CNN article on Pres Nelson, revelation, and Mormon name change

[BYULAWGUY]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/22/us/mormo ... index.html

[kittycat51]

At first I didn't want to click on the link seeing that it was from CNN, but I did. I think overall it was written pretty well. But I also found it quite degrading to focus on the dropping of the name "Mormon" yet throughout the article it refers to us as the Mormon Church. They could have used some respect and referred to us as at least Latter Day Saints.

Maybe I need to start keeping a yellow notebook by my bed...

[Primary Outcast]

Coming from the Christian hating left I'm surprised how fair and gracious it is.

[thestock]

Good article

[David13]

At first I didn't want to click on the link seeing that it was from CNN, but I did. I think overall it was written pretty well. But I also found it quite degrading to focus on the dropping of the name "Mormon" yet throughout the article it refers to us as the Mormon Church. They could have used some respect and referred to us as at least Latter Day Saints.

Maybe I need to start keeping a yellow notebook by my bed...

The rule or commandment or admonishment or request to not use the word Mormon only applies to ... Mormons, that is ... members of the church.

It has no power or effect on anyone lese. They are still free in law, agency, religion, or atheism, anything else to refer to us, or anyone for that matter, as they please.

It's known as ... freedom of speech.
dc

[bbsion]

At first I didn't want to click on the link seeing that it was from CNN, but I did. I think overall it was written pretty well. But I also found it quite degrading to focus on the dropping of the name "Mormon" yet throughout the article it refers to us as the Mormon Church. They could have used some respect and referred to us as at least Latter Day Saints.

Maybe I need to start keeping a yellow notebook by my bed...

The rule or commandment or admonishment or request to not use the word Mormon only applies to ... Mormons, that is ... members of the church.

It has no power or effect on anyone lese. They are still free in law, agency, religion, or atheism, anything else to refer to us, or anyone for that matter, as they please.

It's known as ... freedom of speech.
dc

Personally, I view it as a request only. Which, with information gleaned from this article and other sources, would suggest it's more of a personal request from President Nelson. It does not bother me to be called a Mormon. The name of the church itself never changed. I dont see this whole ordeal being revelation or commandment.

[David13]

Well, what it truthfully is, is a whole hearted effort to say ... the church was wrong ... the prophet was wrong (prophets) ... and this horrendous error must now be corrected.

Well, indeed, how do we know if the error is ... now, rather than then?
dc

[inho]

For those who haven't clicked the link, this is how it begins:

When the messages come during the dark of night, Russell M. Nelson reaches for his lighted pen and takes dictation from the Lord.
"OK dear, it's happening," the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints tells his wife, Wendy Nelson.
"I just remain quiet and soon he's sitting up at the side of the bed, writing," she said in a recent church video.
Sometimes the spirit prompts the prophet's wife to leave the bed, though she'd rather sleep. One such morning, Wendy Nelson told Mormon leaders, her husband emerged from the bedroom waving a yellow notebook.
"Wendy, you won't believe what's been happening for two hours," she recalled Russell Nelson saying. "The Lord has given me detailed instructions on a process I am to follow."

Does anyone have a link to the recent Church video referred here? I've missed it.

[mtm411]

It made me wonder if notebooks full of revelation might mean new scripture? A very exciting time, it feels the Heavens are open.

[sandman45]

For those who haven't clicked the link, this is how it begins:

When the messages come during the dark of night, Russell M. Nelson reaches for his lighted pen and takes dictation from the Lord.
"OK dear, it's happening," the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints tells his wife, Wendy Nelson.
"I just remain quiet and soon he's sitting up at the side of the bed, writing," she said in a recent church video.
Sometimes the spirit prompts the prophet's wife to leave the bed, though she'd rather sleep. One such morning, Wendy Nelson told Mormon leaders, her husband emerged from the bedroom waving a yellow notebook.
"Wendy, you won't believe what's been happening for two hours," she recalled Russell Nelson saying. "The Lord has given me detailed instructions on a process I am to follow."

Does anyone have a link to the recent Church video referred here? I've missed it.

If we sustain him as a seer when does he use the Urim and Thummim. I’m very interested in this.

Also is this going to be a new section in the D & C ?