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Tom Christensen

Don't make giving a guilt trip

Last updated Saturday, December 17, 2011 - 4:37pm

It’s amazing what people can do to the Christmas spirit of giving by unintentionally turning it into a guilt trip. That is the trend in many neighborhoods on the Wasatch Front.

In the spirit of the season, it is misguided. In many instances, neighbors are taking it upon themselves to recommend to others how to give gifts — notes, comments to groups, etc., saying we aren’t giving neighbor gifts and between the lines, you shouldn’t either.

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History lesson: BYU, Utah's divorce with the MWC

Tom Christensen Standard-Examiner staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, July 2, 2011 - 5:38pm

July 1 officially ended BYU's and University of Utah's marriage to the Mountain West Conference. The divorces were anything but amicable.

Utah was lured by the glamour of a Pac-12 conference. Utah now has exponentially more TV money than it did in the Mountain West Conference. It also lands big name games almost weekly. Its other sports, both strong and weak, follow into the conference automatically.

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(Photo courtesy of Jeff Chadwick) Jeff Chadwick points out some historic spots in Israel

Archaeology: A spiritual dig for Farr West professor

Tom Christensen Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Tuesday, March 29, 2011 - 8:46pm

NOTE: This is the first of several feature stories on members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and their various activities. A special section in advance of General Conference will be in Thursday's Standard-Examiner.

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(LDS.org) The exterior of the LDS Conference Center

LDS Conference Center: The place to be ... even if you're there with 21,199 others

Standard-Examiner staff, Tom Christensen

Last updated Thursday, September 30, 2010 - 12:47am

"The structure we envision will not be a sports arena. It will be a great hall with fixed seating and excellent acoustics. It will be a dedicated house of worship, and that will be its primary purpose."

-- LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley, April 1996 General Conference

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(NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner) The Ogden Temple had an Angel Moroni statue added in 2002. The steeple of the temple was also changed from gold to white.

First of an era / Ogden ushered in a new direction of temple building for the LDS Church with an emphasis on ordinance work

Tom Christensen Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Friday, April 2, 2010 - 11:36pm

OGDEN -- For 89 years, there was only one temple along the Wasatch Front for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Salt Lake City.

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