Thanks, everyone, for the social feedback about my Mormon
info badges today. We all know there is
a lot of misinformation or sometimes just a lack of information about the
Church. We’ve all been annoyed by people
who share their false assumptions about the church without bothering to check
facts. But at this moment, because of
all the Romney hype, everyone wants to know what Mormonism is about. It’s our chance to help people get informed
and get accurate. Here are some more
specific ideas about the project:
Purpose
Use badges to inform people with little to no knowledge about the Church about our basic beliefs and clarify common misconceptions or controversies. Create publicity for the project by encouraging people to push their badges to their blogs or social media profiles so others will see them and want to earn them too.
Use badges to inform people with little to no knowledge about the Church about our basic beliefs and clarify common misconceptions or controversies. Create publicity for the project by encouraging people to push their badges to their blogs or social media profiles so others will see them and want to earn them too.
Project Tasks
·
Learn Mozilla specs, how badge-baking (I think
this just means embedding a link to the host website into the badge icon)
works.
·
Write badge content. I imagine reading material followed by
multiple choice questions to test knowledge.
Any different ideas?
·
Design host website for badges.
·
Design attractive looking badge icons that will
catch people’s attention.
·
Find a way to publicize: get large numbers of
BYU students to earn the badges, post them, and invite non-member friends to
earn them? It would be great to release
the badges before the election.
Possible Badges and
Content – I’m not sure how many we’ll want to make. How many is too many? I think it would be best if each badge only
took 5-10 minutes to complete, but what do you guys think? We want them to be accessible, but I
certainly don’t want people doing a 5 minute badge and thinking they know
everything about the church. Here are
some ideas for badges. The bolded words
are badge titles.
·
How Was
Mormonism Founded?
o
Prophets and apostasy (define term: restoration)
o
First Vision
o
Book of Mormon
o
Missionary efforts today
·
What Do
Mormons Believe about God? (this
badge could maybe be combined with the following two badges under the title What Do Mormons Believe?, but I thought it might be too
long.)
o
God is our loving Heavenly Father
o
3 separate beings
o
God has a body like ours
o
Heavenly Mother too!
·
What
Scriptures Do Mormons Use?
o
Book of Mormon
o
Bible
o
Doctrine and Covenants
o
Pearl of Great Price
·
What Do
Mormons Believe about Family and Community?
o
Eternal families
o
Importance of Service
·
Why
Mormons Don’t Drink Coffee
o
Word of Wisdom background
o
Good: fruits, grains, small amount of meat Bad: tea, coffee, tobacco, illegal drugs,
alcohol
·
Articles
of Faith (a short explanation of each one)
·
Mormon
Controversies: Polygamy
o
Brief history of polygamy in the Church and the
Manifesto.
o
NO member in good standing practices polygamy.
o
Polygamist groups in S. Utah, Arizona, etc. are
NOT affiliated with the church in any way.
·
Mormon
Controversies: Banning the Priesthood to Blacks
o
For their times, early church members were
racially progressive and opposed slavery.
o
President Kimball and the lifting of the ban in
1978.
o
Statement by President Hinckley warning against
racism, BoM scripture that says all are alike unto God, both black and white,
male and female, etc.
·
Mormon
Controversies: Women and the Church
o
Women have played an important part in the
Church since its founding.
o
Although women do not hold the priesthood, they
do serve in some leadership positions.
(Women and men have complementary roles.)
o
Relief Society?
o
General authority quotes about the importance of
women, respecting women, etc, including quotes by female general authorities.
o
Maybe some quotes by regular Mormon women about
how they feel about Mormonism and womanhood.
·
Meet a
Mormon
o
Mormons come from all parts of the world and all
walks of life. Some of them probably
have a lot in common with you!
o
This badge would require participants to read a
certain number of mormon.org profiles.
But we’d have to make it clear our badges aren’t affiliated with
mormon.org.
So, who wants to work on this project? What suggestions do you have (even if you
don’t want to be a project member)? Which
badges do you like? What others would
you suggest?
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