temple. It’s open every day.

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Muskegon library selling rare and valuable book

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

From WZZM13.com (MI):

The Hackley Library in Muskegon is selling its’ most valuable book - a rare first edition “Book of Mormon.”

5,000 books were printed in 1830 by Joseph Smith, the Founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Book collectors think only 1,000 first editions still exist.

The library’s board is selling the book through a rare book dealer in Salt Lake City, Utah. The book could demand a price of around $72,000 dollars. Any procedes from the sale will go to the library.

Martha Ferriby, the Director of Hackley Public Library said, “The library board has not decided what to do with the money. I am sure it will be used for some good project. There has been talk about new books, and there are things the building needs too.”

Since learning of the book’s high value, it has been moved off-site and placed in temperature and humidity-controlled storage. (cont.)

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Former resident says ‘sorry’ decades later

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

From The Times-Republican:

Forty to 50 years after a former Marshalltown resident made rounds stealing fruits in vegetables from yards on the city’s northeast side, Jerry Kerr decided it was time to make it right.

Kerr recently took out an ad in the Times-Republican, trying to make good for the petty larceny he committed those many years ago.

“If you lived in the northeast part of Marshalltown during the years 1957-1967 … there’s a good chance I took some of your produce and ate it without your permission,” the ad reads. “If this caused you stress or angered you in any way, I wish to apologize.”

Kerr a devout Mormon, said it was his personal faith and belief in doing the right thing that motivated him to purchase the ad.

“As I live my life, I try to become a better and better person and as things come to me that I need to repent of, I do that,” he said. “It’s a personal, spiritual thing.”

Kerr said he would have been between the ages of 6 and 16 when he took the produce from vegetable gardens and fruit trees. He came from a family with 10 children who did not always have enough money, even for the basics.

“I’d carry a salt shaker around and any yard back then was prey for me,” he said.

If he saw something he liked, he’d salt it and eat it, then go on his way.

Kerr returns to Marshalltown every year for a family reunion and decided to place the ad before leaving town at the end of July. He said he had been thinking about it for months.

“There’s a French proverb that says the softest pillow is a clean conscience,” Kerr added. “Over the years, my pillow has gotten softer.”

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Best of the Blogs: Mormon Times

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Discovering chiasmus in the Book of Mormon 41 years ago changed John W. Welch’s life. It also changed the way many people look at the scripture sacred to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Chiasmus is poetry, not of rhyme, but of structure. Its presence in the Book of Mormon, if recognized, can help readers understand with greater clarity not only the meaning of the text, but its origin.

Welch’s belief in the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon came before his discovery of chiasmus within its pages. On his 16th birthday, his parents gave him a small leather set of scriptures that included the Book of Mormon. He read it and, following the advice of his seminary teacher, prayed about it.

“I gained a firm assurance that the Book of Mormon was the Lord’s true guide to eternal life,” Welch said.

He recognizes the Lord’s hand in prompting and guiding him in finding chiasmus.

In the vol. 10 no. 2, 2007 issue of Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, Welch gave a first-person account of how he found the distinctive patterns of chiasmus in the Book of Mormon.

Welch gives Hugh Nibley, a professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University, much of the credit for creating an intellectual atmosphere where discoveries like this could be made. He took Nibley’s Honors Book of Mormon class in 1964 as a freshman at BYU. Nibley encouraged his students to read the Book of Mormon as an ancient text.

Welch left for an LDS mission to Germany in 1966.

He found that religion is always a controversial subject to open with the German people.

One scholarly German Welch would meet later was Father Paul Gaechter. Gaechter was a Catholic priest who had written a book titled, “The Literary Art in the Gospel of Matthew.”

The priest acknowledged in his book that the presence of chiasmus structure indicated that a narrative was Hebraic or of Hebrew origins. (cont.)

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Best of the Blogs: Mormon Times

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

And ‘X’ never, ever, marks the spot.” – Indiana Jones

Rod Meldrum is like a latter-day Indiana Jones — except he doesn’t look the part at all. He is tall, in his 40s, and has a mustache more reminiscent of David Niven than Harrison Ford. And unlike Indy’s adventures in the spider web-infested caves of Peru, Meldrum explores the mysteries of DNA, the Book of Mormon and geography in peer-reviewed journals and on scientific search engines.

If he is right, most theories about where the Book of Mormon took place are off by about 2,000 miles.

Meldrum saw an anti-Mormon banner at a 2003 church general conference that declared: “DNA Evidence Proves Book of Mormon Wrong!” The critics claimed the Book of Mormon says American Indians were only descended from migrations from the Middle East. They then argued DNA studies showed American Indians have only Asian DNA markers.

This didn’t bother Meldrum. As early as the 1920s, LDS scholars had recognized that the Book of Mormon not only allowed for but also gave strong hints that the Americas were populated long before the Book of Mormon prophet Lehi led his people from Jerusalem to the Americas by boat in 600 B.C.

What troubled Meldrum was that most of the responses from the LDS community were highly technical explanations why no DNA related to Book of Mormon people had yet been found. The thrust of these arguments is twofold: First, the DNA makeup of the various Book of Mormon peoples is unknown. Second, these groups were small enough that it is possible that the larger existing populations could have diluted their distinctive DNA out of existence. The chance of finding any Book of Mormon DNA may be unlikely. Lehi’s DNA might be lost to time.

Meldrum accepted this as a possibility. But he wasn’t satisfied.

His career as a salesman, marketer and president and CEO of a factory and wholesale company taught him how to look for solutions. His work at AnQuest, Inc., a company working on a natural sciences textbook, taught him how to use scientific publications and specialized search engines.

Even though he was not a geneticist, he was determined to find evidence.

“I went into this research with a huge bias,” Meldrum said. “I already knew the answers. Because, you see, I know from a personal, spiritual standpoint that the Book of Mormon is a true document — that it is a literal history.”

As Meldrum explains it, there are only a few major population groups: African, European and Asian. These are the largest categories and each has specific DNA markers. People from the lands surrounding Jerusalem would be broadly categorized as European.

Critics of the Book of Mormon tout DNA studies that concluded that American Indians belong to the Asian group. These studies use more precise categories of DNA markers called haplogroups; the American Indians usually have some combination of DNA from haplogroups called A, B, C or D. There is no room in the critics’ story for American Indian DNA to come from any other source than Asia. (cont.)

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Hebrew DNA Found in South America?

Monday, May 12th, 2008

From Mormon Times:

Was Hebrew DNA recently found in American Indian populations in South America? According to Scott R. Woodward, executive director of Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, a DNA marker, called the “Cohen modal haplotype,” sometimes associated with Hebrew people, has been found in Columbia, Brazil and Bolivia.

But it probably has nothing to do with the Book of Mormon — at least not directly.

For years several critics of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and of the Book of Mormon have claimed that the lack of Hebrew DNA markers in living American Indian populations is evidence the book can’t be true. They say the book’s description of ancient immigrations of Israelites is fictional.

“But,” said Woodward, “as Hugh Nibley used to say, ‘Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.’ ”

Critic Thomas Murphy, for example, wrote in one article about how the Cohen modal haplotype had been found in the Lemba clan in Africa. The Lemba clan’s oral tradition claims it has Jewish ancestors.

Murphy then complained, “If the (Book of Mormon) documented actual Israelite migrations to the New World, then one would expect to find similar evidence to that found in a Lemba clan in one or more Native American populations. Such evidence, however, has not been forthcoming.”

Until now.

So will Murphy and other critics use this new evidence of Hebrew DNA markers to prove the Book of Mormon is correct? Probably not. But neither should anyone else.

Why?

According to Woodward, the way critics have used DNA studies to attack the Book of Mormon is “clearly wrong.” And it would be equally wrong to use similar DNA evidence to try to prove it.

This is because “not all DNA (evidence) is created equal,” Woodward said. (cont.)

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Extrabiblical Scriptures Are Not Barrier to Christianity

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

From LDS Newsroom:

Twice in the past six months an apostle has used the world general conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to address one of the most common questions asked by the public about the Church in the past two years: Are Mormons Christian?

In his address last October, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles explained the Church’s doctrine of the Godhead — the term used by Mormons that most closely equates to the traditional Christian concept of the Trinity. In his remarks last Sunday, Elder Holland addressed the issue of the additional scriptures used by Latter-day Saints. He described the topic as “the other major doctrine” that characterizes our faith, “namely the bold assertion that God continues to speak His word and reveal His truth, revelations which mandate an open canon of scripture.”

Speaking of people who reject an “open canon”, Elder Holland said: “Imputing no ill will to those who take such a position, nevertheless we respectfully but resolutely reject such an unscriptural characterization of true Christianity.”

His points included:

“One of the arguments often used in any defense of a closed canon is the New Testament passage recorded in Revelation 22:18: ‘For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of … this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book.’ However, there is now overwhelming consensus among virtually all biblical scholars that this verse applies only to the book of Revelation, not the whole Bible.”
“Virtually every prophet of the Old and New Testament has added scripture to that received by his predecessors. If the Old Testament words of Moses were sufficient, as some could have mistakenly thought them to be, then why, the subsequent prophecies of Isaiah? Or Jeremiah who follows him? To say nothing of Ezekiel and Daniel, of Joel, Amos, and all the rest. If one revelation to one prophet in one moment of time is sufficient for all time, what justifies these many others? What justifies them was made clear by Jehovah Himself when He said to Moses, ‘My works are without end, and … my words … never cease’ (Moses 1:4).”
“The scriptures are not the ultimate source of knowledge for Latter-day Saints. They are manifestations of the ultimate source. The ultimate source of knowledge and authority for a Latter-day Saint is the living God. The communication of those gifts comes from God as living, vibrant, divine revelation.” (link to entire article)

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Hotel offers spiritual options

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

From The World on the Web:

A Nashville hotel is removing the Bible from all of its rooms and replacing it with a “spiritual menu” of various religious books that guests can order through room service. The “menu” at Hotel Preston will include the Book of Mormon, the Qur’an, the Torah, the Tao Te Ching, The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism, Bhagavad Gita (a Hindu text), Scientology books, and the King James and New American Bible.

“Our guests come from different places and they definitely come from different cultures, backgrounds, ethnicities, so we want everyone to feel welcomed and comfortable,” [said Dina Nishioka, public relations director for Hotel Preston]. (cont.)

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Each Sunday we talk of Christ, we preach of Christ, we rejoice in Christ. In this way, every Sunday is Easter Sunday.

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

From TheMorningCall.com:

At this special time of year, Christian congregations hold Easter services to commemorate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. This is a wonderful tradition.

Soon after the Savior’s resurrection, the early Christian church moved worship meetings from Saturday to Sunday — the day that Jesus rose from the grave — to celebrate His resurrection every week. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) agrees that every Sunday is a celebration of the Living Christ.

The most significant of the LDS Sunday meetings is called the sacrament meeting. In these sacred services, we pay our devotions to the Savior and remind one another of His teachings. The meeting begins with a hymn, sung by the congregation. Then, a member is asked to offer a brief, heartfelt prayer.

Next comes the most important part of the worship service, called the sacrament. After another hymn, bread and water — symbolic of the body and blood of Christ — are blessed and passed to those in the congregation.

Through this sacred ordinance, members of the church weekly renew the covenant they made when baptized into the church, which includes promises to take upon us the name of Christ, to always remember Him, and to keep His commandments. Members re-commit themselves each week to try harder to live as the Savior would have us live. (cont.)

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People of the Book — The Bible

Monday, March 17th, 2008

From ChristianityToday.com:

Ever notice, when you’re preaching, how few Philistines drop by the church anymore? Or how rarely Moabites get converted and lead a small group? Or how no one has a cousin married to an Amalekite?

Pretty much all the nations and tribes from Bible times that were of Israel’s size are gone. So why did Israel survive? Not just survive; in the words of Thomas Cahill, how did a tribe of desert nomads change the way the world thought and felt? What distinguished Israel from everyone else?

It wasn’t power. Most of its history Israel was a vassal nation. It wasn’t wealth. Israel was never a major economic player. It wasn’t size. Israel was dwarfed by Greece, Egypt, Babylon, and Rome. What did Israel have?

A book. Scrolls really, with books like Genesis or Isaiah written over the centuries, that most people, being illiterate, had to hear being read. They had a book like no other.

Their book said that instead of little tribal gods locally, there was one God who created all things and planned on redeeming all things.

It said life was not an endless cycle of repetition. It said history was a story—God’s story, with a beginning, a crisis, and in a day to come, a climax.

It said that human beings made by and accountable to this God can now know how to live.

This book so defined them they were called “people of the book.” To help their children learn the book was the greatest task of every parent.

To be able to teach this book—to be a rabbi—was their greatest ambition.

The historian Josephus wrote: Time and again we have given practical proof of our reverence for our own scriptures … it is an instinct with every Jew, from the day of their birth, to regard them as the decrees of God, to abide by them, and if need be, cheerfully to die for them. Time and again the sight has been witnessed of prisoners enduring torture and death rather than utter a single word against them. What Greek would endure as much for the same cause?

Humanly speaking, the book is what they had to offer the world. The book is what shaped them and held them together. The book started every morning: “Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One”). The book didn’t say, “O Israel, think for yourselves. Follow your bliss. Go with your gut.” It just said, Hear. It was the source of all wisdom, the guidance for all problems, the authoritative appeal in every debate. The rabbis often disagreed over what it meant. But everybody understood its status. It was the last word. They never got over this awe that in this book God has spoken—“What advantage is there, then, of being a Jew? Much in every way! First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God” (Rom. 3:1). (cont.)

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First Edition of Book of Mormon Merits Rave Results at Auction

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

From LiveAuctionTalk.com:

First edition; plain 588-page text sold for $103,500. Printed in 1830, only about 500 copies survive today. Photo courtesy of PBA Galleries.

On Oct. 11, PBA Galleries, San Francisco, featured a first edition Book of Mormon. The plain 588-page text sold for $103,500. Printed in 1830, only about 500 are estimated to survive today. The copy sold included the rare leaf of testimonials at the end and had a solid provenance.

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Third Book in the Principles with Promise Series Released: A Study Companion to the Book of Mormon

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

From PR.com (press release):

Following the recent release of On Common Ground: Bridging the Mormon Evangelical Divide, Celestine Publishing announced the publishing of its third book in the Principles with Promise series; this time an abbreviated concordance cataloging more than a thousand principles found in The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ.

Raleigh, NC, February 17, 2008 –(PR.com)– Celestine Publishing, LLC, www.celestinepublishing.com announced the release of Principles with Promise: Study Companion for the Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ. This book is the third in a series of scriptural concordances that focus on different text considered holy writ from God by practitioners of various religions – in this case, it is for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and others who are interested in some of their core beliefs found in the Book of Mormon.

“This edition of Principles with Promise is dedicated to the late President Gordon B. Hinckley whom all Latter-day Saints loved dearly and is my way of thanking him for his tireless years of service to all of us,” commented its author, Vincent DiGirolamo.

The Principles with Promise series catalogs thousands of doctrines, values, and teachings found in the scriptures from various religions. This edition of Principles with Promise captures principles and their associated references found specifically in the Book of Mormon. This is also the volume of scripture the Latter-day Saints are studying this year as part of their adult Sunday school or Gospel Doctrine program.

President Hinckley was known for his love of the Book of Mormon and challenged Latter-day Saints to read it by year’s end during a session of General Conference in 2005. This was a challenge members of the church took seriously. “His love for the Book of Mormon was contagious, and even now, my family along with tens of thousands of people, has taken the challenge anew to read the Book of Mormon in ninety-seven days (Pres. Hinckley’s age) to express our love to him and his memory – see www.hinckleychallenge.com.” remarked DiGirolamo.

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Mitt Romney said WHAT?!?!?

Friday, February 1st, 2008

From GetReligion.com:

This is, methinks, why God created weblogs.

There’s quite a bit of buzz out there right now in evangelical circles about a series of informational videos that are up and running at CitizenLink.org — which is part of the wider kingdom linked to an activist by the name of James Dobson. The videos feature clips of recent webcasts with Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council.

Right now, everyone is asking — will Dobson endorse either (gasp) Mitt Romney or (gasp!) John McCain? It is in that context that the following blog item by Michael Scherer appears at Time, with the pushy headline: “A stealth Mitt Romney endorsement from the religious right’s powerbrokers?”

The clip on Rudy Giuliani is harsh (note that reference to dancing in drag). No surprise. The McCain video says voters have no way of knowing what the senator will do next. No surprise. Then the video on Mike Huckabee is surprisingly critical. No surprise?

After praising Huckabee’s social views, both Perkins and Tom Minnery, a policy expert at Focus on the Family, hammer the former Arkansas governor for his foreign policy views. Minnery suggests that Huckabee does not understand the cause for which American troops are dying in Iraq. Then Perkins suggests that Huckabee lacks the fiscal and national security credentials needed for a conservative presidential candidate. “The conservatives have been successful in electing candidates, and presidents in particular, when they have had a candidate that can address not only the social issues, [but] the fiscal issues and the defense issues,” says Perkins. “[Huckabee] has got to reach out to the fiscal conservatives and the security conservatives.” Ouch.

Now hang on, here comes the buried lede.

So what about Romney? He comes up roses. “He has staked out positions on all three of the areas that we have discussed,” says Perkins. “I think he continues to be solidly conservative.” Then Minnery defends Romney from criticism that he is too polished and smooth. “Mitt Romney has acknowledged that Mormonism is not a Christian faith,” Minnery adds. “But on the social issues we are so similar.”

Now wait just a minute. Romney said what?

There was, of course, the quote in the big religion speech in which he said:

“What do I believe about Jesus Christ? I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the Savior of mankind. My church’s beliefs about Christ may not all be the same as those of other faiths. Each religion has its own unique doctrines and history.”

Yes, here we go again. But let’s focus — oh ye comment-link clickers — on the journalistic fact here that must be chased. Where in the heck did Romney acknowledge that “Mormonism is not a Christian faith”? Did Scherer realize how controversial that statement is for millions of people on both sides of the issue?

What did Romney say and where and when did he say it? Or are the Dobson folks grasping at straws as they prepare their flock for an endorsement?

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Madrid hotel puts books left behind by guests to good use

Hawaiian Book of Mormon unveilled in Laie

Muskegon library selling rare and valuable book

Former resident says ‘sorry’ decades later

Best of the Blogs: Mormon Times

Best of the Blogs: Mormon Times

Hebrew DNA Found in South America?

Extrabiblical Scriptures Are Not Barrier to Christianity

Hotel offers spiritual options

Each Sunday we talk of Christ, we preach of Christ, we rejoice in Christ. In this way, every Sunday is Easter Sunday.

People of the Book — The Bible

First Edition of Book of Mormon Merits Rave Results at Auction

Third Book in the Principles with Promise Series Released: A Study Companion to the Book of Mormon

Mitt Romney said WHAT?!?!?

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