When the LDS Church News arrives in our mail it comes with a publication called Mormon Times published by the Deseret News. The March 20th edition focused on "What Latter-Day Saints can learn from sacred days marked by other religions." I was thrilled to see this issue!
It contained articles on Lent, Palm Sunday, Passover, Good Friday, Shavuot, Pentecost, Ramadan, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Advent, and Hanukkah.
As a member who loves learning about world religions generally I was ecstatic to see the church reach out to educate members about religious holidays that "we don't necessarily celebrate but could benefit from knowing more about." Hallelujah!
Our trip to the Holy Land was a great reminder to me of the dedication and devotion of many different faiths to their beliefs! And, how much we can all learn from each other!
Neal Maxwell was a wonderful apostle who left many amazing quotes as a legacy. Below is one I like by Elder Maxwell speaking of religious traditions.
"It is clear that the dispersion, diffusion, and distortion of gospel truths has left many fragments of the faith in various religions and cultures throughout the world. Many see in this an attempt by man to make his own god and religion in the absence of real ones. Rather than such similarities being evidence against the existence of God, however, these refracted truths bear witness of the initial wholeness which existed in the beginning with Adam." -Elder Neal A. Maxwell
