The LDS Church currently teaches they have the fulness of the temple ordinances and all that God intended to reveal on the subject. Again, I totally disagree. The LDS Church did not previously believe or teach they had the fulness of the temple teachings. That is a recent claim and is simply not true.
A Time of Reflection, Part Seven
Carol and I were first introduced to wine in the Sacrament in a fellowship meeting after one of the lectures in 2014. I think it was Las Vegas. We were invited by members of the Colorado fellowship to join with them to meet and talk about what we had received that day. To me, it was an amazing spiritual experience, and not because of the wine. I felt the sweet spirit of the Lord being poured out on this humble fellowship gathered that night.
Setting My House In Order
A recent change in employment has given me the opportunity to pick up blogging again. I dusted off my blog, gave it a new look and discovered I made the list of Top Mormon Bloggers. Who knew?
Life and Death of a Blog
A blog requires passion. I say that from eight years of experience. It takes vision. It requires time and effort. It is a labor of love. I loved blogging in […]
Farewell – May God Bless you
Almost eight years I took a leap of faith, began to write short items I thought might be interesting to others, and posted them on Blogger. For years I labored, […]
Opening the Conduit to Heaven
I read a lot of blogs. You probably do too. What or who we read can tell us a lot about each other. I’m especially interested in keeping in touch […]
A Forum for Latter-day Commentary
There is an interesting discussion taking place over at the LDS Freedom Forum. For those who aren’t members of the “Approaching the Heavenly Gift” sub-forum, here are the details below […]
Q & A with Tim Malone, Author of Latter-day Commentary
Q: How has your perception of Latter-day Commentary changed since its inception? In many respects, the direction of this simple blog has turned completely around. When I started blogging almost […]
Determining Your Mission in Life
First of all, YOU determine your mission in life. Nobody else can do it for you. YOU decide what you want to do with your life. YOU decide what it […]
Remnant Family Reunion Controversy / Apology
I must apologize here for the tone of the questions in my April 15th, 2015 post. As someone pointed out in another blog, written words can seem cold. We don’t […]
Skin in the Game
Dear Tim, There’s something about your new blog format that doesn’t quite sparkle for me anymore. Sure, I got used to, and miss the old uncluttered visual layout with that […]
A Multitude of Voices United as One
Some of you know I dedicated this blog to the Lord earlier this year. Prior to that time it was just another Mormon-themed blog. After that sacred moment in prayer, […]
What to Expect When You’re Excommunicated
If you’re drawn to this blog post by the title, I ask you to look past that to the subtitle. It is “The Believing Mormon’s Guide to the Coming Purge.” […]
Do This in Remembrance of Me
On that fateful Passover night in the Meridian of Time before Gethsemane, the Savior instituted the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper. The Sacrament was a change from the way […]
Questions on LDS Blogging and Apostasy
In response to the recent excommunication of Kate Kelly, founder of Ordain Women, and the pending disciplinary actions against John Dehlin, and Rock Waterman, The Office of the First Presidency […]
Don’t Blame Me, I Just Report the News
Earlier this month, a Facebook event was created entitled, “This is not the place.” It is subtitled, “Mass resignation from the LDS Church,” and is to protest Kate’s excommunication. The […]
Conservative Mormon Bloggers Under Scrutiny
One of my greatest desires as a blogger is to help people of differing beliefs and political ideologies come together in a unified search for peace that comes through faith […]
Conversation With The Bishop
This is a fictional account. It is based on current events, but it is NOT how things went down with my Bishop. I have promised to keep that confidential. I […]
Public Statement on my Status
Owing to the many private inquiries as to my status in the current “purge” of bloggers and Mormon activists, I would like to share this comment I wrote a few […]
Defining Bounds the Lord Has Set
Of all the comments in my recent posts on Priesthood, this one got me thinking, pondering and praying. I have split Darin’s comment into a few paragraphs. I was especially […]
Allow Me the Agency of My Doubts
Update: A better title would have been: “Please Allow me the Freedom to Have Questions.” The word “doubts” causes people to think you are not a believer. I am a […]
Cut Off From Among My people
When one is excommunicated from the LDS Church, he is provided instructions by the Bishop or Stake President as to what he can and cannot do. Given that the church […]
Mormons Are a Submissive People
I’ve noticed a constant theme over the past few years as I have written about those who have been excommunicated from our church. I don’t know if it’s just coincidence […]
Snuffer Reader Excommunicated for Apostasy
I am troubled this evening as I write this short post. An online friend has been excommunicated from the LDS Church for apostasy because he wrote in an online forum, […]
Duane Crowther Has Not Been Excommunicated
I write this at the request of Brother Crowther. I don’t know him well enough to call him Duane. In fact, we have never met, as far as I know. […]
Forty Years in Mormonism
I received my CDs from last week’s Boise talk. It took a day or two more to get to me in California. I know some already had theirs Saturday. I […]
A Moderate Approach to Denver Snuffer
In a private email from Denver Snuffer earlier this year, I had an epiphany about myself and my writing style. I was surprised when he answered my email directly and […]
The Appeal of Denver Snuffer
Update 9-11-13: Denver Snuffer has been excommunicated. You can read it on his blog. A reader asked my opinion of a recent post about Denver Snuffer by Russell Stevenson over […]
My Defense Before the High Council
One of my readers, Steve, asked, “I wondered what you would do if your stake president told you to quit blogging about Denver or you would be exed.” This is […]
Expressions of Support for Denver Snuffer
Yesterday, I and many others received letters of support for Denver Snuffer in the face of his upcoming disciplinary action. Many people have said that their reading of “Passing the Heavenly Gift” helped them reconsider plans […]
Sharing the Gospel through Goodreads
I finally got around to updating my Goodreads account with a few of the book reviews I have written over the years. I have been amazed by the response of […]
Blogging the End of the World
I think I’m getting excited about blogging again. When I started back in 2007 I did a lot of work to promote this thing. I registered with all the appropriate […]
A Few Quotes from Denver Snuffer
As I went through volume one of Remembering the Covenant, I marked passages I thought were interesting, remarkable or controversial. I thought to myself, “I would love to discuss these […]
Visions of Glory and the Last Days
Note added 6-11-13: Greg Smith has published a much more complete review on the FAIR website. And I thought I was being a little harsh in my review here. Well, it’s good […]
Preparing for a Digital Afterlife
When you get old like me, you begin to think about your legacy. A good legacy is a life well remembered by loved ones and friends. In the old days, […]
The Power of the Sacrament
I wrote an essay several years ago on my old blog that still gets a lot of hits even though I retired that blog and transferred everything over here. I’m […]
Top 50 Most Viewed Essays
If you are a new visitor to my blog, you may want to take a few minutes to browse through some of my top essays. These are ranked by page […]
My Interview with Mormon.org
One of the ways to share the gospel online is to create a profile on Mormon.org and the answer the personal questions found there about how you live the gospel.
Add your profile to Mormon.org
I haven’t been this excited about something the church has done in a long time. Don’t get me wrong. I love the blessings of being involved in church activity each […]
A Website for the Average Mormon
I know that I’m just one of thousands of LDS members who have a website where they share their beliefs and testimonies of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. I like to think that I’m not much different from your average Mormon.
Mormon Mommy blogs are the traffic queens
I updated my list of LDS blog aggregators with a couple of Mormon Mommy blog link-lists and ran some Alexa numbers. I was shocked to discover that the top aggregator was not what I had expected. Check it out for yourself.
Mormons can poke fun at themselves
Although we take our doctrine and worship seriously, the unique Mormon culture can be a real head scratcher to those who are not familiar with the intricacies of the mixture of LDS history and the home-grown Utah slant on things.
New home for Latter-day Commentary
Latter-day Commentary has moved to WordPress. This post started as a running commentary of the steps I went through to get everything transferred from Blogger. It was a fairly smooth but time-consuming process. Fun!
LDS Group Blog Rankings 2.0
I had a blast today updating my list of LDS group blogs. I confess that although I have visited and read all of these blogs in the past, I have […]
Top LDS Blog Rankings – version 2.0
At Connor’s encouragement, I updated the rankings list of the solo LDS Blogs I read on a regular basis. I now have 110 solo blogs in my Google reader and […]
Dealing with Anti-Mormon attacks
When I started blogging about LDS doctrine and issues a few years back I did not expect to get a lot of comments right away. After all, nobody knew about […]
Sharing the gospel using Facebook
After many years of resisting, I finally joined Facebook. My intention is to find another avenue to share the gospel. I have been blogging for a little over a year […]
Why LDS blogging just works
I don’t know this blogger and I normally don’t do this, but one of the joys of blogging is reading what others have felt important to share. I feel particularly […]
Today’s LDS blog rankings
In between helping Carol put up Christmas decorations, I compiled the Alexa rankings of the LDS blogs I follow. Although it is by no means comprehensive, it helps me understand […]
Antagonism makes good Mormon news
Some have claimed that all the attention the LDS Church has been receiving lately is a PR fiasco. Nothing could be further from the truth. It has become a PR […]
LDS Bloggers making a difference
There are now many more LDS bloggers who are actively expressing positive and interesting things about their faith and the LDS Church. This is a huge increase from this time […]
Mocking Mormons is not a new sport
I suppose I should be flattered. There are several sites out there that troll the Bloggernacle just looking for conservative bloggers that take themselves too seriously. I’m probably one of […]
Benefits of LDS blogging
I was asked by a BYU public relations research student on behalf of the More Good Foundation to explain why I blog on LDS topics. I have been thinking about […]
Researching the LDS church on the Internet
You can find all kinds of people on the Internet blogging and commenting about the church these days. There are those who write so far above me that I have […]
How to promote your LDS blog
I started my blog about eight months ago in late September 2007. That was before Elder Ballard asked us in December 2007 to participate more in the new media. For […]
So was it good for the Mormons?
I don’t think all the press attention that has come to the church in the last year because of Mitt Romney will go away but I am fairly certain we […]