Socially liberal, economically conservative, and theologically correct.

Religion

On the long ride home my grandmother related her conversion story to me. It was rather lengthy and turned out to be quite spiritual. It made a large impression on me due to her earnestness and the visible faith with which she related her story. It did not change my mind about the church but …

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  Octogenarian Libertarian Latter-day Saint This is a story of how a simple question on the way to the snack bar on a U.S. Air Force base in Yokohama, Japan, changed the life of an Airman and eventually his entire family. It was a family that had been denied their heritage due to the death of …

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The name is:    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints    Our prophet, Russell M. Nelson, has asked us to use the correct name of the church because that name was selected by the Lord himself. The name by which the church has been most often known is The Mormon Church, a name …

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I was baptized and confirmed as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints when I was 28 years old. But that is not the beginning of my conversion story. My conversion story begins during the 1830’s in the early days of the church. My second great grandfather, Ira Jones Willes, was …

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