Awesome real-time summaries at Message and Advocate, posted by BT permablogger Guy Murray (with apostles speaking in each session noted in parentheses):

• Saturday Morning (Hinckley, Oaks, Ballard, Faust)
• Saturday Afternoon (Hales, Wirthlin, Uchtdorf, Scott)
• Saturday Evening Priesthood (Eyring, Faust, Monson, Hinckley)

Other Bloggernacle posts on Saturday Conference:

• Spinozist (summaries for all sessions).
• T&S open thread.
• BCC open thread.
• On Not Being a Fan of Conference (BCC).
• Young Men Stuck in Neutral (Mormanity).
• Stories and Analogies Gone Awry (LYMA).
• Guilt, on Elder Ballard’s talk (Ponder It).
• Priesthood session, notes on first hour (M-Star).
• Priesthood session, notes on second hour (M-Star).

Mainstream media posts:

• SL Trib summary of Saturday sessions (headline: Hinckley seeks more converts in North America; the Mormon leader also urges LDS boys to stop cursing and hit the books).
• Short SL Trib story on Pres. Hinckley’s announcement of a huge LDS investment in redeveloping the ZCMI and Crossroads malls, two square blocks just south of the sprawling Temple Square campus.
• DN summary of Saturday sessions (headline: Plea for discipleship — LDS urged to follow Christ).

Update 10/2/06 The comments are now closed; however, BCC has opened up a new thread on this subject here. Update 2:35 p.m.: [Stan Shepp has posted his “press release” here at BT, as well as left several other comments clarifying his beliefs and positions.] Update 9/30/06 7:20 p.m. [Tracey Roberts, Stan’s former wife, has also commented here.] The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has held that a court may not prohibit a parent from advocating the religious belief of polygamy, where there is insufficient evidence that advocating the religious belief would jeopardize the physical or mental health or safety of the child, or have a potential for significant social burdens. The case is Shepp v Shepp (2006) 242 MAP 2003.

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They were certainly due.

It all came together tonight for BYU at #15 TCU. No psychological blocks tonight. The Cougs outplayed TCU in basically every facet of the game. Sure, TCU made it hard for BYU to run the ball, but BYU figured out how to get first downs time and time again. BYU looked really good tonight. And with TCU down one of the biggest obstacles to winning a MWC championship this year is out of the way. Well done BYU.

Rise and shout Cougar fans, what did you think?

“Jesus Camp” is a new documentary movie about the Evangelical youth movement.

I watched a brief clip from the movie this morning on Good Morning America that featured young children dancing around in camouflage clothes and face paint, yelling, “This means WAR!!”. Then, the pastor sternly told the children that if Harry Potter lived in Old Testament times he would certainly be “put to death!!!”  For being a “warlock”.  Would Muggles share a similar fate, I wonder? 

Another clip showed several children prostrating themselves in prayer at the feet of a cardboard cut-out of President George W. Bush.

My first thought, was “Wow. Not even EFY was this hard core”.  My second thought was for the children - how tragic for those sweet children to be manipulated and indoctrinated in this way. But then the pastor  (the one railing about Harry Potter) explained that the children were shedding tears of joy and happiness over their spiritual conversions and personal relationship with Jesus. She said that the experiences at “Jesus Camp” provide children with a moral foundation to resist the temptations (e.g., Harry Potter) of this wicked world.  I’m not sure what to say to that, other than the small clips of “Jesus Camp” I saw this morning definitely skirt (over) the child abuse line.

Unfortunately, I’ll have to wait until “Jesus Camp” comes out on DVD to see just how bad it is, since “Jesus Camp” isn’t scheduled to come to Boston.

Well you probably all heard that the MWC in all its infinite wisdom schedule BYU’s game during a weekday afternoon so of course most of their fans can’t see it. I’m willing to excuse putting probably the deciding game of the conference with a byweek for TCU and a shortened week for BYU. Those things happen and I halfway wonder if General Conference being this weekend had something to do with the Thursday game. Yes BYU has had a pretty amazingly difficult schedule this year, all things considered. (All their tough opponents are away games plus this shortened week to play TCU) That doesn’t excuse anything of course. And if BYU loses (as many fear they might given how strong TCU is) then probably their season is really going to be rough. (But perhaps close to my 8-4 prediction)

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