Showing posts with label Ben Johnson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ben Johnson. Show all posts
Thursday, February 27, 2014

Sanctum Sanctorum

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by  Ben Johnson : I'm sure that this post will make me out to be one of those "get those kids off my lawn" guys, but I...
Monday, December 23, 2013

#firstworldmormonproblems

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by  Ben Johnson : Everyone has heard of First World Problems. I don't think anyone has ever done First World Mormon Problems. I...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

The New Testament Story That Scared the Cr@p Out of Me

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by  Ben Johnson  ( bio ) I'm surprised all evil spirits don't have a beard Back in the early eighties (1981 I think) the LD...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

Materials Center: You're Doing it Wrong

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by  Ben Johnson  ( bio ) The Vatican Library One of the first posts I ever wrote for MMM was about being called as the ward librarian...
Wednesday, July 24, 2013

What's the Big Deal with Polygamy Anyway?

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by  Ben Johnson  ( bio ) Image by Karli Plant I had originally planned on doing a post on this a year ago but I held off. Now that po...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Plugging From the Pulpit

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by  Ben Johnson  ( bio ) ABC: Always Be Closing Do you remember President Gordon B. Hinckley's October 1998 talk  To the Boys and ...
Friday, March 29, 2013

Bloggernacle: Teacher, Mother, Secret Lover ...

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by  Ben Johnson  ( bio ) "Hi, my name is Ben and I'm a Bloggernacle-holic . It's been 30 minutes since my last look."...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Our Ward Primary is Thinking of Banning the Scriptures

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by  Ben Johnson  ( bio ) That was a shameless attempt to get you to read the rest of the post. In reality, the primary in our ward is th...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Why I Don't Think Women Will Pray in Conference ... Yet

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by  Ben Johnson  ( bio ) When I was in college I took a course called Philosophical Issues in Feminism . Incidentally, it was the only A ...
Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Que Injusticia!

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by  Ben Johnson  ( bio ) No one likes to be dealt with unjustly. Most of us can accept losing if we feel like we tried our best and ...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

The Worth of a Soul is $752.3 Million

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by  Ben Johnson  ( bio ) In the book Starship Troopers an interesting conversation takes place between a soldier and a professor at th...
Monday, October 29, 2012

MMM Mail 3: Today's Young Men

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We received the following question from Whitney, author of the blog The Life of a Mormon Teen . Q:  What do you think today’s young men ne...
Thursday, October 11, 2012

The Worst Thing in the World

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by  Ben Johnson  ( bio ) In the book 1984 the protagonist is arrested and taken to the Ministry of Love to be tortured. Although he is...
Thursday, September 20, 2012

Hosanna Shou ... I Mean, Shhhh!

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by  Ben Johnson  ( bio ) And help us by the power of thy Spirit, that we may mingle our voices with those bright, shining seraphs around t...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012

A Semi-Cromulent Blog Post

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by  Ben Johnson  ( bio ) A polar bear walks into a bar and says to the bartender, “Give me a beer........................ and some peanut...
Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Guest Post: Inoculation

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Have something to say? Anyone can submit a guest post to Modern Mormon Men. Just send us  an email  with your post, a post title and a parag...
Friday, January 27, 2012

Guest Post: The Librarian

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Have something to say? Anyone can submit a guest post to Modern Mormon Men. Just send us  an email  with your post, a post title and a parag...
Thursday, November 3, 2011

Guest Post: Why Halloween Is The Best Holiday

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Ben Johnson grew up in the heart of Mormon country, just outside of Salt Lake City. Given the unsophisticated nature of his palette ("w...