NSBJD – Genealogy information

Organized religion and the standards of marriage have been intertwined for centuries but in the early Roman period the Catholic Church eliminated other forms of marriage and established monogamy as the appropriate marital relationship. As Christianity took root in Europe so did monogamy and other forms of marital relationships receded…

Barak Obama’s speech on March 18th, 2008 will go down in history as one of the great speeches given in our time. I highly recommend hearing it or reading the text. His spiritual maturity is a shining light

Mormon fundamentalism is decidedly hierarchal as are many organized religions but in the case of Mormon fundamentalism there are also the factors of polygamy and patriarchy which are not merely cultural elements but are actual tenets or requirements in order to receive salvation. There is much dysfunction and mismanagement of…

Woman’s roles have changed in our society over the past decades. There have never been so many doors open to women as there are today. Hundreds of years before Christ was born Aristotle said: "The female is as it were a deformed male." (Now Aristotle was a great thinker, he just seems a little confused on this one issue. The First Presidency and the council of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints declared: All human beings are created in the image of God.

You wouldn’t read a book about how to care for roses written by someone who has never grown a rose but just seen them; instead you would want to read a book written by a rose gardener. The same holds true for Mormonism.