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	<title>Mormon Expression Blogs &#187; Michael</title>
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		<title>I Lost My Faith</title>
		<link>http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/2012/04/11/i-lost-my-faith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s such a simple phrase. Yet somehow, coming to grips with this reality has been a long, painstaking process.  I ignorantly thought that once I accepted this statement, the hard part would be over.  And yet paradoxically, I have been resisting coming to grips because I knew I would be facing a rough road, probably [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>My Tentative Compromise</title>
		<link>http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/2012/03/14/my-tentative-compromise/</link>
		<comments>http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/2012/03/14/my-tentative-compromise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have learned through sad experience that conversations online are sometimes incredibly toxic.  If you don&#8217;t know what I mean, check out the comments section of any post on The Huffington Post, or the Salt Lake Tribune, or Meridian Magazine.  We have all fallen prey to the sense that online communication somehow allows us to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Elder Callister&#8217;s Book of Mormon Bomb</title>
		<link>http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/2011/10/16/elder-callisters-book-of-mormon-bomb/</link>
		<comments>http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/2011/10/16/elder-callisters-book-of-mormon-bomb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book of Mormon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Critical Thinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[devil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dishonesty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[False Dichotomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tad Callister]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/?p=1537</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Leave it to me to tear apart the easiest talk from last General Conference (GC) to be torn to shreds.  If you haven&#8217;t heard/read it, you probably shouldn&#8217;t.  Before I start picking Brother Tad apart, let me just say that I listened to a good part of GC, as I have twice a year for [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Who is Desensitized?</title>
		<link>http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/2011/05/25/who-is-desensitized/</link>
		<comments>http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/2011/05/25/who-is-desensitized/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 15:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/?p=858</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every six months at General Conference, we hear about how the world is degenerating into more and more wickedness.  This is evident from the flood of pornography, the words people use, the way they dress and the movies and television programs people watch.  Never mind the fact that important statistics, such as murder levels, abortion rates, as well [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Quotes That Haunt Me</title>
		<link>http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/2011/04/12/the-quotes-that-haunt-me/</link>
		<comments>http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/2011/04/12/the-quotes-that-haunt-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Belonging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book of Mormon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carol Lynn Pearson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[courage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Critical Thinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dieter Uchtdorf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[False Dichotomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goodbye]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon B. Hinckley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homosexuality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Honesty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I Love You]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Bushman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Testimony]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[truth]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/?p=748</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I openly confess that I am by nature somewhat of a contrarian.  I like to argue just for sport.  Therefore, in a forum such as Mormon Expression, I feel a very strong pull toward playing the apologist role, since my impression is that the majority of followers of ME are non-believers in the LDS Church. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Leaving the Church (Glenn Beck Said To&#8230;)</title>
		<link>http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/2011/03/28/im-leaving-the-church-glenn-beck-said-to/</link>
		<comments>http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/2011/03/28/im-leaving-the-church-glenn-beck-said-to/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book of Mormon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Critical Thinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exiting Mormonism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Beck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grant Hardy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Meridian Magazine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mormon Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tithing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/?p=702</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every once in awhile, I come across a link in a totally pro-LDS publication that really blows my mind.  This morning, the stunning article came from none other than Meridian Magazine.  Usually, I get links from people I know from said magazine that talk about supporting traditional marriage, or about Joseph Smith&#8217;s great-granddaughter joining the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Tempt Me</title>
		<link>http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/2011/03/23/dont-tempt-me/</link>
		<comments>http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/2011/03/23/dont-tempt-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/?p=669</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I spend a lot of time at the library.  I carry around two backpacks everywhere I go full of books.  I eat my lunch at the library.  It is quite a life.  But my days as a master&#8217;s student are numbered, thank heaven. The other day as I was doing research for my thesis, I noticed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doing My Home Teaching</title>
		<link>http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/2011/03/09/doing-my-home-teaching/</link>
		<comments>http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/2011/03/09/doing-my-home-teaching/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 23:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/?p=646</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a confession to make.  I am a terrible home teacher.  I have several excuses why  I would love to do my duty, yet don&#8217;t.  If I lived in a different stake, maybe my temple recommend would be in jeopardy because of my delinquent attitude.  But even then, I don&#8217;t know if I would [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Who Wants To Be A God?</title>
		<link>http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/2011/02/22/who-wants-to-be-a-god/</link>
		<comments>http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/2011/02/22/who-wants-to-be-a-god/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[afterlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[becoming god]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[celestial kingdom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Critical Thinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history of the church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polygamy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirit children]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/?p=592</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mormonism prides itself on its simplicity &#8211; that the gospel can be understood even by a small child, and that the gospel is the same wherever you go.  It gleefully points out how obvious the truths are that we believe and balks at the fact that the rest of the world just doesn&#8217;t get it [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bigotry</title>
		<link>http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/2011/02/18/bigotry/</link>
		<comments>http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/2011/02/18/bigotry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/?p=546</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I came across this ugly story about the father of the 5 Browns who was accused (and later pled guilty) of sexually   assaulting his three daughters.  I think all can agree that this type of crime is horrendous and ugly. In a separate development, there seem to be a lot of people that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Do You Feel You Don&#8217;t Fit In?</title>
		<link>http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/2011/02/14/do-you-feel-you-dont-fit-in/</link>
		<comments>http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/2011/02/14/do-you-feel-you-dont-fit-in/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 12:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Belonging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homosexuality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jon Stewart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mormon identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/?p=532</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you ever look around yourself and feel like no matter what you do, you are not a part of &#8220;the group?&#8221;  For me sometimes it feels like pretty much the only group I feel like I have ever been a part of is the LDS church.  There are really no other groups that have [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Joseph Smith Movie Review, part 2</title>
		<link>http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/2011/02/11/joseph-smith-movie-review-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/2011/02/11/joseph-smith-movie-review-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/?p=518</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As promised, I am back to continue my review of Joseph Smith: The  Prophet of the Restoration.  If you didn&#8217;t read part 1 then you missed out on some very astute and clever observations.  However, I think between the first and second halves of the movie, the second part is even more blatantly anti-historical-fact than [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration &#8211; my review, part 1</title>
		<link>http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/2011/02/08/joseph-smith-the-prophet-of-the-restoration-my-review-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/2011/02/08/joseph-smith-the-prophet-of-the-restoration-my-review-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[church history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[church media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deseret Book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emma Smith]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/?p=484</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend I was in Utah with my family for a sealing.  On Saturday I found myself in the new and very worldly-appearing Deseret Book store across from Temple Square with a $50 gift card still left over from Christmas.  I sometimes wish I could just walk into a store and ask the clerk [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Naked Truth (a personal perspective)</title>
		<link>http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/2011/01/28/the-naked-truth-a-personal-perspective/</link>
		<comments>http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/2011/01/28/the-naked-truth-a-personal-perspective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/?p=421</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well John Larsen&#8217;s response to Glenn&#8217;s post sort of sparked something inside of me.  So I am going to get personal with you guys.  And I am not going to apologize.  I think my experience is useful in illustrating exactly what John was saying &#8211; that Mormons are way too sensitive about the issue of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dissecting Joseph</title>
		<link>http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/2011/01/25/dissecting-joseph/</link>
		<comments>http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/2011/01/25/dissecting-joseph/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[apologist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book of Mormon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emma Smith]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mormon Enigma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polygamy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supernatural]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/?p=399</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite the fact that I consider myself quite unorthodox among LDS folk, for some reason I still find myself falling into a defensive stance when I hear too much criticism of the church.  And although I tell myself that I won’t put on my apologist hat in defense of certain things (Joseph Smith, Mountain Meadows, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8216;True&#8217; Emotions</title>
		<link>http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/2011/01/21/true-emotions/</link>
		<comments>http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/2011/01/21/true-emotions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/?p=375</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I still remember vividly the teachings of my mission president.  He was the typical, successful, business man who knew how to apply his knowledge of how to attract people to a certain product he was selling. This was his &#8216;scheme:&#8217; since our mission was in Paraguay, and we knew that infant mortality was relatively high [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Failed Censorship (Only The Good Die Young)</title>
		<link>http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/2011/01/15/failed-censorship-only-the-good-die-young/</link>
		<comments>http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/2011/01/15/failed-censorship-only-the-good-die-young/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 12:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Big Love]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/?p=322</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The church could learn an important lesson from a simple Billy Joel experience - banning something really never works.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Guess Who&#8217;s Coming To Dinner?</title>
		<link>http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/2011/01/10/guess-whos-coming-to-dinner/</link>
		<comments>http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/2011/01/10/guess-whos-coming-to-dinner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mormonexpression.com/blogs/?p=295</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Due to the many things that have been written and circulated about me (actually nothing really, as far as I am aware), my belief in the Mormon church, my supposed liberalness in thinking, and to finally set the record straight, I want to write a brief history of something that happened on Saturday that will help [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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