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You know what sounds like a great plan for a good time? Sitting in front of the TV/computer for nearly 12 hours watching men in suits and women in colorful dress talk about Mormon stuff. Okay it doesn’t really sound exciting but it is a huge Mormon ritual we do every six months. For some conference is tedious, for others it is the cats meow, some might be triggered to anger, others handle it without being fired up either way. We found some fine folks who listened to or watched conference this time around and told us what they thought of each session. So listen in folks!
Thanks to Leah Silverman, Brian Kissell, Jonathan Grimes, Jerilyn Pool, Mark Crego, and Sister Dillman for offering your thoughts on each session.
This was very nice! Thank you everyone for participating. I left this one feeling a little down, and it is so nice to hear other who may see something that I missed.
I’v listened to several GG podcast reviews over the past few years. This by far has been the best. Good concise format. The panel discussion format, which is the dominant form within LDS podcasting, can get a little unruly sometimes. The way you did it with just one other person for each session was perfect.
Oh, you need to get your wife on more podcasts Brian.
Yay for Sister Dillman and wee ones!
I’ll tell you what the takeaway of Elder Holland’s talk was:
Families are NOT forever UNLESS everyone tows the line. If you don’t do everything exactly the way the church tells you to do it, well then, you will NOT be with your family in the afterlife. Why are LDS mother’s hearts breaking? Because they are constantly indoctrinated from a young age that the will not be with their families in the afterlife UNLESS they are all true blue Mormons. That is why every Mormon mother cries tears of anguish if her child leaves the church. She not only loses her child, she is a failure. This may be the single most harmful teaching in the church. It is the reason families are torn apart when a family member changes their views. It is what makes people who leave the church “anti” because most of their relationships within the church are destroyed.
From the April 2014 conference:
“And therein lies a message for every young man and young woman in this Church. You may wonder if it is worth it to take a courageous moral stand in high school or to go on a mission only to have your most cherished beliefs reviled or to strive against much in society that sometimes ridicules a life of religious devotion. Yes, it is worth it, because the alternative is to have our “houses” left unto us “desolate”—desolate individuals, desolate families, desolate neighborhoods, and desolate nations.”
—Jefferey R. Holland
Newsflash Elder Holland…there are some wonderful, wonderful people who are kind, charitable, intelligent and yes even spiritual who have left the Mormon church.
Please STOP hurting people by sending this message!!
I generally appreciate the conference reviews, but I find it almost tragic that the people you invite NEVER have anything positive to say about the Relief Society Session. I really hope that this coming April session you will find someone who doesn’t just look at the negative from the session. I feel like as a podcast you are great about promoting women and their rights and roles in the church, but this is an area that you still seem to be lacking. I didn’t appreciate the comment about how people listen to the session and just wait for the apostle’s message