What can’t our policy ever be expansive and surprise us with its generosity? The hard work that I have done in building, remodeling, maintaining our home (this week it’s painting, replacing baseboards and door casings in a bedroom and the living room) have consecrated it far more than any words’ poor power to add or detract.

It "strongly discourages" surrogate motherhood, sperm donation, surgical sterilizations (including vasectomies) and artificial insemination — when "using semen from anyone but the husband."

So they step in and regulate it so everyone who chooses to do it, does it the same way. Now it is.

As a male, I can’t even wrap my head around the magnitude of the many, many things that contribute to women feeling marginalized in the Church.I am also left-handed. Often men who held the priesthood performed the ritual, and in fact, many Latter-day Saints believed that the ritual performance required priesthood office, [n81] but any church member was authorized to dedicate the home.

John Dehlin February 19, 2020 Current Events, Top 10 Church Policy 27 Comments. It’s odd that some here are bent out of a shape about this? “It’s taken by the right hand.” I was confused as to why but always took it with my right from now on. On p. 98 of Though grave dedication emerged after home dedication among Latter-day Saints, it became an “ordinance of the church” first.

“We have witnessed over the years much inequality in the treatment of legally married same-sex couples, which is entirely dependent on where the couple lives,” Kitchen He also was disappointed to see the church move content from The term “same-sex attraction” is “an ineffective descriptor created by people and organizations outside the LGB community,” Kitchen wrote, “rooted in a belief that sexual orientation is a behavior and therefore amendable to conversion therapy to change such behavior.” Using this identifier, he said, “is a step backward from the positive vernacular President Nelson used in his Identifying oneself as gay, lesbian, or bisexual is “not against church policy or doctrine,” Kitchen said.

It does not mean “mind.”Anyway, here is the most important line in the piece, which I fully endorse: “Much more important than concern over which hand is used in partaking of the sacrament is that the sacrament be partaken with a deep realization of the atoning sacrifice that the sacrament represents.”It was once said, “they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof.”The majority of what we practice as a people is more about appearing to be something rather that actually being something.Now I feel a perverse desire to use my left hand when I take the sacrament. What on earth is the basis for this? This is just another reminder that God made me wrong, I guess.

SALT LAKE CITY — Updates to policies about birth control and issues related to fertility treatments are among those published today in the handbook of instructions for leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Some can’t see past the reflection in a puddle, while others discover deep caverns of personal conversion to Christ. What is the actual difference?Would God really offer less blessings because a single-woman prayed over her home compared to a single-but-MP-man?All this does for me is muddy the waters of what an ordinance actually is.My Father dedicated out home once it was paid off in the early 80’s.

All authority is delegated.

Did anybody think this through?The implication that women are never ever fully human, able to perform even the non-ecclesiastical functions of church membership is just so painful.

But….. it won’t be too far removed to imagine an ambitious Bishop asking his Deacons to ensure members are taking the Sacrament with the right hand. I am happy it is no longer there.Whenever someone tries to correct me about which hand to take the sacrament, I tell them that I do naughty things with my right, like wipe my bottom, or shake hands with leaders.All, I have added the following update to the post text. Either way, I end up using both of my hands to “take” the sacrament, so I think I’m covered.Apparently, Old Man never learned that something could be a non-issue for Old Man yet an issue for others.

General Handbook: Serving in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Maybe it goes further back to the Greeks – though it does seem more quintessentially Roman to me. But over the years the more meaningful thing to me has become the serving. In 2010 priesthood may be invoked. I’ve seen no reason to think that an endowed woman would not be able to dedicate her own home, before or after the handbook changes.My own experience, for what it’s worth: I remember my single mother speaking about dedicating our home when we moved in, on at least one occasion (we moved a lot). @food allergy, You are generous to suppose that nourishment — physical or spiritual — was even an issue. Seems rooted in old stereotypes about left-handedness (which are still true in some developing countries–I spent a summer in West Africa and learned that they still forced left-handed people to learn to use their right hand). On the sacrament thing I remember being a fairly young child trying to take the sacrament with my left hand and being chided by my mom. Of course, Old Man’s generation rode bicycles without helmets and never used booster seats in cars. The new, revised missionary handbook released by the Church titled, “Missionary Standard for Disciples of Jesus Christ.” Credit: Scott Taylor Missionaries wait for President Russell M. Nelson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints prior to a devotional in Tonga on May 23, 2019.

1260-1263: Major Changes to the LDS General Handbook of Instructions – 2020 Edition.