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Profile: This convert to the Church (1979) served a mission in Canada Montreal (1981) she holds a BS in PE and Recreation from Greensboro College, and did graduate work in EdPsych at BYU. Recently she taught Health and PE at Prince Sultan University in Saudi Arabia, organizing the country's first university level basketball team. Now she's in South Carolina giving swim lessons to tiny tots. She has 8 children of her own. BiV started blogging a few years ago while living in Vernal, Utah to relieve a terrible case of boredom and some angst about the Church. Current Church calling is CTR 7 teacher.
A new website, Agitating Faithfully, provides a forum for Latter-day Saints to be counted in their support for gender equality. At the site, members of the Church can sign their name and ward to show that they support extending the priesthood to women. Below is some information about the site: Agitating Faithfully was inspired by [...]
NT SS Lesson #2 In the year 4 BC (or thereabouts), Mary had a problem. She had been told that by the power of God she would conceive a child, who would be known as the Son of the Highest. She wasn’t told how to notify her family, her friends, or the man to whom [...]
With a 2004 lawsuit came the coining of the term “Lost Boys” to describe those young men in the FLDS community who have been cast out — ostensibly to reduce competition for older men in the sect who marry large numbers of younger wives. This phenomenon is apparently limited to the FLDS because of the [...]
OT SS Lesson #48 Ever since Malachi 3 (ca 455 BC?), covenant Israel has been waiting for the coming of the Lord. Lest any Christian mistake that Old Testament prophecy of the coming of the Lord in glory was fulfilled in the meridian of time, Christ himself taught that he would return and would at [...]
[Zina D. Huntington] when only fifteen years old was baptized by the Patriarch Hyrum Smith, August 14th, 1835, and soon after went to Kirtland with her father’s family. In this year she received the gift of tongues. On one occasion in the Kirtland Temple she heard a whole invisible choir of angels singing, till the [...]
OT SS Lesson #47 Any Mormon worth his salt knows that scripture is meant to be “likened” unto ourselves. Latter-day Saints from Joseph Smith to the most recently-called missionary have cheerfully wrested scriptures from their context and misapplied the prophecies to their own lives. One might be tempted to urge caution when so doing, but [...]
I have been teaching the CTR 7 class in Primary — this group all turned 8 during the year and they were baptized. Today we had a lesson on Jesus Christ in which we pulled different scriptures about the Savior out of the Gospels and made a Concentration game from them. During a short explanation [...]
OT SS Lesson #46 Well, who doesn’t think of the Old Testament Daniel while watching Daniel Radcliffe perform his role as the famous Harry Potter? Young boy is taken away from his home to enter a fantastical world he never knew existed – Check. Along with other elite youth, he is instructed in the wisdom [...]
OT SS Lesson #45 If there still exists anyone in the greater world of Mormon blogs who thinks I am writing these Old Testament posts as a resource for Sunday lessons and not for my own simple entertainment, this one should surely disabuse them. Let me start out all faith-promoting, though, and I’ll degenerate as [...]
OT SS Lesson #44 Here’s a section from our manual this week: Ask class members questions similar to the following: Have you ever been excited while watching a sporting event or some other kind of entertainment? Have you ever been so excited at such an event that you stood and shouted or cheered? Can you [...]
If you are a member of a stake presidency, stake clerk, stake executive secretary, high councilor, stake Relief Society, Young Men, Young Women, Primary or Sunday School presidency, bishopric, ward clerk, ward executive secretary, high priest group leader or assistant, elders quorum presidency, ward Relief Society, Young Men, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday School presidency [...]
OT SS Lesson #43 When my now-returned-missionary daughter was in second grade, her class had a Halloween party. I sent her to school in a little blue Sleeping Beauty princess costume. As the teacher was setting up for the party, one of the students informed her that she was one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, and that [...]
OT SS Lesson #42 For a complete understanding of the Book of Jeremiah, one must keep in mind three different time periods. The first is that to which Jeremiah is ostensibly referring: his own. In this history, Jeremiah describes the rise of Babylon under Nebuchadnezzar in the 600′s BC, the fall of Jerusalem, the deportation [...]
OT SS Lesson #41 Did you know that the Prophet Jeremiah and I have a lot in common? You can read about it in Chapter 19. The Lord tells Jeremiah to get a clay jar and go to the East Gate of Jerusalem. Then he throws it down, breaking it into little pieces, and warning [...]
I asked God if it was OK to bake eclairs And he nodded his head as he Brushed some crumbs from his beard. I asked God if a guy could sing opera.. He said he didn’t really Think that was too weird. But God, I said (because I don’t always believe it the first time), [...]
For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. OT SS Lesson #36 When you read the words of the prophet Isaiah that [the Lord's] hand is stretched out still, does it give you comfort, or does it cause you to tremble? The phrase is a picturesque one, [...]
OT SS Lesson #33 If your ward happens to be just a little bit behind on the Sunday School lessons, you might experience the synchronicity of having the Book of Jonah read on Yom Kippur. This year, the Jewish holiday falls on September 18 (close enough to Sunday the 19th!) and Jonah is traditionally read [...]
OT SS Lesson #32 After the Satan figure is given permission to afflict Job as a test of his faithfulness, three of Job’s friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar, come to visit him, sitting with him in silence for seven days. On the seventh day, Job speaks, beginning a conversation in which each of the four [...]
OT SS Lesson #31 Feminist readers of the scriptures are well aware of the passages in Proverbs 8 which personify Wisdom (GK Sophia, HEB Hokhmah). These passages affirm that Sophia was there when God made the earth and acted as a partner with God in the creation. This idea fits in well with my conceptualization of [...]
OT SS Lesson #29 The prophet Elisha is introduced for the first time in 1 Kings 19. Elijah has recently had his encounter with the 400 prophets of Baal and the still small voice of God on Mt. Horeb. On his way from the mountain to the wilderness of Damascus Elijah finds Elisha plowing in a field. He [...]
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