Wow. This is a pretty strong article that discusses what is happening these days in the Presbyterian Church USA and the Episcopal Church as they adopt liberal politics and liberal theology. To sum up:

So this is the liberal Christianity that was supposed to be the Christianity of the future: disarray, schism, rapidly falling numbers of adherents, a collapse of Christology and national meetings that rival those of the Modern Language Assn. for their potential for cheap laughs. And they keep telling the Catholic Church that it had better get with the liberal program — ordain women, bless gay unions and so forth — or die. Sure

No, this is not a joke, this is a new web site that looks, well, pretty darned good. Here are some excerpts:

Continue reading →

I thought this was pretty good. It’s about a 10-minute video that includes Donny Osmond’s testimony and some pretty good explanations of what the BoM is about. Check it out. (This link will probably work best with a broadband connection).

Now that I feel sorry for all the negativity I generated on my other somewhat intemperate thread (though I learned quite a bit and feel the discussion was worth it), I’m going for a more positive thread here.

A few of my favorite things (feel free to share your own favorite things in the comments below):

Continue reading →

This Sunday’s Young Women lesson is on the Sabbath, so I was wandering around lds.org to find some supplemenal info for the lesson (the lesson manual rarely provides enough to fill the time). I came across the Ensign article linked in the title. It’s from 1978, so it’s definitely dated (the shift to the 3-hour block since that time being the most obvious change), but it’s quite interesting to see how LDS Sunday and Sabbath traditions came to be.

Continue reading →