CS Lewis

[blackstrap]

The problem with using sources outside LDS materials is the tendency of humans to follow " given 2.5 cm will take 1.5 km "  rule . First thing you know there are candles on the sacrament table . 😇

[The Nehor]

2 hours ago, bluebell said:

OOO...which groups dislike Lewis??

I’ve run into a few hate sects that can’t stand him. I think my favorite is the one that called him a sexual deviant because the person doesn’t understand metaphor.

The irony is that C.S. Lewis was a sexual deviant in some ways but they couldn’t even be troubled to find the real evidence for it.

[Rain]

5 hours ago, MustardSeed said:

Unfortunately I’m coming up blank on a story.  
All I have ever done at church is teach. Then again there’s not a ton else for women to do anyway so I guess that’s nothing revelatory.

I remember the first time I was asked to teach in my current area. I was 32 and assigned as Gospel doctrine teacher. The bishop called me in and told me he was assigning this to me, and warning me not to get a big head about it. We had just moved inand he didn’t know me well. Obviously there was history and probably a very interesting story there.
 

Having taught seminary, young women, primary, relief Society, Sunday school, the whole gambit I can say confidently that I have been told many times in regular old training sessions to only use LDS resources. I’m surprised that this isn’t more common? I wonder if it was just a thing in my stake for the past 20 years.

Not just your stake.  It was in the front of manuals, both children and adults for decades across multiple types. It was in leadership meetings. Wouldn't be surprised if it was in the CHI as well. 

5 hours ago, MustardSeed said:

 

Incidentally, there’s a long period of time where in my my stake, musical, had to be hymns only.  None of this Mormon pop stuff.  
 

I’ve been purist in both categories, so I tend to notice anything on the outside of those limitations I’ve been instructed on.  
I do of course recognize that there is great material outside of LDS materials.😅

 

 

[MustardSeed]

1 hour ago, Rain said:

ot just your stake.  It was in the front of manuals, both children and adults for decades across multiple types. It was in leadership meetings.

Thank you for validating my experience 

[Calm]

13 hours ago, bluebell said:

This is what the DN said about it-

Since 1971, Lewis has been the most quoted non-Mormon in LDS general conference talks, with 31 references, compared to 20 for Shakespeare.

How long ago was this?  I would be surprised it’s only 31 in 50+ years.  But that probably just because it jumps out for me when it happens.

[MiserereNobis]

11 hours ago, blackstrap said:

The problem with using sources outside LDS materials is the tendency of humans to follow " given 2.5 cm will take 1.5 km "  rule . First thing you know there are candles on the sacrament table . 😇

Not the apostate candles!!

[ZealouslyStriving]

7 hours ago, MiserereNobis said:

Not the apostate candles!!

Incense, menorah, robes with bells all apos... er, Hebrew temple accoutrements.

[3DOP]

On 5/23/2024 at 11:25 AM, The Nehor said:

I thought Shakespeare was the most quoted non-member.

I thought Christ was the most quoted non-member. (Ducking for cover, trying to be funny, Jesse help me, I am in trouble.)

[MiserereNobis]

4 hours ago, 3DOP said:

I thought Christ was the most quoted non-member. (Ducking for cover, trying to be funny, Jesse help me, I am in trouble.)

I got you, brother! I’m calling the Inquisitors!

[The Nehor]

7 hours ago, 3DOP said:

I thought Christ was the most quoted non-member. (Ducking for cover, trying to be funny, Jesse help me, I am in trouble.)

[longview]

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts."