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Churchwide News
| Boy Scouts Under Pressure Year After Court Ruling |
| It has been one year since the United States
Supreme Court ruled that the Boy Scouts of America is a private association
which can exclude gays. This week, Newsweek's August 6th issue offers a
portrait of Scouting in the United States and describes the reactions across
the country and within the organization to the Court ruling and how
pressures during the past 12 months are impacting the Boy Scouts. |
| SeaTrek Sails; Commemoration Gets International Attention |
| After more than a year of news reports and advance
publicity, eight tall ships sailed out of Esbjerg harbor this morning on the
first leg of a 59-day, 3,000-mile voyage. The publicity persuaded some 2,000
people to pay as much as $12,000 to participate in the re-enactment of the
emigration of more than 90,000 European members of The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints to the United States and Utah. Like the
re-enactment of the Mormon pioneer trek across the US four years ago,
SeaTrek is also getting international attention, as news reports of the
voyage have appeared in the Associated Press and Reuters news services as
well as news sources with international reach like the New York Times and
the BBC. |
| Enoch Train Approaches Denmark |
| On March 23rd 1856, 534 men, women and children who
had embraced a new faith boarded the Enoch Train at Albert Dock in
Liverpool, England and began an adventure that would test that faith, alter
the course of their lives, and manifest to those with eyes to see that God
is at work in their lives. |
| Enoch Train's First Concert Before Sailing |
| We survived sleeping in hammocks for the first
day on the ship, even thought the ships remained in dock, and then
woke up to a depleting but very busy day for the first day of sea
trek 2001. It was perhaps a fitting day to commemorate the hardships
of our ancestors because it totally wiped us out. The reason for that
is that after a rather sleepless night in the hammocks, I woke up
with a very stiff neck because of the position we were in. |
| Enoch Train Onboard the Statsraad Lehmkuhl |
| The day began innocently enough. The sun sparkled on
the gentle waves, belying what would later occur. I forgot to mention that
European yogurt is one of the truly great blessings of breakfast aboard the
Statsraad Lehmkuhl...one of many. Hammocks are strung up even in the
galley, so those who sleep there are at the disadvantage of having to be out
of bed and have their hammocks rolled up and stowed in the baggage hold by
7AM. Then all day long they have people in their bedroom treating it like a
kitchen. They feel dispossessed, disinherited. |
| Enoch Train Reaches Copenhagen |
| About three this morning the storm abated and
everyone began to get some sleep. Today we will say goodbye to many of our
friends, Christian from Switzerland who plays great blues guitar, Kirsten
from Denmark who loves to do "head arrangements" of hymns for choirs, Tom
and Ellie from the Washington, DC area who came to discover their roots and
left with new friends, etc. This type of bonding is not supposed to happen
in two days. |
| FAIR Announces the Third Annual Mormon Apologetics Conference |
| The Foundation for Apologetic Information &Research (FAIR)
is proud to sponsor the Third Annual Mormon Apologetics Conference in Provo,
Utah, August 16 17. This yearís conference is titled ìThe Book of Mormon:
Modern Witnesses for an Ancient Recordî and will explore topics dealing with
the authenticity of this unique book of scripture. |
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