NOM

https://youtu.be/CeTzfSALosY

Kudos. My Stake President would freak if we posted this....

Good, honest questions though.

Yeah - they are brave.
(There's another thread about that family - "Is there room for us in the church.")
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=842&p=8419#p8419

It's as if they're taking the church with them on their faith journey - gutsy but I imagine it will open doors, so to speak.

I really like this video. Here you have a couple, married in the temple, and having a faith crisis. They are doing this all right. It is not just one with the crisis, but both are navigating together. They are deciding for themselves and with the Lord how to determine what they should believe. This is exactly how they were taught to do it in the temple. They are surely getting negative pressure from family and ward members, but they care enough about their new decisions on belief to stick together and not change their story. They are committed to their changing beliefs, not committed to what others may happen to say or think. Their business is their own, but they want to find out what others think.

2bizE wrote: ↑Sun Feb 12, 2017 8:59 am I really like this video. Here you have a couple, married in the temple, and having a faith crisis. They are doing this all right. It is not just one with the crisis, but both are navigating together. They are deciding for themselves and with the Lord how to determine what they should believe. This is exactly how they were taught to do it in the temple. They are surely getting negative pressure from family and ward members, but they care enough about their new decisions on belief to stick together and not change their story. They are committed to their changing beliefs, not committed to what others may happen to say or think. Their business is their own, but they want to find out what others think.

I like how you put that, how they're going with their own intuitive (spiritual) guidance rather than doing as they're told even when it contradicts what they feel spiritually to be right.

This video shows a charming, young, LDS family. This guy has the look of a future bishop and his wife would be destined as a future Primary, Young Women, and Relief Society President. They are exactly the kind of family that any church would want in their congregation.

After being an apostate for 10 years I just look at them with sympathy for their earnest desire for answers. I simply wish them luck while expecting only embarrassing and awkward confrontations. They bring up the Hugh B. Brown quote:

Hugh B. Brown wrote:I admire men and women who have developed the questing spirit, who are unafraid of new ideas as stepping stones to progress.

These are some of the same ideas that led other young couples straight out of the church after they tried to start interesting discussions in the LDS church.

It's like I'm watching yet another zombie movie with new actors and somehow I'm expecting some new outcome that doesn't involve shambling hordes of the faithful eventually overwhelming these plucky survivors. I truly wish them well but I really anticipate some new outcome that is radically different that the Calderwoods, Watermans, Ricks, Runnels, Christensens, Maloufs, and many others. It's the same cliched horror movie plot where you are yelling at the actors "don't go into that dark room!" while the creepy music plays.