Bob Rees does a good work

[LA Ute]

Some of you may know Bob Rees, who taught at UCLA and was once the bishop of the L.A. First Ward (in West L.A., and full of UCLA and USC students). This is a piece by a divinity student at Pacific School of Religion about her experience in Bob's Institute class there.

http://lakeconews.com/content/view/19303/925/

It's a very interesting perspective.

[Joe Public]

Thanks for posting that; I enjoyed it.

[Jim Swarthout]

That was excellent, thank you for sharing that. The money quote:

I was finally willing to let this suffice, because there was no convincing my professor that his scriptures were make-believe, and there was no way I was going to ignore the entirety of my Pacific School of Religion Old Testament education.

How much does it matter, anyway, as long as we agree on the fundamental message of Jesus, which is to love and serve one another? Yahweh himself and through his prophets “said” some pretty wacky things too, and Christians find a way to live with those without doubting the entirety of the Bible.

I bolded the first sentence of the second paragraph because it summarizes perfectly my present approach to Mormonism and Christianity. Great article.