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Heavenly mother

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:32:41 MDT

Heavenly mother

Updated May 18, 2013 10:32AM MDT

I enjoyed Peggy Stack’s “A Mormon mystery returns: Who is Heavenly Mother?” (Tribune, May 11). Recognizing a co-creator of our spiritual bodies makes sense. The suggestion that the Heavenly Mother is the Holy Ghost does not take into consideration the Mormon belief that our Heavenly Father was once a man like us who lived on an earth like ours and apparently married a woman like us in a celestial temple ceremony, which is a requirement to become a god and have the ability to procreate after ph...

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Drama testing friendship between gay and Mormon youth goes to ‘Fringe NYC’

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:47:27 MDT

Drama testing friendship between gay and Mormon youth goes to ‘Fringe NYC’

By Ben Fulton The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 17, 2013 02:47PM MDT

New York City loves, loves, loves plays about gay Mormons. Or at least Mormons and their gay friends. Playwright and actor Steven Fales took his one-man show “Confessions of a Mormon Boy,” chronicling his journey from closeted LDS missionary to New York City call-boy, to the 2004 New York International Fringe Festival. Three years later, Plan-B Theatre Company took Carol Lynn Pearson’s drama “Facing East,” about Mormon parents grieving the suicide of their gay son, to an off-Broadway stage. Now ...

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Mormon movie soundtrack a historical journey for Utah composer Paul Cardall

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:26:46 MDT

Mormon movie soundtrack a historical journey for Utah composer Paul Cardall

Updated May 17, 2013 04:26PM MDT

When T.C. Christensen asked Paul Cardall to compose music for “Ephraim’s Rescue,” the filmmaker had no idea how meaningful his request would be for the best-selling Utah composer and pianist. The film chronicles the rescue of the Martin and Willie handcart companies in 1856, one of the iconic moments of Mormon history. Nearly 1,000 handcart pioneers on their way to Utah became stuck east of the Rocky Mountains with little food and blizzard conditions. More than 200 people in the companies died...

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A Mormon mystery returns: Who is Heavenly Mother?

Fri, 10 May 2013 18:10:05 MDT

A Mormon mystery returns: Who is Heavenly Mother?

By peggy fletcher stack The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 10, 2013 06:10PM MDT

On Sunday, Mormon speakers may share stories of supermoms who run marathons, home-school their 10 children, help out at the homeless shelter and sing Bach cantatas — all while leading daily prayers, scripture study and blogging about it. Few members, however, will hear about the greatest mom of all: Heavenly Mother. Though she has been acknowledged by Mormon prophets and celebrated in LDS hymns, Mother in Heaven is absent from missionary materials, religious manuals, youth programs, and, for the...

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Celebrate 'Real Housewives' with Mormon cocktails

Tue, 14 May 2013 09:16:57 MDT

Celebrate 'Real Housewives' with Mormon cocktails

Heather May The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 14, 2013 09:16AM MDT

Pago and Finca will be celebrating the play “The Righteous and Very Real Housewives of Utah County” with a dinner and cocktail special during the May 16-26 run of Miguel Santana’s play at The Post Theater at the University of Utah about an elderly Mormon widow and he[Finca](http://fincaslc.com/) [Pago](http://pagoslc.com/) [The Righteous and Very Real Housewives of Utah County](http://alligatorpressproductions.com/) r family. Pago, 878 S. 900 East, Salt Lake City, will feature a dinner special,...

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More Elizabeth Smart fallout: Should Mormon church change booklet?

Tue, 07 May 2013 12:57:20 MDT

More Elizabeth Smart fallout: Should Mormon church change booklet?

THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE

Updated May 7, 2013 12:57PM MDT

Kidnap victim Elizabeth Smart made national headlines this week by saying that she didn’t try to escape from her captors because she felt like a “chewed-up piece of gum, nobody re-chews a piece of gum, you throw it away.” Having been repeatedly raped, Smart told a Johns Hopkins human-trafficking forum, it was “easy ... to feel like you no longer have worth, you no longer have value. Why would it even be worth screaming out? Why would it even make a difference if you are rescued? Your life still ...

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Kirby: Nomophobia not fear of being without a Mormon

Mon, 06 May 2013 10:24:56 MDT

Kirby: Nomophobia not fear of being without a Mormon

By Robert Kirby Tribune Columnist

Updated May 6, 2013 10:24AM MDT

How long could you go without your cellphone? Assuming that you didn’t need it for work or as part of court-ordered electronic monitoring, how long could you stand to be without mobile service? If you immediately thought in terms of minutes or even a few hours, there’s a good chance you have a serious emotional problem. There’s even a name for your derangement. “Nomophobia” is the fear of being without a mobile phone. It comes from “no mobile phone” phobia. Note: I confess that I first thought ...

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Molotov cocktail damages Ogden Mormon church meeting house

Mon, 06 May 2013 23:30:39 MDT

Molotov cocktail damages Ogden Mormon church meeting house

By Jennifer Dobner The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 6, 2013 11:30PM MDT

State and federal authorities Monday were investigating a fire at a Mormon church meeting house that officials say was caused by a Molotov cocktail. Maintenance workers at the church, 1590 13th St., called police about 7:30 a.m. Monday to report the explosive device had been thrown through a kitchen window sometime overnight. The fire, which was contained to the church kitchen, burned itself out before it was discovered, the Ogden City Fire Department said in a news release. An initial estimate...

Something’s missing from story on Mormon prophets’ moms

Mon, 06 May 2013 12:09:52 MDT

Something’s missing from story on Mormon prophets’ moms

THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE

Updated May 6, 2013 12:09PM MDT

Just in time for Mother’s Day, the LDS Church’s magazine for children intends to show how much the faith’s leaders revered the women who gave them life. The May issue of the Friend carries this article by Lori M. Johansen, “Remembering Mothers: Stories From Our Prophets.” It recounts how these moms sacrificed for their sons, nurtured them in faith, gave money to the poor and more. Each brief anecdote is attached to a particular Mormon prophet — Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, Joseph F. Smith, Heber...

New novel: A Bountiful ‘Journey’ for young, struggling Mormon

Sat, 04 May 2013 17:01:52 MDT

New novel: A Bountiful ‘Journey’ for young, struggling Mormon

By Diane Cole Special to The Tribune

Updated May 4, 2013 05:01PM MDT

In the first book of his promised trilogy, Journey (If Where You’re Going Isn’t Home), Max Zimmer takes us on a soul-searching trip to 1950s Bountiful, Utah, where he and his fictional adolescent counterpart, Shake Tauffler, grew up in the shadow of LDS Church headquarters. It’s a trip worth taking, whether the reader’s roots are in Utah or elsewhere. Readers curious about the ideas and customs that contributed to the development of men such as Mitt Romney, the Republican Party’s last presidenti...

Remember Jim Crow?

Sat, 04 May 2013 01:01:03 MDT

Remember Jim Crow?

Updated May 4, 2013 01:01AM MDT

Re “Mormon church endorses Scout plan: let gay boys join, keep out gay leaders” (Tribune, April 26): The plan of the Boy Scouts of America to allow gay young men to play with straight young men but to forbid adult gay men from associating with them reminds me of nothing more than the plantation culture of the Old South, where black children of slaves played with white children, but when they grew up the whites had nothing to do socially with the blacks. If creating a Jim Crow situation in Scouti...