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Lesson Plan: Overview
Author Amy Tan collaborated with friend and composer Stewart Wallace to transform her novel The Bonesetter's Daughter into an opera. Together they embarked on a five-year project that would take them on several journeys to China to discover traditional customs, music and art. This creative process allowed for the traditions to inform and direct the musical and emotional quality of the opera. Go behind the scenes and learn more about the creation of this opera in the documentary, Journey of the Bonesetter's Daughter.
* Please note: Journey of the Bonesetters Daughter contains sensitive content and may not be suitable for all students. Be sure to preview all related online and video content before sharing the film with students. In particular, be aware of references to suicide throughout the film. There are also references to vomit, rape, and the OJ Simpson murder trial, which occur between minutes two and seventeen of the film.
- To inspire students to explore the art of storytelling and the process of working collaboratively
- To foster an appreciation of both Western and Chinese opera and their histories
- To analyze how a story can be retold through different artistic mediums
Grade Ranges
Estimated Time Requirement
5 Hours
Materials Needed
- Access to libraries with up-to-date collections of periodicals, books, and research papers
- Access to recordings of both Western classical and Chinese opera; and a CD player
- Journey of the Bonesetters Daughter film online or on DVD
- Computer with Internet access, web browser, and speakers
Lesson Plan Ideas and Discussion Points
Transforming the story
As Amy Tan says, her story of the Bonesetter's Daughter is emotionally true, if not factually true. She was able to take certain real events, such as the suicide of her grandmother, and turn them into a fictional story without making the narrative completely biographical. Assign your class the task of working collaboratively to transform a short story or fable into another form, such as a song or a poem. Challenge them to distill the essence of the story into simple statements that may or may not rhyme, while maintaining the original characters and essential plot. Next, suggest that students take their own journals and convert portions into a short story of 500 words. They should develop a plot with exposition, tension, climax, and dénouement. Discuss and explore other ways of telling the story through movement, added musical accompaniment, singing the story, etc. Invite students to share or perform their new stories.
Opera and related storytelling traditions
Compare and contrast theatrical traditions of various world cultures. For instance, the Korean pansori tradition features a singer who stands in the center of a circle and the only prop used is a fan. She is accompanied by a single percussionist who follows her vocals. Compare this to other Asian vocal forms such as Chinese opera, and Japanese noh or kyogen. Break up the class into three groups and have students work together to conduct their research. Allow each group to give oral presentations to the class on their findings, including musical examples and pictures. To be included in their research are the history, vocal styles, common plots, and character types.
How does it make you feel?
Compare Western opera with contemporary musical theater, such as Cats, High School Musical, The Phantom of the Opera, or West Side Story. Bring musical examples to class of famous operatic arias and songs from musicals, or watch a musical and an opera in their entirety over the course of several weeks. Invite students to take notes on their responses and observations. Lead a discussion on the emotional impact of the music, as well as students' likes and dislikes. Encourage students to be specific about their descriptions to develop critical viewing and listening skills. Because opera includes many different elements, be sure to use musical, theatrical and linguistic terminology during the discussion, such as volume; dynamics; range and types of singers; use of staging and costumes; clarity of diction; plot and character development; antagonist and protagonist; and instrumentation and orchestration.
Activity Extensions
- Compare the differences and similarities between Chinese and Western opera.
Analyze the plot and compare vocal technique; theatrical concepts; staging; costumes; classic archetypes; use of masks and makeup; and orchestral instrumentation and accompaniment. Extend this idea to other forms of Asian opera or musical storytelling, comparing and contrasting the dramatic arts of Japan, Korea, and India.
- Act out a story collaboratively and individually.
Pick any favorite story or folk tale and act it out using different musical themes for the individual characters and moments in the story. Assign some students the role of actors, and others the role of musicians who must provide the background music. Allow time for the whole ensemble to play together, as well as solo performance time for individual students.
Resources: Texts
- Shih Chung-wen, The Golden Age of Chinese Drama. Princeton University Press. 1976
- Tan, Amy. The Bonesetter's Daughter. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 2001
This Educator Guide was developed and written by educator Sabra Weber.
For additional classroom content, please visit PBS Teachers and KQED Education.
An extended version of this Educator Guide can be found at KQED Spark.


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Of all the neighborly folk on "The Real Housewives of Orange County," the last one I'd have pegged to punch someone would have been Kimberly Bryant's husband.
But the seemingly docile Scott Bryant could go to jail for allegedly slugging a one-time friend at a party in Coto. A female friend.
Wonder why that wasn't mentioned by Bravo last week when it announced "Housewives" has been picked up for a second season? Could it be because Kimberly (the blondest and buxomest one, best distinguished by her D-cup implants and her infamous contention that 85 percent of Coto women have enlargements) is the one housewife who won't be back?
After all, when you have the guy who could be the new "bad boy" of the series in your grasp (even if he is a pudgy, middle-aged guy portrayed as so milquetoast he lets his wife do the dirty dancing thing with studs and freaks from Newport to Cabo), to get the viewership all worked up only to then concede you didn't sign him to Season 2 - well, that's not the greatest P.R. move.
Fortunately, in his last great P.R. move for the O.C. Sheriff's Department, Jon Fleischman last week caused to come into my possession some details of the case. The rest were filled in by an eyewitness and the alleged victim, Jana Kindchadwick, a 42-year-old fitness club manager.
The Bryants may have already split for Chicago, which is reportedly the reason they left the show. I tried to find them, leaving messages on their voicemail and with their Realtor, but have heard nothing.
Fortunately, Kindchadwick was able to provide Scott Bryant's reasoning - at least as she says it was relayed to her by a deputy who talked to him: Bryant felt the need to defend himself because Kindchadwick is a bodybuilder. Which, by the way, she is not. On the offchance this defense doesn't fly, we will have done well to have reviewed the case. Shall we?
Kindchadwick says she and the Bryants were friends once. In fact, Kimberly once asked her whether she'd be interested in going on the show. Kindchadwick replied she wanted nothing to do with it. The friendship cooled, she said, but things remained amicable until June 10.
Remember how in an earlier "Housewives" column, I wrote of the summer concert series at the Golf & Racquet Club, and how those and the associated parties resemble a San Diego State frat kegger, only everyone is now in their 40s and 50s, wears shoes and would sooner drink radiator fluid than Lucky Lager? Well, on June 10, Creedence Clearwater Revisited (that is, no Fogertys) played the club.
Afterward, Kindchadwick went to a post-concert party at a friend's house. Soon, the Bryants showed up - uninvited, according to the hostess, Janine Sabella. A bad moon was, indeed, on the rise.
Kimberly, Sabella says, "walked in as though she was a celebrity and took up a position near the bar," where she held court. Sabella says Kimberly was drinking cocktails, but didn't appear drunk. She wasn't, however, on her best behavior.
"She insulted a friend of mine, Bridget, about her hair extensions. She asked where she'd had them done and made Bridget feel so bad she considered going home."
At one point, it got back to Kindchadwick that Kimberly had told people that TV network "attorneys are watching" Kindchadwick - for reasons that are fuzzy. What is clear is that Kindchadwick tried to confront Kimberly about it. Kimberly ignored her, she says, refusing to turn to face her.
At that point, Kindchadwick says, she poured a small cup of Red Bull on the back of Kimberly's head.
"I was upset because she started talking trash ... and didn't have the backbone to acknowledge it," says Kindchadwick, who told me she was not drinking alcohol that night.
Kimberly did nothing, Kindchadwick said, and continued to ignore her. About a half-hour went by and there were no repercussions, and Kindchadwick said she thought that would be the end of it.
What she didn't know was that the normally mild-manned Scott Bryant had yet to learn of the incident.
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Anyone eat here yet? My kids and I love ribs and barbque but I would like someone's opinion first.
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i've noticed a few other Jim Dandy's around recently. i guess they're expanding.
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Sephro, a magical planet, guided by powerful Deities. Earth, beautiful, enduring, surviving. Two planets. Craela, a young Sephron teenager, is tormented by an event from her past that haunts her dreams. Yet she is determined to overcome this trauma and prove to herself that she does have the strength to move on. Unbeknownst to all but a few, Craela is taking soultravelling journeys at night to meet Cryss, a teenager from Earth. Their connection heals Craela more than she dreamed was possible. Cryss, too, is healed by Craela's powerful love...
EARTH Cooney's Coffee, year: 2008 Cryss sat at the coffee bar stuffing a pastry into his mouth…his third one. He felt full and sick. He didn't care, though. His parents were back at the house talking intensely about what his mother had said the night before, and Epona was in the coffee house with Cryss, working behind the counter. She was trying to give Crystonian and Aera space. Whatever….Cryss didn't want to be there. He knew he should visit Craela, but something held him back. He decided instead to meet his friend Lugh, Epona's son. He'd been neglecting him as it were. Thank the Goddess Epona was so forthright, and Lugh not only knew all about Sephro, but believed and wanted to help them. It freaked him out….but he didn't want to be left out of the action. He would be going to Sephro with the rest of them. Cryss vaguely wondered how they were going to get there. Teleportation? Would a Sephron come over and take them that way? That's what he figured, but he'd ask Craela later. If I ever see her again after last night….. "Hey there," said a voice behind him. Cryss nearly spilled his latte as he turned around and faced his best friend since he was a child. "Lugh, don't scare me like that!" he said sharply. "This latte's expensive." "Ah, you can afford it," Lugh said winking and grinning. Cryss made a teasing motion as if to throw the latte at him. "Yeh….I suppose I can," he said reflectively. "It's the one good thing around here. We never really hurt for money. Me Da's herb business and all. Basil and rosemary are really selling well these days." "True," said Lugh, pulling up a chair. "So, what's up, bro?" "Well," said Cryss, "Um….I don't know where to begin." "Mam told me what your mam said last night," Lugh said quietly and sympathetically, "About how she would be staying here while your da goes and all…." His voice trailed off. He didn't want to mention Sephro in a public place. Cryss looked ahead, then shook his head and pounded his fist on the table, spilling more of his latte. "I can't believe her!" he shouted. People turned around and looked at him. He cringed. "Um….can we go someplace else?" he said to Lugh. "Got the car, got a full tank of gas. We can go to the woods where it's private." "Good. Wicked. Let's do it." Cryss stepped down from the stool, with a nod to Epona. The two young men left the coffee shop. They walked in the bright sunshine toward Lugh's car, a beat up old Opel, made in perhaps 2000. Cryss smirked at Lugh, and Lugh just grinned. Cryss knew Lugh loved his little car. They got in, Lugh started the engine, and they drove away. "Lugh, your driving is horrible as usual, bro!" Cryss said. "Why don't you let ME have the wheel?" Lugh swerved from one side of the road to the other, laughing as he did so. "What, in the state you're in? I'd rather let a drunk drive this car," Lugh said. "You sure you're not drunk?" "I never drink that stuff. Yech. Gives me a headache!" "You're lucky," Cryss said softly. A year ago, he'd had a bad experience with drinking, and since sworn off of it. It had nearly cost him and someone else their lives. He thought of his father, a recovering drug addict, who had, because of this, had to give up drinking as well. He went to the 12-step meetings, the whole shebang, but Cryss was frightened for him now. All this stress with his mother….and Sephro and this huge life change, Cryss desperately hoped his father wouldn't relapse. Not that he had any reason to think he would. Crystonian had never been drunk in front of his son. But Cryss knew what drunk looked like, having gone to some parties in his young life. One girl's mam was such an alcoholic, she downed a whole bottle of wine, then ended up screaming about the house burning down, even though nothing of the sort had been happening. His father had been looking pretty shaken up lately….all this Sephro stuff on his shoulders, and Mam…. "Hey," said Lugh seriously, slowing down the car. "You don't think your Da…." "Stop reading my thoughts, Lugh!" Cryss snapped, but he grinned at his friend to take the sting out of his words. "No, seriously, I don't even want to think that far. I'll kick his arse if I catch him drinking, or worse, smoking crack. He better stay clean….this whole thing depends on everyone being cool." "You couldn't be more right," Lugh said, pulling into a secluded spot in the woods where they often went when they wanted to get away from it all. Lugh shuddered, and gripped the wheel for a moment. "Cryss this is freakin' weird, man!" "I know," Cryss said putting a hand on his shoulder. "I know." "What the--I mean, they wanna start a new planet, man!" Lugh cried, pushing his fingers through his afro as he spoke. "Jondu….jeezus criminy! What kinda psycho IS this Jondu?!" He sighed, and pounded his fist on the steering wheel. "Ugh. I'm sorry, Cryss, I'm here to listen to you, not start buggin' out all over the place." "S'ok," said Cryss feeling kind of empty inside. He wanted to talk to Lugh, yet another part of him wanted to go home and be alone. Now was not the time to shut people out, though. His mam was doing a good enough job of that. "Look….I know Mam's hurting," Cryss said in a tight voice. "Lorianna and all that…they were real close at one point. Lor had supposedly looked up to Mam. But she was just faking the whole bloody thing." He sighed, pushing his hands through his hair. "But Jeezus Christ, Lugh! She's shutting me out, shutting Da out, wanting to stay here while we go to Sephro…." "I know," Lugh said, putting an arm around his shoulders. "I know, man." "Lugh--don't be so physical, willya?" The words were out of his mouth before Cryss could stop them. Lugh pulled back and stared at him, hurt crossing his face. Cryss quickly tried to remedy his mistake. "No, Lugh, I'm sorry. Don't get upset. Just--I'm freaked out and I don't know what I'm sayin', ok? Ok?"
DRUANA KERRIDWEN: Born on February 28th, Druana Kerridwen had always been fascinated by fantasy and science fiction. She has written stories since she was six years old. Writing has always been a part of her, as has music. A singer and composer, Kerridwen has had the opera version of "Sephro: The Connection," or "Sephro," as it was marketed, performed with the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, 2010. She went by the name Kate Quinn then. She considers herself blessed, and hopes she can continue to grow in the way she is meant to. She lives in Philadelphia, PA. with her husband John and six beautiful cats.
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October 30. 2013 5:31PM
UPDATED: After autopsy, shooting death of Hinsdale man, 26, ruled a homicide
HINSDALE— The shooting death of a 26-year-old Marine from Hinsdale on Oct. 13 during what authorities said was a "family dispute" has been ruled a homicide.
The Attorney General's Office announced Wednesday that an autopsy conducted two weeks ago on the body of Dustin Curtiss determined the cause of his death was gunshot wounds to the torso and upper extremities, the manner of his death was homicide.
No one has been arrested in connection with the shooting and the state police investigation is ongoing, Geoffrey Ward, assistant attorney general said Wednesday.
In the Wednesday press release, authorities said Curtiss was killed "during the course of an apparent family dispute that turned violent."
In legal terms, homicide means someone's death was caused by another person.
These preliminary autopsy results pertain to cause and manner of death, but do not reveal any drug or alcohol levels, Ward said.
"We don't have a final autopsy report, which would generally, any autopsy, would include toxicology," Ward said. "We look forward to reviewing the completed final autopsy report."
He would not say if there were any suspects, what type of gun had been used or if the weapon was recovered from the scene.
Ward would not say how many family members were a part of the dispute.
He would not say how much longer the investigation would take, but that investigators are working quickly and diligently to complete it.
After the shooting, Curtiss was taken to Brattleboro Memorial Hospital in Vermont, and then transferred to UMass Medical Center in Worcester, Mass., where he was pronounced death.
The autopsy was conducted by the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner on Oct. 15.
More than 200 people attended funeral services for Curtiss, who was married and had a young daughter. He had recently left the Marines after serving for eight years, according to a family friend, who said Curtiss was a dedicated Marine who loved his family and many friends.
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Would Honest Mormons Leave if they Knew? No.
Why Aren't More LDS Members Affected?
An increasing number of faithful Latter-day Saints are discovering facts about the Church and its history on the Internet or other sources, and these facts sometimes contradict the assumptions that they had grown up believing. Why aren't more LDS members concerned about this new and supposedly contradictory information? Are the majority of Mormons simply afraid of discovering that they have sacrificed so much for nothing or perhaps participated in an evil religion? Are they simply hiding their heads in the sand to avoid the inevitable cognitive dissonance?
Many Exmormons would claim that any honest Mormon, when learning what they have learned, would leave the church as they have. They believe that any member of the church exposed to this information and not shaken by it must be covering their ears and eyes, so to speak, to avoid serious consideration of the facts. But is that really the case? And what about the thousands of intelligent adults, with access to the Internet, who are joining the church each year even after learning critical arguments from enemies of the Church?
I have often asked myself why exposure to this new information in Church history has not shaken my faith. I have not avoided investigating critics' claims. In fact, I have gone against caution from leaders and family at times to dive in headfirst, researching issues, discussing with members and those of other faiths, and generally learning all I could. Yet I still remain confident in my testimony.
It's not that I never doubt my beliefs; I have doubted a lot of things I have learned in the Church. It is not because I have always been pure and righteous. I have been exposed to new, scandalous historical evidence at times when I have drifted far from the spirit. I have always taken very seriously the Church's claims, yet I have never been seriously shaken by the things that are challenging so many others today.
This isn't because I somehow never grew up with or made false assumptions, because I have. It certainly is not because I have a superior intellect or, for that matter, not (I hope) because I might have an inferior one. I have found investigating these realities, made to seem scandalous by critics, not only enjoyable and mentally stimulating but also quite faith promoting at times. So what is the difference between the Saints who are shaken and those who aren't shaken by new information or new claims?
Four Reasons for Doubting or Not
These four foundational perspectives, if understood, should aid those who struggle with these issues and inoculate those who have yet to be exposed:
• Logical fallacies: red herrings and straw men
• Why wasn't I taught this?
• Prophets changing their minds
• The false dichotomy between faith and reason
Red Herrings and Straw Men
What makes virtually all of the critic's challenges red herrings is that they focus on issues that are nonessential to the gospel plan, diverting us from the relevant issues. Years before the Internet, I had a very intelligent friend on the "fringe" ask me what I thought of the Adam-God Doctrine. I told him that for me it was an interesting mental and intellectual exercise to figure out. He looked at me incredulously and asked how I could consider so lightly a topic that the scriptures took so seriously. "Didn't Jesus say it is Eternal Life to Know God?" he asked. I said, "Knowing God is not about knowing which name he may be called or how he came to be God. It is only about knowing and acquiring his attributes to become like him." So it really didn't matter whether Brigham Young was right or wrong on this issue or what we conclude about it.
When the critics attack the Book of Abraham, they usually criticize how we got the book, challenging things that neither side can prove. In the process, they assume that what Egyptologists knew ten years ago is all we know today or will ever be known. Their concerns are rarely about the book's contents and real message. They avoid the spiritual realities and the comparisons of the new doctrines and information revealed there to ancient extra-biblical accounts not known by Joseph Smith.
It is the same with the Book of Mormon. The proof test of this Book is to read it sincerely with pure intent and see how it affects your life spiritually. After careful study and pondering its spiritual message, pray to know if it is of God. That is the real truth claim of all books of scripture. The critics make it about the archaeology, geography, artifacts and how Joseph translated it. They present arguments as though the claim of the Book of Mormon is something different than it really is, which makes them straw man arguments more easily torn down because they are arguing against a false premise.
The Book of Mormon does not claim to be a geography book, an anthropological study of the early inhabitants in the Americas, or a dissertation on their implements of war. It only claims to be a book that includes teachings of ancient prophets who lived somewhere in the Americas anciently and promises to bring us closer to Christ. Many claims of critics are based on the fallacy that absence of evidence is evidence of absence. But only on spiritual terms can we prove or disprove its authenticity, thus making their claims irrelevant to the veracity of latter day scripture. This is the kind of thing Jesus was referring to when he warned against straining at gnats while swallowing camels, because many of the questions are unanswerable and irrelevant to the subject matter of what is being criticized.
Why Wasn't I Taught This?
The false paradigm involved in all of the challenges is the idea that the church has hidden this stuff from us and the Internet is exposing the cover up. The chief cause of this misunderstanding is the fact that our history is just so rich and relatively recent. Imagine the dirt that critics could dig up on the original apostles or even Jesus if we had as much of their history available as we do of Christ's latter-day church.
The fact is, we simply have way too much information to learn in order to know everything necessary to counter what a critic could dig up from our numerous records to challenge us on. Even if members of the church could memorize half of the Journal of Discourses and half of the Joseph Smith Papers, critics could still have a hayday picking unknown facts from what we still don't know, present them in a scandalous way and then claim the Church is hiding it from us. Moreover, the critics almost always present these arguments out of context with the text, culture, and history. They often present these things in an anachronistic way.
Can Prophets Change Their Minds or Make Mistakes?
This issue is probably the most difficult to understand. It involves a paradigm that causes concern when Church leadership issues policy changes or when some of them speculate with their strong opinions about unrevealed reasons for things. The "Mormon Challenges" involved here, for instance, are the changes in policy on plural marriage, on blacks holding the priesthood, or even the positions people expect the Church to change like gay marriage and women holding the priesthood.
People who struggle here assume that since the first two policies were changed, then the second two will be as well. They think that either the brethren were right in saying the prophet will never lead us astray and therefore such policies should never change, or if they change one such policy, then nothing they say can be trusted. If God commands us to follow the prophet, they expect the prophet will never make mistakes in anything.
The reality we must understand is that God allows his prophets to be as human–to mess up–as much as possible, as long as it doesn't truly disrupt His plan and lead the Church down the wrong path. This can still be the church run by Jesus with fallible men as prophets, seers and revelators. Actually, this is exactly how the church has been run since 1830 and even since the beginning of the Old Testament. Remember how God allowed the great prophet Moses to run things for awhile without revealing to him how to delegate? He then inspired a humble priest of Midian to instruct his prophet on the subject. This is obviously how Christ has chosen to run his church. Look at its fruits and judge if Christ was wise in choosing this path for his church.
Also, what needs to be understood to avoid these difficult ordeals with cognitive dissonance is that none of these issues of changing policy has anything to do with what we need to know to come unto Christ or become more like him. And isn't that the mission of the church? No doctrines have changed. It has only been policy or implementation of doctrine based on circumstances at the time that have changed. Even the policy on withholding the priesthood from blacks has never been admitted to be wrong. Only the assumptions of why and when. A big cause of this problem is pride. We get so invested in our theory or assumption that if the brethren act in a way that challenges it, they must be wrong.
Faith vs. Reason — A False Dichotomy
Many critics believe that when the brethren encourage us to choose faith over doubt, they are using a straw man argument. Their position is faith vs. reason, not doubt. They teach that reasoning from empirical evidence experienced through the five senses is the only way of discerning truth. They reject the spiritual realities that believers see as just as relevant to discerning truth. It is true that some people find it comforting that since they have faith, they don't have to bother with all the mental labor involved in logic and reason. Those people truly are relying on "blind faith". That is not the kind of faith encouraged and even commanded by Joseph Smith, his successors, or scripture.
It is interesting that church critics seek to discredit the value of feelings and emotions in seeking truth, while at the same time attempting to attack the church using arguments which rely on feelings and emotions. The accusations of Joseph Smith lying or womanizing, or modern leaders hiding information and deceiving people, are only legitimate concerns because they strike a deep seeded moral chord which would be irrelevant if personal feelings and an internal sense of right and wrong were discarded.
This is what commonly happens. A person gains a testimony of Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon through study and prayer. They become aware of spiritual stirrings and feelings they believe can't be denied. They discover that as they obey those promptings and feelings of conscience that their lives are enriched. They nourish the seed and it grows. Then, at some point, they are confronted with what appears to be empirical evidence that on the surface shows Joseph Smith or something that came from him to be a fraud. Since it takes far more research and effort to defend such claims than to assert them and since this person is not well versed in history and is not a scholar, he is at a disadvantage on the rational empirical side of the issue. The presenter of these new facts emphasizes the idea that you can only be sure of what you can physically discern and previous spiritual witnesses must have just been imagined. But then this champion of doubt reminds the person of the same source of right and wrong that helped this person recognize the truths of the gospel, as reasons to condemn those who revealed it. Without realizing it, the new doubter angrily rejects the sources of his earlier spiritual enlightenment based on morals he learned from that same source of enlightenment.
What we learn from this is that those on both sides of the argument value the spirit as a source of discerning truth. Those who criticise Joseph Smith and the Church, however, deny its relevance and are often unaware of their inconsistent position. We all need to remember that the path of faith is a rational one. In fact it is the most rational one. To ignore the role of the spirit in teaching us truth is unreasonable and unnecessary.
We also need to remember that in addition to laboring in our ability to reason with our minds we need to nurture our spiritual nature. The most effective way to do that is to become aware of ways we can do better at obeying our conscience. We need to ask ourselves, how can I behave differently to be a better person. If we ask this kind of question while in prayer or at the temple or during scripture study it is even more effective. The answer to such a question is always right in front of us. It is so obvious we sometimes miss it. We know very well things we can change to be better. That awareness is revelation directly to us from our maker.
Whenever we stretch out of our comfort zone to better obey our conscience, that light of Christ becomes brighter in all areas of our life and we are better able to discern and know how to act when confronted with facts that seem to contradict teachings of the church. If we follow this pattern with patience and humility, the answers will come, often a lot sooner than we might expect.
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One side can indeed prove their case regarding the Book of Abraham. We can prove Smith copied and pasted from the scroll fragments to incorrectly fill in the pieces of the facsimiles. We know the astronomy taught by Abraham is reflective of the science accepted in Joseph Smith's time, but no longer today. We know God is not Min. We know the BoA is mostly a copy and paste of the bible – what's odd about that is Smith translated the BOM (500+ pages) in a few months but the BoA (50 pages?) in 9 months or so. We know the papyrus Smith said was the BoA doesn't even mention the name Abraham – if fact it's a common breathing permit for a man named Horus.
We may not know every thing about Egyptology, but we know enough – just like we may not know all of mathematics, but we know 2 + 2 is 4, and that's what we have here.
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Your very first point caught my attention. In the case of the BoA, are you saying that the end justifies the means? This "red herring" has some pretty serious implications. I would love to hear what you think about the kinderhook plates that Joseph miraculously translated. If you aren't familiar with it, I would suggest reading about it. It clearly shows that he was willing to make up stuff when he thought no one else could understand what was written.
So if the prophet Joseph Smith told you that marrying him and cutting off your earthly marriage was absolutely essential to your salvation,
That issue isn't essential to your salvation? Celestial marriage is still a very relevant issue to the plan of salvation. Joseph taught his potential brides that there was no other way for them to be saved, and if they didn't enter into the principle, the gates of heaven would be closed to them.
Unjustifiably denying people saving ordinances based on their genetic heritage is also very relevant to an individual's salvation. If you're Anglo, it may not be directly relevant to your own salvation, but you should consider it a red flag, not a red herring.
Thanks for your conceptual principles post. I have also done a lot of digging on the internet in coming to terms with my faith. The more I dig the more I realize how human Joseph Smith was and yet how much he accomplished. The faith of those who lived the history strengthens my convictions. One simple fact that never ceases to amaze me is this: If Joseph Smith was a fraud, then so were the 11 other witnesses. The 3 witnesses were true to their claims of angelic ministry to their dying breath, even after having left the church. Imagine the riches that they could have made by exposing the "hoax". They didn't. Two returned humbly to the fold and the other defended his eyewitness account until the end. I like Isaiah's take on latter day occurrences: And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains". & Revelation: "And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,"
Thanks for the uplifting comment Brian. Not only would the official witnesses of the plates be in on the fraud, but so many others who witnessed more than enough and after leaving the church didn't mention many of the scandalous accusations today's critics come up with. A couple obvious examples of this are the Kinderhook plates and the assumed evolving story of the First Vision.