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Happy Birthday Meridian Magazine
11 Years Old Today
As Meridian turns 11, we anticipate some great things coming in the next year.
By Maurine Proctor and Scot Facer Proctor

Contest Winners Announced Today
The Meridian 10th Anniversary Contest has been fun and successful. We have enjoyed interacting with our readers. Today, as promised, we announce the winners. Click on inside to see if YOU won!
By Scot Facer Proctor, Publisher

Four Simple Things You Can Do That Really Help Meridian
Here are some very practical, easy, straightforward things you can do right now to help Meridian—including participating in the contest that will end in just four days.
By Scot Facer Proctor, Publisher

Friends Step Forth to Make Giving to Meridian More Fun
Not only have our readers told us how they feel about Meridian, now one of our friends, Covenant Communications, has stepped forth and offered five copies of The Worldwide Ward Cookbook to give away this week to help with Meridian’s drive for donations.
By Scot Facer Proctor, Publisher

We Need People from Everywhere to Support Meridian
A big thanks to all who have generously donated to Meridian this past week. We are truly very grateful. But we are a bit concerned.
By Scot Facer Proctor, Publisher

Is Meridian Worth the Cost of One or Two Movie Tickets?
Some of you responded to our plea for voluntary donations to Meridian last Monday. We thank you. Some hundreds took advantage of our free gifts worth hundreds of dollars. We're so glad we could give back to you. The question I ask today is this: Is Meridian worth the cost of one or two movie tickets?
By Scot Facer Proctor, Publisher

What is Meridian Worth to You?
Meridian needs your support to continue to bring you the kind of site you have come to expect from us. Won’t you join in our voluntary subscription/donation program so that Meridian can be there for you each day? We need your support! And this time—we’re giving away some beautiful gifts for your home as a way of saying thank you. Come and see.
By Scot Facer Proctor, Publisher

A Contest You Can Really Win
Enter to win Meridian’s 10th Anniversary contest: It’s easy and it’s fun
By Scot Facer Proctor, Publisher

How I Will Miss Truman Madsen
Truman G. Madsen's passing is a tremendous loss to those of us who are yet on this side of the veil�and a boon to those on the other side.
By Scot Facer Proctor, Publisher

Happy Birthday Meridian
Today we celebrate Meridian's 10 years online. It began as an idea that wouldn't leave us alone. We'd settle into bed at night, desperate for sleep, and a flood of thoughts would come that kept us talking for hours. We'd go out for a date together and end up talking magazine. Something was happening.
By Scot Facer Proctor, Publisher

The Real Reason Why the Glenn Beck Interview was Pulled from Focus on the Family
After publishing the notice this past Monday that Glenn Beck's interview had been pulled from Focus on the Family, I decided that I wanted to contact Focus and get a more detailed explanation of why the interview was really pulled. In the very midst of that thought we received a note from one of our loyal readers who had already contacted Focus and shared with us the entire response. You will want to read this.
By Scot Facer Proctor, Publisher

Senator Conrad Burns — Down to the Wire
What party will control the Senate after today? It may depend on what happens in Montana!

It�s Time for Meridian to Grow
Are you ready to see Meridian go to the next level — to reach out further and wider and touch the lives of more people in more places around the country and the world? We are ready. We need your help.
By Scot Facer Proctor, Publisher

Looking at the Face of Meridian
People are Reading Meridian Everywhere
The article we did recently called The Countries Where Meridian is Read generated nearly the most mail of anything ever written on Meridian. This article today is a follow-up on that piece. It contains your voices--from all over the world. We are excited to publish this piece, although it contains only a small fraction of what we received. You wanted to tell us, proudly in most cases, where you’re from. You’re quite a group. I wish we could visit you, each one, in your homes, but then again, I guess we do.
By Scot Facer Proctor
Publisher, Meridian Magazine

Oscar�s Lament
It's among the movies that were virtually ignored that you'll see some defiance of the Hollywood Establishment. Cinderella Man, for instance, which affirms loyalty in marriage and shows children as the most important priority in a man's life.
By Orson Scott Card

The Countries Where Meridian is Read
Do you know which country has the highest percentage of Meridian readers based on Church membership in that country? Did you know that you readers come from almost every part of the globe? Did you know that we have Meridian readers in Greenland and Antarctica? Have you ever wanted to see the entire list of countries where Meridian is read? Well, here's your chance � flags and all! Come and see!
By Scot Facer Proctor
Publisher, Meridian Magazine

Happy Birthday Meridian Magazine
Meridian celebrates seven years online this week. Meridian has taken on a life of its own, quite apart from us. Looking back, we must admit it probably always had its own life. It always belonged to everybody. Every writer contributes because the same vision owned them—the chance to be a part of a platform for excellent thinking and sharing with members of the Church who share the same concerns wherever they are. Come let us share the vision of Meridian both in the past and in the immediate future.
By Maurine and Scot Proctor

The Jackals after the Storm
Whenever there’s a breakdown in the social order there are also people who quickly reveal that with them, at least, civilization is not part of their nature. We see the footage of these jackals on television, looting whatever they can take from stores ... or neighbors’ houses. Most depressing, for me at least, are the jackals of the news media. Most are simply reporting what happens. But there are some...
By Orson Scott Card

Yellow Roses for the Texas Temple Photo Essays
When will I ever learn? I should not look at your photo essays at work! It isn't professional to cry at one's desk.
Edited and Compiled by Kathy Green

Happy Birthday Meridian
02/12/2004
Meridian Magazine is five years old today. Meridian Magazine began as an idea that wouldn't leave us alone. We'd settle into bed at night, desperate for sleep, and a flood of thoughts would come that kept us talking for hours. We'd go out for a date together and end up talking magazine. Something was happening. Come and read the story of how Meridian came to be.
by Maurine and Scot Proctor

Super Bowl Shocker
Why Were We Surprised?
Everybody was outraged the Monday after the Super Bowl. The FCC was pelted with letters, email and calls from irate parents. The Janet Jackson moment had gone too far. How about everything else? Are we to assume that everything else besides that was OK? Or that this is the kind of sexually-laden content that passes for entertainment in America? Isn't enough enough?
By Maurine Jensen Proctor

The Constitution - Our Inspired Heritage
Our form of Government has become preeminent amongst those in the world and it is our Constitution which has helped bring this nation to a position almost unrivaled in the last 200 years. The greatest impact felt on our Government in recent years is a phrase that is not found in either founding document- the phrase “separation of Church & State.” Read about the true intention of our Founders in Bob Dunn's classic essay.
By Robert S. Dunn

The Alamo for Affirmative Action
It’s a day of showdown. Oral arguments for this term’s most far-reaching and contentious case are taking place before the Supreme Court. At issue is whether the University of Michigan’s admission policies—which add 20 points, or the equivalent of a full gradepoint average to favored minorities—violate the Constitution.
by Maurine Jensen Proctor
Editor-in-Chief, Meridian Magazine

A Holocaust of the Innocents
Best of the Web on Roe v. Wade
Yesterday, on the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, not intimidated by frigid, finger-numbing weather, opponents and supporters of abortion rights rallied by the nation’s monuments of freedom to urge their position. This year with the GOP controlling both Congress and the White House, the clashing protests had new urgency as both sides feel their case is hanging in the balance.

Church Plaza Trampled by 10th Circuit Court
What are the Remedies?
Recently, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals did something dangerous. When they defined the plaza owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a public forum that could be administered by the city, they took a swipe at free religious expression and property rights that may reverberate well beyond Salt Lake City.

A Sniper Close to Home
The Proctors discuss the fears pervading their area and their family over a recent spree of killings

The Book of Mormon and War
Once again the world is convulsed with debate about war. And once again the issue is Iraq.
by Geoffrey Biddulph

The Clarion Voice of the Prophet of God Above the Noise of the Storm
Since the day of the dedication of the Independence Visitors Center, the storm has grown much wilder and much louder. And in the midst of it all, there is the voice of the Prophet. The storms today are more dangerous than a Missouri storm, and they are nearer than those dark clouds that hung in the skies that day. But above them all we can hear the clarion voice of the Prophet of God.
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Happy Birthday Meridian
Meridian Magazine is three years old today.
by Maurine and Scot Proctor

An Open Letter to Journalists Covering the 2002 Winter Olympics
by Maurine Proctor

An Enemy Hath Done This
by Maurine and Scot Proctor