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I am annoyed. I just got done writing a lovely extensive post with tons of relevant data, and what did the site do? It ate it!!! When writing long posts I usually try to save off a copy of the text so it doesn't get eaten by the internet, but I failed to do it this time. Drat.

Well, I got her beat. When I was about 4 years old, a friend and I wandered away from our street on our tricycles and got lost and separated. Next thing I remember was a police car pulling up to me, with my friend in the back seat eating an ice cream the officer had bought him. I got put in the back with him, but instead of giving me an ice cream, too, the officer drove us directly to my house and handed me over to my parents, then took my friend to his house. I am still very resentful I didn't get my ice cream! That was just the start of my life of crime!

Wow, he's got his work cut out for him! Presumably he's restricting himself to the US, where there are currently 208 dedicated temples. If he tries to expand to international, it could get quite expensive! I remember when one of my cousins decided to go on temple visiting spree. Because she lives in Utah, and I live in England, I don't see her very often. And when she came to visit the London Temple (where I was at the time an ordinance worker) I happened to be visiting the US!

My pleasure! I copy the table from a page on my personal wiki and paste it into the post. The entry on my personal wiki is at: https://www.mikeclark.co/index.php?title=Pro-LDS_YouTube_channels The table on my personal site is sortable, so is slightly more useful. I don't know how you gained that impression, actually. I've gone back to edit my posts months later (just tried it on an April post). The only time you can't edit your own post is if you've been banned from the thread (which means you can't even see it), or if the thread has been closed to further replies.

Sorry to hear that!

Indeed! Totally off-topic, but I ran into this and it made me think of you. I hope your avatar change didn't signal anything tragic!

When someone makes it very clear that they are an enemy of the Church by publicly and continually attacking its leaders, its beliefs and doctrine, then it seems obvious to me that they should not be allowed to do so from the congregation of the faithful. By NOT withdrawing their membership the Church might seem to tacitly approve their attacks. The Church is a voluntary association of faith with standards of behavior. When a member goes contrary to those standards, and refuse to even meet with the leadership to discuss their behavior, then why should they be permitted to continue to attack it as a member? Perhaps it draws people to him, but if it does draw people to him, the suit makes it clear to them that he is not using the term "Mormon" in a benign way, and is in fact an opponent of the Church. The suit is intended to make him stop using the term "Mormon" in a way that implies he's friendly when he is not. Once that object is obtained, fewer people will be "drawn" to him.

I believe this will answer your question with more information than you need or want. Yes, dashes are permitted. I've seen plenty of URLs with it. Generally, this is the list of allowable characters in a URL (after the protocol identifier -- http:// or https:// or ftps:// etc): ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-._~:/?#[]@!$&'()*+,;= Spaces are not permitted, as spaces, but can be encoded with the percent sign as a prefix followed by the hexadecimal value for "space" (from the ASCII table) like this: "%20". Of course it's more complicated than that.

Another update to the table! There are about 35 more channels in the table than when I last updated. See the original post above.

Since I like to overdo things sometimes, here's another one I just found today. It's mostly a music channel, all in Brazilian Portuguese, and the songs are really brilliant. The name of the channel is "Jovens da Igreja de Jesus Cristo" or "Young people of the Church of Jesus Christ" I posted one of their videos already in @poptart's Music Thread. But at the time I didn't realize they were LDS-related until I finished listening to this video here, when the Church logo popped up! The use of the logo makes me think the channel may be an official channel of the Church, but the channel information is a little equivocal: "Welcome to the official channel of the Youth page of The Church of Jesus Christ! A channel created especially to uplift, entertain, and guide young people around the world based on the teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Here you will find music from The Church of Jesus Christ, the Youth Mutual CD, stories from Mormon missionaries, broadcasts with the Area Presidency, and much more! Formerly the “LDS Youth” channel." The title of this video in English is: "Faith : Young people of the Church of Jesus Christ".

Just for the fun of it, I thought I would start this topic for folks who want to share pro-LDS YouTube channels they run into. As some of you are aware, as a hobbyish activity I've been cataloging them as I find them. So far I have 196 channels in my catalog. So to start out, here's a brand-new channel I just found today: Latter-Day Try-Hards. It's been posting only since 29 December 2025, and at this moment has only 68 subscribers. Here's one of their earliest videos, which is called "Don't Bury Your Gifts and Talents....OR ELSE!"

The SLC Visitors Center now includes a replica temple interior that visitors can tour! This is pretty cool!

You write well enough that you really ought to publish some of it. Or do you, under a pen name? I searched on Amazon to see if Ken K. Gourdin was the author of anything, but there wasn't. There are self-publishing options available out there. I have used Kindle Direct Publishing, not so much because it's the best, as I started with it as CreateSpace before it was bought and rebranded by Amazon.

Finally got around to watching "Greyhound" the other day. If you're unfamiliar, it is a "2020 American war film directed by Aaron Schneider and starring Tom Hanks, who also wrote the screenplay. The film is based on the 1955 novel The Good Shepherd by C. S. Forester, and follows a US Navy commander on his first assignment commanding a multi-national escort destroyer group of four, defending an Allied convoy from U-boats during the Battle of the Atlantic." Text from Wikipedia. I really enjoyed the film. It was supposed to have had a theatrical release in 2020, but due to Covid and all the disruptions the theatrical release was cancelled and it was released digitally. It was Oscar-nominated for "Best Sound."

There were a lot of Russian and Ukrainian young men who left their countries as the war started, in order to avoid being called into military service. These two might be such.