Show Notes for Episode 17
News
Study: Monthly fasting may help heart (By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Medical Writer, Dec. 10, 2007)
- "Mormons have less heart disease — something doctors have long chalked up to their religion's ban on smoking. New research suggests that another of their "clean living" habits also may be helping their hearts: fasting for one day each month."
Fear and Faith: A Mormon’s Ultimate Doorbell (By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, New York Times, Dec. 9, 2007)
"There will always be a segment of evangelical Christianity that doesn’t trust anything Mormons say,” said Richard J. Mouw, president of Fuller Theological Seminary, an evangelical school in Pasadena, Calif. “They don’t even trust it when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sings ‘Silent Night.'"
"Today there is no armed mob, but there remains a complex brew of fear, ignorance and hostility about Mormonism. The ignorance itself should not be underestimated: it is surprising how many Mormons say they have been mistaken for Amish. Polygamy remains an issue, even though the church disavowed it 117 years ago. Racism is also an issue, since it was not until 1978 that the church opened its priesthood to blacks. But don’t forget that it was only in the 1990s that many Southern churches asked forgiveness for their segregationist stance — and received it."
Huckabee questions tenet of Romney's Mormon faith (Reuters, Dec. 12, 2007)
Huckabee was asked if he considered Mormonism a cult or a religion. "I think it's a religion," he said in the interview, published on the newspaper's Web site on Wednesday. "I really don't know much about it."
Then he asked: "Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?"The Huckabee Factor - source of original quote (New York Times Magazine, By ZEV CHAFETS, Dec. 11, 2007)
Huckabee Campaign Responds to AP/New York Times Report (mikehuckabee.com, Dec. 11, 2007)
Answering Media Questions About Jesus and Satan (LDS Newsroom, Dec. 12, 2007)
Topic
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Technology
Commodore 64 fanciers celebrate as PC turns 25 (by Tom Abate, San Francisco Chronicle, Monday, Dec. 10, 2007)