News about Mormons, Mormonism,
and the LDS Church

By Kent Larsen

Internet: Personal and Small Business, Literature Websites

NEW YORK, NEW YORK -- The number of personal and small business websites run by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints seems to be growing rapidly, and this week's new websites demonstrate their prevalence. The new websites include a massage and doula business, a wedding invitation business, a filtering software business and a floral business, in addition to a few personal web pages. Also new this week are a couple of literature resources, including one that specifically focuses on Mormon literature.

Among the businesses, the nicest design comes from LDSfilter.com, which sells filtering software meant to screen pornography websites while using the Internet. Also nice is Rebecca's Sunnybrook Flowers, which includes floral arrangements for weddings and other occasions. However, the site doesn't have photos of its arrangements catalog available yet.

The literature sites include Suite101.com's Mormon (LDS) Literature page, which includes a few articles on Mormon literature in addition to discussion boards and links. However, the site misses much of the Mormon literature material available elsewhere. While it doesn't specifically aim at Mormons, Katharsis.org provides more detailed links and resources for writers.

Newly Listed Mormon Websites:

Amber's Natural Health and Healing Website
http://www.geocities.com/alglmt/

Website covering LDS Church member's massage and doula business. Gives basic information on natural health and healing, including doula services, massage, complimentary health care and energy work, natural family planning, healthy eating and living, polycystic ovarian syndrome, and more.

Midlothian, Virginia LDS Church-member's 20-year-old business selling wedding invitations. Includes links to wedding invitation catalogs, and some favorite sites.

Attractive personal page for Mesa, Arizona-based LDS Church member. Includes pages about children, Moab, Utah, Alpine, a picture gallery, ancestry and links to other sites.

Writer's support website run by LDS Church member Rachel Anne Lister. Includes submitted fiction and poetry, as well as sections on journaling, writing aids, workshops and critique circles. Includes a long list of links to useful writing sites. An attractive and nicely-organized site.

Website for filtering software meant to filter Internet webpages for pornography.

Yahoo!Groups discussion list for Latter-day Saint (Mormon) Massage Therapists. Covers professional discussion of massage therapy from a LDS perspective and of other natural therapies, natural healing, body work, or energy work.

Umbrela site that includes site for LDS Pocket PC resources. Also includes personal sites for Andrew Lewis, Curtis Gibb and a wedding album for Heidi J. Fisher and Michael G. Gehmlich. The Pocket PC resource page includes software for syncing the LDS Church's MIS data to MS Outlook, and links to sources for LDS palm resources.

Attractive site for Tuscon-based LDS Church-member's floral business.

Website for video produced by LDS Church members Dave Asay and Randy Mellor that attempts to describe the locations of Book of Mormon geographical locations. The video places the Hill Cumorah at the Hill Vigia, near Santiago Tuxtla in Veracruz state, Mexico. It includes interviews with LDS archaeologist Dr. Bruce Warren and LDS Scholar Dr. Joseph L. Allen.

Site about Mormon Literature using about.com-like Suite101.com. Includes links to Internet sites on Mormon Literature and general Mormon sites, articles about Mormon Literature and discussion boards. While not as heavily promoted as about.com, suite101.com is nicer, not as heavily coded and its subjects are better organized.

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