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                    Where can you find news you can trust?    False Narratives: “The Lies We Tell Ourselves”  By  United Families International  · April 27, 2022 The following was contributed by Shannon Wixom. Key Take Aways: Modern-day culture and media have perfected the art of presenting opinions and falsehoods as facts. This is often accomplished via “false narratives.” Today’s headlines are packed with “false narratives” on topics like abortion, LGBT rights, violence against women, and causes of poverty,  False narratives begin with the acceptance of a false premise. They can be difficult to spot, but don’t be fooled! ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­_________________________ Modern-day culture and media have perfected the art of presenting opinions and falsehoods as facts. Social science refers to this phenomenon as “false narrative.”  A “false narrative” is a version of an issue or an event that, while partly true...

  I need to comment on the article below!  I wanted to be a mother, and I was able to have nine children.  My late husband was also happy to have a large family, and he was a school teacher, and I a stay at home mother.  I did teach some piano lessons, but otherwise he worked extra jobs, either early in the morning, of after school, and in the summer.   Now our nine children are truly a great help to the whole world!  Our children include an insurance agent, teachers, a nurse, a skilled craftsman carpenter, an administrative secretary, a paralegal, and a teacher's aide with 7 children. Their spouses include very successful people, several more teachers, psychoanalysist, computer expert, etc.  Of these,7 children have bachelor's degrees, all have college education, 3 have Master's Degrees, and we have 29 grandchildren, 26 great grandchildren, and one more on the horizon!  They all pay taxes, are honorable citizens, and a great help to the worl...

 I know Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, and he is as true and good as any human on this earth! Elder Holland: What They Heard is Not What He Said By  Daniel C. Peterson  · September 7, 2021 Cover image via the Church Newsroom. To read more insights from Daniel, visit his blog:  Sic Et Non . Between my first arrival on campus in the fall of 1970 and my retirement on 1 July 2021—a span of fifty-one years—all but approximately eight years were spent as a member of either the student body or the faculty of Brigham Young University.  I say this not for nostalgia’s sake, and not even because my now-advanced age and the sheer length of that elapsed period amaze me, though they do.  (Jacob’s words, at the end of his life and of the book that bears his name, in which he writes that “the time passed away with us, and also our lives passed away like as it were unto us a dream” [Jacob 7:26] resonate with me more and more.)  I say it because it suggests how ver...

I subscribe to the blog post of Brad McBride, which is called "Thus We See".  I totally agree with his post, and want to give him total credit for this very timely blog post.  Please give him credit yourselves for this! Straining at Political Gnats, Swallowing Doctrinal Camels   by  Brad McBride   |  Posted on  Oct 21, 2020 Note: I’m sure I will lose some readers over this. I kinda understand. I’ve been at this for over a decade, and would hope that you know me by now. Here we are: Election time. What a mess. I have been a political junkie my entire life. At one point, I even thought seeking political office might be in my future – which lead me to degree in Political Science in college. Thank heavens I didn’t choose that path! It has become such a toxic wasteland that I’m glad I did not subject myself or my family to that corrupt world. Now we find ourselves at the brink of what many, myself included, feel is the most important presidential election o...