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Old-Timer wrote:
I don’t want the top leadership sending out messages to be read from the pulpit about silly little things like this – or have them addressed in General Conference explicitly. Pres. Uchtdorf telling us to stop obsessing over cultural details equals teaching principles. That’s all I want. I like that the Church is moving away from pulpit announcements about everything.
Otoh, I have no problem with the Church using a PR Department to craft statements that, hopefully, will say things the right way for non-believers. We don’t tend to be very good at that, and I’d rather have something phrased in common-speak than Mormonese for an “outside” audience.
At first I thought there was a new announcement about caffeine….but now I realize not. All they were doing was correcting inaccuracies in the tv show. I don’t mind the PR department doing this…there was nothing new here for the person who has studied the LDS version of the gospel. So I guess I agree with Ray on this one.
turinturambar wrote:So I guess the “StayLDS” question is:
When the idealist in me wants the Church to act like a religion, how do I make peace with its corporate behavior?
Yeah … I was perhaps a shade too snarky above. How I resolve this: I mostly try to ignore that nonsense. I decide what is right or wrong in my practice of the Word of Wisdom. I already know and have a “testimony” of my list of do’s and don’ts. It doesn’t really matter much what the PR dept says. I can figure it out on my own already.
Probably where this becomes most prominent is in arguments with OTHER Mormons about the Word of Wisdom. People are very sure of the prohibitions they place on everyone else
Again, I ignore them. I accept that others want to avoid caffeine in their practice, or think they should not drink coke or whatever. Fine. Power to ’em! Just leave me alone about it.
My wife was refered to the following link on facebook. As a recent (this decade) BYU grad she was adamant that the prohibition against serving caffienated beverage at BYU was not due to student body preferences.
I also came across this other story on the same topic with a survey attached. Surprise! Surprise! 34% of the respondends still say that it is NOT ok to drink caffiene with another 11% undecided.
http://ldsliving.com/story/70005-did-the-lds-church-officially-ok-caffeine What’s that phrase that Cwald says about listening to their own prophets …er….PR dept….er….whatever.
:crazy: turinturambar wrote:I am anti-corporate, and even anti-capitalist. I don’t want to be a volunteer for a corporation. I want to be a disciple of Christ. I want to be an acolyte for a holy mystery. I want to be a priest in a kingdom of priests. I want to be swept up in something deeply moving and spiritual. And lately, I’m not getting those things from the Church. It makes me sad.
Ditto….
I can get really excited about the scriptures, I can get excited reading church history (currently reading Teryl Givens bio of Parley P. Pratt)…but the church, the corporate church never excites me, rather it gives me a feeling of weariness. But then I remember that discipleship, or 90% of it, is weariness, and that I must keep plugging away anyway. But still I long for something different, something real, authentic, rather than the PR we get today.
Good post on Wheat and Tares today about all this brew-haha. Roy wrote:My wife was refered to the following link on facebook.
As a recent (this decade) BYU grad she was adamant that the prohibition against serving caffienated beverage at BYU was not due to student body preferences.
I also came across this other story on the same topic with a survey attached. Surprise! Surprise! 34% of the respondends still say that it is NOT ok to drink caffiene with another 11% undecided.
http://ldsliving.com/story/70005-did-the-lds-church-officially-ok-caffeine What’s that phrase that Cwald says about listening to their own prophets …er….PR dept….er….whatever.
:crazy: Yeah. Something like that.
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