Mormon Matters » Sacrifice http://mormonmatters.org A weekly podcast exploring Mormon culture and current events. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:17:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 2006-2007 dan.wotherspoon@me.com (Mormon Matters) dan.wotherspoon@me.com (Mormon Matters) 1440 http://mormonmatters.org/podcast/MormonMatters144.jpg Mormon Matters http://mormonmatters.org 144 144 http://www.mormonmatters.org/rssmm.xml A weekly podcast exploring Mormon current events, pop culture, politics and spirituality A weekly podcast exploring Mormon current events, pop culture, politics and spirituality mormon, lds Mormon Matters Mormon Matters dan.wotherspoon@me.com no no 29: David Brooks, The Book of Mormon Musical, and Rigorous Religion http://mormonmatters.org/2011/04/27/29-david-brooks-the-book-of-mormon-musical-and-rigorous-religion/ http://mormonmatters.org/2011/04/27/29-david-brooks-the-book-of-mormon-musical-and-rigorous-religion/#comments Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:32:05 +0000 Dan Wotherspoon http://mormonmatters.org/?p=13106 New York Times columnist David Brooks very much enjoyed the Broadway musical “The Book of Mormon,” but, as he articulates in his 21 April 2011 column “Creed or Chaos,” he believes the play’s authors end up celebrating a “vague, uplifting, nondoctrinal” type of religion that can’t last and doesn’t motivate people to perform “heroic acts of service,” such as serving missions to third-world nations. As a result, he uses the musical as a springboard for celebrating the virtues of thriving religions, which he says have “communal theologies, doctrines and codes of conduct rooted in claims of absolute truth.”

In this episode, host Dan Wotherspoon and panelists Joanna Brooks, John Dehlin, and Brian Johnston use Brooks’ column as a springboard for their own dive into many aspects of Mormonism, including both the light and shadow sides of its rigor, demands, and messages (and the ways these messages are communicated), and what contributions any of these have to those who are unsure about staying LDS or others who are seeking ways to engage with the church and fellow members in enjoyable and spiritually healthy ways even though they may be less literalistic or in some other ways  “out of the box” in some of their views.

]]> http://mormonmatters.org/2011/04/27/29-david-brooks-the-book-of-mormon-musical-and-rigorous-religion/feed/ 32 1:27:19 New York Times columnist David Brooks very much enjoyed the Broadway musical “The Book of Mormon,” but, as he articulates in his 21 April 2011 column “Creed or Chaos,” he believes the play’s authors end up celebrating a[...] New York Times columnist David Brooks very much enjoyed the Broadway musical “The Book of Mormon,” but, as he articulates in his 21 April 2011 column “Creed or Chaos,” he believes the play’s authors end up celebrating a “vague, uplifting, nondoctrinal” type of religion that can’t last and doesn’t motivate people to perform “heroic acts of service,” such as serving missions to third-world nations. As a result, he uses the musical as a springboard for celebrating the virtues of thriving religions, which he says have “communal theologies, doctrines and codes of conduct rooted in claims of absolute truth.” In this episode, host Dan Wotherspoon and panelists Joanna Brooks, John Dehlin, and Brian Johnston use Brooks’ column as a springboard for their own dive into many aspects of Mormonism, including both the light and shadow sides of its rigor, demands, and messages (and the ways these messages are communicated), and what contributions any of these have to those who are unsure about staying LDS or others who are seeking ways to engage with the church and fellow members in enjoyable and spiritually healthy ways even though they may be less literalistic or in some other ways  “out of the box” in some of their views. podcast Mormon Matters no no What Would Jesus Buy – Come Confess Your Shopping Sins! http://mormonmatters.org/2008/05/16/what-would-jesus-buy-come-confess-your-shopping-sins/ http://mormonmatters.org/2008/05/16/what-would-jesus-buy-come-confess-your-shopping-sins/#comments Fri, 16 May 2008 22:00:09 +0000 Stephen Wellington http://mormonmatters.org/?p=500 Mickey Mouse is the Anti-Christ!!! :-)

NOW….hold up your credit card to the screen

and lets exercise those demons out of your credit card amen brother….hold it up…come on dont be shy.

Let’s make it a “changelujah”!!!!

Now….it is time for us to confess our shopping sins….I will start…..

I am ashamed….please forgive me Lord….

I bought two Diet Cokes today because I was so tired even though I know In Colombia, workers at Coca-Cola bottling plants have had their safety threatened and even been murdered by Colombian paramilitaries for trying to unionize. I am a sinner…I am going to have a MacDonalds tonight and I am justifying it again because I am tired. And while I write this my car is in the University Car Park clocking up $2 an hour when I could have parked it 15 minutes walk away for free…..Please forgive me my shopping sins. Let me have the courage to change and break my addiction to chocolate, WalMart, computer and my cell-phone. Give me courage to come to you and let go Lord. :-)

NOW YOUR TURN EVERYONE!

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