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NEWS RLDS ANNOUNCE TEMPLE DESIGN The schematic design of the temple planned by the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has been made public, with construction scheduled to begin in 1990. The temple will be located in Independence, Missouri, adjacent to the Auditorium, world head- quarters of the RLDS Church. Architect Gyo Obata headed the team that produced the gracefully curving design, which incorporates a natural spiral similar to forms found in sea shells. The temple spire will rise over 300 feet, cap- ping the main sanctuary chamber; a spacious, rounded meeting area with a 200-foot ceiling and seating for 1,800. The natural spiral form of the temple is more than a simple de- sign statement, according to RIDS church President Wallace B. Smith: "By building a temple we are striv- ing to declare that God is active in human history, touching all people at all times. We also are seeking to create space in which the reality of the Divine Presence may be exper- ienced-space which physically bears witness of the incarnation of Jesus Christ in the life of the church,’ he stated in an article in the October 1988 Saints Herald. "The spiral form has a single-point source of origin and emanates out- ward, expanding infinitely without deviating in form .... The spiral is a figure that retains its shape as it grows in one dimension by adding substance at the open end. There is no such thing as a static spiral. And this makes a wonderful sym- bol for the church?’ Planning for the temple site beg~n in 1974, and was accelerated in 1984 with the announcement of RIDS Doctrine and Covenants 156, which induded a descnption of the temple’s purposes: "The temple shall be dedicated to the pursuit of peace_ It shall be for reconciliation and for healing of the spirit. It shall also be for a strengthening of faith and preparation for wimess. By its ministries and attitude of whole- ness of body, mind, and spirit as a desirable end toward which to strive will be fostered" (v. 5). At present the plans are preliminary and are "presented for the consider- ation of the Saints~’ While the temple will have no rites or activities not available else- where, it is seen as a unique, spiritual setting for the develop- ment of the church’s ministry and educational goals. (See SUNSTONE November 1987, for a more com- plete description of the history and meaning of the RIDS temple.) Adjoining the temple will be a wing with offices and classrooms for the Temple School, as well as a library, museum, and reception hall. Con- stmction is scheduled for comple- tion in 1993. Architect’s drawings of RLDS temple scheduled for completion in 1993. PAGE 46 SEPTEMBER 1988

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RLDS ANNOUNCE TEMPLEDESIGN

The schematic design of thetemple planned by the ReorganizedChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter DaySaints has been made public, withconstruction scheduled to begin in1990. The temple will be located inIndependence, Missouri, adjacentto the Auditorium, world head-quarters of the RLDS Church.

Architect Gyo Obata headed theteam that produced the gracefullycurving design, which incorporatesa natural spiral similar to formsfound in sea shells. The templespire will rise over 300 feet, cap-ping the main sanctuary chamber;a spacious, rounded meeting areawith a 200-foot ceiling and seatingfor 1,800.

The natural spiral form of thetemple is more than a simple de-sign statement, according to RIDSchurch President Wallace B. Smith:

"By building a temple we are striv-ing to declare that God is active inhuman history, touching all peopleat all times. We also are seeking tocreate space in which the reality ofthe Divine Presence may be exper-ienced-space which physicallybears witness of the incarnation ofJesus Christ in the life of thechurch,’ he stated in an article inthe October 1988 Saints Herald."The spiral form has a single-pointsource of origin and emanates out-ward, expanding infinitely withoutdeviating in form .... The spiral isa figure that retains its shape as itgrows in one dimension by addingsubstance at the open end. Thereis no such thing as a static spiral.And this makes a wonderful sym-bol for the church?’

Planning for the temple sitebeg~n in 1974, and was acceleratedin 1984 with the announcement ofRIDS Doctrine and Covenants 156,which induded a descnption of thetemple’s purposes: "The templeshall be dedicated to the pursuit ofpeace_ It shall be for reconciliationand for healing of the spirit. It shall

also be for a strengthening of faithand preparation for wimess. By itsministries and attitude of whole-ness of body, mind, and spirit asa desirable end toward which tostrive will be fostered" (v. 5). Atpresent the plans are preliminaryand are "presented for the consider-ation of the Saints~’

While the temple will have norites or activities not available else-where, it is seen as a unique,spiritual setting for the develop-ment of the church’s ministry andeducational goals. (See SUNSTONENovember 1987, for a more com-plete description of the history andmeaning of the RIDS temple.)Adjoining the temple will be a wingwith offices and classrooms for theTemple School, as well as a library,museum, and reception hall. Con-stmction is scheduled for comple-tion in 1993.

Architect’s drawings of RLDS temple

scheduled for completion in 1993.

PAGE 46 SEPTEMBER 1988

CHURCH LEADERS CAMPAIGNAGAINST IDAHO LOTTERY

By Hand Carre

AMID ANGRY allegations regard-ing LDS opposition to gambling,a state lottery initiative passed inIdaho last November 8. The pass-ing vote is accredited by some toa backlash against LDS churchinvolvement with Consider, theanti-lottery organization whichmounted a huge campaign lastsummer.

The controversy stems fromnews reports of fund-raising tech-niques, including assessing dona-tions from wards and stakes, thatimplied official Church endorse-ment of Consider. On 31 October1988, The Idaho Statesmanreported that "much of Consider’swar chest of nearly $500,000 hasbeen raised through the stake andward system of the Church." Thevolatile mixture of religion andpolitics, the article said, was"polarizing what already was aheated issue."

Some political observers havecommented that the "unofficial"Church involvement in the anti-lottery political campaign wassimilar to the organized LDSinfluence in the successful attemptto keep the Equal Rights Amend-ment from being ratified duringthe 1970s.

The Church’s position on thelottery, a political question it con-siders a "moral issue," was unam-biguous. Consider’s executivedirector, Randy Furniss, a Mor-mon, cited a letter from LDS Presi-dent Ezra Taft Benson, dated 26September 1986, just prior to asimilar vote in Idaho when a lot-tery initiative passed by a 60 per-cent majority vote. (It was lateroverturned by an Idaho SupremeCourt ruling). The letter, addressedto Church leaders from GeneralAuthorities to bishops and branchpresidents, urged opposition togambling on moral grounds andexpressed sorrow at seeing

"governments now promotingwhat they once passed laws toprevent."

More recently, the 23 October1988 broadcast of the SundayTabernacle Choir program "Musicand the Spoken Word" includeda well-timed sermon against gam-bling. The broadcast lamented thatmore and more of the estimated1-3 million American pathologicalgamblers are women, "the increasedue in large part because of thelegalization of lotteries, a form ofgambling to which experts saywomen are particularly attracted"and which encourages unrealisticrisk-taking

The "Spoken Word" enumer-ated the theological ramificationsof gambling: "Morally and spiritu-ality, gambling is wrong. Thephilosophy of getting somethingfor nothing [instead of work-ing] ... is at odds with the fun-damental Christian principle of

stewardship .... Even thesacrifice of Jesus Christ-the graceof salvation-is manifested by ourgood works .... Life does nothappen by chance, but by choice.Gambling focuses not on life, buton the trappings of life" (empha-sis in original).

In addition to hearing sermons,some Idaho Church memberswere solicited for contributionsprivately by local Church leadersand some from the pulpit as well.One Pocatello stake presidentassigned each member of thehigh council to donate $100 toConsider.

The Statesman quoted ananonymous LDS man who saidthat requests for donations weremade twice during ward priest-hood meetings. "The thing thatwas most offensive to me was thatit was a bandwagon thing. If you’rean active member of the Church,which I am, you’d best get on thebandwagon and get out yourcheckbook."

The bishopric of the Boise 20thward mailed a letter on Churchstationary, dated 10 September1988, to ward members. "In meet-ings with the area presidency, ourstake presidency committed to

raise funds for Consider," the let-ter read. "The assignment to ourward is to, among its members,raise $2,000 by September 15th."

"The urgency of this request,"the letter continued, "does notallow for individual, person-to-person contact. Please, consideryour resources, decide whatwould be an appropriate responseto this request, and make a con-tribution to Consider. Checksneed to be made out directly toConsider and collected on a wardbasis. They can be turned in to amember of the bishopric or mailedin the enclosed envelope."

Bishop Gordon J. Stevens, whosent the letter, was quoted in theStatesman as saying "We got themoney we were asked for. Therewas no additional request." TedJohnson, Church spokesperson insouthwestern Idaho, who sat onConsider’s board of directors, saidthat although he felt some fund-raising methods were inappropri-ate, "the bishop acted responsibly"by asking ward members to per-sonally weigh what they were ableto give rather than assigningspecific amounts.

"He wasn’t doing anythingdifferent from many other

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ministers of other denominations,"Johnson clarified. "He was urginghis congregation to contribute toa cause he felt was worthy." But,he said, Stevens was not at themeeting with the area presidencyand specific fund-raising goalswere not set between the Churchand Consider.

Johnson said that Consider andlocal Church authorities hadtalked about how they might worktogether, but that all Mormon

leaders who worked with Con-sider did so on their own. "Ourpeople were involved on everylevel. But those involved were act-ing in their private capacities."

Johnson said that in the meet-ing with the area presidency"nothing was said about quotas ormoney. They talked about themoral problems of gambling andencouraged people to getinvolved." He insisted that no offi-cial directive from Church head-

quarters in Salt Lake City had everbeen sent relating to Consider, andthat no Church money funded theorganization.

In fact, Johnson said that Con-sider explicitly refused to takechecks from ward budgets orchecking accounts. He did notrecall whether any such checkshad been received by Consider,but "the suggestion was made andConsider said they would returnthem."

Consider was organized as amulti-denominational group. Itsreligious advisory board includeda Methodist, a Nazarene, an Epis-copalian, a Seventh-day Adventist,a Mormon, and an evangelicalChristian. LDS members make upa significant voting block in thesoutheastern part Idaho.

Consider’s chair, Rev. KenWilde, pastor of Boise’s CapitolChristian Center, said that theanti-Mormon bias in the area had

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From 1981 to 1984 the Sunstone Foundation also published the Sunstone Review. This monthly newsprint periodical combined the featuresfound in national magazines and weekly book reviews into one publication. Regular departments included: Update, news reports on the Church;People, short news stories on visible Mormons; One Fold, news of other churches; Speeches and conferences, reports of LDS gatherings; MormonMedia Image, reports on U.S. media coverage of the Church; Books, reviews of LDS books and general books of interest to the educated Mormon;Articulture, essays on contemporary LDS culture.

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Sundance Film Institute in Utah

MX Fallout in Zion

Klaus J. Hansen’s Mormonism and the AmericanExperience reviewed by James L. Clayton

Thomas L. Shaffer’s On Being a Christian and ALawyer: Law for the Innocent reviewed by ChristineDurham

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Frank Fox’s J. Reuben Clark, The Public Years reviewedby Douglas D. Alder

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1:3 November/December 1981

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"Republican Bias Charged at BYU"

"’Sports: Is There a Scoreboard in Heaven?" byStephen W. Durrant

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"Contraceptives for Teens: Two Views" by SusanRoylance and Stephen Rosenblatt

"’Vernice Pete: A Poet of Conscience" by MarilynArnold

Harold S. Kushner’s When Bad Things Happen to GoodPeople reviewed by Clifton H. Jolley

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"BYU War and Peace Conference"

"Of Latter-day Saint Men, Women and Books" byLeonard Arrington

2:6 June 1982

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"Darwin Experts Lecture in Salt Lake"

"Mormons Plan Private TV Network"

"Women Make Pilgrimage to Relief Society Birthplace"

James Arrington’s Farley Family Reunion reviewed byElouise Bell

2:7 July 1982

"Mormon Church: From Cult to World Faith" bySusan Staker Oman

"’Zion in Gomorrah: Mormons and Gambling in LasVegas, Pt. I" by Bob Gottlieb and Peter Wiley

"Anti-Mormons on the Move" by Lisa Bartow andGary James Bergera

Victor L. Brown’s Human Intimacy: Illusion and Realityreviewed by Marvin Rytting

"Mormon Mushies: The Wonderfu! World of theSugar-Coated" by Pamela Gillie Carson and LavinaFielding Anderson

2:8 August 1982

"Behind the Scenes: The Joseph Smith lll Blessing" byMark Hofmann, Richard Howard, and DonaldSchmidt

"Zion in Gomorrah, Pt. II" by Gottlieb and Wiley

"Recent Shifts in the RLDS Conception of Scripture"by William D. Russell

"Mormon Mushies: Thrills and Spills in the MormonAdventure Novel" by Carson and Anderson

2:9 September 1982

"Libertarians Court Mormons" by John Sillito

"Hunting for LDS Documents" Mark Hofmanninterviews

"Mormon Mushies: A Peck of Pretty Parables Pt. Ill"by Carson and Anderson

"ET: Celluloid Savior" by Marry Nabhan

2:10 October 1982

"Chaim Potok Explores the Dilema of Living in TwoCultures"

Interview with BYU Bookstore Director LindaBrummett

"Mormon Mushies, Part IV" (on Mormon HistoricalRomances) by Carson and Anderson

Michael Novak’s The Spirit of Democratic Capitalismreviewed by Eugene England

SEPTEMBER 1988 PAGE 49

2:12 December 1982

Richard D. Lamm and Michael McCarthy’s How theWest was Sold reviewed by Peter Wiley

"Living in the Shoe: Life in Large Families"

"The Church International ?vlagazine: A ShortenedStride" by Jose Susurro

James Arrington’s J. Golden reviewed by Richard H.Cracroft

3:1 March 1983

"Behind the Denver Post Story" by Susan StakerOman

"BYU Sends Student Paper Walking"

Emma Lou Thayne’s Once i;q Israel reviewed by JamesF. Cartwright

Norman Podhoretz’s Why We Were in Vietnamreviewed by Alan F. Keele

3:4 & 5 April/May 1983

"Mormon Courts Spotlighted" by Thomas Powers

"Love is Not Enough" speech by Arthur Bassett

"B.H. Roberts Society on Discipleship"

"Church, State and Politics"

Mormon Women Speak: A Collection of Essays reviewedby Eugene England

"Wallace Stegner: The Writer as Seer" by GaryTopping

"In Search of the Land of Iv!ormon"

3:6 June 1983

"Plight of the Polygamist"

"Historians Meet at Winter Quarters"

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3:7 & 8 July/August 1983

"Anti-Mormons Gather for Testimonial"

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"B.H Roberts Society: A View of the Church from theOutside"Peter Brown’s The Cult oJ the Saints: Its Rise andFunction in Latin Christianity reviewed by Davis Bitton

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suggested to him that Considermight be viewed as a wing of theLDS church. "We’ve tried to bebroad-based," he said, to counterthat effect.

Such claims were made byLarry La Rocco, chair of Idahoansfor the Lottery, who denouncedthe ecclesiastical influence asunwarranted. "Idahoans don’twant to see laws created with onlyone view involved."

Consider Executive DirectorFurniss commented at the time,"They [the lottery lobby] havenothing positive to say... [but]they’re dropping in the polls andthey have to say something."

Johnson said he felt that the

allegations had fueled an anti-Mormon reaction. Historically, hesaid, "if anyone wants to create adiversion to an issue, they kick theMormons." Although the lotteryinitiative passed by a narrow 3percent margin (significantlydown from the 60-4-0 vote twoyears ago), Johnson suspected thatmany people had voted for the lot-tery simply because Mormonsopposed it.

"I think we had the lead untilthis happened," he said. But hereaffirmed the press release Con-sider gave just after the election,stating that the organizationaccepted the will of the people.

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CATHOLICS ACCEPT MO ON BAPTISMSBy Hand Carr~

In an "official promulgation" on the norms for sacramental prac-tices, Bishop Edward C. O’Leary of the Catholic diocese of Portland,Maine. declared Mormon baptisms to be valid, making theirrecipients Christians, according to Catholic doctrine. Mark Mutty,director of communications for the diocese, noted that the announce-ment, made in The Church World, 14 April 1988, was a restatementof established Catholic doctrine. Father Paul Stefanko of Portlandexplained that the criteria for baptismal validity are the method ofbaptism (immersion. pouring, or sprinkling) and the use of thetrinitarian formula.

Mormons meet the criteria, along with Eastern Orthodox, Adven-tism, Evangelicals, Episcopalians, Baptists, the Polish National church,and manv others. "Churches who do not believe in baptism, orwhose baptisms am considered invalid include: Christian Scientists,Quakers, Salvation Army, Pentecostal Churches, Church of DivineScience, Unitarian-Universalists, Jehovah’s Wimesses," said the article,adding, "the above listing is not intended to be exhaustive."

What does a valid baptism mean in Catholic theology? Accord-ing to Father Francis Mannion of the Salt Lake diocese, "the doc-trine is that any valid baptism brings the person into some kindof relationship with the Catholic Church." But Mormon baptism holdsa peculiar place for the scholar of canon law, because although thetrinitarian formula is undeniably used, the titles Father, Son, andHoly Ghost have considerably different meanings in Mormon the-ology. Therefore, said Father Mannion, "the question becomeswhether the words alone are efficacious, or whether there has to

Mormons in relation to the validity of mamage must be held to bevalid ; in relation to evewthing else. however, it is termed "doubt-ful" (vol. 8 pp. 677-78).

Church tradition establishes certain ramifications when a Catholicmarries a non-Catholic; it makes a difference whether the non-Catholic spouse is considered a baptized Christian, since, in orderfor any Catholic sacrament to be bestowed, the recipient must bebaptized. In the sacrament of marriage, the priest functions as a wit-ness to declare the couple man and wife. but the two parties serveas mimsters to each other.

In all other Catholic sacraments (e.g., the eucharist, confession,last rites), the priest officiates as the minister, and in order to receivethem one must be a member of the Catholic faith. Most non-CatholicChristians who convert to Catholicism go through what is calleda "rite of reception into full communion," said Father Mannion, butthey do not need to be rebaptized if their former baptism is consi-dered valid.

However, the "doubtNl" classification of the LDS baptism makesits case unclear. Father John Hedderman of Salt Lake explained thatmany Mormons who become Catholics are "conditionally

that the rite of reception (essentially the equivalent of confirmation)is sufficient. "The issue has been left hanging for a long time," saidFather Mannion, "and it needs to be resolved." Father Hedderman

be one particular kind of bdief associated with them."The issue is unresolved. Father Stefanko noted that Mormon bap- ily; there should be serious consideration. Of course, the irony is

tisms are determined to be valid chiefly for purposes connected withMormons rebaptize everybody"marriage. The Canon Law Digest declares that "the baptism of the

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Evolution of the Mormon Temple: Endow-ment Ceremony -- David BergerThe Message of the Book of Mormon --Hugh NibleySaving the Constitution or Why UtahMormons Should be Democrats .--E. EnglandPillars of My Faith -- W. Bennett, E. Theng,S. Christensen, A. Starch & H. HunsakerSex and Divine Image-- Paul & MargaretToscanoHow Much Tolerance Can We Tolerate? --A. BassettA Discussion of Michael Quinn’s EarlyMormonism and the Magic World View-S. Ricks, R. Poll, C. Grosebeck, K. Robson& W. WilsonReconstruction of Heaven / My IncompleteJourney to Peace: Feminism and theChurch -- M. Charles & A. CraigFeminist Approaches to Mormon Culture-- L. Bickmore, S. Swenson & S. StakerZion’s Gulag: Reflections on Intellectuals,Inquisition and The Consolation ofPhilosophy- N. ChandlerMormon Neo-Orthodoxy: A NewTheological Movement -- P. Toscano, O.White, J. AIIred & K. RobsonThe Fullness of the Priesthood --.Paul ToscanoMark Hoffman and the MormonManuscript Bombings: Fraud Deficit andDeceit in a Religious Context --J. Heinerman & A. Shupe

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