LDS General Conference from the Inside

April 06, 2011 by James Faulconer

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In liturgy we are brought before God, not just I, and brought together before him we know and can say things we could not know or say otherwise. General Conference is such a gathering. Sometimes we are gathered in grand and glorious ways. More often we do so as faltering human beings with faltering expressions of the glory we have received and have to give. Our falterings may make that glory difficult to see, even from within, but the glory is there in spite of us, and it can be seen if we do not resist it.

In our almost invisible liturgy Mormons worship God and recognize each other. We could always improve on its aspects, but only someone who hears the music of Mormonism from without rather than from within could wish to simply dismiss any of its parts.

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About James Faulconer

James Faulconer is a Richard L. Evans Professor of Religious Understanding at Brigham Young University, where he has taught philosophy since 1975.

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