Gridiron Glory

Total Page:16

File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb

Gridiron Glory Los Angeles County Edition Vol. 23, No. 7 July 2012 www.christianexaminer.com Education Cal Thomas Community Christian home-education The media’s Promise Keepers FREE association equips families religion defi cit coming to San Diego page 2 page 5 page 11 Bah, humbug Six-decade Santa Monica Christmas tradition nixed by City Council By Lori Arnold era when I was a boy. We had our Christmas program in the public SANTA MONICA — The days school with readings from the New are long gone when grade-school- Testament and Christmas carols. ers celebrated Christmas with Nobody seemed to think anything construction paper garlands and about it. That was just the accepted colorful pageants in their school way, and now the pendulum has auditoriums. That’s why Hunter swung in a very bad direction.” Jameson so enjoyed the annual Na- This Christmas, for the fi rst tivity display bordering Palisades time since 1953, there will be no Park on a bluff above the ocean. Nativity in Palisades Park after the “The Nativity scenes date from the ’50s,” he said. “That was the See NATIVITY, page 13 PHOTO BY ANTHONY AMORTEGUY NFL quarterback Tim Tebow throws a toy football into the stands before taking the stage to talk about faith, football and fatherhood during a Father’s Day church service at Qualcomm Stadium sponsored by Shadow Mountain Community Church. Gridiron Glory Tebow draws thousands to the Q for Sunday church service SAN DIEGO — Tim Tebow drew a crowd of more than 26,000 people to hear him speak about The manger scene, one of 14 featured in the annual Nativity display in Santa his faith and father-son relation- Monica, has seen its fi nal days. The City Council has voted to ban the winter displays ships at a June 17 Father’s Day beginning this year. event. Tebow was speaking at San Di- ego’s Qualcomm Stadium where last fall he led the Denver Bron- cos, his former team, to an over- Living proof time win against the San Diego Chargers. As he spoke, a plane fl ew above the stadium pulling PHOTO BY ANTHONY AMORTEGUY a banner that read, “Happy Fa- On the stage Tebow was fl anked by Shadow Mountain Community Church pastor Former gay challenges David Jeremiah, right, and recording artist Charles Billingsley, left. ther’s Day—John 3:16.” Tebow encouraged fathers to set an “How he acted, how he was, how he Tebow said that winning isn’t proposal to ban reparative example in their homes and inspire treated my mom, how he treated my always about having the most talent. their families. He stressed the need four siblings.” “Hard work will beat talent, when for role models and spoke how his “And that’s how I learned the most talent doesn’t work hard,” the former therapy for minors dad was his example. from my dad, Because it wasn’t about Heisman Trophy winner said. “For me it was about watching what he said, it was about what he Tebow told the crowd to “get in By Lori Arnold my dad. He could say whatever he did in front of me and my siblings the game” by being active Christians. wanted, but I watched him,” Tebow, my whole life.” “I encourage you men to get in the GLENDALE — David Pickup has the youngest of fi ve children, said. Tebow referenced how his father game and fi nish strong, fi nish strong spent the greater part of the past used the life of Jesus as an example for your family, your wife and your 15 years either being treated with to teach him about love, passion sons and daughters,” he said. reparative techniques to diminish and sacrifi ce. He said that while the world looks his own gay attractions or establish- David Jeremiah, pastor of Shadow at him as a football player who’s a ing a successful therapy practice to Mountain Community Church in Christian, “I look at the world and help others enjoy the same free- El Cajon, asked the quarterback, say, ‘I’m a Christian who happens to dom that “saved his life.” now with the New York Jets, what he play football.’” “It helped to dissipate my depres- thought of the notion that, “If you Shadow Mountain Community sion and the anxiety,” the Glendale are a Christian and you are a man, Church hosted the free Sunday therapist said. “My self-esteem rose. you can’t really be a man.” Tebow morning event called “Father’s Day My gender identity and inferior- replied, saying he started believing 2012: Encouraging Men to Live, Love ity— which was traumatic for me in Jesus while he was a young boy and and Lead.” as a child—was greatly resolved, so PHOTO BY ANTHONY AMORTEGUY was competitive from an early age. Besides pastoring a megachurch, my male self-esteem really rose. My Kids and adults alike donned eye- shame for having, simply feeling David Pickup, an ex-gay who uses black tattoos sporting the John 3:16 He recalled how he was disappointed Jeremiah hosts a Bible teaching homosexual feelings doesn’t exist reparative therapy in his private scripture verse, a practice made when, at just 4 years of age, a coach program on Turning Point, heard practice, is hoping to derail a state law famous by Tebow while playing college told him winning wasn’t everything. on more than 2000 radio stations any more. I had quite a wonderful that would prohibit such treatment for football at the University of Florida. He told his dad, “But I want to win.” around the world. minors. Pickup said the treatment saved See SB 1172, page 6 his life. For information about advertising, subscriptions, or bulk delivery, please call 1-800-326-0795 2 • CHRISTIAN EXAMINER • July 2012 LA www.christianexaminer.com Christian home-education association equips families By Lori Arnold operated independently from public schools. PASADENA — Susan Beatty has Even with the expanded choices spent 30 years of her life helping beyond the more traditional parents to educate their children private schools, Beatty said she through private Christian home believes home schooling offers schooling. These days, as co- Christian parents an invaluable founder and general manager of opportunity to teach their children the Christian Home Educators As- from a biblical worldview. sociation, she’s spending almost as “It’s vital that we disciple and much time trying to educate Chris- train up our Christian children, tian parents about potential threats and I think that’s best done in a to the movement as lawmakers and home-school situation,” the educa- educators are increasingly seeking tor said. “Because our freedoms are ways to tamper with parental rights. eroding these children need to be “I believe that one of the reasons taught what does the Constitution that (home schooling is) still grow- say? What does the Bill of Rights ing is because people are waking up say? How does that affect our ev- to the fact that there is a concerted eryday life? And they need to know effort against freedoms these days, that because the general public freedoms across the board,” Beatty does not know that information. said. “There are so many things We need to have Christian young going on in the federal govern- people growing up to defend those ment that may not be obvious to rights and to work for those rights.” everyone, but they are there if you At the center of those rights, are keeping an eye out.” Beatty said, are parental rights, One such threat played out in the including home-based education. Home schooling provides unparalleled opportunities for developing solid parent-child relationships. THINKSTOCK IMAGE courts in 2008, when a California “We want to keep that viable appellate court ruled in Rachel L. and safe for generations to come ganization, Beatty said it’s diffi cult lure is there.” help parents with their own learn- v. Superior Court of Los Angeles because we feel that there is a to get accurate numbers about how As technology becomes more ing curves. Resources include re- County that all parents had to have huge difference between home many children are being home- accessible and more support pro- search on the advantages of home a teaching credential to in order schooling privately and doing schooled. Some estimates place grams such as extra-curricular co- schooling, legal guidance on teach- to teach their children from home. school at home through a public it as high as 200,000 in California ops emerge, parents are discover- ing at home, tips for home-school- The ruling prompted widespread school system,” she said. “It’s still alone. ing that some of the traditional ers, a home-school consultant, and criticism. Six months later the same the public school system, and you “Home-schoolers jump in and barriers to home schooling are less the California Parent Educator court reversed itself. are still responsible for all the rules out of home schooling frequent- intimidating than in previous years. magazine. The organization has In more recent years, as the in a public school.” ly,” she said. “Sometimes it’s just “There are tons of things to get also teamed up to co-host “Take popularity of home schooling has out of California. They will move children, young people, particular- Back the Land” seminars with Rick grown, the state of California has Ebb and fl ow to another state and home-school ly high school students, involved,” Boyer, an early advocate for home implemented an Independent By nature, the home school is a somewhere else.
Recommended publications
  • The National, 1942
    National Louis University Digital Commons@NLU Yearbooks Archives and Special Collections 1942 The aN tional, 1942 National College of Education Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.nl.edu/yearbooks Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Education, National College of, "The aN tional, 1942" (1942). Yearbooks. 56. https://digitalcommons.nl.edu/yearbooks/56 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at Digital Commons@NLU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Yearbooks by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@NLU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. PRESENTING AN ALBUM OF THE YEAR'S ACTIVITIES AT NATIONAL COLLEGE OF EDUCATION. EVANSTON, ILLINOIS VOL. 27 1942 We present the 1942 National: an appropriately gay and poignant record of events, which were crammed into a year when the word "security" became obsolete and the word "courage" was recoined. As women, we marched not grimly, nor with guns, but steadily, humming a cheerful refrain to keep e times. ADMINISTRATION Edna Dean Baker, President Out of a fabulous stack of names, records, and financial reports, National's administration competently creates an amazing semblance of order to keep the wheels of the college speeding smoothly throughout the year. Daily, the office of administration is confronted with the usual queries regarding matriculation, course of study, and various permissions. In this capacity, the administrators have made National an outstanding school in the educational field and have aided in obtaining for the school the long desired accreditment by the American Associa- tion of Teachers' Colleges.
    [Show full text]
  • Praise & Worship
    pg0144_Layout 1 4/4/2017 1:07 PM Page 44 Soundtracks! H ot New Artist! pages 24–27 ease! ew Rele page N 43 More than 10,000 CDs and 186,000 Music Downloads available at Christianbook.com! page 8 1–800–CHRISTIAN (1-800-247-4784) pg0203_Layout 1 4/4/2017 1:07 PM Page 2 NEW! Elvis Presley Joey Feek NEW! Crying in If Not for You the Chapel Showcasing some of the Celebrating Elvis’s commitment first songs Joey Feek ever to his faith, this newly compiled recorded, this album in- collection features “His Hand cludes “That’s Important to in Mine,” “How Great Thou Art,” Me,” “Strong Enough to Cry,” “Peace in the Valley,” “He “Nothing to Remember,” Touched Me,” “Amaz ing Grace,” “The Cowboy’s Mine,” and more. “Southern Girl,” and more. WRCD31415 Retail $9.99 . .CBD $8.99 WRCD34415 Retail $11.99 . .CBD $9.99 Also available: WR933623 If Not for You—Book and CD . 15.99 14.99 David Phelps NEW! Hymnal Deal! Phelps’s flawless tenor inter- pretations will lift your appre- Joey+Rory Hymns That Are ciation of favorite hymns to a whole new level! Features “In Important to Us the Garden,” “How Great Thou The beloved country duo Art,” “Battle Hymn of the Re- sings their favorite hymns! public,” and more. Includes “I Need Thee Every Hour,” “He Touched WRCD32200 Retail $13.99 . .CBD $11.99 Me,” “I Surrender All,” “The Also available: Old Rugged Cross,” “How WRCD49082 Freedom . 13.99 11.99 WR918393 Freedom—DVD . 19.99 15.99 Great Thou Art,” and more.
    [Show full text]
  • Dolphin Films Una Produzione Bieber Time Films & Scooter
    DOLPHIN FILMS PRESENTA UNA PRODUZIONE BIEBER TIME FILMS & SCOOTER BRAUN FILMS IN ASSOCIAZIONE CON IM GLOBAL & ISLAND DEF JAM MUSIC GROUP DIRETTO DA JON M.CHU con JUSTIN BIEBER e la speciale partecipazione di SCOOTER BRAUN | USHER RAYMOND IV | JON M. CHU | PATTIE MALLETTE | JEREMY BIEBER | RYAN GOOD | MIKE POSNER | RODNEY JERKINS | ALFREDO FLORES | NICK DEMOURA ...e molti altri! Durata 92 minuti In Italia Believe è distribuito da Nexo Digital e Good Films in collaborazione con i media partner Sky Uno HD, Radio Kiss Kiss, MYmovies.it e Team World. SINOSSI BELIEVE di Justin Bieber regala una visione intima e profonda del tour mondiale dell’artista che ha registrato il tutto esaurito. Non solo vedrete le immagini sbalorditive delle performance dei suoi maggiori successi, ma avrete un biglietto personale per accedere al backstage e scoprire come l’intero tour è stato concepito. Believe garantisce una panoramica esclusiva sulla vita di Justin fuori dal palco ed è un viaggio che ne ripercorre la vita: dagli esordi da perdente che sognava di suonare al Madison Square Garden, fino a diventare la più grande pop star mondiale. “Believe” in Justin Bieber. NOTE DEL REGISTA Ho sempre saputo sin da quando finimmo “Never Say Never” nel 2011, che la storia di Justin Bieber non sarebbe finita. Avevo la sensazione che il capitolo successivo della sua vita sarebbe stato ancora più convincente dell’inizio della sua storia, ma non avrei mai pensato di essere di nuovo io a raccontarlo. Quando, qualche anno dopo, mi arrivò l’invito di Justin a seguirlo in tour per realizzarne un film, presi al volo questa opportunità.
    [Show full text]
  • Corrects Himself, Didn't Meet Mexico Leader
    LIFESTYLE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2013 Music39 & Movies Spider-Man Broadway musical to close in January, move to Vegas Bieber corrects himself, didn’t meet Mexico leader File photo shows people line up to enter the Foxwoods Theatre for a matinee showing of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” in New York.—AP pider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” will end its The show was also embroiled in legal disputes Broadway run in January, a spokesman said after Tony-winning director Julie Taymor, of “The “Son Monday, and the popular musical is set Lion King,” was fired from the production in March to move to Las Vegas. The show, the most expensive 2011. Taymor reached an agreement with the show’s staged on Broadway, had a rocky start in 2010 with producers this year. The musical, based on one of cast injuries during high-wire stunts and opening Marvel Comic’s most famous heroes, cost more than night delays. $70 million to bring to the stage and includes music “We are excited to report that the next destination by Bono and The Edge. It routinely brings in more for SPIDER-MAN will be the entertainment capital of than $1 million a week at the box office. However, the world: Las Vegas,” Rick Miramontez, a spokesman the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that the for the show, said in an email to Reuters. The show has been running below its breakeven point Broadway show will close in January, he said, and for weeks, even though it is among the top shows in further details will be announced in the coming attendance figures.—Reuters weeks.
    [Show full text]
  • Virtual Reality Tour
    volume 5 issue 10 2012 BRADVirtual Reality PAISLEY Tour In the House with the Thin Lizzy Crew A Gig From Hell With the Twins of Evil: Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson Warriors of the Road Reunion >>Plus Harness Inside Screens Knows Why Custom Projection Screens are Becoming Increasingly Popular in the USA I mobile production monthly II mobile production monthly “You guys saved the day…we couldn’t have WWW.AIRCHARTERSERVICE.COM done it without you! I’m sure thousands of fans are thanking you as I type” Use your smartphone to scan and watch our corporate video Air Charter Service (ACS) are longstanding experts providing aircraft charter solutions for artist HELICOPTERS management companies and tour managers worldwide - successfully flying equipment, crew TURBOPROPS and some of the world’s most renowned artists on large scale music tours. Our global network PRIVATE JETS of offices are able to provide flexible and bespoke solutions to meet your exact requirements, EXECUTIVE AIRLINERS whatever your aircraft charter needs. COMMERCIAL AIRLINERS Contact us today to see how we can look after your logistical requirements. CARGO AIRCRAFT A GLOBAL LEADER IN MUSIC INDUSTRY CHARTERS N.AMERICA | S.AMERICA | EUROPE | AFRICA | CIS | MIDDLE EAST | ASIA 1 mobile production monthly 2 mobile production monthly volume 5 issue 10 2012 contents IN THE NEWS 10 New Hires 6 Lighting 12 Harness Screens Bandit Clients Dominate at CMA 14 Warriors of the Road Awards Venues Reunion Venues Inside and Out, Harrah’s Sounds 18 BRAD PAISLEY VIRTUAL Good with Community REALITY TOUR: Well Planned and 7 Sound Even Better Executed DiGiCo is in Total Control of 23 Brad Paisley Crew Cirque du Soleil’s MJ World Tour 24 In the House with the Thin Workshops Lizzy Crew 2012 Milos Runs 2012 Safety Work- 28 A Gig from Hell with the shop in China Twins of Evil: Rob Zombie and 8 Special Effects Marilyn Manson Justin Beiber’s “Believe” Tour 32 Obituary Believes in Special Effects from Strictly FX mobile production monthly 3 FROM THE Publisher It is hard to believe that the Country Music Award shows are all here.
    [Show full text]
  • New from Hillsong! New Release!
    pg0144v2_Layout 1 3/30/2018 3:44 PM Page 45 40th Anniversary Spring/Summer 2018 New Release! NEW CD by Smitty on back cover and backlist on pages 2 & 3 $ Deal!5 page 2 New from Hillsong! page 6 More than 15,000 albums and 215,000 downloads available at Christianbook.com! page 7 1–800–CHRISTIAN (1-800-247-4784) pg0203_Layout 1 3/30/2018 3:40 PM Page 2 Price good Deal! through 5/31/18, then $9.99! Paul Baloche: Ultimate Collection For three decades, Baloche has helped believers world- wide praise the “King of Heav- en.” Worship along with “Open the Eyes of My Heart,” “Glori- ous,” “Offering,” “Above All,” “My Hope,” and more. UECD71072 Retail $13.99 . .CBD $7.99 NEW! NEW! Country Faith Love Songs Celebrate love with some of the biggest names in country music! Enjoy “Thank You” (Keith Ur- ban); “Don’t Take the Girl” (Tim McGraw); “When I’m Gone” (Joey & Rory); and more. UECD83315 Retail $13.98 . .CBD $11.99 Michael W. Smith Surrounded A brand-new soul-stirring offering to the worldwide church! This Table of Contents powerful live recording includes “Your House”; “Light to You”; “Reckless Accompaniment Tracks . .24–27 Love”; “Do It Again”; “Great Are You, Lord”; the title track; and more. Bargains . .3 UECD25509 Retail $13.99 . .CBD $9.79 Black Gospel . .35 Have you heard . Contemporary & Pop . .36–41 UECD16827 Decades of Worship . 11.99 9.99 UECD11535 Worship . 9.99 8.49 Favorite Artists . .42, 43 UECD9658 Worship Again . 9.99 8.99 Hymns .
    [Show full text]
  • Salvations Highlight LC Revival
    September 27, 2018 Volume 133 l Issue No. 19 TO REPORT A NEWS ITEM OR TO BUY AN AD,CALL 318.442.7728 www.baptistmessage.com GBO: Doing more, with a little help from each other By John Kyle Louisiana Baptists Communications ALEXANDRIA (LBM) – How do you reach a culture that is seemingly not interested in you? How can you instill a vision and pas- sion for missions in children? How can you use current commu- nication platforms to seed God’s truth across the state? Brian Blackwell photo How can you bring a once vibrant Paul Taylor of Colyell Baptist Church in Livingston preaches under an evangelism tent to Hondurans moments before they entered congregation back to life? a line to be seen at a medical clinic. According to Missions and Ministries team leader John Hebert, all of the above is possible, “With a lot of help from your friends.” “In the day-in and day-out grind of ministry, it’s easy to forget how large our PRESCRIption HOPE task is,” Hebert said. “If we’re going to make the impact all of us agree needs to be made, we need more individuals par- Honduras medical mission ticipating in the Georgia Barnette State Missions Offering.” dispenses help, God’s love David Hankins, executive director for Louisiana Baptists, echoed this chal- By Brian Blackwell lenge. Message Staff Writer “We have literally hundreds of churches and thousands of our members SANTA CRUZ DE GUAYAPE, Honduras – who do not participate in this crucial of- A young Honduran boy named Christian ap- fering for Louisiana,” said Hankins.
    [Show full text]
  • Thesis Caroline Bolling
    VU Research Portal Who me? I thought you would never ask! Silveira Bolling, C. 2019 document version Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Link to publication in VU Research Portal citation for published version (APA) Silveira Bolling, C. (2019). Who me? I thought you would never ask! Applying qualitative methods in sports injury prevention research. General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal ? Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. E-mail address: [email protected] Download date: 09. Oct. 2021 WHO ME? I THOUGHT YOU WOULD NEVER ASK! Applying qualitative methods in sports injury prevention research Caroline Silveira Bolling The studies presented in this PhD thesis were performed at the Department of Public & Occupational Health and Amsterdam Public Health at the Amsterdam UMC - VU University Medical Center Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and they were also embedded in the IOC Research Center ‘Amsterdam Collaboration on Health and Safety in Sports’.
    [Show full text]
  • UNIVERSAL MUSIC • Paul Mccartney – New • Mary J Blige – a Mary
    Paul McCartney – New Mary J Blige – A Mary Christmas Luciano Pavarotti – The 50 Greatest Tracks New Releases From Classics And Jazz Inside!!! And more… UNI13-42 “Our assets on-line” UNIVERSAL MUSIC 2450 Victoria Park Ave., Suite 1, Willowdale, Ontario M2J 5H3 Phone: (416) 718.4000 Artwork shown may not be final UNIVERSAL MUSIC CANADA NEW RELEASE Artist/Title: KATY PERRY / PRISM Bar Code: Cat. #: B001921602 Price Code: SPS Order Due: Release Date: October 22, 2013 File: POP Genre Code: 33 Box Lot: 6 02537 53232 2 Key Tracks: ROAR ROAR Artist/Title: KATY PERRY / PRISM (DELUXE) Bar Code: Cat. #: B001921502 Price Code: AV Order Due: October 22, 2013 Release Date: October 22, 2013 6 02537 53233 9 File: POP Genre Code: 33 Box Lot: Key Tracks: ROAR Artist/Title: KATY PERRY / PRISM (VINYL) Bar Code: Cat. #: B001921401 Price Code: FB Order Due: October 22, 2013 Release Date: October 22, 2013 6 02537 53234 6 File: POP Genre Code: 33 Box Lot: Key Tracks: Vinyl is one way sale ROAR Project Overview: With global sales of over 10 million albums and 71 million digital singles, Katy Perry returns with her third studio album for Capitol Records: PRISM. Katy’s previous release garnered 8 #1 singles from one album (TEENAGE DREAM). She also holds the title for the longest stay in the Top Ten of Billboard’s Hot 100 – 66 weeks – shattering a 20‐year record. Katy Perry is the most‐followed female artist on Twitter, and has the second‐largest Twitter account in the world, with over 41 million followers.
    [Show full text]
  • P20-21 Layout 1
    Established 1961 21 Lifestyle Music Tuesday, July 2, 2019 Bieber defends manager after Swift ‘bullying’ accusation ustin Bieber accused Taylor Swift of “crossing a line” worked with Kanye West-another artist who has feuded Sunday after she re-ignited their longstanding feud in with Swift in the past. Ja post attacking his manager for buying the rights to “For you to take it to social media and get people to much of her multi-platinum back catalog. Swift said she hate on scooter isn’t fair,” Bieber wrote, posting along- suffered years of “manipulative bullying” at the hands of side an old photo of him and Swift together in the early Scooter Braun, an industry powerhouse whose Ithaca days of their joint rise to pop superstardom. “Seems to Holdings recently bought Big Machine Label Group, me like it was to get sympathy u also knew that in post- which produced Swift’s first seven albums. ing that your fans would go and bully scooter.” Swift’s “Essentially, my musical legacy is about to lie in the huge social media presence is backed up by legions of hands of someone who tried to dismantle it,” Swift wrote, fiercely loyal fans-known as “Swifties”-who frequently claiming she had never been offered the chance to buy round on those perceived as slighting her. “I feel like the the rights to her back catalog, which includes “Fearless” only way to resolve conflict is through communication,” and “1989”. “Never in my worst nightmares did I imagine Bieber wrote. “So banter back and forth online i don’t the buyer would be Scooter,” she wrote Sunday, signing believe solves anything.” — AFP off “Sad and grossed out.” Canadian superstar Bieber In this file photo Taylor Swift attends the 2019 Billboard In this file photo singer Justin Bieber performs during his took to Instagram to defend Braun, a music industry Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, “Believe” tour at The Staples Center in Los Angeles, powerhouse who also manages Ariana Grande and has Nevada.
    [Show full text]
  • Among the Mormons in the Days of Brigham Young by Wilfred H
    AMONG THE MORMONS IN THE DAYS OF BRIGHAM YOUNG BY WILFRED H. MUNRO TN 1871 the author of this paper was told by his •^ physician that he must throw up his position and go west for a "life in the open" or he could not live six months. He was then a Master in a military board- ing school, and one of his pupils happened to be a brother-in-law of Bishop Tuttle of Utah. Like all young men of that day "Mormonism" appealed to him as a curiosity. He chose Salt Lake City as a place from which to wander and has ever since rejoiced in the experiences resulting therefrom. The stories of the beginnings of a religion are ordi- narily vague and of doubtful value. Accounts written, as in the case of the Mohammedans, upon "palm leaves, skins, blade-bones and the hearts of men," do not always agree in their statements and can never be entirely satisfactory. It is not so with "Mormon- ism." Its founder, Joseph Smith, was born hardly a century and a quarter ago (1805); its organization is not yet a hundred years old (1830). An alert printing press has steadily kept us informed of all that is worth knowing in its history. The establishment of the Mormon state in what was supposed to be foreign territory, in 1847, does not antedate the birth of many members of this Society. (It was not until 1848 that Mexico, by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ceded to the United States the indefinite and unsurveyed regions of the provinces of New Mexico and Upper California.) Very many living men have known the great leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
    [Show full text]
  • Juneêeêjuly 2014 Releases
    JuneÊEÊJuly 2014 Releases www.authenticmedia.co.uk Authentic January — September 2014 We Not Me The Importance of Just and Inclusive Relationships in an I-Centric World A new framework for reading the Bible which supplements an Andy Matheson individual’s personal response to Christ, with an emphasis on God’s passion for authentic, just and inclusive community. It is well known that individualism and consumerism are so pervasive that they have become the spectacles through which we view and understand our lives, including our spirituality. Sadly we keep these glasses on as we read our Bibles, and in the process we allow our reading to reinforce our individualism. Many readers and expositors of the Bible take verses without due concern for their context. In the process, verses that were originally intended to be under- stood within a community setting are made to mean some- thing different from what their authors intended. One of the most serious consequences is that passages which refer to our community life are made to reinforce our individualism. This is not handling the ‘Word of Truth’ correctly. In We Not Me Andy Matheson argues that we need to embrace the perspective of ‘the God who sees’. His vision is relational; he sees with communal lenses. Community is so core to God’s nature and purposes that it undergirds everything that is implicitly inferred or explicitly stated on every page of the Bible. If we can rediscover what it means to be a community – the kind of community where all barriers are broken down and where our lives reflect the original vision of the gospel – then we will play a much more effective part in ushering in God’s Kingdom.
    [Show full text]