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I hope that I don’t offend or violate any confidences with the little story that I’m about to tell. I wasn’t asked to keep it confidential, and I won’t share the crucial personal name — not least because, having never known it, I’m unable to share it. Moreover, I hope that I’m accurately recalling what happened as it was told to me. I think that it’s worthy of reflection in the light of the transfer of ownership of the Kirtland Temple (among other things)
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... tland.html

drumdude wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 08, 2024 1:06 am

Compelling stuff!

Someone told me in confidence (a very reliable source) that DCP regularly makes this stuff up. I can’t name his name but if you knew who it was you would totally believe me. I just can’t possibly name him.

Elder Pinegar said a particularly touching moment came when Elder Ballard, in front of the congregation, embraced Lachlan MacKay, a direct descendant of Joseph Smith and director of the Kirtland Temple for the RLDS Church who attended the service. Thus, descendants of the Prophet and his brother, Hyrum, were united in the sacred temple setting.

https://www.thechurchnews.com/1993/12/4 ... nd-temple/

Marcus wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 08, 2024 1:25 am

drumdude wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 08, 2024 1:06 am

Compelling stuff!

Someone told me in confidence (a very reliable source) that DCP regularly makes this stuff up. I can’t name his name but if you knew who it was you would totally believe me. I just can’t possibly name him.

Exactly. I heard that too, so that's TWO witnesses.

Marcus wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 08, 2024 1:04 am

In a gossip driven post titled "a-clear-rebuke-in-the-house-of-the-lord-at-kirtland," the gossiper begins this way:

I hope that I don’t offend or violate any confidences with the little story that I’m about to tell. I wasn’t asked to keep it confidential, and I won’t share the crucial personal name — not least because, having never known it, I’m unable to share it. Moreover, I hope that I’m accurately recalling what happened as it was told to me. I think that it’s worthy of reflection in the light of the transfer of ownership of the Kirtland Temple (among other things)
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterson?s=Reorganized+

Sigh. Another "witness," right?

1993 sacrament meeting

M. Russell Ballard asked for—and received—permission to use the Kirtland Temple for a 1993 missionary training and sacrament meeting. It was a spiritual experience for everyone involved, including Al Walters, a Community of Christ representative who was initially opposed to the idea.

Walters recalls being upset that leaders from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints wanted to use his temple when they had ones of their own. He grew angry as the meeting progressed, becoming sick enough that he thought he was having a heart attack.

As Elder Yoshihiko Kikuchi stood to speak, Walters had a sacred experience (he would later call it a “spiritual spanking”) that demonstrated the cooperative spirit that has long existed between the two churches:

Al felt the spirit come over him. An audible voice that only he heard made three statements: ‘Alan, this is not your temple; this is mine. These are also my Saints. This is an acceptable use of this sacred space!”

Karl Ricks Anderson recounting the experience of Al Walters