Mormons having a ‘moment,’ but is the buzz good or bad?
BY MICHELLE BEARDEN
TAMPA TRIBUNE
Mark Brenchley takes his Mormon faith seriously.
Others, apparently, do not.
Brenchley admits he gets “a little steamed inside” when the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints is heckled, parodied, maligned and ridiculed in the national media. And that’s been happening a lot lately.
On the other hand, all this attention could turn into a good thing.
“I’m choosing to look at as a teachable moment,” says Brenchley, a municipal site-plan examiner and Tampa church leader. “If it makes people more curious about us and they start asking questions, we can tell them the truth about our religion.”
Without question, the LDS church is the religious denomination du jour. From Broadway’s The Book of Mormon to players in the race for president to Bentley the caddish heartbreaker on the TV reality series The Bachelorette, Mormons are making news. A few weeks ago, Newsweek magazine put a digital image of a dancing Mitt Romney on the cover for a story on “The Mormon Moment: How the Outsider Faith Creates Winners.”
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