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Laureen Simper
Aug 264 min read
Take the Kingman Test! You Might be a Kingman if...
Come Follow Me (Alma 51 & 60) Those kingmen, though. They sure knew how to bury the lead story of their true motives when their cause...
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Laureen Simper
Jun 194 min read
Predictable Madness
Come Follow Me (Alma 8-12) Alma's mission to Ammonihah makes for some thrilling reading; it runs the gamut of beauty and quite literally...
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Laureen Simper
Jun 53 min read
The First American Founding - 92 B.C., Part 2: An Experiment in Liberty
Come Follow Me (Mosiah 29 - Alma 1-4) "It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country,...
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Laureen Simper
Jun 34 min read
The First American Founding - 92 B.C., Part 1: Setting the Stage
Come Follow Me (Mosiah 29, Alma 1-4) Anyone reading this who knows me well won't be surprised to see this post coming. Chapter 29 of...
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Laureen Simper
May 164 min read
Road Map to Destruction
Come Follow Me (Mosiah 11-17) The Book of Mosiah has some of the most brilliant commentary about government in the entire Book of Mormon...
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Laureen Simper
May 135 min read
You're Not the Boss of Me
We've got to talk about the most incredulous irony of the universe. All things were created by God. He is the King of the universe, and...
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Laureen Simper
Apr 253 min read
Would You Vote for This Man?
Come Follow Me (Mosiah 1-3) Mosiah 2:17 is almost iconic in its universal recognition and application: “And behold, I tell you these...
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Laureen Simper
Apr 185 min read
"Your" Truth and Other Lies
In 2008 Stephen Covey began a speech at the University of Cumberlands with this story: “It was a dark and stormy night. Crewmember:...
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Laureen Simper
Apr 173 min read
Worth Protecting
(Originally posted May 16, 2022) I was 16 when the Roe v. Wade decision was handed down in 1973. In my sheltered naivete, I was horrified...
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Laureen Simper
Apr 114 min read
Saving the Country and Other Hobbies
In 2006, my book group read a phenomenal book, 5000 Year Leap by Cleon Skousen. It lays out 28 liberty principles culled from the...
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Laureen Simper
Mar 213 min read
Witness, Whittaker Chambers
(Originally posted January 24, 2018) Our book group read an incredible book called Witness written by Whittaker Chambers. Chambers...
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Laureen Simper
Feb 193 min read
Participation Trophies and Bank Holidays
It’s great to get a day off work for any reason, so hey, I’ll take it. But I’m not a huge fan of calling today President’s Day because it...
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Laureen Simper
Dec 27, 20232 min read
Waiting for the Miracle
Can you imagine having a government so corrupt, that it has set up ways of knowing your personal religious beliefs and criminalizing...
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Laureen Simper
Dec 25, 20233 min read
All Oppression Shall Cease
Love the Lyrics - O Holy Night "...and in His name all oppression shall cease…” Murray City had a lovely Christmas sing-along event...
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Laureen Simper
Sep 13, 20235 min read
Freedom versus Liberty
[Originally published October29, 2019] I had the privilege of speaking at the Independence Day sunrise service in our city in 2019. I’m...
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Laureen Simper
Sep 13, 20233 min read
George Washington... a Hobbit?
[Originally published April 21, 2015] Great fiction writers have taught me that there may not be such a thing as fiction at all. Great...
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