harmony wrote:It will now be at least another 10 years before they even consider the idea.
40.
Exodus 16 wrote:2. And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness 35. And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
harmony wrote:The older generation will die off, and then we may see some changes.
It happened faster in the era of Moses... They didn't even wash their hands. There were no bacteria in the Book.
And there is no manna. Only Mc~ things.
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
Sources from within the COB have confirmed to me that after several months of heated pressure from activists and outsiders alike, the church will finally allow a woman to give a prayer at conference. In addition to the closing prayer of the first session, a woman will also be permitted to give the opening prayer of the closing session.
I cannot and will not reveal my source in this matter, but it may also drop soon in the SL Trib, though the church is being careful with how they make the information available, as they wish to avoid as best they can any connections to the recent feminists movements calling for change.
Sources from within the COB have confirmed to me that after several months of heated pressure from activists and outsiders alike, the church will finally allow a woman to give a prayer at conference. In addition to the closing prayer of the first session, a woman will also be permitted to give the opening prayer of the closing session.
I cannot and will not reveal my source in this matter, but it may also drop soon in the SL Trib, though the church is being careful with how they make the information available, as they wish to avoid as best they can any connections to the recent feminists movements calling for change.
I really hope this is true. If the church lets women pray in Conference, that will make for two positive, visible changes in favor of women in the past year (letting sisters serve missions at age 19 being the other one).
I don't think the church should be ashamed of ties to the recent feminist movements. Faithful members pointed out an arbitrary and sexist policy. If the church listens and changes that policy, it will be a good thing, not a bad.
However, I'm going to exercise skepticism towards these rumors until I actually see it.
"It seems to me that these women were the head (κεφάλαιον) of the church which was at Philippi." ~ John Chrysostom, Homilies on Philippians 13
Sources from within the COB have confirmed to me that after several months of heated pressure from activists and outsiders alike, the church will finally allow a woman to give a prayer at conference. In addition to the closing prayer of the first session, a woman will also be permitted to give the opening prayer of the closing session.
I cannot and will not reveal my source in this matter, but it may also drop soon in the SL Trib, though the church is being careful with how they make the information available, as they wish to avoid as best they can any connections to the recent feminists movements calling for change.
I really hope this is true. If the church lets women pray in Conference, that will make for two positive, visible changes in favor of women in the past year (letting sisters serve missions at age 19 being the other one).
I don't think the church should be ashamed of ties to the recent feminist movements. Faithful members pointed out an arbitrary and sexist policy. If the church listens and changes that policy, it will be a good thing, not a bad.
However, I'm going to exercise skepticism towards these rumors until I actually see it.
This would be yet another example of activism in society leading to change within the Church. The Church is between a rock and a hard place: Rock. Don't make changes as a result of societal pressures and activism within the Church and the Church becomes more and more a fringe cult with less and less membership. Hard Place. Do make changes as a result of societal pressures and activism with the Church and the Church is seen to be progressive, but also subconsciously is conceding that social pressure and activism is the way to get things changed in the Church.
God has worked Himself into a difficult position. He needs to get ahead of the social and scientific development curves before He gets labelled "a follower of fashion".
That said, with the Book of Mormon, we are not dealing with a civilization with no written record. What we are dealing with is a written record with no civilization. (Runtu, Feb 2015)