Here's a test-run of a new feature, the Bloggernacle Potluck, giving links and short comments on notable Bloggernacle posts from the previous week. Just another way to support my local blogging community.
Matt at T&S comments on a FAIR talk examining the role of LDS history in supporting or criticizing LDS testimony. Matt thinks the author, a noted LDS historian, insulates LDS truth claims by narrowing them to events not subject to historical disproof. The talk itself is well worth reading--I always enjoy reading the personal perspective of LDS historians in reconciling their historical studies with their own faith. Matt's post links to Part I of the talk, but he doesn't post a link to Part II, which was posted at Meridian three days later.
John H at Bcc stakes out his position in the believing versus doing debate. John shares some amusing personal experiences to support his opinion that what Mormons believe is given more weight than what they do. Others have argued for "orthopraxis" or right practice rather than "orthodoxy" or right belief as the primary focus of Mormon conformity. I think they both come into play in different contexts. To test which of the two gets more weight in your own local ward, try wearing a pink shirt (rather than a white one) and bearing testimony of Heavenly Mother (rather than Father, Son, or Holy Ghost) at your next Fast and Testimony Meeting, and see which faux pas gets more comments from the members of your congregation.
William Morris at A Motley Vision scored a coup by posting (with permission) an excerpt from Michael Collings' The Nephiad, a retelling of the Nephi story in epic poetic form. If I (no poetry buff) like it, it must be good. Here's a teaser:
In fear and deep astonishment, four shapes
With ceaseless care and silent step retraced
Their paths toward ancestral lands . . .
At
Mormon Metaphysics,
Clark has collected
links to his reading notes on selections from McMurrin, Ostler, and Pratt. For a sample, try
Clark's comments on McMurrin's thoughts on materialism (seemingly embraced) as against metaphysics (seemingly dismissed).
Jeff of Mormanity has been guest blogging at T&S, where he posted a fascinating summary of his experience counseling members struggling with mental illness and dealing with the effects of childhood abuse. Discussion of this topic in LDS circles has been almost taboo until fairly recently. Jeff's comments are better than anything I've seen in the Ensign or heard over the pulpit, which suggests the Church has done very little in the past to equip Bishops to understand or recognize such problems, much less provide helpful counsel or referrals to trained practitioners for those in need of assistance.
For more links to notable posts, try Kaimi's latest installment of his periodic "Around the Blogs" series at T&S. By the way, the inspiration for Bloggernacle Potluck was the Christian Carnival series, but the resemblance is so striking that I do need to give a tip of the hat to Kaimi just to be fair.
Look for Bloggernacle Potluck II next week! Any Bloggernacker who does a post that they really, really think needs to be included, send me an email with a link.
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