Comments on: Top Church News Stories Of 2008

By: queuno

queuno — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:29:06 +0000

I still find it amazing they picked a downtown location about four blocks north of City Hall (427 N. Broad Street).

Hmm. We have an office practically across the street at a vendor. So maybe I’ll be able to go up to Philly for work and hit a session during a break, and only walk a few hundred feet…

By: Ardis Parshall

Ardis Parshall — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:09:11 +0000

Yeah, whatever happened to that guy anyway? I hear that no matter how many buttons he popped with pride, he still makes his rounds of gas stations and restaurants with a car full of treasure. Sort of like Santa and his sleigh, come to think of it.

By: Bookslinger

Bookslinger — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:56:35 +0000

Imagine how that guy, whose blog Elder Ballard read, must feel. I bet he’s got a swelled head.

By: annegb

annegb — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:39:19 +0000

I know I was bragging all over the planet about Elder Ballard’s talk and that I knew exactly who he was talking about. And it felt good to point out the talk to people who thought I’d gone off the deep end (as they’d always expected) for blogging.

By: Sarahcuda

Sarahcuda — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:22:19 +0000

how about

“Bloggernacle becomes insufferably self-congratulatory after Elder Ballard mentions blogging in a talk.”

By: Devyn S.

Devyn S. — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:48:46 +0000

John – however, I think that one persons boredom is another’s news. You could spin even the recent election as merely electing a liberal Democrat as the republicans screwed up. I think taking this approach diminshes the excitement of the news story. So while a 98 year old man dying is not necessarily newsworthy, it is when it is someone whom we revere as a prophet. So like most things, I guess it is in the eyes of the beholder.

By: John Mansfield

John Mansfield — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:37:21 +0000

Ann has a point with comment 17, and yet every one of those items except Joseph Wirthlin’s death received dozens of column-inches or more in the Washington Post. In general, it sometimes feels like newspaper editors could have written several dozen headlines three months ago and then pulled out this morning the ones that fit. Earlier this month when NBER officially announced that the country has been in a recession for the past year, I caught one of the news channels covering a press conference about this, and across the bottom of the screen it read: “BREAKING NEWS: U.S. IN RECESSION”

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:33:26 +0000

Devyn,

You can imagine how excited I am about it. I grew up in Philly and joined the Church there. I now live in Florida. I still find it amazing they picked a downtown location about four blocks north of City Hall (427 N. Broad Street). It will be interesting to see how it is designed. Only Manhattan and Hong Kong have dense urban locations. The Philly Temple will have high visibility in that location.

By: Devyn S.

Devyn S. — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:23:18 +0000

Michael – I know my brother was very excited about the PA Temple – where is it going to be located? I am writing this from the Philly airport as I spend a lot of time here for work

Ann – well if you write it like that it is less newsworthy…

By: Mark D.

Mark D. — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:33:58 +0000

I suppose if one knew the day, or even the year when the President of the Church was going to pass away, his actual passing wouldn’t be particularly newsworthly. Unfortunately, few possess such foreknowledge.