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This is going to be LOOOONG , so I apologize in advance, but it is very personal to me - and I have written a lot about it. Here goes: One of the most vocal speculators said the following: Forget everything that I have said, or what President Brigham Young or President George Q. Cannon or whomsoever...

That is a great quote. Thanks, Salo.

"you're a difficult guy to put into a box"

Yeah, conservatives think I'm too liberal, and liberals thinks I'm too conservative. Most people just think I think too much.

The way I approach these difficult topics is to look at the church as a evolving system and allow it the right to refine its teachings over time. I really like this. I believe strongly that the term "Dispensation of the Fullness of Times" refers to the condition at the END of the dispensation, not ...

Since I am one of the originals, I figure I should introduce myself. I am going to do it a little differently than most - some bullet-point biographical info, followed by a couple of links to things I've written on Mormon Matters and my own blog (and have mentioned here in different posts): 1) Born ...

Orson, your concluding paragraph is exactly my feeling. I believe what I believe (largely because it is what I want to believe), but, as I've said, there are all kinds of possibilities to which I am open ultimately. If one particular option helps someone else find the joy and strength and divine con...

cjonesy108, I should have made my own perspective clearer. I personally believe Joseph's account - that the plates Moroni showed Joseph were the actual plates he had buried. I understand the difficulties others have with that belief, but I do believe it. All I was saying is that it doesn't have to b...

Monkey, Please don't ever feel out of place because of what you might perceive about intellects. One of the most amazing, Christ-like persons I have ever known struggled through and hated school. He is a wonderful man, and his common sense approach to the Gospel is, I believe, much more important th...

Roasted Tomatoes is J. Nelson-Seawright, who posts and comments at BCC regularly.

Serenity Valley is his wife, Taryn Nelson-Seawright. She is now a permablogger on FMH (http://www.feministmormonhousewives.org/?p=2084), although she doesn't post very often.

Please pardon this, but I am going to nit-pick a little bit simply to illustrate what I said earlier about the Book of Mormon being misunderstood. (it really is a bit nit-picky, but, as a dedicated parser I think it's important, so please bear with the length.) I'm going to tackle two little stateme...