{"id":36482,"date":"2016-09-07T16:55:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T22:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=36482"},"modified":"2016-09-07T16:56:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T22:56:03","slug":"city-creek-and-the-choices-of-thrift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/09\/city-creek-and-the-choices-of-thrift.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;City Creek and the Choices of Thrift&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36483\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36483\" style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/09\/800px-2012.10.01.171536_City_Creek_Center_Salt_Lake_City_Utah.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36483\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-36483\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/09\/800px-2012.10.01.171536_City_Creek_Center_Salt_Lake_City_Utah.jpg\" alt=\"The Mall, in SLC\" width=\"596\" height=\"397\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the City Creek Center in Salt Lake City<br>(Wikimedia Commons photo by Hermann Luyker)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since the subject of alleged Mormon neglect of the poor and the needy has again been raised, ironically fueled by accounts of <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/mormonism' target='_blank'>Mormons<\/a> helping the poor and the needy in Louisiana, the venerable issue of \u201cThe Mall\u201d has also (predictably) resurfaced. \u00a0What kind of \u201cchurch\u201d would build a <em>mall<\/em>? \u00a0Shouldn\u2019t that money have all gone directly to the poor?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My former student <a href=\"http:\/\/mormonscholarstestify.org\/656\/nathan-b-oman\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nate Oman<\/a> took a calm, reasoned, grown-up look at this issue back in 2012, and it seems to me a good time to remind people of what he had to say:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesandseasons.org\/harchive\/2012\/04\/city-creek-and-the-choices-of-thrift\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.timesandseasons.org\/harchive\/2012\/04\/city-creek-and-the-choices-of-thrift\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Since the subject of alleged Mormon neglect of the poor and the needy has again been raised, ironically fueled by accounts of Mormons helping the poor and the needy in Louisiana, the venerable issue of \u201cThe Mall\u201d has also (predictably) resurfaced. \u00a0What kind of \u201cchurch\u201d would build a mall? \u00a0Shouldn\u2019t that money have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;City Creek and the Choices of Thrift&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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