Comments on: Mormon history in English schools

By: claire

claire — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:35:20 +0000

After re-reading your comment, I see they were there as reps of the church in a religion class, so my apologies. A much more appropriate setting.

By: claire

claire — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:33:47 +0000

“The teacher was LDS and hence the invite; so sometimes kids get accurate lessons”

TStevens, I think the idea that missionaries would give ‘accurate lessons’ about Mormons in the west from a historical perspective is up for debate.

By: TStevens

TStevens — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:17:23 +0000

Oh yeah, you get used to the smell after 5 or 6 weeks.

By: TStevens

TStevens — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:16:48 +0000

Ronan, As a West End boy who had never been beyond Oxford; it was a great time. Spent 8 months in Runcorn and even managed to split the area.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:40:14 +0000

I was homeschooled so I missed out on the joys of AP history, but my college American History courses didn’t even mention Mormonism; we were too busy reading an excessive amount of Willa Cather’s stuff.

Then again, we also got treated to the ten second version of World War II, i.e.: “If you want to know what happened, go watch the History Channel. We call it ‘All Hitler All the Time’ in the faculty lounge. Moving on, the Cold War…” We covered the CCC and Hiroshima in the same 40 minute lecture period. So I’m not that fussed, we probably would have had the five second “Mormons went west and had a lot of wives” treatment if we’d been mentioned at all. ^_^

By: Ronan

Ronan — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:13:48 +0000

As a missionary in Runcorn

My commiserations…

By: TStevens

TStevens — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:45:15 +0000

As a missionary in Runcorn England, I was invited to give a one hour presentation on Mormons at the local school and their Churches of the World class. I am not exactly sure of the class name, but other religions also came over the course of the year.

The teacher was LDS and hence the invite; so sometimes kids get accurate lessons

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:37:38 +0000

Tatiana and cje, It’s a longshot, but do either of you know Carol and Barry Avery? They are my aunt and uncle and were missionaries in Birmingham a few years ago.

By: Tatiana

Tatiana — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:30:29 +0000

I want to give a shout out to my Alabama Mormon homies. :) I’m a 2001 convert in Birmingham, so I don’t know anybody y’all are talking about, but it’s just great to hear Alabama and Mormon in the same sentence sometimes. I grew up here without ever meeting a single Mormon. When I converted after contact with LDS friends online, I met local saints for the first time, and was amazed at how many there were. The church is growing here quite a bit, thanks to missionary efforts like cje’s. It’s great to see. =)

By: Christopher

Christopher — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:56:19 +0000

California Condor (#32), I'm glad that you've changed your stance from "a paragraph or two" to "a section of a chapter." It is perhaps significant that many non-LDS historians feel Mormonism has much to reveal about American history, as revealed by the comments in this post over at Religion in American History blog.