Thanks for posting this. While you’re welcome to email me at mormon heretic at gmail dot com, I think this is a perfect place for the link. I listened to only the first 5 minutes, but judging from that, I may have to write my own transcript of his talk. It sounds very interesting, and I definitely want to take time to listen to the whole thing. It could be a future post! Thanks. (And I don’t mind resurrecting old topics either, especially if you have something valuable to add such as this link.)

On the subject of consecration (again, one of my favorites), I offer a link to a talk from the 2008 Sperry Symposium. Not sure if you’ve seen this before. It could have just as well been entitled “The Law of Consecration for the 21st Century” and takes the same approach as I have, although more thoroughly and eloquently. Thought you might enjoy.

http://www.byub.org/talks/Talk.aspx?id=3416

Therein lies the difficulty in looking around and surmising that no one is living it today. This is further complicated by the fact that even in a Zionist / United Order society, all members wouldn’t have the same stuff or even live at the same level of “luxury” (for lack of a better term). Individual adaptation applies based on varying needs, wants, personal taste, etc. That last part has a good portion of my opinion in it, but it is based on all that I have read on the subject. Even in a United Order situation, I wouldn’t care that my neighbor had a boat because I’m not really that into them anyway…but I’m sure I’d be able to borrow it as often as I wanted. : )

…Again, the Law of Consecration goes much deeper than the temporal.

I get your point that we don’t need a formal program to live the law of consecration, but in reality, I think without a formal program, nobody would do it. Even Mother Teresa took a vow of poverty as part of a Catholic Order of Nuns, which is a formal program. Every once in a while you will hear about someone who gives out $100 bills in a secret Santa way–I suppose this could be considered a form of consecration, but this is a rare exception, and only happens to a person late in life–it’s rarely a lifelong way of life to live this way.

FireTag, I would like to get into King Benjamin’s frame of mind about giving–that would be pretty cool. (And I would have picked Mario Lemieux or Sidney Crosby over Alex Ovechkin–but you’re probably picking a local hockey star over a national one…)

I want to get to the point where I always feel, “How much do I get to give?” and mean it with the kind of joy Alex Ovechkin would show if you asked him how many goals he got to score. (hockey note to MH and FD!)