CH Museum to Align with Essays

Thanks, OON.

I really do think the church leadership is trying to present things accurately now – while still obviously being from a “believing” perspective. It’s important to recognize that – and also that it’s not something that can be done overnight.

Hey OON, long time no see. Thanks for stopping by and sharing this. I had read a couple articles about the museum renovation that were not as detailed as this one. I agree with the others who have posted here – I think it’s good and I think the church is sincere in being more open. I understand why they can’t just dump it all out on the table (don’t dump all at once! :thumbup: ) and I think they are doing things the right way.

I just visited the museum in August, I think it was good and look forward to visiting an even better one.

There is an excellent interview on By Common Consent about the museum and the upcoming changes. I recommend it to everyone:

“Interview: The Church History Museum” (http://bycommonconsent.com/2014/09/27/interview-the-church-history-museum/)

I belong to one of those closed facebook groups for believing spouses, and sadly a whole bunch of tree’s fell in the forest and no one heard them crash. Many of the believing spouses feel very robbed. For years they have held a faith that the church had been open, honest, etc. As of yesterday many of those spouses began a journey they weren’t expecting. I really do feel for the church on this.

I do hope some healing between divided generations can happen. I hope stalwart believers will gain a place of empathy for the non-believers or lost believers. I hope the church rolls out a caring plan to train wards and stakes how to navigate this on the local level. I hear whispers of ideas in conference talks, but we have been spoon fed for so long, that it would be in the leaderships best interests to make a proactive approach to addressing the divide. – As usual they haven’t called to get my opinion, so this could take longer than I want. Darn it.

This is where practicing our religion comes into play, learning to love and have charity and be open to seeing the Lord’s way.

The information is what it is. It is rolled out the way the leaders have chosen to handle it.

But there is no way they can spoon feed us. We have to process things through the lens of the true gospel.

Non-believers will point and say “See, we told you this stuff.”

Believers will point and say “See, the church is not hiding stuff.”

Some people will be surprised and wished it was released sooner or handled differently. Some spouses who dug their heels in and trusted their version of the church’s position may learn they over reacted or over compensated to visceral reactions from their non-believing spouses who were in Stage 4 and over reacted with anger and accusations.

As the dust settles, some will settle back to Stage 3 confident the church will guide them but hopefully have more compassion and a broader view of things, some will remain stage 4 in pain wishing more was done or not trusting anything, and hopefully some will find a way to move to stage 5 where they see it differently and accept multiple views are valid, whether in or out of the church.

The church has invested in a lot of museums and buildings and teachings. This is a good thing to include the things in the essays to get info out there if they want any credibility in the things they’ve invested in.

Good move. Really excited to see this.

Since I don’t live close to SLC, I hope to hear from some of you who visit the museum… to get the take of my StayLDS brothers and sisters.

Ditto. Not sure if we will be doing the Utah summer trip.