Comments on: How Christian are Mormons? How Mormon is the Community of Christ?

By: FireTag

FireTag — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:49:21 +0000

John: One picture IS worth 1000 words. I’ve been staring at this map for several days and trying to figure out where to put my personal “You are here” button.

I can’t decide whether I occupy that “narrow neck of land” where the CofChrist separates Liberalia from Mormondom, or whether I’m at the triple point where Mormondom, the CofChrist and Protestantland meet and trying to forge a bridge to Evangelica.

You don’t do maps in hyperspace, do you — so I can be both places at once?

By: Other Bridget

Other Bridget — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:19:30 +0000

That map is brilliant. Stuff like that is why I love this blog.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:46:41 +0000

Stephen: what do you mean that “many in the bloggernacle see [the Community of Christ] as the way for the LDS Church to go”? As a historian, I would agree that their approach to history may be more open than ours, but I honestly don’t see “many” of the bloggernacle calling for us to follow their theologically path.

“and they also look to be fading even more than predicted twenty years ago.”

Actually, that is not quite accurate. In all honesty, their Church is doing quite well. Hamer dismisses this myth, as well as others, on this post and thread: http://mormonmatters.org/2008/01/27/103/

By: Stephen M (Ethesis)

Stephen M (Ethesis) — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:37:57 +0000

One interesting thing is in how many ways The Communities of Christ are what many in the bloggernacle see as the way for the LDS Church to go … and they also look to be fading even more than predicted twenty years ago. Beautiful name, though.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:16:49 +0000

For map lovers, may I HIGHLY recommend:
“The Patrice Press” ‘Covered Wagon Roads to the Old West’.
Get the ‘rolled copy’ ($10 poster size, in a cardboard tube). Mine is framed on my wall.

By: SGarff

SGarff — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:59:29 +0000

#18: Hey, stop tying to ruin my joke ;)

By: SGarff

SGarff — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:57:41 +0000

Sea of Doubt? and here I thought it was the sea of love that Phil Phillips sung about.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:35:04 +0000

#14: #12 still needs some work: Mormondom, (we in your comment), still reached to the sea.

By: John Hamer

John Hamer — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:25:50 +0000

Of course on my allegorical map, that body of water is the Sea of Doubt. So having a nice port city isn’t necessarily something to get jealous over. (Just kidding.)

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:11:59 +0000

As always John, love your visuals.