CoC Independence Temple at Sunset
All trip long, I have been looking forward to attending the Community of Christ Devotional at the Independence Temple. The meeting began at 8:30 AM, and was a wonderful hour of singing and spoken word. Professor Alex Baugh of BYU, and Apostle Susan Skoor of the Community of Christ
CoC Apostle Susan Skoor
gave background on many hymns written or revised by WW Phelps. It was a truly inspiring meeting. I haven’t enjoyed singing that much since I was in the MTC!
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John Hamer, Mike Karpowicz, and Vickie Cleverly Speck gave a very interesting history of the Strangite movement. What’s a Strangite you say? Speck filled in many details: she said that James Strang was baptized into the LDS church just 4 months prior to the death of Joseph Smith. Strang claims to have a letter from Joseph Smith making him the new leader of the LDS movement, and claims to been visited by Smith at the moment of Smith’s death. An angel later anointed Strang with oil as the new prophet. Amazingly, Strang counted many of the Smith family (including Joseph’s brother William) as followers, and other prominent members, such as Martin Harris.
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It’s the pits when you have to choose between sessions, and I made a difficult choice in the morning. I had wanted to attend Kathleen Flake’s session on LDS Adoption Theology, but instead attended Ken Ballentine’s documentary, Trouble in Zion. (Saints Herald has already blogged about it, and there is a Facebook page. I also mentioned that I wanted to see it from the LDS Film Festival earlier this year.)
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I thought I’d give a quick rundown of my first day here at the Mormon History Association meetings here in Independence, Missouri, and tell you of some of the cool people I’ve met here. The first activity we had was to go to the Harry S Truman Library. I didn’t realize President Truman grew up in Independence, Missouri. I enjoyed going to the museum and meeting several people there. As I have learned more people on the bloggernacle and Mormon history, I recognized Emily Jensen of the Mormon Times. As I introduced myself to her, I was surprised to learn than she had read my brief blog post from yesterday. I had just posted it a few hours prior, and she told me that she knew that Mormon Heretic was here at MHA, and she was hoping to meet me! I was really surprised when she told me that she reads my blog regularly.
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It’s been a busy week. Last week, Summer semester started, and I am teaching 2 online math classes at the local community college, so I apologize for no post on Sunday. I am currently in Kansas City, Missouri for the Mormon History Association meetings over the next few days, so I hope to make up for the past week. On my way in to register, I ran into Lavinia Fielding Anderson and Elder Marlin K Jensen. They were very pleasant to meet with, and I look forward to giving you some more updates following the opening session tonight. Stay tuned! (I plan to attend a devotional on Sunday morning at the Community of Christ temple in Independence.) If anyone else is here, please let me know your comments too.
Ok, I did some blog changes recently, and now I have a plugin so you can read my blog much easier on your mobile phone. I used the MobilePress plugin (see this page for more info). I’m also looking for a good widget or plug in so I can be notified when someone makes a new post on their blog. I’ve missed a few on the Faithful Dissident‘s blog, and I’d like to prevent that in the future. It’s too hard to visit all my favorite blogs, and I need some sort of widget to help be out. Any ideas? (Also feel free to post other cool widgets and plugins here.) My last post on mobilefeeds was a dud, so I don’t recommend that.
I’ve been having a heated discussion over at Christian Forums. Someone there linked to my article on Theosis. I was a bit nervous, as these types of forums can be not only heated, but strongly biased against our church. I decided to jump into the fray, and while there are some people there with some strong knowledge of ancient church history and the Bible, there are quite a few that seem intent on distorting and misrepresenting LDS theology. So, I don’t really recommend participating there.
I did learn that it’s not just the LDS that are picked on, so at least they have that going for them. When I complained that another person by the handle of Pheobe Ann posted a distorted view of LDS theology, another person there by the handle Skylark said,
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I have to thank Ray for sending me an email with this link from a website called Online Christian Colleges. They listed a post on their blog titled, 50 Best Blogs About Mormon Living. Ray let me and Clean Cut know that our 3 blogs were list. I hope Ray doesn’t mind me sharing his observation:
I have no idea how they came up with this list, but all three of us are on it! (and I like the descriptions of the blogs, which means someone actually has read them closely enough to describe them)
Ray
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