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Not at this time, technically. I wish it was, and that “Priesthood Session” would be called the “General Men’s Session”, but it isn’t considered to be currently. Quote:
Something nice happened today in church that goes along with what you’re saying Ray. I went to sacrament meeting today but in a different ward. The sacrament hymn was Reverently and Meekly Now, which I really love. And the thought came to me that maybe all of the messy history of the church and irritating, unfair things people say and do are perhaps not worth all the anguish and perhaps it’s just mostly a bunch of noise that I need to try to tune out. Not that the words and actions aren’t painful, but maybe God is hoping I can look past the hurt and still find Him and let go of some of the other stuff that in the end isn’t as important as learning to love and forgive. It’s hard to explain but at the time it was very liberating. I get angry with the leaders when they put policies before people, but maybe I’m doing the same thing by obsessing so much about them and other details instead of on Christ.Haven – “like”
:thumbup: Quote:Well, it’s now my the front page of the SlTrib web page It just makes the church look bad. When will they learn?
Never, since the approach is to try to get rid of the Trib and make the DN the only “news” paper in Utah. So much easier to silence dissent and diversity than to deal with the fact that not everyone is served by the same approach.
For some reason I was surprised that the church would deliberately demote the women’s meeting after it was identified as a part of Gen Conf in the talks. It seemed to me a very simple change to show women that they are valued and matter. Obviously not. It’s far too important to show women that they really aren’t part of this church.
A more generous interpretation of this change than I am able to render:
http://bycommonconsent.com/2014/10/12/kurosawas-guidebook-to-the-bureaucratic-church/#more-52692 Initially I also thought Pres. Uchtdorf’s pronouncement another small step in the right direction. In retrospect, perhaps he went a bit rogue. The following support Elder Uchtdorf – Quote:2014—In March, the Church held a general women’s meeting including girls eight years and older that replaced the annual general Relief Society and general Young Women meetings. At the meeting in September, it was announced that the general women’s meeting was the first session of the semiannual general conference.
https://www.lds.org/church/news/20-memorable-events-in-general-conference-history?lang=eng It’s the hokey-pokey, folks. Obviously not everyone got the memo. I wonder who got what memo. :angel: I just dropped by to say:
You put your General Women’s Meeting in
You take your General Women’s Meeting out
You put your General Women’s Meeting in
And you shake it all about
Notice that the final state of the General Women’s Meeting is “in” but be warned that it gets shaken vigorously afterwards.
I’m glad lds.org says it that way. I’ll take that as authoritative and hold future references to that standard moving forward. We’ll see, but isn’t that the final word people here want?
Fwiw, I don’t want the General Women’s Conference to become one of the General Conference sessions. I want the Priesthood Session to become the General Men’s Conference (on a different weekend), and I want the General Relief Society President to preside at the General Women’s Conference.
I want General Conference to be solely “general” instruction to the “general” membership.
Makes sense. It would be nice to see the GRSP preside over the general women’s conference. I’ve often wished that the …general men’s conference… was on a different weekend. Anything to make the conference less of an event that consumes an entire weekend. Heck, I’d love to see a move to just two conference sessions. One Saturday. One Sunday. Done. Do we really need four talks on follow the prophet when we could probably get by with just two?
:angel: Sorry for the thread jack.
FWIW, I want General Conference to be less than 8 hours long. Amen, hawkgrrrl! Yeah, I wouldn’t fight that at all. nibbler wrote:Makes sense. It would be nice to see the GRSP preside over the general women’s conference.I’ve often wished that the …general men’s conference… was on a different weekend. Anything to make the conference less of an event that consumes an entire weekend. Heck, I’d love to see a move to just two conference sessions. One Saturday. One Sunday. Done. Do we really need four talks on follow the prophet when we could probably get by with just two? Sorry for the thread jack.
I like conference weekend just fine because it means church is cancelled and I get a much needed reprieve from my calling.
Although… if they moved general men’s conference to a different weekend… do you suppose they might cancel church on that weekend too?
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