{"id":42283,"date":"2021-12-06T13:43:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T18:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.timesandseasons.org\/?p=42283"},"modified":"2021-12-05T16:25:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T21:25:31","slug":"to-whom-it-may-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2021\/12\/to-whom-it-may-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTo Whom It May Concern\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve said it before, and I\u2019ll say it again, that I find it odd that Official Declaration 1, Official Declaration 2, and the Articles of Faith are all crammed into one week while The Family: A Proclamation to the World gets its own week.\u00a0 I mean, the Articles of Faith alone has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/42238\">two<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/deseretbook.com\/p\/new-witness-articles-faith-bruce-r-mcconkie-2692?variant_id=108828-paperback\">major<\/a> classic Latter-day Saint books that focus on discussing and extrapolating from the document in great detail, each of which could function as a manual for Sunday School for a year on their own.\u00a0 Official Declarations 1 and 2 both deal with major topics in Church history.\u00a0 Official Declaration 2, for example, provides a great opportunity to discuss racism and address the issue.\u00a0 It\u2019s a lot to merely gloss over in one week, particularly in a year where there really isn\u2019t an overabundance of material to read through.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I\u2019m working on some more substantive posts to cover this week\u2019s topics, but for now, here are some of my major posts relating to the topics of each of the sections we\u2019re discussing in \u201cCome, Follow Me\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Articles of Faith:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesandseasons.org\/harchive\/2020\/06\/fundamental-principles-of-mormonism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fundamental Principles of Mormonism<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Official Declaration 1:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesandseasons.org\/harchive\/2020\/03\/embracing-jacobs-sermon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Embracing Jacob\u2019s Sermon<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Official Declaration 2:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesandseasons.org\/harchive\/2020\/07\/all-are-alike-unto-god\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">All Are Alike Unto God<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesandseasons.org\/harchive\/2020\/08\/reconsidering-the-curse-of-cain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reconsidering the Curse of Cain<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesandseasons.org\/harchive\/2020\/09\/reconsidering-the-curse-of-ham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reconsidering the Curse of Ham<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Family: A Proclamation to the World:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesandseasons.org\/harchive\/2020\/09\/come-follow-me-and-the-family-a-proclamation-to-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cCome, Follow Me\u201d and The Family: A Proclamation to the World<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve said it before, and I\u2019ll say it again, that I find it odd that Official Declaration 1, Official Declaration 2, and the Articles of Faith are all crammed into one week while The Family: A Proclamation to the World gets its own week.\u00a0 I mean, the Articles of Faith alone has two major classic Latter-day Saint books that focus on discussing and extrapolating from the document in great detail, each of which could function as a manual for Sunday School for a year on their own.\u00a0 Official Declarations 1 and 2 both deal with major topics in Church history.\u00a0 Official Declaration 2, for example, provides a great opportunity to discuss racism and address the issue.\u00a0 It\u2019s a lot to merely gloss over in one week, particularly in a year where there really isn\u2019t an overabundance of material to read through. In any case, I\u2019m working on some more substantive posts to cover this week\u2019s topics, but for now, here are some of my major posts relating to the topics of each of the sections we\u2019re discussing in \u201cCome, Follow Me\u201d &nbsp; Articles of Faith: Fundamental Principles of Mormonism Official Declaration 1: Embracing Jacob\u2019s Sermon Official Declaration 2: All Are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10397,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2895],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-come-follow-me-currculum"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42283","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\/10397"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42283"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42286,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42283\/revisions\/42286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}