I loved to ride my bike when I was a kid. It gave such a feeling of freedom. When I was in junior high, I occassionally preferred to bike the 2-1/2 miles to school, and there were trips farther afield without much of any destination.
FAIR chairman, John Lynch, has recently announced FAIR’s entrance into the Bloggernacle. Humbly hoping to become accepted as a valuable part of the LDS online community, he signaled the intent of the new group blog:
[W]e do not “apologize” on behalf of the church for its teachings, practices, or leaders. Rather, we stand ready to give an answer for the hope that is in us (see 1 Peter 3:14 – 16). We seek to gather information and reasoning, research and insights, from individuals of intellect and understanding who are faithful in their beliefs that the Gospel is restored, that the canonized scriptures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are inspired of God and useful for our sojourn towards eternity. We make this information available to those who find their own faith attacked by the “cunning craftiness” of some who “lie in wait to deceive”
First let me say up front that I don’t care for Huckabee. To me he reminds me a tad too much of “slick Willie” for my tastes. Further on many issues I just disagree with him. But I also don’t care much for Romney and think he’s been the cause of most of his own problems. What I wish to discuss though is neither Huckabee nor Romney but Mormon hypocrisy. There is a constant back and forth about whether Evangelical bigotry is a deciding factor in the election. Now I was on a mission in Louisiana so you don’t really have to preach to me about Evangelical ignorance and bigotry towards Mormons. I had enough people seriously thinking I had horns to know it’s there. However let me suggest that there is a lot of hypocrisy at work amid the Mormon angst on the subject.
I don’t necessarily agree with this spin, but I thought it was worth sharing. Go to the bottom to get my take, if you’re interested.
I’m happy to say that I live in an enlightened ward. Though some wards are stuck with bishoprics who misunderstand something and thus only let men say the opening prayer, my ward happily asks women, men, and teenagers of either sex to give the opening prayer. And closing prayer.
I was uncertain about speaking order, though. It seemed women always spoke first, and men always spoke last.
The following is a guest post submitted by Dr. Warner Woodworth, Social Entrepreneur & Professor, Marriott School, BYU.
By Dr. Warner Woodworth
We are engulfed in a sea of money and conspicuous consumption. This was a shocking realization for me a few days ago when I ventured out to buy my wonderful wife, Kaye, a Christmas gift. We usually give our money and time to the needy during the holidays, which always makes for a spiritual season for our family. Many times, we spend the days doing humanitarian work around the globe.
But I decided to actually go to the University Mall in Orem and purchase a small gift this year, knowing it could be a pleasant surprise. To avoid the temptations of materialism and shopping frenzies, I took a vow each of the past few years to stay away from such places, dens of iniquity and greed that I often refer to in my campus courses as “Palaces of Babylon.”
But I thought after so many years I was now strong enough so that I could withstand the environment of materialism, and that a nice Christmas gift would show my love.
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