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Additional Prop 8 disclosure info
By
Dave Banack
Here is a follow-up to my earlier post on this topic. The LDS Newsroom put up a second post regarding financial disclosures in connection with in-kind contributions to the Yes on 8 campaign by the LDS Church (as opposed to voluntary contributions by individual Mormons): “Media Reports on Proposition 8 Filing Uninformed.” The post includes…
Mormon scripture
By
Dave Banack
This is the long overdue second post on Craig Blomberg and Stephen Robinson’s How Wide the Divide: A Mormon & an Evangelical in Conversation. [See the first post.] This post talks about the Mormon view of scripture, with reference to the Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants, volumes of scripture that, along with the…
“Jesus and I Broke Up”
By
Dave Banack
If you’re the type who’s not really that into Jesus anymore, go read the clever little essay by Owen Egerton, “Jesus and I Broke Up,” reposted here. [Hat tip: comment #3 at this Mormon Matters post.] In fact, go read it even if you are really into Jesus and one of his denominations. Here’s one…
A reporter’s account of an LDS Sunday service
By
Dave Banack
It is always helpful to try and see yourself through someone else’s eyes. So it’s worthwhile to read a British journalist’s account of attending an LDS Sunday meeting (a monthly testimony meeting, not the usual weekly sacrament meeting) at the Hyde Park Ward in London. It appears to be one in a series of similar…
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