Image: LDS Apostle Orson Hyde – December 27, 1847 – April 10, 18751 A Lecture by President Orson Hyde, Delivered at the General Conference, in the Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake City, October 6, 1854:2 “This is brought up as a great argument against the position the Latter-day Saints have taken. In olden times they might … Read more
Image: President Dieter F. Uchtdorf – April 2017 General Conference From the Book of Mormon, 1 Nephi 10-13, 18:1 10 And it came to pass that I was constrained by the Spirit that I should kill Laban; but I said in my heart: Never at any time have I shed the blood of man. … Read more
Image: President Thomas S. Monson and President Dieter F. Uchtdorf – April 2017 General Conference Excerpt from President Thomas S. Monson’s April 2017 General Conference address:1 “We live in a time of great trouble and wickedness. What will protect us from the sin and evil so prevalent in the world today? I maintain that a strong … Read more
Image: 2017 April General Conference, view from inside the LDS Conference Center A 2015 Time article (citing a ARIS Study) shows for every 100 male members there are 150 female members (in the state of Utah) of the LDS church:1 One of my web searches turned up a study from Trinity College’s American Religious Identification … Read more
Image: Elder Valeri V. Cordón, Quorum of the Seventy. Excerpt from the April 2017 General Conference, Valeri V. Cordón: 1 “One day, during those difficult times, I heard my parents discussing whether they should pay tithing or buy food for the children. On Sunday, I followed my father to see what he was going to … Read more
Image: Thomas S. Monson, LDS Church President. From the April 2006 General Conference address ‘Our Sacred Priesthood Trust’:1 I have experienced many opportunities. One occurred 21 years ago, prior to the time when the German Democratic Republic—or East Germany, as it was more commonly known—was freed from Communist rule. I was visiting with the East … Read more
Image: Martin Luther King Jr., Civil Rights Activist From an address by Ezra Taft Benson in the April 1965 General Conference:1 What are we doing to fight it? Before I left for Europe I warned how the communists were using the civil rights movement to promote revolution and eventual takeover of this country. When are … Read more
Image: Spencer W. Kimball From the October 1960 LDS General Conference, Spencer W. Kimball:1 “At one meeting a father and mother and their sixteen-year-old daughter were present, the little member girl—sixteen—sitting between the dark father and mother, and it was evident she was several shades lighter than her parents—on the same reservation, in the same hogan, subject … Read more
Excerpt from the 2006 general conference address Rise Up, O Men of God, by Gordon B Hinckley1 “It is plainly evident from these statistics that young women are exceeding young men in pursuing educational programs. And so I say to you young men, rise up and discipline yourself to take advantage of educational opportunities. Do you … Read more
It is estimated the LDS church pulls in between 5 billion dollars annually in tithing revenue alone, sans additional for-profit enterprises. 1 From a Dallin Oak (LDS Apostle) 2016 address on religious freedom at the University of Oxford:2 “Care for the poor and needy is not optional or incidental in our Church. We do this worldwide. … Read more