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Can anybody tell me anything about https://discover.mormon.org/https://discover.mormon.org/” class=”bbcode_url”> https://www.mormon.org/ ?When I went to the bottom of the page and clicked on their Legal link, it states it is affiliated with Mormon.org I’m pretty sure it is an official LDS site. The way the Internet names work, by default Mormon.org would own anything “to the left of it”. So the church allowed it to be used. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Thanks. Parts of it just looked a little “suspicious” to me. There are a series of little videos that just seem to be a bit amateurish and the voice of the speaker is just not at all what I’ve come to expect in a Mormon video. Also, there are a bunch of little “quizzes” to see how “knowledgeable” you are. It just didn’t sit well with me, but I guess it’s all on the up and up. Katzpur wrote:Thanks. Parts of it just looked a little “suspicious” to me. There are a series of little videos that just seem to be a bit amateurish and the voice of the speaker is just not at all what I’ve come to expect in a Mormon video. Also, there are a bunch of little “quizzes” to see how “knowledgeable” you are. It just didn’t sit well with me, but I guess it’s all on the up and up.
“Suspicious” in the same way of the essays being on lds.org gospel topics?😆 I actually like the basic teachings listed there and how nearly all of them are phrased. I don’t agree 100% with all of them, but I like the list much better than many other lists that could have been included instead. Seriously, this is a huge improvement over what I expected and what I have seen in the past.
Now that I have a chance to look at it, it has the meet the Mormon’s feel. And they are doing market research! It had a pop-up that says “do you want to chat with ministers?” I am fairly sure that most Mormons would have said, “do you want to chat with missionaries?” And of course this is true. Missionaries are set apart as ordained ministers. I know we used that trump card (eww – bad term to use these days – need to think of a better one) when on my mission and we wanted to see someone after-hours in a hospital. Most of the kids going on missions in my ward are headed to Brazil lately. I have heard that it is a real issue getting them visas and they only call people that have gone to 4 years of seminary (and passed). Otherwise Brazil tends to say, “Those are not ministers, they are just eager late-aged teenagers.”
I wonder if the sisters are considered ordained ministers.
LookingHard wrote:I wonder if the sisters are considered ordained ministers.
Yes, they have to meet the same seminary requirement (which is not unique to Brazil but some countries don’t require the full 4 years) but they don’t have to have a certificate of ordination. I suppose they could equate them to nuns vs. priests in Catholicism.
There is a large Protestant presence in Brazil .. As well as the native/Africanized religions. Women as ministers wouldn’t be a problem.
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