{"id":14287,"date":"2011-01-26T06:25:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T11:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=14287"},"modified":"2011-01-25T22:22:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T03:22:56","slug":"ward-diversity-specialist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2011\/01\/ward-diversity-specialist\/","title":{"rendered":"Ward Diversity Specialist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14288\" title=\"300px-Renomme\" src=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/300px-Renomme.jpg\" alt=\"300px-Renomme\" width=\"240\" height=\"220\" \/>I&#8217;ve been thinking about Papa D&#8217;s recent post about <a href=\"http:\/\/thingsofmysoul.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/we-must-eradicate-even-subtly-racist.html\">responding to subtle racism in the church<\/a>. How about creating a &#8220;ward diversity specialist&#8221; calling? Points in favor of a ward diversity specialist:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Every calling in the ward has a natural nemesis&#8211;except for the ward preparedness specialist. You know, like the natural enmity between elders quorum president and ward clerk, or between the Relief Society president and the high priests group leader. The diversity specialist would provide a natural foil to the ward preparedness specialist. Problem solved.<\/li>\n<li>Two-thirds of the 3-fold mission have corresponding obnoxious specialist callings that no one listens to. This would complete the missing third!<\/li>\n<li>It gets lonely waiting around to ring the class bell. A ward diversity specialist could provide friendship to the second counselor in the Sunday school presidency while he waits to perform the duties of his calling.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s a perfect fit for the ostracized ward liberal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To be fair, I guess I should consider the cons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This is a calling whose role is to prevent people from offending other people. Unfortunately, the calling&#8217;s very existence is liable to offend a sizable portion of the ward right from the start.<\/li>\n<li>The ward preparedness specialist has the advantage of cool object lessons. In comparison to earthquake simulations, first-aid triage, and knot-tying techniques, the ward diversity specialist&#8217;s lectures on effective forms of interfaith participation will be lacking in dazzle.<\/li>\n<li>Do we really need another &#8220;specialist&#8221; calling?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So there you have it. Is diversity specialist a calling you&#8217;d support creating? One you&#8217;d be interested in serving in?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about Papa D&#8217;s recent post about responding to subtle racism in the church. How about creating a &#8220;ward diversity specialist&#8221; calling? Points in favor of a ward diversity specialist: Every calling in the ward has a natural nemesis&#8211;except for the ward preparedness specialist. You know, like the natural enmity between elders quorum president and ward clerk, or between the Relief Society president and the high priests group leader. The diversity specialist would provide a natural foil to the ward preparedness specialist. Problem solved. Two-thirds of the 3-fold mission have corresponding obnoxious specialist callings that no one listens to. This would complete the missing third! It gets lonely waiting around to ring the class bell. A ward diversity specialist could provide friendship to the second counselor in the Sunday school presidency while he waits to perform the duties of his calling. It&#8217;s a perfect fit for the ostracized ward liberal. To be fair, I guess I should consider the cons: This is a calling whose role is to prevent people from offending other people. Unfortunately, the calling&#8217;s very existence is liable to offend a sizable portion of the ward right from the start. The ward preparedness specialist has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":14288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/300px-Renomme.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14287"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14292,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14287\/revisions\/14292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}