Month: August 2010

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Come Back Seminary Mom!

Jenny Smith / August 16, 2010

I have added a new Seminary section to the website. I was looking for websites or blogs with Seminary information. There are pretty much none. I found a fantastic site named Seminary Class Notes and was excited! What a fantastic blog! And the handouts Seminary Mom was making were generic enough to be used for multiple applications across the church. Hooray! I started looking for contact information — couldn’t find any. Then I checked out the archives and noticed that the blog hadn’t been updated since 2006. I assumed Seminary Mom had been released. So then I went to the front page of the website and my blood started to boil. The Smackdown Seminary Mom was asked to shut down…

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Site down temporarily

Jenny Smith / August 14, 2010

The website was down for about 10 minutes earlier today while we updated some software. It will also be down Monday for a few minutes while we do some security updates.

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I heart New York

Jenny Smith / August 4, 2010

I was so relieved when I read the speech that New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg gave about the historic vote allowing a mosque to be built near the site where the World Trade Center used to be located. It’s online here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870354560457540767322190847… if you’re interested. I love this quote: “We do not honor [the lives of those who died on September 11, 2001] by denying the very Constitutional rights they died protecting. We honor their lives by defending those rights – and the freedoms that the terrorists attacked.” Religious expression is at the very core of American freedom. As a person who is also a member of a — if not unpopular, then mostly misunderstood — religion, I appreciate…

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