Comments on: Answering Questions About the Church

By: Authoritative Sources | LDS Media Talk

Authoritative Sources | LDS Media Talk — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:01:17 +0000

[...] Larry mentioned in a previous post (Answering Questions About the Church), the Gospel Topics section contains authoritative, yet brief explanations to many Church doctrines [...]

By: KingOfTexas

KingOfTexas — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:02:54 +0000

If you go here http://mormon.org/mormonorg/eng/ and select “ask a question” then “Live Chat” you can ask any question at any time of day. Yes I have done it my self.

By: Goldarn

Goldarn — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:29:37 +0000

I would not recommend Shaken Faith Syndrome. Not only is it mostly just a rehash of a lot of old topics, it tends to blame the questioner rather than answering the questions.

Look no further than one of its early chapters, “Unrealistic Expectations of Prophets.” It flat out asserts that we shouldn’t trust prophets to actually, you know, speak for the Lord in all things. That certainly put a damper on my faith in “follow the prophet, he knows the way.”

So, no, there are better books that encourage people to have faith instead of rationalizations.

By: jbm

jbm — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 01:54:35 +0000

I use Yahoo Answers a lot. Also Wikipedia. These are both great places to help people get real answers, by posting accurate information about the Church.

By: Larry Richman

Larry Richman — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:55:32 +0000

Believe it or not, friendly URLs will be here before the end of the year. (Yes, I know, you’ve heard me say that before–but you notice I didn’t say *which* year, right?)

Yes, the Gospel Topics includes everything from True to the Faith, and more. And we have more articles being written and approved now. We are also developing some videos to accompany the entries.

By: J. Max Wilson

J. Max Wilson — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:15:15 +0000

You know, I hadn’t looked at the Gospel Topics section of the website in a while. Wow! I was going to suggest that members refer to True to the Faith also, but then I saw that the Gospel Topics site already quotes the entire True to the Faith entry under “Additional Information.” Links to Church magazine articles and web links too are also great!

Great job web team!

(Now you just need to make the URLs friendly…I know, I know, it will come.:) )

By: jacob

jacob — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:13:24 +0000

I've been thinking a lot about how I can engage in more "internet dialog" about the Church and answer other's sincere questions, and I've found that Yahoo Answers is one place where I can help people find good answers about the Church.