Gramps is now podcasting

March 7th, 2007 by Richard K Miller | Filed under Cool Sites, Foundation.

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Clay Gorton is “Gramps”, a former mission president and temple worker who answers questions on a variety of topics at www.askgramps.org. Thanks to Mikel and Clay’s hard work, Ask Gramps content is now available by podcast. Point your pod catcher at the standard feed or subscribe in iTunes. If you don’t have an iPod or other MP3 player, you can listen from your computer. See the list of articles with audio.

Clay is a great example of sharing the Gospel on the Internet. While he doesn’t speak officially for the Church, his deep knowledge and experience provide helpful insight to hundreds of people. Interestingly, he publishes only a portion of the questions he answers, often responding privately on especially sensitive concerns and often suggesting that people speak with their local ecclesiastical leaders.

Clay turns 84 today. Anyone who would excuse himself from getting involved in the Internet, blogging, podcasting, etc. certainly can’t use age as an excuse. Great work, Clay.

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4 Responses to “Gramps is now podcasting”

  1. J. Stapley | 7/03/07

    Bro. Gorton is to be commended for his hard work. I am, however, quite reticent to commend the content of his endeavor. He promotes a very narrow flavor of doctrine that isn’t, in many cases, particularly accurate. In some cases, it is demonstrably false.

  2. Connor | 7/03/07

    Awesome!

  3. RJH | 7/03/07

    Kudos to Brother Gorton for his octogenarian web savvy.

    But I have to echo J.Stapley. Whilst Gramps offers much good advice, this is not always the case. The same could be said of all of us, of course, a reminder that we must all exercise caution.

    I found, for example, that his answer to a question on blacks and the “sin of Cain” rehearsed old notions and apologia that have subsequently been proven (by the careful research of faithful Latter-day Saints) to be very shaky.

    This is one example. Advice on birth control is another.

  4. ldsWebguy » Sharing Your Testimony Online | 20/03/07

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