Stuff That Has Been Hanging Around

Posted by: John Schroeder at 09:46 am, October 11th 2008 — Comment on this post »

WOW! I checked the files and there was some stuff in there that we had neglected to pass on. What can I say? Here it is:

From the semi-annual LDS conference:

Mormons should never respond with arrogance or hostility to attacks on their faith, but be peacemakers among themselves and in the community of faith, said several speakers at the 178th Semiannual LDS General Conference on Sunday.

“More regrettable than the [LDS] Church being accused of not being Christian is when church members react to such accusations in an un-Christlike way,” Apostle Robert D. Hales said on the second day of the two-day conference. “Surely our Heavenly Father is saddened – and the devil laughs – when we contentiously debate doctrinal differences with our Christian neighbors.”

I think a few of my co-religionists need to hear some of that message.

McCain and Evangelicals. Not a pretty picture and it explains a lot about what is going on this cycle.

This would probably tear a Protestant church in two, or three, or four. (In fact it is, see the Episcopalians and my Presbyterians.) Fortunately, Roman Catholics are a bit more robust than us.

What can I say? I grew up in Indianapolis and I’m a Colts fan, so this link is a must.

Richard John Neuhaus reminds:

To contend for the free exercise of religion is to contend for the perpetuation of a nation that is, in Lincoln’s words, “so conceived and so dedicated.” It is to contend for the hope “that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” Despite the perverse jurisprudence of recent decades, most Americans still say with the Founders, “We hold these truths.” And, with the Founders, they understand those truths to be inseparably tied to religion, both in their origin and in their continuing power to elicit assent.