BYU
Religious Education Fall 2011
Review
President Gordon B. Hinckley on Religious Outreach I have been very much inspired and motivated by the words of President Gordon B. Hinckley concerning our collective responsibilities to reach out to people of other faiths. The following are excerpts given by President Hinckley. “Let us be good citizens of the nations in which we live. Let us be good neighbors in our communities. Let us acknowledge the diversity of
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our society, recognizing the good in all people. We need not make any surrender of our theology. But we can set aside any element of suspicion, of provincialism, of parochialism” (Gordon B. Hinckley, in Conference Report, April 1997, 116). “We can respect other religions and must do so. We must recognize the great good they accomplish. We must teach our children to be tolerant and friendly toward those not of our faith. We can and do work with those of other religions in the defense of those values which have made our civilization great and our society distinctive” (Gordon B. Hinckley, in Conference Report, April 1998, 3). “Our membership has grown. I believe it has grown in faithfulness. . . . Those who observe us say that we are moving into the mainstream of religion. We are not changing. The world’s perception of us is changing. We teach the same doctrine. We have the same organization. We labor to perform the
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Fiji, Zimbabwe, Micronesia, Sri Lanka, B angladesh, Tanzania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Morocco, Tunisia, and many more. After the United States, Brazil is the country with the next most visitors, followed by Great Britain. When you combine countries, Spanish-speaking countries come in second behind English speaking countries. Since visitors from the United States visit the site more often than any other country, let’s examine
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Q&A The importance of Ritual: A Conversation with Daniel L. Belnap 5
RSC Update: A Worldwide Tool Since its debut three years ago, the Religious Studies Center (RSC) website has become a successful tool for researchers, teachers, scholars, historians, educators, and members of the Church all around the world. People from almost 150 countries have viewed the site during the last thirty days. People who visited the site are from countries as far away as Barbados, Kenya, India, Russia, Indonesia, Israel, Malaysia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia,
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the top ten states that visit the RSC site: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
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