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I once got a lecture from a member of the bishopric about drinking diet Coke during a temple recommend interview. I blew it off.
Passed his wife in the store, DC in hand. I love stuff like that. Obviously his own wife thinks he’s
🙄 Can we discuss abortion, that’s a fav!
I think some things like the history of the church are scary because we have such black and white mentality. But basically I’ve had to start looking at all of history, not just church history, and much of what happens today in a different light. Institutions, governments, homes, any organization is run by fallible people. Really, really fallible. I’ve really given upon revering anyone because usually they will disappoint you! Admiring people for their good and realizing they are “just people” is quite freeing. Realizing that everything usually has a dark past or underbelly is pretty freeing, too. I also remember being about 21 and coming to the realization that my parents were PEOPLE. Holy crap, people first before they were even my parents. And guess what, sometimes they sucked at being parents and sometimes they were people with these flaws. Once I realized that that was exactly what they were supposed to be.
And I’ll say that SD did a great job expressing some great ways to find a happy medium.
Okay, I did this yesterday with my two children at home, ages 16 and 13. I did not receive very good answers.
🙄 I really had to put some pressure on them to get anything serious. My daughter said things like:” Republicans are stupid. ” (I’ve never said that, ever, she’s inferred that on her own. Ahem.) “Maybe education, mumble, mumble.”My son said, “We need to make more money than you and dad do.” (NOT what we’ve told them, we’ve told them to do better than us not the same as us and that really was more about education and not about making money.)
Finally a couple of hours later I pressed them both and my son came up with this: “Don’t be douche bags.”
Well, there you have it.
I sent a letter asking my missionary son, I wonder what he’ll come up with.
I’m wondering if the phone calls and mailings might be coming from DI employees? Just a thought. I don’t think that a $10 magazine with no advertisements would ever be profitable.
😆 I don’t think the solicitations are profit driven!On Seminary teaching Church History and the D&C:
I subscribe to a magazine “Mental Floss” that had an short article about Joseph Smith in it last month. Not flattering, just the straight-up non-correlated history of JS. I had my son read it since it went along with his Seminary studies.
Wording is so very important. I pointed out to my husband that often when performing ordinances men use the term “power” of the priesthood when they are supposed to use “authority.” He assured me that he did not. Ha! He had to do 4 confirmations on Sunday and I caught him each time correcting himself. (Dang! I hate it when I’m always right.) Now if I could just remember where I recently read it… I believe that women have the power of the priesthood–we can and do actions on behalf of the Father–but we don’t have the authority or maybe keys would be the right word. (Exception being in the temple, of course.)
BKP: “The authority of the priesthood is with us. After all that we have correlated and organized, it is now our responsibility to activate the power of the priesthood in the Church. Authority in the priesthood comes by way of ordination;
power in the priesthood comes through faithful and obedient living in honoring covenants. It is increased by exercising and using the priesthood in righteousness.” Personally, I am thankful that that burden is not mine. If it was, my husband would be glad to relinquish all of those duties to me. Baby blessings, father’s blessings, baptisms and all of the ordinations. At least this way he can’t delegate it to me.
Brian Johnston wrote:Hi Observant,
Welcome to the community. I liked your very practical form of “testimony.” I look forward to hearing more from you.
Just to point out one small but important thing, you mentioned a FaceBook post about the .ORG domain. This is StayLDS
.com. Sadly, a rather motivated person decided to cyber-squat on the .ORG domain with an anti-mormon website to try and confuse people. Shoot, I know it is .com and it was certainly to the .com domain that I was sent. I must have had that in my mind when I was typing it. Isn’t cybersquatting illegal?
findingmyownfooting wrote:canadiangirl wrote:Sometimes our church has weird rules.
+1
I’m sure it is a rule to help avoid any unseemly interactions between under-age students and teachers. Of course, we know this still happens but if a teacher is married he probably much less likely to look to his class for dating opportunities! This also applies to Institute teachers where the students are older and where this certainly could be more of an issue. In a way, it is a protection to both students and the teacher.
I do know of at least one case where it was quite devastating to the Seminary instructor and it’s has been several years since his loss of employment (and wife) and he is still struggling to recover. (Maybe he wasn’t a great employee to begin with? Shrug.) I also worked directly with an Institute principal who ended up in a less than desirable marriage in order to keep his employment. (He met her in an Institute class he was teaching, ahem. ironically.)
I also believe that in some circumstances the person can move from a teaching position into an administrative position within CES or maybe even other church employment. I doubt they are just kicked to the curb without some assistance in getting other employment.
I’m not trying to justify the policy just explain maybe some of the whys behind it. My experience in watching people move through church employment actually has been that they keep people waaaaaay longer than is justified and should kick more people to the curb a lot quicker.
