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A few months back Dark Jedi started a conversation about his local leaderships concern over people using technology during church. I totally get the concern. Facebook is appealing. Today though I had a good chuckle at the irony the church has. During Sacrament meeting the Bishop explained that the ward would no longer be printing end of the year donation slips. If members needed one for tax purposes they could print their own from LDS.org. The Bishop said it was to cut back on unnecessary printing and busy work.
In RS today we were introduced to the Howard W. Hunter lessons. Before the lesson we were told that the ward only ordered a dozen paper versions, and encouraged us to use the online version.
So here’s the gig, don’t bring distractions to church, leave that part of your technology at home. Facebook, NFL Sunday, etc. No need. But please bring your LDS.org section.
I’m all for leaving all that technology at home . I like my regular scriptures not the ones on a phone !! I was disappointed to see the church go away from priesthood manuals etc etc etc . I think they should stay with the old stuff hard copy and so forth . I see several people on their phone texting during sacrament and it really chaps my hide if you know what I mean . Or better yet people at the branch Christmas party texting each other talking about others at the party !!! I thought maybe since we are not printing priesthood manuals or end of year tithing slips we would save enough to bring back custodians !!!! I am obviously in Mom’s camp on this one, and I do see the irony. The biggest irony of all is that if the church doesn’t want us to use the digital versions of manuals, scriptures, etc., then why do they publish them? Why are key lesson segments for youth Sunday School digital if we’re not supposed to use it at church? Even the Sabbath Day training stuff is all digital (some of which is now available on LDS.org BTW). FWIW, my ward did print tithing statements, although we do have the capability of doing it at home (I’m not sure it’s widely known it can be done through your LDS.org account.) We are encouraged to use digital manuals, though, to save money ordering hard copies. I’m fine with that – our pre-digital hard copies are gathering dust at the moment.
I like the convenience of using a tablet during the classes. It is easier to flip to the scripture references & other books in my library & back to the lesson again. I don’t know how to text & won’t learn.
DarkJedi wrote:The biggest irony of all is that if the church doesn’t want us to use the digital versions of manuals, scriptures, etc., then why do they publish them? Why are key lesson segments for youth Sunday School digital if we’re not supposed to use it at church? Even the Sabbath Day training stuff is all digital (some of which is now available on LDS.org BTW).
This is a bit of a tangent, but I hope the pendulum is at its extreme and about to swing to the middle on church videos and broadcasts. But this is coming from someone who doesn’t like that we go into the temple and stare at a big screen TV. I think that often the iPad video clips in lessons aren’t very effective. Half the time the time spent struggling to get it running isn’t worth what the content adds to the discussion. I also don’t like going to big stake meetings and watching whatever screen makes my neck hurt the least. Sometimes while watching those people talk, I’m chuted into another video. I start wondering how much it all costs. Why we can do this, but the thought of improving or replacing the hymnal – Whoa!!! Wayyyy too expensive.I think it is huge strength of LDS culture that we run our own meetings, express our own thoughts, that we do it from a young age, in different settings, etc. The more time spent looking at screens, the less time there is for that.
All that said, I think it’s great to save trees with digital manuals.
Can the same thing be said for sites like this? Where we communicate to each other anonymously. We don’t always know if we are being understood in the process.
I like the advancements in technology. I don’t like the impersonal part of it sometimes.
With the topics we discuss, anonymity is important. A balance has to be struck sometimes.
MM – All very true, and thanks for the thoughts. (I’m in a bit of a pre-area-meeting-broadcast bad mood.)
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