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		<title>Frederick Douglass&#8217;s dark night of slavery, dark night of the soul</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it&#8221;—an obscure beginning for Frederick Douglass, one of the most distinguished abolitionists of the nineteenth century (41).* So he chose tomorrow, February 14, to celebrate his birth. Now February is set apart in the United States and Canada as Black History Month. Born in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&amp;blog=6576503&amp;post=34013&amp;subd=bycommonconsent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Memory for Valentine’s Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Morris Thurston is a friend of BCC and host of the Orange County Miller-Eccles Study Group. We thank him for his thoughts. I sat on the stand, trying to appear calm. It wasn’t my impending talk that made me nervous; all I had to do was reminisce about my mission and I was full of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&amp;blog=6576503&amp;post=34049&amp;subd=bycommonconsent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy B-Day, Charles Darwin!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BHodges</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To say Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species changed the landscape for discussions about science and religion would be a drastic understatement. Origin&#8217;s publication in 1859 was more like a new big bang; its aftershock has rippled through discussions about the relationship between science and religion to the present. Articles describing the interaction between Mormonism and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&amp;blog=6576503&amp;post=34043&amp;subd=bycommonconsent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Your Sunday Brunch Special #8.  Trains and History</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WVS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a memory of childhood and perhaps only invisibly affected (or effected) by Mormonism. So sue me Steve! As a child, around age 4 or so, my babysitters sometimes copped out, or died,* and so my parents would take me to work and keep me occupied in some inconspicuous manner. Since my mother worked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&amp;blog=6576503&amp;post=31578&amp;subd=bycommonconsent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unclean! Unclean! Unclean!</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2012/02/10/unclean-unclean-unclean/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca J</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note and/or WARNING: The following post is a response&#8211;or not really a response, but a sister post, if you will, to this piece at Feminist Mormon Housewives. If you are uncomfortable reading about anything having to do with menstruation, I suggest you cast your eyes round about for a more genteel blog today. Last year [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&amp;blog=6576503&amp;post=34025&amp;subd=bycommonconsent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Joseph Smith, handbooks, and the evolution of Church liturgy</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2012/02/09/joseph-smith-handbooks-and-the-evolution-of-church-liturgy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. Stapley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m working on a number of projects that analyze Mormon liturgy. One of the major themes across the projects is the shift from folk liturgy to formal. What that means is that in the early church, there were no rule books or written instructions describing how and why to perform various rituals and worshipful acts. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&amp;blog=6576503&amp;post=34022&amp;subd=bycommonconsent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On remembering the excommunicated: A modest proposal for change</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2012/02/09/on-remembering-the-excommunicated-a-modest-proposal-for-change/</link>
		<comments>http://bycommonconsent.com/2012/02/09/on-remembering-the-excommunicated-a-modest-proposal-for-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron R.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the Church&#8217;s relatively short life, it has excommunicated many people; unfortunately very few of them ever return to the Church. I am not convinced that our poor rates of re-baptism are solely because of the act of excommunication itself.  Simply stated the issue I see with current Church policy and practice is this: when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&amp;blog=6576503&amp;post=34001&amp;subd=bycommonconsent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>President-elect Romney</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2012/02/08/president-elect-romney/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca J</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Mitt Romney is selected as the Republican nominee and is eventually elected President of the United States, what should his first words be? BONUS QUESTION: What should be President Mitt&#8217;s first executive order to help usher in the new era (ha! get it? the NEW ERA?) of Mormon domination? Filed under: Politics<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&amp;blog=6576503&amp;post=33995&amp;subd=bycommonconsent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can someone tell me&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2012/02/08/can-someone-tell-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;why insurance plans at LDS-owned institutions do not provide coverage for birth control? Last time I checked, our theology and official church policy statements would not support such an exclusion. Filed under: Mormon<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&amp;blog=6576503&amp;post=33992&amp;subd=bycommonconsent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Infinite. Part 10.  The Axiom of Regularity, Theological Tag-alongs, Mormonism.</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2012/02/07/the-infinite-part-10-the-axiom-of-regularity-theological-tagalongs-mormonism/</link>
		<comments>http://bycommonconsent.com/2012/02/07/the-infinite-part-10-the-axiom-of-regularity-theological-tagalongs-mormonism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WVS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Here is part 9.] I&#8217;m being very brief here and I don&#8217;t want anyone to get the impression that I take lightly the work of sincere people who have thought long and hard over important questions. I leave that to Brad. Christians (along with Muslims and Jews) have a historically mediated anxiety to *prove* that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&amp;blog=6576503&amp;post=33912&amp;subd=bycommonconsent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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