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		<title>There and Back Again: A Blogger&#8217;s Tale</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2011/06/12/there-and-back-again-a-bloggers-tale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four years ago, I sat in a cramped Manhattan apartment and set up my first blog, &#8220;Mormon Rhetoric.&#8221;  I started this blog in a moment of frustration.  I had recently married in the temple.  But what should have been a key spiritual moment instead led to a spiritual crisis. Unable to reconcile how I perceived [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=27148&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does the charitable deduction make sense for Mormons?</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2011/04/18/does-the-charitable-deduction-make-sense-for-mormons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year, Mormons will likely be disproportionate beneficiaries of the charitable deduction as they deduct money paid for tithing. The issue is whether allowing Mormons this deduction makes economic sense. The charitable deduction functions to lower the cost of giving. If taxpayer in a 40% tax bracket were to donate $100, he &#8220;saves&#8221; $40 in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=25854&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can a bishop be judge, counselor, and administrator?</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2011/03/25/can-a-bishop-be-judge-counselor-and-administrator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie B.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mormon bishops wear different hats: They are administrators of ward functions, personal counselors to their members, and judges in ecclesiastical issues.  The question for this post is whether it is possible for bishops to simultaneously fulfill each of these roles well. The potential conflict between the role of counselor and judge becomes apparent in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=25064&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>37</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Let Me Try that Again: Grandparents Take II</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2011/03/13/let-me-try-that-again-grandparents-take-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 16:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie B.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I wrote a bad post.  My apologies: It was my fault for framing a post in terms of &#8220;why don&#8217;t more Mormons adopt X model?&#8221;  I want to keep the comments closed because I think the post I wrote tends to narrow the conversation to debating the pros and cons of a certain model. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=24840&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>65</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Stay-at-home grandparents</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2011/03/12/stay-at-home-grandparents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie B.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Indian neighbors had a good life: Both were top executives at major corporations who frequently travelled to Europe, lived in an awesome house, AND had a wonderful child. Their secret? &#8220;Stay-at-home&#8221; grandparents. Like many other Indian couples in the area, their parents had pushed them to achieve educational and career success. As they grew [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=24829&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are Mormon naming conventions useful?</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2011/03/04/are-mormon-naming-conventions-useful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie B.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a graduate student, I could not figure out how to address my professors. Poised somewhere between the formal address used in college and the first-name basis of the working world, I resorted to simply not using their names. But it wasn&#8217;t until I became confident enough to use first names that I felt productive [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=24612&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>62</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Should tithing subsidize BYU?</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2011/02/18/should-tithing-subsidize-byu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie B.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Modern Era]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Malcolm Gladwell recently ranked America&#8217;s best law schools when taking into account value for the dollar. Perhaps unsurprisingly, under this new rubric BYU ranked number two.  In the past, I&#8217;ve often noted BYU&#8217;s value with a sense of pride and admiration.  But this time, perhaps because I&#8217;m currently paying for another school, I began asking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=24427&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>217</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Do you believe in miracles&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2011/02/06/do-you-believe-in-miracles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 23:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie B.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mormon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Mormon circles, people typically express the views that faith precedes miracles and that the truly righteous do not need miracles to develop their faith.  I want to argue  that this view overlooks the importance that miracles do and should play in our decisions to follow Christ.   Faithful people often do receive miracles.  But [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=24146&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Money Stories: How income shapes views of God</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2011/01/23/money-stories-how-income-shapes-views-of-god/</link>
		<comments>http://bycommonconsent.com/2011/01/23/money-stories-how-income-shapes-views-of-god/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 22:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie B.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post began with my attempt to understand what seemed to me a contradiction: Why can some people both firmly believe that they&#8217;ve &#8220;earned&#8221; and &#8220;merited&#8221; their income or status, and yet still proclaim in church that God has given them everything?  In search of answer, my thoughts turned home. As I thought about the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=23508&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>165</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>The apostasy that never was</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2011/01/03/the-apostasy-that-never-was/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 22:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie B.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Central to Mormonism is the story that truth was slowly lost after Christ came to earth.  An apostasy occurred, necessitating that the true church be restored by Joseph Smith in the last days.  This account, however, rests on the assumption that there ever was a moment when people understood the &#8220;truth.&#8221; Reading through the Old Testament [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=23202&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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