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		<title>Alma 36:9 Revisited</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 18:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: I previously took a shot of making sense of an odd construction in Alma 36:9. Since that text is part of this coming Sunday&#8217;s GD lesson, I would like to take this opportunity to update that first, preliminary effort at making sense of it. Since that original post my views have changed somewhat. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=36815&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dinner Groups</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 17:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we bought the house we now live in back in the late 80s, we had to move into a different ward in our stake. I loved our old ward, but I also loved our new house, so the switch had to be done. I went into it with low expectations; I figured from experience [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=36780&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Rape of the Lamanite Women</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 21:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Barney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part of tomorrow&#8217;s GD lesson is Mosiah 20, which includes the story of the wicked Noachian priests and the stolen daughters of the Lamanites: 1 Now there was a place in Shemlon where the daughters of the Lamanites did gather themselves together to sing, and to dance, and to make themselves merry. 2 And it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=36680&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should I Stay or Should I Go?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 01:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Barney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I work in Chicago, and live in a northwest suburb of the City. So I&#8217;ve been following from afar the young basketball phenom Jabari Parker. It has been fun to read all the articles about the humble, serious-minded young man, excellent student, tight-knit family, with off the charts basketball skills. And oh yes, he&#8217;s black. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=36555&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Die Boek van Mormon</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 17:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Barney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On our BCC backlist, one of our permas asked whether the below meets the Snopes test. &#8220;Die Boek van Mormon&#8221; By John M. Pontius The account was originally posted by Pontius at his blog, but he has since taken the actual account down, although the comments remain. Therefore, I&#8217;m pasting here the account as given [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=36537&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching the Stone in the Hat</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 21:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I prepared for today&#8217;s GD lesson on Mosiah 7-11, it dawned on me that Mosiah 8 might be a good occasion to teach the class the stone-in-the-hat methodology Joseph used in his translation of the BoM. As you&#8217;ll recall, King Limhi asks Ammon if he can translate languages, and he replies that he cannot. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=36323&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Draw Closer to God</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2012/04/29/how-to-draw-closer-to-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 23:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[The below is an approximation of a talk I gave in sacrament meeting today. It is only an approximation because I never wrote the text out but spoke from an outline. I was supposed to be the last speaker last week, but the second speaker took the whole time, so the bishop asked me to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=36181&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mormonism in a Nutshell (Notes for Mitt)</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2012/04/26/mormonism-in-a-nutshell-notes-for-mitt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone wants Mitt Romney to talk about Mormonism, and so far he has more or less refused. That is perhaps the wiser political course. But if it were me, I&#8217;m not so sure that I would be able to stay silent on the subject. The vacuum has left reporters with the idea that Mormonism is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=36140&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The House of Il</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2012/04/13/the-house-of-il/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I returned from my mission to Colorado in October of 1979. After working a couple of months to save some money, I returned to Provo in January 1980 to resume my education. That first semester I roomed with a friend from my freshman year. It was just a room in the basement of a tree [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=35925&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Children Bearing Testimony</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2012/03/17/on-children-bearing-testimony/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was on my mission, I had a companion who really hated it when young children bore testimony in the general fast and testimony meeting. I had never encountered that perspective before, but once he had articulated it I began to notice casual comments from a few general authorities here and there who shared [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=35003&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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