This week’s family discussion around the dinner table

John 14:28

My Father is greater than I.

This phrase has provoked a very deep, ongoing discussion in the Wood household.  My oldest son, Joshua (13 years old),  initiated the conversation Sunday night after listening to my Bible message in the morning.  And it has continued each day since.

I strongly disagree with Unitarians, Jehovah Witnesses, and Mormon friends, etc. on the interpretration of this declaration by the Lord Jesus Christ.  

But let me ask this:  is there more than one LDS interpretation of this statement?

And one other question on the verse – what do you think is the big deal over Jesus’ words, “I go unto the Father”?

How will this new bill (NREPA) affect LDS boy scout camps?

The Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act – H.R. 980 that will be introduced on May 5, 2009

I don’t like it.  As vice president of the Red Cliff Bible Camp board in Wyoming, I express resistance . . . the extra fees and permits enforced upon us to take campers into the wilderness.  It just seems to be another message from the government that they don’t trust Idahoans (and those in the other states) to take care of our public lands.

Would this bill affect the current camping operations of the Grand Teton Council in future days?

And I use to believe O. Kendall White Jr. . . .

I was so naive in years past.

Pick up Revisiting Thomas F. O’Dea’s The Mormons Contemporary Perspectives (2008).

Read White’s article, “Thomas F. O’Dea and Mormon Intellectual Life:  A Reassessment Fifty Years Later.”

At one time, White had me fooled about “a [neo-Mormon] shift toward a Calvinist version by grace alone.”

Perhaps that is the greater concern for Mr. O. Kendall White in pausing for heart reflection and meditation.  The Calvinistic Gospel of faith alone by grace alone in Christ alone.

Hasn’t Mr. White in his life moved from Church Mormonism to a Cultural Mormonism exhibiting agnosticism and skepticism?  I don’t know.  Can someone tell me?