[Jeff Head]

Interesting article by a female Episcopal Priest who visited an Open House for the new LDS Temple in Liberty, Missouri.

[Jeff Head]

Interesting, nice artcicle by this Episopal woman about a new LDS Temple in Missouri.

Very fair and even handed artcile about her experience.

Glad to see this, it is a representation of how so many others view the LDS faith that we rarely get to see here.

Hope it can stand here on nits own merit without being absolutely assaulted as if though it is sime kind of infectious disease.

[svcw]

PR at its best, as always thanks Jeff.

[NEMDF]

Isn’t there a statistic like only 15% of practicing LDS can actually enter the temples after they are dedicated? I know someone who was not allowed to attend his son’s wedding, because it was in a temple. This does not seem to be a very kind act to exclude someone’s parents from attending the weddings of their children.

[the invisib1e hand]

a woman episcopal priest walks into a mormon temple...

[lurk]

2 Cor. 11:14-15

[colorcountry]

Wouldn’t it be great if that Episcopal Priest was allowed inside during actual Temple ordinances - just to see how special they are?

[MHGinTN]

Yes, to a dead soul, the article appears 'interesting'. But if this female actually knew her Bible she would not make statements like the following. Jeff, see if you can discern where she is off the mark:

Mormons go to temples to be close to God. Much like the ancient Jewish people believed God lived at the heart of the temple in Jerusalem, Mormons believe that followers can meet God most intimately in the temple.

Since you are a Mormon, an LDS trained 'high priset' perhsaps you couldn't catch the error. We'll see. I'll be back later to reveal it if you can't figure it out ... and it is not a Mormon put down, I'll expose the lack of aliveness in the writer.

[iowamark]

I think that she is an expert on more than one kind of spinning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle_Elizabeth_Tumminio
“”Danielle Elizabeth Tumminio is a priest, theologian, a certified life coach and spinning instructor, and the author of ‘God and Harry Potter at Yale: Teaching Faith and Fantasy Fiction in an Ivy League Classroom’...””

[Jeff Head]

FYI. A good article about the LDS faith and the new LDS Liberty, Missouri Temple by a woman Episcopal Priest who went through the open house there.

[Utah Girl]

Thanks for posting. I look forward to the Brigham City temple open house in August.

[Zakeet]

If the people [of Missouri] come on us to molest us, we will establish our religion by the sword. We will trample down our enemies and make it one gore of blood from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean. I will be to this generation a second Mohammed, whose motto in treating for peace was ‘the Quran or the Sword.’ So shall it eventually be with us – Joseph Smith or the Sword – History of the Church, Vol. 3, p. 167.

From the article: As I stood in front of the new Mormon Temple in Liberty, Mo., it struck me as ironic that close to 175 years ago, Mormons were forced out of this same state.

Considering that, according to their indictment, Smith, Rigdon and other Mormon leaders committed "treason, murder, arson, burglary, robbery, larceny, and perjury" and were ordered held without bail until they escaped from custody by bribing the sheriff with $850 and a keg of whiskey, it is not especially ironic that many believe that the Mormons forced themselves out of Missouri.

Considering that Joseph laid the cornerstone of his temple in Independence, Missouri, and prophesied that it would be the site of the Second Coming of Christ, it is indeed ironic that the Latter-Day Saints would give up and build the new Mormon Temple in Liberty, Missouri ... especially considering that vacant building sites are available in nearby Far West, Missouri and Adam-ondi-Ahman, Missouri ... both of which are also sites where Joseph prophesied that Mormon temples would be built within his lifetime and would be scenes of the Second Coming ... sometime before 1891.

[ejonesie22]

Female Episcopal Priest...

Pretty much stopped reading there, the kymbaya all paths are equal bit was sure to follow....

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Jeff, If you enjoyed Danielle's article about the mormonic temple, you might also really like some of her other blog posts, where she writes at the Huffingon Post...

[Elsie]

As I stood in front of the new Mormon Temple in Liberty, Mo., it struck me as ironic that close to 175 years ago, Mormons were forced out of this same state. such bad neighbors that they ran for their lives after the locals finally got fed up with their shenanigans!

[Elsie]

Latter Day Saints restrict temple access to members of their denomination who have proven themselves to be faithful and dedicated adherents.

Sadly; it's only those who will ever get to live where 'god' dwells: a mere 15-20% of the membership.

'Forever Families' will be split apart; some just because they lied about eating meat during warm weather.

[stpio]

“Would I feel God’s presence in this space, even though it’s not a space that’s sacred for me?”

from the article...

I can answer, NO!!! God is not present in this crazy
sect. Absolutely not. Pray for the LDS and the RLDS,
their split to convert to to the true faith.

The title should tell you, two falsehoods, Female
Episcopal Priest and Mormon Temple.

[dragonblustar]

Female Episcopal Priest

Liberal and most likely gay....