Leaders of the Church are urging members around the world to improve their observance of the Sabbath day. In local and regional leadership training meetings this year, leaders are receiving instruction on the topic of strengthening faith in God by observing the Sabbath day with greater purpose.
Elder M. Russell Ballard of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles explained that Church leaders have felt the importance of encouraging families and individuals to rethink and refocus their efforts on what they do on the Sabbath day. “Our whole desire is that throughout the Church, we focus our Sabbath day worship on the Lord,” he said.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the owner of the Deseret News and KSL, media partners that share resources in the multimedia newsroom. As editors and writers gathered Sunday to consider the leak and its contents, we asked key questions and weighed several factors.
We had more than a dozen editorial staff members watch and log the videos Sunday afternoon, while others reported on general conference. The team provided summaries and assisted in determining the newsworthiness.
“When we are confronted with evidence that challenges our deeply held beliefs we are more likely to reframe the evidence than we are to alter our beliefs. We simply invent new reasons, new justifications, new explanations. Sometimes we ignore the evidence altogether.” (Mathew Syed 'Black Box Thinking')
Yeah and they used to worship Steve Young on Sundays playing for the holy 49ers and Danny Ainge back in the day playing on the sabbath.
"Religion is about providing human community in the guise of solving problems that don’t exist or failing to solve problems that do and seeking to reconcile these contradictions and conceal the failures in bogus explanations otherwise known as theology." - Kishkumen