So glad the LDS Church doesn't do paid clergy.

[Beantown]

For you City Creek haters:

https://www.ksl.com/?sid=28726825&nid=1284&fm=home_page&s_cid=featured-4

Pretty awesome. And in a city that could use a little help.

From what I understand this is a compromise between the church and Philly. The church has been trying to build a temple their for years. So doing this the Church can now build the temple.

 

[Duck Rodgers]

From what I understand this is a compromise between the church and Philly. The church has been trying to build a temple their for years. So doing this the Church can now build the temple.

Interesting. Provo should play hardball with them then too. Like..... thanks for the University...the MTC....basketball courts/churches galore.....park space.....and the two temples.....but we are also going to need you to finance and build the world's biggest Yogurt Cup downtown or we're not letting you finish that second temple.

No, but really, I have heard they are more interested in that type of thing now, so it will be interesting to see if they continue on like this. The folks in Philly, at least ones that appreciate skyscrapers, seem to dig it:

https://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=209700

 

[LogGrad98]

From what I understand this is a compromise between the church and Philly. The church has been trying to build a temple their for years. So doing this the Church can now build the temple.

*They're.


Jeez all these peeple that can't spel.

 

[babe]

There is just a few things I find hypocritical:


-I think its great for SLC and I really enjoy going there but I think City Creek is over the top. I also find it hypocritical they are profiting off of the sale of tea, coffee and alcohol.

-There are reports that based on estimates of what the church makes through tithing money that the church themselves is not paying out 10% to relief efforts or charitable items. The churches finances are all secret so there is no way to verify this.

-I don't mind GA's given a salary but I hear stories of "insider trading". Where GA's or their family member start purchasing land around where temples are going to be built before they are announced to the public. Temples usually drive up property values.


So some of this stuff to be honest it pure speculation. Which is why I think the church should just open up the financial documents and be clear about everything.

not sure "hypocritical" is the right word here. . . . for a culture that actually elevates ideas about success in business, some folks being "more special" in the eyes of God than others, where the CV data faithfully extolled on every appointment to leadership will document actual financial acumen in one way or another. . . . At least in Mormonism's version of the Gospel, people are expected to do stuff to take care of themselves.

I can speak with some "inside" knowledge of LDS finances. The ward budgets are not included in the balance sheet of the corporate "Church" in a way that will make it easy to pass judgments on how much the corporate "Church" does for people. If anyone can speak to current practices, feel free to update me. What the Bishops do in their wards is not included in the Corporate donations to relief efforts worldwide.

Local Bishops do a lot in the line of financial assistance to members, whether active or inactive, when anyone needs their help and is willing to go to them. Members within wards render goods and services in huge amounts without it ever going on the balance sheet, ward or church record.

So I find the criticism about the LDS Church not devoting 10% to the poor is probably grossly uninformed.

When I did once upon a time have an actual balance sheet of the Church's finances, the worship buildings and temples were about 80% of the total assets. . . .

It was only around the sixties that anyone got the Church's finances organized to make the most of the resources, investing in a professional manner. . . .