Whitney Johnson at Know Your Neighbor has an article in Meridian Magazine about reaching out to persons of other faiths by discussing religion over dinner. She calls the idea Dinner and a Mormon (a play on the TBS program Dinner and a Movie) and the idea is that we Mormons are less likely to be misunderstood and misjudged if we can help people get to know us. Sometimes we make it difficult by being exclusionary and cliquish.
Of the last five people/families that you spent time with socially, how many were not members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
Can we each find someone in our neighborhood who might have questions about Mitt Romney, or the Book of Mormon, or “what’s this polygamy thing,” and take them to dinner? We may be able to clear up misconceptions, and in any case we can make a friend.
Read: Dinner and a Mormon
