RIP Gordon Hinckley

prayerfully

 

Does anyone know if Hinckley was the driving force behind the decision NOT to use the 2002 Olympics as the Mother of All Proselytizing Opportunities? I was in Utah for all 17 days, and at no point felt like any LDS members were trying to make a salespitch to me (the obnoxious evangelicals on the streets of Salt Lake City, on the other hand...). That hands-off approach seemed like a brilliant strategy to me.

 

Sounds complicated. How 'bout a Royal Rumble?

 

I was thinking it sounds like how they pick the Dalai Lama.

 

I'd imagine our man Idaho is hard at work right now.
Play editorm which one so you choose?
Extra edition to roll as soon as it can get done.
A special section in tomorrow's paper

 

Remember, he who goes into the conclave a pope ... comes out a cardinal.

 

This concept always amuses me.

What happens in this hypothetical? A guy gets married at 25. The wife gets hit by a truck after five years of wedded bliss and dies. Guy remarries at 40 and lives in wedded bliss for 25 years until wife dies of cancer.

So when he dies, is he reunited with both of them?

 

A sitcom in the making on SportsJournalists.com.

 

Mark 12:24:

Jesus replied, "Are you not in error because you do not know the Scriptures of the power of God? When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven."

 

So what does it take for the next ranking Apostle to get passed over? Health issues?

 

Bad time to be a church leader. The leader of Greece's Orthodox Church has died at 69.

Keep an eye on the pope.

 

Popes named Benedict tend not to last too long..