There are more Mormons and ex-Mormons outside than inside the US. Their voices get lost in a sea of US-centric voices here. Hope I can help counter that trend!
May be a pet peeve, a personal preference, something of no substance. But I've always struggled with the use of "live action" models for depictions of Jesus. I feel it for the random dudes that have to see their face for years in printed church materials as "the face of Jesus" :/
@religiongal I think that, while well intended and a step in the right direction in terms of being proactive about problematic church history, they didn't get it right...
And I think it's impossible le to get it right, maybe, just maybe, because it was *never* right?
@LeilandTanner@BSpackman Well, which answers to your last question are you willing to entertain?
Because the obvious, simplest, "path of least resistance" answer to it is... he was an unhinged paranoid man who happened to land a higly influential role in the church. Unfortunately.
@melonakos@religiongal Your statement stands indeed. It stands as meaningless to the wider discussion. Just trying to deflect addressing the complexity of this with semantics.
That's some 'I've said nothing about Father"-level stuff you've done. Not sure that's the team you want to be in.
@ldshymnstats Amazing Grace AND Come Thou, Fount... plus This Is the Christ as musical number and My Shepherd Will Supply My Need in the prelude!
All the greatest hits from the new hymnbook selection in one weekend :)
@DavidBOstler What an absolute failure of our faith. I don't think I could worship in Utah anymore without feeling threatened by my very brothers and sisters
@_Kristine_A Will listen to it. I've only read one article by him that I remember, where he showed how ultraorthodox creationist thinking had percolated into the CES Institute OT manuals that I found super interesting
@Exchairstacker In my previous ward, if you made a histogram of age groups, you had decent quantities in the 0-12 and 12-18yo groups. From 18-30? Low single digits, plus a couple recent converts. No more than 5. And it's not that we had lost them to singles wards...