I remember the year right before I stopped going to church. It seemed like every month, the bishop would issue a ‘new challenge’ to the congregation. Ok, so it wasn’t so much a new challenge, as the same challenge over and over again.
“Ok, ward, this year, we’re going to read the Book of Mormon straight through!”
“But I just barely finished it….”
“Don’t care! Read it again!”
So, in the vein of my old bishop, I am going to issue all of you a challenge. Hopefully this will be a little more enlightening, and exciting, than reading the BoM. (Chloroform in print, as Mark Twain put it.) I challenge all of you to read a book this year that you disagree with. All the way through, no skipping the boring parts. If your ideas and beliefs are solid, then you should have no problems with this. If your ideas need some tweaking, that’s okay. You will have learned something.
Personally, I think I will be reading either Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead. I despise Ayn Rand. *ducks to avoid flung tomato* I don’t care if you guys like her, I don’t, so feel free to tell me what ideas/authors you disagree with.
What are you guys going to read?