Meridian Magazine is holding an LDS themed “Celebrate Alaska” something or other. But their publicity needs some serious work, as it is rather insulting to a significant section of the potential audience.
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FAIR Conference 2007
I’ve just returned from the annual FAIR conference. ‘Twas a lovely time. You all should come next time (7-8 August 2008). I took almost no notes, but instead just sat and listened, so I’ll keep with the minimalist theme and share very few thoughts. Transcripts and/or audio and video recordings should be available on the FAIR website eventually, if anything in particular interests you.
Appropriate behavior for Sacrament meetings
As some of you may know, the Church has released a new pamphlet dealing with the issue of Same Sex Attraction. A copy of the new pamphlet can be found here.
The discussion of this new pamphlet sparked some interesting comments at T&S. (And I’m sure elsewhere — sorry, I have been on vacation for the last few weeks and haven’t been keeping up with my reading).
I’m not interested in re-hashing all of the old discussions on SSM. However, I am interested in a few comments MikeinWeHo made. (See comment #29 and subsequent comments, including a response from Adam G).
Basically, Mike, who is gay, would like to feel more comfortable in some hypothetical future coming to Sacrament meeting with his gay partner and their child. Is that appropriate?
The Mormon [literary figure of choice]
The Mormon Harry Potter. The Mormon Nancy Drew. The Mormon [Whatever].
After seeing the latest Nancy Drew movie (which was an amazingly excellent movie, BTW – I may post a review later just because I liked it so much) with my wife, I had a conversation with some members of my ward who were also there.
Some constructive criticism of the Bloggernacle
Several of my friends at Church have recoiled in horror after visiting Church blog sites like T&S and BCC. When I tell them I am a fan, their response is, “how can you read stuff that basically promotes apostasy?”
Now, let me make this extremely clear: I do not share these opinions. I repeat: I do not share these opinions. I think many, many posts on both T&S and BCC are incredibly faith-promoting. And they are clearly better blogs than M*.
However, I would like to make one small attempt to try to explain to some of my friends (and I do consider them friends even though I don’t know them personally) in the Bloggernacle why many people in the Church respond this way.