Comments on: The Identity Crisis of Ulster Converts http://bycommonconsent.com/2004/06/30/the-identity-crisis-of-ulster-converts/ A Mormon Blog Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:31:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Christina http://bycommonconsent.com/2004/06/30/the-identity-crisis-of-ulster-converts/#comment-116681 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://centaur.nocdirect.com/~jbycommo/2004/06/the-identity-crisis-of-ulster-converts/#comment-116681 A little off-topic, but the most compelling thing I have ever seen about Ireland was in a film documentary called “Children of War”. A wife-husband team spent several months in various areas of the world where conflict is deeply rooted between two groups (Rwanda, Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine, etc.) and interviewed numerous children and their families. They found that the only place where children from one side of the conflict were open to friendship with children on the other side (and the attending community development and peace that go with interaction of the coming generation) was where the parents of those children had actually begun to participate in the peace process in a meaningful way and taught peace in their homes. The only place where that was occurring of the five or six explored in the film was in Northern Ireland. All the talk of peace and change meant nothing to the coming generation until people took the lessons home and practiced them with their children.

What does this teach us about LDS there? Nothing, except that perhaps Northern Ireland is primed for this type of rehabilitation in a way that Jerusalem is not.

]]> By: Steve Evans http://bycommonconsent.com/2004/06/30/the-identity-crisis-of-ulster-converts/#comment-116682 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://centaur.nocdirect.com/~jbycommo/2004/06/the-identity-crisis-of-ulster-converts/#comment-116682 Jen, if “religious distinction is more about loyalties to the crown or a native Ireland,” how does our religion offer a solution to that? By our Article of Faith about being subject to kings? In other words, could you be against the British in Ireland but still be a good Mormon?

]]> By: lyle http://bycommonconsent.com/2004/06/30/the-identity-crisis-of-ulster-converts/#comment-116683 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://centaur.nocdirect.com/~jbycommo/2004/06/the-identity-crisis-of-ulster-converts/#comment-116683 jen…have you read the “company they keep” thread at T&S? that might offer you some suggestions (or anti-suggestions) as to how best encourage mixing between the two groups. :)

]]> By: Joel Martin http://bycommonconsent.com/2004/06/30/the-identity-crisis-of-ulster-converts/#comment-116684 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://centaur.nocdirect.com/~jbycommo/2004/06/the-identity-crisis-of-ulster-converts/#comment-116684 Of course, it’s always possible that the LDS could be the cure of the “Troubles” in NI, simply by giving both Papes and Prods a new, shared enemy to hate. Here in the states, both Catholics and Protestants will discourse at length on the theological wrongheadedness of Mormons (despite an almost total lack on knowledge on the subject). In NI, where polemics are replaced by exploding cars, it may be that they can find common ground in offing Mormons.

]]> By: Ethesis (Stephen M) http://bycommonconsent.com/2004/06/30/the-identity-crisis-of-ulster-converts/#comment-116685 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://centaur.nocdirect.com/~jbycommo/2004/06/the-identity-crisis-of-ulster-converts/#comment-116685 Well, for what it is worth, when my parents were in Ethiopia on their mission (part of the N. Kenya mission), a striking thing was the way people from different tribes mingled so well at Church, though back in the provinces their relatives were killing each other and hand for thousands of years.

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