{"id":1797,"date":"2010-01-01T05:42:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T12:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2020-01-09T04:59:32","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T11:59:32","slug":"gospel-strangelove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-new-phrs-manual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/gospel-strangelove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-new-phrs-manual\/1797\/","title":{"rendered":"Gospel Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the New PH\/RS Manual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I receive a phone call from Peggy Stack up in Salt Lake asking me about the new PH\/RS Manual and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/review-gospel-principles-revised-chapters-1-%E2%80%93-10\/1200\/\">a post I did 6 months ago about it<\/a>. We had a very nice chat and she <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/Utah\/ci_14098582\">did a write up for this Saturday\u2019s Tribune<\/a>. (She was extremely kind and classy. She made me a reader for life in just a few minutes.)<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAnyway, she mentioned to me that she had previously talked to Steve Evans (see her article) who was dreading the new manual because, well, it\u2019s the old manual and we\u2019ve all read it a million times. <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s why I\u2019m not worried:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.-<\/strong> It\u2019s been the same manual for the last 10 years, people. Brigham Young had chapters on all the same topics, then so did Joseph F. Smith, and all the others up to Joseph Smith. You could lie to yourself and say they expressed these ideas very differently, but let\u2019s be honest, once the material is all correlated, it\u2019s all pretty similar. So this is not going to degrade the lessons in any way. It\u2019ll be more of the same.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.-<\/strong>  Lessons will improve. This one is easy. I know lessons will improve because there is nothing worse than lessons which include long recitations of GA quotes with no discussion, and that is really what the design of the previous manual called for from the average teacher. The new manual at least calls for some open discussion and doesn\u2019t have any big long quotes to read. You can high-jack the lesson and take it anywhere you want with these questions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.-<\/strong>  In PH, these lessons are generally less than 20 minutes long. I don\u2019t know about what happened in RS, but I know we never got through all the material in PH for the old manuals. We mainly just read a big quote or two. 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