Zelophehad's Daughters
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Zelophehad's Daughters
3w ago
A few days ago, Russell M. Nelson announced the long-awaited dates for the Salt Lake Temple open house: April to October . . . of 2027. As he appears to be opening up his calendar to officially put his stamp on upcoming events, I thought I’d speculate about some of his other calendar entries that … Read More ..read more
Zelophehad's Daughters
1M ago
lorem ipsum I’ve been posting goofy Mormon valentines for a decade now. Here are links to previous posts: Correlated Cards for Valentine’s Day, Happy Valentine’s Day from the Trump Administration, More Correlated Cards for Valentine’s Day, The Most Correct of Any Valentines on Earth, Old Testament Valentines, New Testament Valentines, Even More Correlated Cards for … Read More ..read more
Zelophehad's Daughters
1M ago
What are your favorite and least favorite lines in hymns? Are there any that make you happy to think of, or that make you cringe when you sing them? Here are a few of mine. I’ll start with my least favorites so I can end on a positive note. Angels above us are silent notes … Read More ..read more
Zelophehad's Daughters
2M ago
This post is my annual compilation of the funniest comments (and lines in posts) that I read on the Bloggernacle last year. I’ve typically excerpted just a part of a longer comment or post. Each person’s name is a link back to the original comment or post, though, so you can go and see the … Read More ..read more
Zelophehad's Daughters
3M ago
Janey’s recent post “Should We Make Life Easier or Harder? at W&T got me to thinking about a little story bordering on aphorism that I recall hearing a number of times as a kid and a teen in the 1980s. General Sunday School President Mark L. Pace recently told a version of it: President Pace … Read More ..read more
Zelophehad's Daughters
3M ago
On the first day of temples, my Nelson gave to me . . . renovation in Salt Lake City. On the second day of temples, my Nelson gave to me . . . two vaporware ones1 and renovation in Salt Lake City. On the third day of temples, my Nelson gave to me . . … Read More ..read more
Zelophehad's Daughters
3M ago
A bunch of years ago, I wrote a post where I converted a particularly memorable Conference talk into a hymn. I thought this would be a fun exercise to try again, this time with Russell M. Nelson’s “Think Celestial” from October 2023. Sing to the tune of “Choose the Right.” Celestial is the way you … Read More ..read more
Zelophehad's Daughters
4M ago
This is a question people quite reasonably often ask when I blog about which Q15 members are likely to become Church president, using a mortality table as my guide. In this post, I used the same SOA mortality table I’ve been using to forecast longevity, and applied it to Q15 members who have already died, … Read More ..read more
Zelophehad's Daughters
5M ago
I read a comment recently at W&T about Church members in Arizona being split on whether Trump embodies Latter-day Saint values, with most believing he does, and a minority disagreeing. (I’m not linking to the comment because on a quick search, I couldn’t find it.) As you can guess if you’ve read ZD much, I’m … Read More ..read more
Zelophehad's Daughters
5M ago
This guest post comes from Zatch, who last year also shared “Go to the House Mansion of the Lord.” My spouse and I were talking earlier about the challenge of staffing all those new temples. Clearly steps have already been taken to limit the number of personnel required to operate a temple: Recorded movies/slideshows instead … Read More ..read more