I was curious. Our minister took a moment to invite everyone to join in the pray in of "prophetic grief"
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Prophetic-Grief/304731042984458

We prayed together and then those with devices handy joined in.

We acknowledged those among us of African descent, we acknowledged that racism exists and that no one is safe. We sang Lift Every Voice and Sing. We resolved to move forward in love and to be active in routing out racism. Our closing prayer ended with the injunction to "Love the hell out of our country."

I was glad to be there.

What's that? The primary kids sang and I got a Hershey Chocolate bar.

Nothing at my ward. Our ward did not even give the father's anything for Father's Day!! Cheapskates!!

If they have out chocolate every week I could believe again.

no mention of Charleston, the fam said the topic was the "trek." pulling wheel barrows around in the dirt out in Wyoming somewhere? for what reason, I couldn't say?

Our minister opened the service with a reading, candleighting and minute of silence for the victims of Wednesday's tragedy. Not LDS, obviously. Then after services, anyone who wanted to join in a circle discussion was invited to stay and we had a great discussion.

We prayed for those in Charleston it the part of our service called "The Prayers of the People." I am no longer LDS.



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http://gracechurchcharleston.org/

Quite a contrast to LDS silence. Not to mention the DesNews editorial that tried to spin the shooting as an attack on religion.

There was mention of it here. Which is pretty obvious as this is Charleston. The entire stake had an additional Fast Sunday today.

May I ask: Was there any talk of committing any of that extra fasting $ to any cause that could be helpful to the people affected by the shooting? Or to any that might be exploring ways to prevent future acts of hate and racism?

'Cause if not, it would look an awful lot like tscc was attempting to profit from such a tragedy.

Highly doubt the money will be directed towards anything but tscc.

It was mentioned at length, even though the church services are over for the rest of the summer and they are having a UU lecture series. I would have been astonished had it not been mentioned.

Racism was deplored, we were asked to keep the grieving families in our hearts, there was a condolence card that anyone could sign after the lecture, and if anyone wished to donate to Emmanuel AME, they would forward the donations with the card. Not all that complicated, really.

Linda Newell happened to be in attendance (her husband Jack was today's lecturer) and she announced that the Episcopal Diocese (I think) was organizing a protest against gun violence next Sunday morning (7:45 am?) at the Salt Palace.

In truth, it doesn't feel like all that much to me, but it was something.

Nope. It's not mormon-faith promoting and won't increase tithing revenue.