The importance of correlation

[Solon]

And proper sources.

http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/58411/Use-proper-sources.html

I'm already compiling a list of people in this thread who are straying from the approved guidelines.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Ugh...

[UtahDan]

"Why," she asked, "are you trying to boil down information? An inspired Church-writing committee has already done that for you."

I had long suspected that the thinking had been done for me. What a relief! Whew!

[I.J. Reilly]

Two thoughts:

1) I think the story of the mom who shut off the internet and the daughter who showed her mother the error of her ways is a literary device employed by official Church PR writers, but it's ok because it was probably approved by special dispensation overseen by the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. I need to study this to discover what I am truly supposed to learn.

2) The press release really had the feel of something put out by the Vatican, specifically this line:

Church members have seen the results of more than four decades of correlation efforts, established to:

Maintain purity of doctrine.

Hallelujah!

[CardiacCoug]

Is anything more boring than a 100% correlated Church lesson? For me, being interesting and entertaining is far more important in a lesson than being perfectly correlated -- what's wrong with a teacher or any other Church member sharing an opinion that may not be the official, fully correlated opinion?

[falafel]

I'm beginning to think that wasn't a news piece at all.

[UtahDan]

I had long suspected that the thinking had been done for me. What a relief! Whew!

This is snarkier than I really feel. The truth is that without the Church applying constant pressure to keep beliefs and practices uniform you would have wards and stakes all over the map very quickly. It is necessary, even if it is a little grating.

[YOhio]

I hope pelagius sees this, repents and ceases to teach those fancy-pants Sunday School lessons.

[Donuthole]

I hope pelagius sees this, repents and ceases to teach those fancy-pants Sunday School lessons.

I see you don't give a f*#! about the Oxford comma.

[Donuthole]

This is snarkier than I really feel. The truth is that without the Church applying constant pressure to keep beliefs and practices uniform you would have wards and stakes all over the map very quickly. It is necessary, even if it is a little grating.

I don't disagree with this at all. I'd just appreciate it if they were a little more patronizing in the way they go about it.

[YOhio]

I see you don't give a f*#! about the Oxford comma.

Who does?

[John McClain]

The Church has the right approach with its correlation program but that "article" somehow rubbed me the wrong way. It made me want to ad lib my next Priesthood lesson.

[Jeff Lebowski]

The Church has the right approach with its correlation program but that "article" somehow rubbed me the wrong way. It made me want to ad lib my next Priesthood lesson.

The Church News has some really lousy writers.

[Moliere]

I'm already compiling a list of people in this thread who are straying from the approved guidelines.

If they really wanted us to stick to the material they would give us more than two (small) pages to go off of. I understand the importance of having a lesson manual, especially in a very centralized church, but we are taught to seek out truth and learning out of the best books. We should be able to share some of that in our lessons.

Let it be known also that by "best books" I don't think the Lord meant devotionals by John Bytheway or The Work and the Glory (when is the third movie coming out anyway?).

[Sleeping in EQ]

Manure.