Show i I i ' I V t Opinion 20 I Crossword 21 £— The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday July 16 1998 Gay issue could divide Anglican confab Hobart H Boudrare IN aen of Robert and Daboia Boudmo of Logan has aocaptad a cal Id aatva In Via Brad Campinas LDS MMon Ha H spaak at IftSO am 8unday In Vis Logan 3rd IDS Wart 290 N 400 WasL Ha anlsn ttw Training Canlsr July 22 LONDON (AP) — A decade after a Bradley Soyca son of Rlcfi and Glonna Boyca of WWauBa has accepted a cal to aawa ki Vie 8ao Peoto Bnzfl Saudi LDS Mission Ha wH apeak all lain Sunday InNieWelevNe 3rd Want 195 8 Center Ha anlsn Via MMoiuuy Training Cantor on Aug 19 Brsnon L Bumtnghain aon of Laa and Zan Bumkigham M North Logan accepted a cal to tho Loutaiana Baton Rouge LDS Mission Ha pa aka 11:30 am Sunday In Vie North Logan 3rd Ward 1550 E 1900 North homo-sexuali- Zachary Taylor ChampMn aon of Jeffrey and Linda Chatnpln of SnVMIaid has boon calod to sane In Via CMa Oaomo LDS Minion Ha writ peak at 10:50 am Sunday In tho SmNhflsId 14th ward 500 E 120 Souffi Ho onion tha Training Cantar July 22 of the world's 70 million Anglicans These include Episcopalians in the United States Each national church is free to go its own way — as they have done in ordaining women Some do some don't — and churches in Canada New avoid similar bitterness about the ordination of gays by calling for more study and reflection on the issue "I am all too conscious that some will come wanting a showdown on the issue of homosexuality and seek categorical assurances from the assembled gather- Zealand and the United States have elevated 11 women to bishops Some bish- ing for a final definitive opinion" Archbishop George Carey said earlier this year “I am sure this would be a serious error Such a move would dominate the entire agenda and confirm the world's suspicions that we are obsessed with issues of gender and sexuality" he said debate for leaders sharp debate on the ordination of women the Anglican church is heading for a global conference that could see a fight over the rights of homosexuals Though some bishops have ordained openly homosexual priests — and two gay men had their union blessed last month at an Episcopal church in New Jersey — other Anglicans regard as an abomination and condemn the ordination of gays The Lambeth Conference which begins Saturday in London and is held every 10 years is the main forum for ops however have threatened to boycott any conference events involving the women bishops The Archbishop of Canterbury leader of the worldwide communion affiliated with the Church of England hopes to ty V & 1 Ryan Di Forabsrg aon of Daway and Bonnia Fonberg of Logan has lecenty returned from ttie Phitlpinos Cabanatuan LDS Mission Ha wW apoak at 9 am Sunday In Ho Logan 28th Ward 1460 E 1500 North Lany Prancta son r ranoi or raavnono of WMam J n m ' Troy Oardnor aon of Anthony and Angalika Gardner of NIMay racantiy returned from the Suva FS LDS MMon He wN apeak at 1 pm Sunday In the NMey 4th Ward 360 W 3200 8oidh An opan houaa wS bo hold at NMey Park momny t 0 4 ' - ' ' Nr Mkhan Gardner aon of AnVwny and Angalka Gardner of NMey has reconly rolumad hom Via Brisbane Australia LDS Mhskm She wM apeak at 1 pm Sunday in Via NMoy 4th Ward 300 W 3200 South An open home w be held at NMey ioromiIq vn rrawig nn ljfl is kllAlA AAaIa wBMsy nwvQ ton oi Micnoti ana wonnt r—hlt of nmihfitM hit ynkil t ril In ttrv In Via ' 1 j 4 w 41 ' 'v Aarea J Praaae aon of Lee and Kathy Preece of NIMay recently returned from the Pennsylvania Philadelphia LDS Mission Ha speaks at 1050 am Sunday In tha NMey 3rd Ward 245 N 750 East Hynrm 57 Paul and Ctisiyl Sampson ol NMay racanVy returned kom Via Canada Toronto West Mission Their homecoming is 11 am Sunday in Vie Nb-la- y 1st Ward 360 W 3200 South jv Marita Trace Workman aon of Mark and Connie Workman ol Layton recently returned from Vie Hawal Honolulu LDS Mission Ho wM speak at ISO pm Sunday In the Richmond 1st Ward 135 W Main v "4 Religion report PW birthday ! The Presbyterian Women's Birthday Offering is 7 to 8:30 pm Saturday in Westminister Hall in the Logan First Presbyterian Church The gathering Includes a variety of birthday cakes and (tones about Presbyterian Women’s his tory Participants can bring cakes or sample others provided Child Available ' 1' ' ' - V Back to tabernacle The Cache Family History Center is moving from its temporary location to its farmer office in the Logan Tabernacle and closes Saturday during the move renovation is Hie tabernacle's year-lonnearing completion and the family history center expects to be back in business Aug IS Traditional workshops and fall classes are canceled and will be resched- Mach MascamHortfd Journal Rev Sung ho Lee with wife Unkyu and children Joshua Joyce and Caleb Korean Christians uled Sacred music concert ' The Bud and Barbara Lee family will be presenting a concert of sacred music tonight at 7 pjn in the Hyrum City Part The event is sponsored by Emmanuel Baptist Church of Hynun Bud and Barbara Lee and family full- -- time traveling Music Evangelists are from Blue Springs (Kansas City) Missouri They are members of Calvary Baptist Church of Blue Springs Taize Prayer Service The Sunday evening Taize-sty- le prayer service has resumed at St John's Episcopal Church Sundays at 8 pm This ecumenical prayer service is offered in the tradition of the lbizc community of brothers in France It features melodic repetitive chants readings from scripture and silent prayer All are welcome to attend The service will be conducted each Sunday evening except for Aug 2 A solid community By Mike Ingraham The am Oriental Mission Church service Fust Presbyterian Church in Logan begins hynus so strongly sung that the outside turns pale Although there are prayers and a sermon there is always music It u in Rev Sung ho Lee’s melodic voice He has been told by no less than a choir conductor that his sermons are like music and also like a stream Sometimes his wife Unkyu can hear both music and stream That's when Lee is in the shower and singing hymns or gospel and folk songs When others hear Lee sing and learn that in Korea he studied music they suppose he has been a vocal major But he's only the secood sweetest singer in his family The trained voice is Unkyu’s The carrying voices belong to children Joshua and Joyce Lee is m the back rows a Friday Outdoors: Oasis In the desert f of Asian believers has quietly emerged in Logan features writer 3:30 debt" Bishop Duncan Buchanan of Johannesburg will preside over the debate on homosexuality — an issue he predicts “will throw its shadow pretty much over the present conference" W1 Braden Noth son of LaDol and Sharon Hoffi aocaptad a cal to tha Australia Sydney South LDS MMon Ho speaks at 9 am Sunday In the Logan 29th Ward 792 N 500 East Ha antan Vie MMonaiy Training Center July 22 - international By Kenneth W Godfrey m vnuoiy 8an Antonio Texas LDS Mission Ha wW apeak at 2:50 pm Sunday In the SMkhald 10th Ward 345 E aoosoum Ha ontws tha MMaion-ar- y Training Cantar on July 22 tionships with Islam our ministry to young people and the urgent mailer of partial to rural people V v i calmly theologically and in a Christian way but we must not allow it to sideline such crucial concerns as the mission of the church in the new millennium rela- City slickers may boast but Bible proves God is ' and Paulina reoorniy inotim irovn My Mian LDS MMon Ho wS ape at 10:45 am 8undav in tho Richmond 4th ward 150 8 1001East Friends and family its invitad to an opan houaa attar Via maaUng will be considered Which is better town or country? iy JuaOn Dtxon aon of Nol and Suzanna Dixon M WolavMo has aocaptad a cal to aarva In tha IMea Now Yorti LDS Mlialon Ho wi apoak at 1 Sunday In tha WelMHe 2nd Ward Main (m Cantor itraaL Ha antan tha Misaionary Tninkig Cantor on July 22 "Homosexuality trouihonisL But it was the humble trombone that led him to Christ and h didn't hurt him with Unkyu either Rev Lee's sermon is to the uncomprehending ear hypnotic in its soothing cadences water slipping over pebbles It is music a string quartet But to understand him must be enlivening for the five worshippers lean forward It is easy to imagine them in canoes in die stream of Lee's words To them the sermon must be rapids emptying into deep pools flowing along like a grand adventure What stories do these rushing Korean woods tell? Paul's conversion is the subject of this dawn sermon breathlessly told all in one 13 minute phrase it seems A worshipper asks for a prayer She is moving to Minnesota and she asks that she be with Jesus in Minnesota the same as she is here The congregation prays Everyone stands but not to leave Instead they disperse to remote reaches of the sanctuary Lee kneels and buries See KOREANS on Page 18 Adam and Eve driven from the Garden of Eden tilled the soil and earned bread by the sweat of their brows Cain cultivated grains and Abel was the world's first rancher Both of these sons of Adam and Eve knew the quiet and peace of country living Suddenly cities appeared out of nowhere and immediately suffered from bad press All the initial reporters must have been misplaced country folk who despised metropolitan areas Even God became disgusted with city people and scattered those who congregated around the first skyscraper the tower of Babel A few hundred years later he destroyed the twin cities Sodom and Gomorrah and their suburbs Therefore 1 conclude that heaven must be a rather small rural country area Weeks ago Doug Bukoweski a writer for the Chicago Tribune composed an article lamenting the fact that “For years children's books have glorified the country while sending the message that life is a bummer in the city" Utah's own Virginia Sorensen and her award winning book Miracles on Maple Hill is cited as Exhibit A in proof of Bukoweski's thesis Even Grandpa Sorensen writes "hated cities" Christ lamented over Jerusalem and found greater success in convening the rural people of Galilee Paul in metropolitan Athens had to discourse about an unknown God to win the attention of the sophisticated educated folk who listened for cwhile to what he said Early Mormon missionaries who proselyted in England found eager listeners in small British towns but thought that in London's inhabitants beat hearts made of stone Guest speakers even those of the political kind who reside in cities make certain their audiences are cognizant of the speakers' humble beginnings in cabins of log and of the struggles of which there are many before die last mud disappeared from their highly polished wing tips A friend of mine who has lived in cities all his life wonders how parents will successfully raise their children when they can no longer tell stories of walking miles to school on country roads barefoot both going and coming uphill The Great Depression and the stories of struggle and hardship that emerged therefrom seem to span generations and it appears that it (the depre-siomust have lasted for at least 2XK) years People in cities of course had it worse than country folk (So when the next depression comes head for the country) In spite of this magnificent tradition we have in praise of country life we all know that those who reside in great cities believe they are superior in every way to those of the rural persuasion City dwellers appreciate art know fine architecture whni they see it possess the ability to speak correctly read just die right books and lov e opera chamber music and the theater Thus they are infinitely better than country bumpkins Furthermore the city popilace knows how to lunch long convene with dignity and raise back-bitin- g and to major league status While they often find real country folk (those like Jed Gampet) amusing they speak of n) put-dow- ns See GODFREY on Page 18 Features: 752-21-21 |