Calling all Christian writers!

Deseret News National ^

[binowski]

The Deseret News National Edition fills a void in the American media landscape through rigorous journalism for family- and faith-oriented audiences. Representing more than half of all U.S. news readers, this segment is consistently underserved by newsrooms that either overlook or do not report on readers' core values.

[Elsie]

The only stipulations are that the articles are written positively (with at least a basic acceptance of faith traditions other than your own), and are written clearly and concisely.

I'm sorry; but Jesus said I am the Way...".

I follow Him.

He did NOT have "a basic acceptance of faith traditions other than His own" and I can see why.

The LDS religious organization sure doesn't!

I've yet to see any disavowment of the QUOTES of early MORMONs leaders:

 

 

Orson Pratt proclaimed: "Both Catholics and Protestants are nothing less than the 'whore of Babylon' whom the Lord denounces by the mouth of John the Revelator as having corrupted all the earth by their fornications and wickedness. Any person who shall be so corrupt as to receive a holy ordinance of the Gospel from the ministers of any of these apostate churches will be sent down to hell with them, unless they repent" (The Seer, p. 255).

 

 

When will Monson or any of the 12 or the 70 proclaim that Pratt was wrong, Wrong, WRONG!!! here?

[Elsie]

Gee; thanks!

Yet another bright-eyed BIC TBM to contend with!

[Elsie]

You at least appear to be a real person!

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[binowski]

We will not allow any articles that speak badly of any other person, family or faith. Jesus always preached love and acceptance, especially for sinners.

[binowski]

Since when did valuing the voices and opinions of other people and believers become “trolling for readers”? Your logic confuses me.

[binowski]

Many popular religious texts cannot be proven or disproven. That’s why it’s called faith.

Critical evaluation of any religion or text is fine, but it completely misses the point about why people do or do not believe.

[binowski]

I would like to respond to this with an anecdote I heard in one of my favorite sermons from Steven Furtick at Elevation Church (but which I’ve found elsewhere since then):

There was a Christian lady who lived next door to an atheist. Everyday, when the lady prayed, the atheist guy could hear her. He thought to himself, “She sure is crazy, praying all the time like that. Doesn’t she know there isn’t a God?”

Many times while she was praying, he would go to her house and harass her, saying “Lady, why do you pray all the time? Don’t you know there is no God?” But she kept on praying.

One day, she ran out of groceries. As usual, she was praying to the Lord explaining her situation and thanking Him for what He was gonna do.

AS USUAL, the atheist heard her praying and thought to himself. “Hmph . . .I’ll fix her.”

He went to the grocery store, bought a whole bunch of groceries, took them to her house, dropped them off on the front porch, rang the door bell and then hid in the bushes to see what she would do. When she opened the door and saw the groceries, she began to praise the Lord with all her heart, jumping, singing and shoutin’ everywhere!

The atheist then jumped out of the bushes and told her, “You ol’crazy lady, God didn’t buy you those groceries, I bought those groceries!”

Well, she broke out and started running down the street, shouting and praising the Lord. When he finally caught her, he asked what her problem was . . .

She said, “I knew the Lord would provide me with some groceries, but I didn’t know he was gonna make the devil pay for them!”

Sometimes God uses the enemy to accomplish his good works.

[binowski]

“Christians should witness to them, not pretend they are fellow Christians.”

How can you witness to Mormons if you do not first interact with them?

“Deseret might let a Christian write about how special Christ is, but I rather doubt they will allow a Christian to actually share the gospel with their Mormon readers.”

Please show me your proof that someone on my team has personally denied you the freedom to do that on our national site.

[binowski]

True Christians follow the example of Jesus Christ, who preached love and acceptance for all.

[binowski]

“Sometimes the phobia that one might, somehow, sin can become so paralyzing that a mighty door for a simple testimony is simply ignored.”

There’s a powerful opportunity now for you to bear your Christian testimony to a Mormon community. Do you accept the opportunity because there is lots of possibility, or decline it because there is lots of fear?

Your choice.

[binowski]

It includes a thoughtful, well-researched and level-headed analysis on why people believe what they believe — as well as the effects such things have on others.

[binowski]

Let me ask Jesus. Then, I’ll get back to you.

[binowski]

I am, and that is me!!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Yes... to see this dismissed out of hand is to watch something that is more arrogance than gospel oriented. As if Christ went on the Cross with His disdainful nose pointed high in the air. Now maybe the Deseret News will insist on truncating or distorting the message, in which case one would have no other choice but to bow out. But we really don’t know.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

"We will not allow any articles that speak badly of any other person, family or faith."

Really? Even though the Apostle Paul spoke very harshly about heretics?
Really? Even though the Apostle Peter spoke very harshly about heretics?

"And I will keep on doing what I am doing in order to cut the ground from under those who want an opportunity to be considered equal with us in the things they boast about. For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve. 2 Corinthians 11:11-13

"Jesus always preached love and acceptance, especially for sinners."

Really? Even though this same Jesus will slay His enemies with the breath of His mouth as His first act when he returns??

Please just admit that this is simply a ploy to promote mormonism and place it on equal footing with Christianity?

“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves ... For such are FALSE apostles, DECEITFUL workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.” (Matthew 7:15; 2nd Corinthians 11:13).

 

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[.45 Long Colt]

If Deseret would like to give me a platform to compare and contrast Christianity and Mormonism, please forgive me.

[.45 Long Colt]

“How can you witness to Mormons if you do not first interact with them?”

I have two good Mormon friends and even some Mormon relatives. In fact, I even dated one years ago. So of course I believe Christians should interact with Mormons on a personal basis. But that’s far different from forging alliances and becoming unequally yoked in the biblical sense.

Also, Christians must be mindful that at one time (back when I dated a Mormon), Mormons drew a stark line between themselves and evangelical Christians. Somewhere along the way they changed their marketing strategy. Today they seek legitimacy as fellow believers. Christians cannot give that to them. Not to be mean, but for the sake of the gospel. Mormonism is wholly incompatible with biblical Christianity.

[CynicalBear]

>>True Christians follow the example of Jesus Christ, who preached love and acceptance for all.<<

That is pure nonsense. Jesus did NOT teach "basic acceptance of faith traditions others".

[Alex Murphy]

Since when did valuing the voices and opinions of other people and believers

Since when did the Church of Jesus Christ, Latter-Day Saints, the creation of Joseph Smith and full-owner of the Deseret News, ever "value the voices and opinions of other people and believers"? If the foundational "vision" of the parent organization states otherwise, why would the child organization believe differently, except as a ruse to gain something else in return?

I was answered that I must join none of them, for they were all wrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those professors were all corrupt; that: “they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me , they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof .”
-- Joseph Smith's "First Vision", verse 19, taken from History of the [LDS] Church, Vol. 1, Chapters 1-5

[roamer_1]

We will not allow any articles that speak badly of any other person, family or faith. Jesus always preached love and acceptance, especially for sinners.

So in other words, pap. Touchy-feely, plastic banana pap.

I think you are in the wrong forum. You need to go find the One World Religion folks.