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LDS Articles
By: Krajina1389 Date: August 29, 2012, 7:47 pm
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Call it the Fickle Finger of Fate. Or perhaps divine
retribution.
The DePauw, the campus newspaper at DePauw University, reports
that a driver paid for his decision to "flip the bird" at a pair
of Mormon missionaries. Immediately after extending the
universal digit of disdain, his northbound silver Honda Civic
hit a curb, climbed the support cable of a power pole, launched
into the air and landed on its top in Greencastle, Ind.
Mercifully, perhaps literally, the 24-year-old escaped serious
injury in the Saturday night crash near the Sigma Chi
Fraternity.
The two Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
missionaries, Scott Brezenski, of Missoula, Mont., and Myles
Anderton, of Hurricane, Utah, confirmed that the driver crashed
just seconds after he raised and waved his middle finger as they
walked along the street.
"We were just walking and he looked back and flipped us off,
then the car flipped 10 to 12 feet in the air," Brezenski said,
adding that the driver was also carrying a cigarette in the same
hand he used to make the gesture.
The driver, who was cited for driving while intoxicated, was not
a DePauw student, campus police said.
On Tuesday, The DePauw reported, the driver, Benjamin Brewer of
Bainbridge, Ind., was sentenced to one day behind bars and fined
$820 by a Putnam County judge.
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Re: LDS Articles
By: Krajina1389 Date: August 29, 2012, 7:48 pm
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The subject of the conference was "Women and the LDS Church."
But the big news coming out of the conference had to do with LDS
men.
"From a sociological perspective, the priesthood system works,"
said Dr. David C. Campbell, a professor of political science at
the University of Notre Dame. "It appears to motivate Mormon men
to a level of religiosity that is equivalent to Mormon women."
And that, Campbell said, is news.
"Sociological research consistently shows that American women
are more religious than American men by almost any standard that
you can measure," Campbell told an audience of about 300 people
mostly women attending a conference called "Women and the
LDS Church: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives" in the
Fort Douglas Officer's Club Theater Saturday afternoon. "But our
research shows that LDS men and women are very close to each
other in terms of religiosity."
The research to which Campbell refers is a study he conducted
last January along with colleagues Quinn Monson and John Green
among 500 self-identified Latter-day Saints. Although the
results have not yet been published, Campbell said it will
eventually be the basis of a book.
"It's a large enough sample size for us to have some confidence
in our results," Campbell said. So when it became clear that the
research was showing that Mormon men and women express similar
levels of religious involvement, Campbell said he found that to
be "surprising."
"It is a common concern across many faiths: 'How do we keep the
men coming to church?'" Campbell said. "Within Mormonism we seem
to have a system that keeps them connected."
Campbell said he also found it interesting that, according to
his recent research, LDS men and women spend "exactly the same
amount of time" working in their church callings and
assignments. In light of the fact that the number for LDS men
includes those who spend 20-30 hours per week in callings as
bishops and stake presidents church assignments that require
significant time commitments Campbell said that means "women
are actually doing more in the callings that they are given"
than the men who are in similar callings.
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Re: LDS Articles
By: Krajina1389 Date: August 29, 2012, 7:48 pm
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BRIGHAM CITY Proclaiming Tuesday "a great day, a happy day" in
northern Utah, Elder William R. Walker of the First Quorum of
the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
opened the doors of the church's new Brigham City Utah Temple to
the media.
"This community was founded during Utah's pioneer era," said
Elder Walker, executive director of the LDS Church's temple
department. "For all of that time, the residents have hoped and
prayed for a temple. So when (LDS Church President Thomas S.
Monson) announced three years ago that a temple would be built
in Brigham City, there has been a feeling of joyful anticipation
ever since."
The media tour was conducted Tuesday morning in anticipation of
the beginning of the month-long temple open house on Saturday
(please see box for open house facts and information). The LDS
Church traditionally conducts public open houses for several
weeks prior to the dedication of a new temple to allow all
community members who are interested an opportunity to tour the
temple and learn about what Mormons do inside their temples.
Once the temple is dedicated, it will be open only to LDS Church
members who have been recommended by their local ecclesiastical
leaders to perform the highest sacraments of their faith,
including proxy baptisms on behalf of deceased ancestors and
eternal marriages (or sealings, as they are called within
Mormonism).
The open house for the Brigham City Utah Temple will continue
through Saturday, Sept. 15.
"We have already had requests for more than 300,000 tickets to
the open house, so there is a lot of interest," Elder Walker
said. "There will be a pretty constant flow of people through
the temple during the open house."
Following the opening house, the temple will be closed while it
is prepared for its formal, official dedication during three
sessions on Sunday, Sept. 23.
Elder Walker indicated that President Boyd K. Packer, president
of the LDS Church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and a Brigham
City native, will dedicate the temple.
"President Packer went to grade school at Central School, which
used to stand right on this very spot," Elder Walker said. "He
presided at the groundbreaking for this temple, and President
Monson feels it would be appropriate for him to preside at the
dedication as well."
Tickets and instructions for attendance at the temple dedication
sessions will be available through local LDS congregational
leaders.
On Saturday, Sept. 22, a cultural celebration called "Harvest of
Faith" will be held to commemorate the heritage of LDS Church
members in the Brigham City area. The celebration will be held
at the Box Elder High School football stadium at 6:30 p.m.
The history and heritage of the LDS Church in Box Elder County
is reflected throughout the temple, which is the church's 14th
in Utah and 139th worldwide. Elder Walker said that great care
has been taken to give the temple a historic look while
maintaining modern functionality and convenience. Doorknobs,
fittings and hinges are brass, and light fixtures are trimmed in
brass, and the 12 oxen bearing the temple's baptismal font are
made of cast bronze. The color palette for the dιcor and
furnishings throughout most of the temple include warm, earthy
tones, with an emphasis on sage, cream and rustic brown.
The one exception to that color theme is the temple's Celestial
Room, with its towering ceilings and elegant furnishings and
decorations in white, gold and crystal.
The agricultural history of Brigham City is seen in the
recurring peach blossom theme throughout the temple.
"Brigham City is the home of Peach Days, and is widely known for
the wonderful fruit grown here," Elder Walker said. "Our
designers wanted to make the peach blossom a repeating design
throughout the temple. So you see it on the exterior walls, in
the round windows, in the carpet, on the back of chairs and in
much of the ornamentation of the temple."
The temple's Celestial Room has an especially striking peach
blossom design that has been hand-carved into the carpet beneath
the centerpiece chandelier.
The Brigham City Temple is not a large temple, Elder Walker
noted. The instruction (or what Latter-day Saints call
"endowment") rooms can only accommodate about 60 people at a
time for sessions that will rotate once every 70 minutes. And
the chapel waiting area can only seat about 70. For this reason,
he said, the temple will initially require reservations for
members who wish to attend the temple.
"We are expecting that during the first few months especially,
there will be a lot of our members who want to come to worship
and serve in this new temple," Elder Walker said. "We don't want
to get into a situation where we have 300 people waiting to get
in, and we can only accommodate 60 in each session every 70
minutes. So initially, we'll have them make reservations to come
to the temple."
Elder Walker said there is at least one person who is not a big
fan of that plan: President Monson.
"I've spoken to him about it," Elder Walker acknowledged. "He
told me he doesn't like it. He doesn't like the idea of members
having to make a reservation to go to the temple. He told me,
'Well, if you have to do it to maintain order, fine. But get rid
of it as soon as you can.'
"And we'll do that," Elder Walker said. "When we opened the
Rexburg Temple, we did the reservations for about five or six
weeks, but then we were able to discontinue the reservations."
The Brigham City Utah Temple will be open for all temple patrons
on Tuesday, Sept. 25.
OPEN HOUSE FACTS
DATES: Saturday, Aug. 18 through Saturday, Sept. 15 (excluding
Sundays and Saturday, Sept. 8)
TIMES: 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays; 7:30 a.m. to 5
p.m. on Mondays
ADMISSION: Free, but reservations are required
RESERVATIONS: Tickets are available at
www.templeopenhouse.lds.org or by calling 1-855-537-2000.
AGES: All ages are welcome, but no strollers, please.
LOCATION: 250 South Main Street, Brigham City, Utah
DRESS: Modest dress is required
PARKING: Parking attendants will guide you to an available
parking space. Plan to arrive early to allow time for traffic
and parking.
TOURS: Tours begin with a 10-minute video providing an overview
of temples and why they are important to Latter-day Saints.
Following the video, a tour host will escort you through the
temple, explaining the purpose of each room and answering
questions as time allows. At the conclusion of the tour, guests
will be invited to return to the tents for light refreshments
and to have any further questions answered.
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Re: LDS Articles
By: Krajina1389 Date: August 29, 2012, 7:49 pm
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The Italian government has granted official status to The Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a "partner of the
state," more than a century and a half after the first Italian
Latter-day Saints were baptized.
According to an announcement posted recently on the church's
Newsroom website, President Giorgio Napolitano of Italy signed
the Intesa con lo Stato, or legal agreement, on July 30. The
agreement means the LDS Church joins a handful of religions
including Catholicism, Judaism and the Baptist and Methodist
churches as officially recognized religious denominations.
Since 1993, the LDS Church has been recognized in Italy as only
a charitable institution, the Newsroom article said.
"We have been waiting for this for many years," said Giuseppe
Pasta, an Italian Mormon for more than 40 years. "We have been
praying and fasting, striving to be better people, to receive
the Lord's help and now we are here."
John Zackrison, director of the church's International
Coordinating Committee, said the recognition "will eliminate
current barriers that frequently interfere with our church
leaders performing marriages and otherwise ministering."
It will also simplify the process for obtaining visas for
missionaries and mission presidents and will eliminate many
challenges for church leaders in their respective ministries. It
also elevates the church in the eyes of government officials and
other religious denominations in Italy.
"The secretary of the prime minister has already put me in touch
with the minister of social activities," Pasta said. "Important
Italian entities are already reaching out to us from the left
and from the right now that we are considered an official
religious denomination."
"The intesa is a fulfillment of a long-awaited blessing," said
Maurizio Ventura, a local church leader in Pisa.
The first LDS missionaries in Italy arrived in Genova in 1850,
and baptized the first Italian converts soon thereafter. By 1854
there were three branches of the church there. But new members
were encouraged to migrate to Utah, and by 1867 missionary
efforts in Italy ended. Through the years missionary efforts
have resumed, and today there are nearly 20,000 members
worshiping in more than 120 congregations. A new LDS temple, the
first of its kind in Italy, is currently under construction in
Rome and should be completed in 2014.
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Re: LDS Articles
By: Krajina1389 Date: August 29, 2012, 7:49 pm
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SALT LAKE CITY A delegation of 15 representatives from the
American Jewish Committee met earlier this week with senior
leaders from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
according to a press release issued by the AJC.
The press release indicated "the two-day visit included a VIP
tour of a newly completed LDS temple and a high-level briefing
on advances in mitigating Jewish concerns regarding the issue of
posthumous baptism of Holocaust victims."
The leaders also discussed "Jewish and Mormon approaches to
preserving religious identity in an age of secularization and
advocacy in behalf of religious freedom," the press release
said.
LDS Church spokesman Scott Trotter confirmed that the church had
hosted the AJC group at the new Brigham City Utah Temple, and
that Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the church's Quorum of the
Twelve Apostles hosted the tour.
"In addition to touring the temple," Trotter said, "guests
visited several church facilities including Welfare Square,
Temple Square and the Family History Center."
AJC's interreligious team has traveled to Salt Lake City for
similar meetings a number of times during the past several
decades in an "effort to understand (the LDS Church) as they
understand themselves," the press release noted.
"AJC's longstanding relationship with the LDS Church is based on
mutual understanding as a foundation for cooperation and
respect," said Rabbi Noam Marans, AJC's director of
Interreligious and Intergroup Relations. "Visiting Salt Lake
City advances our leadership's knowledge of the LDS Church. We
were warmly received by LDS Church leaders with remarkable
hospitality."
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Re: LDS Articles
By: Krajina1389 Date: August 29, 2012, 7:49 pm
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For leaders and members of The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints, discussion of charitable giving poses a
scriptural quandary.
"The church is mindful of Christ's admonition to 'do not your
alms before men, to be seen of them' (Matthew 6: 1)," LDS
leadership said recently through a posting about LDS charitable
donations and contributions on the LDS Newsroom website. "At the
same time, it takes seriously the Savior's call to 'let your
light so shine before men, that they may see your good works,
and glorify your Father which is in heaven (Matthew 5:16).'
"The church's relief efforts," the posting concludes, "strive
for this balance."
Unfortunately, not all media coverage of the LDS Church's
benevolent giving has similarly sought balance. Despite studies
rating Latter-day Saints high for what is termed "pro-social
behavior" -- that is, donations of time and finances to
benevolent causes both Reuters and Bloomberg Businessweek have
published stories recently suggesting that the church's
charitable giving begins and ends with its humanitarian
outreach.
"While the church's humanitarian aid efforts and its significant
financial donations may be known to some, few realize that they
represent only a fraction of the costs and resources involved
with carrying out these initiatives," the recent LDS Newsroom
posting said. "Furthermore, it may not be well known that the
church sponsors many other relief programs, including extensive
welfare, vocational, rehabilitative, counseling and other
services."
Included in this benevolent outreach by the church and its
members are "millions of hours donated by Latter-day Saint
doctors, nurses and other church members each year," the
statement continued. "Thousands of professionals and volunteers
give freely of their time and means to those in need, with no
expectation of praise, publicity or reward."
The significance of those donations of time and expertise were
downplayed in the recent news stories, as was the fact that "100
percent of fast offerings and humanitarian donations go directly
to those in need."
"The overhead and administrative costs associated with these
programs in addition to the resources needed to build storage
facilities, house and deliver humanitarian aid supplies around
the world, train volunteers and so on are privately fronted by
the church," the Newsroom statement said. "Today, thanks to a
robust infrastructure, the church continues to relieve hunger,
thirst, suffering and poverty of millions of people around the
world and to empower individuals and communities to become more
self-sustaining."
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Re: LDS Articles
By: Krajina1389 Date: August 29, 2012, 7:50 pm
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A Hispanic Conference will be hosted by the Menifee Stake of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Sept. 1-3 in Lake
Elsinore.
The event, the first of its kind in Riverside County, is
expected to draw as many as 1,000 church members and guests over
three days.
Participation has been expanded to include four additional
stakes (geographical designations) from Corona, Hemet, Murrieta
and Temecula from whose ranks about 300 volunteers will be
engaged in park clean-up projects in the City of Wildomar on
Labor Day.
The Menifee Stake includes the cities of Menifee, Perris, Canyon
Lake, Lake Elsinore and Wildomar.
We are calling it a Latin cultural event with food, music and
dance, said William Sacriste, local church leader and chairman
of the organizing committee.
The conference will primarily involve Spanish-speaking church
members (including those who trained in the language and served
missions in Spanish-speaking nations) with guests. The
conference will also feature special sessions in the Redlands
Temple, cultural exhibits, a guest speaker from the general
church leadership (with available English translation), as well
as competitive games and sports over the span of three days.
The cultural events and religious services will take place at
the Lake Elsinore chapel at the corner of Dexter Avenue and 11th
Street in Lake Elsinore. The service volunteers will convene,
Monday, at Marna OBrien Park in Wildomar.
Information: visit www.facebook.com/events/218307228282686 or
contact William Sacriste, wmjsacriste@hotmail.com
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Re: LDS Articles
By: ericwithcheese Date: August 30, 2012, 11:34 am
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That is a lot of articles for a single thread, and I think they
should be broken up... I just want to respond to one and not
read everyone's replies to all of them. haha
The incident with the missionaries and the car flipping happened
in Indiana... my state. I'll have to keep the Elders names in
mind... there is a small chance once of them could be
transferred to my area at some point!
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Re: LDS Articles
By: Krajina1389 Date: August 30, 2012, 11:53 am
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There is no way to create a subsection for all these so I am
just posting everything. If I put all the articles in my mind up
here, there will be 50 articles, so I guess anyone interested in
a certain article can start a thread in the Random Section to
discuss it, even though that sounds kind of strange.
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Re: LDS Articles
By: ericwithcheese Date: August 30, 2012, 12:07 pm
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[quote author=SPHVukovar link=topic=138.msg1047#msg1047
date=1346345632]
There is no way to create a subsection for all these so I am
just posting everything. If I put all the articles in my mind up
here, there will be 50 articles, so I guess anyone interested in
a certain article can start a thread in the Random Section to
discuss it, even though that sounds kind of strange.
[/quote]
I think you could just post each article individually, since
this is the "Random" board. That way, a discussion can begin on
each individual article, and someone doesn't end up getting 100
notifications in a thread that he/she posted on long ago and no
longer has interest in. That way people can comment on what
they want, and not be notified on stuff they don't.
I don't think there is any harm in having a large influx of new,
individual topics. :)
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