http://gmormon.com Following Jesus Christ: a Mormon blog about Religion, Family, and more Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:47:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The new LDS App on Facebook allows you to include on Facebook some of your LDS interests and information. You may decide to include or not the information on your personal profile. These are the new features: Share your mission, with dates and experiences, and see other friends from your mission Share the temple ... http://gmormon.com/830/lds-app-on-facebook I finished my Ph.D. in Marriage, Family and Human Development more than a year ago, and a couple of months ago a German publisher asked me if I wanted to publish my dissertation in the form of a book. Why not? It will not sell like Harry Potter, but I ... http://gmormon.com/823/gender-and-the-work-family-interface-my-first-book I heard of this comment by the Russian Count Leo Tolstoy many years ago, when I was still a new member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and I lived in Italy. Mormons are not well known in Italy and it was particularly important for me at ... http://gmormon.com/821/mormonism-your-american-religion My son Luca is a Mormon missionary in the area (Cambridge) where a Mormon Church was burned down yesterday. In his weekly email to us, this morning, he wrote, among other things: we had an investigator at the stake conference where we had a church building burn down, it was really ... http://gmormon.com/813/the-wrath-of-god-fire-breaks-out-in-mormon-church-in-cambridge These are excerpts from Cnn.com about the recent "scandal" involving Rev. Alberto Cutie. The Rev. Alberto Cutie was removed from his duties after pictures showed him bare-chested with a woman... The Rev. Alberto Cutie -- sometimes called "Father Oprah" because of the advice he gave on Spanish-language media -- said ... http://gmormon.com/804/rev-alberto-cutie-celibacy-mormons Can a person really see God? This and other questions are constantly raised by people who attack the Mormon church and the Mormon doctrine trying to prove that we are hoping for too much and that we are misguided. This is really sad, how many Christian people do not have ... http://gmormon.com/799/can-a-person-really-see-god-bruce-r-mcconkie This is a nice, simple but touching video produced by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church). Teenagers talk about the wonderful things their mothers do. This Mother's Day - Mormon messages suggests - let your mom know how special she is. Share this video with your ... http://gmormon.com/793/happy-mothers-day-mom-mormon-video I have discovered Twitter not long ago (as many others) and I have been tracking a few hashtags such as Mormon. Today I noticed that someone posted the following: Mormon leader of NOM appears to advocate overthrow of US government "by whatever means necessary". Then several others repeated the same over and ... http://gmormon.com/785/mormon-conspiracy-and-twitter It seems like everybody is scared by this new swine flu. I suspect that in the days ahead there will be a lot more than swine flu to cause concerns. However, it is a good idea to take precautions. I have received an email that contained a link to this ... http://gmormon.com/780/swine-flu-made-simple I try to avoid commenting politics in this blog, but what I read on CNN.com today made me laugh. President Obama misinterpreted Cuban President Raúl Castro's offer to start talks with the United States, Castro's brother Fidel said Wednesday, appearing to dismiss the U.S. leader's call for Cuba to release political ... http://gmormon.com/772/president-obama-and-fidel-castro