為自己的信仰發聲 Speak for your believe

Today I received an email from a very good friend of mine. It included a link and mentioned that this clip is really worthy of your time.
A young harvard college girl named Rachel Esplin, who is a LDS like us, was invited to a religious discussing event and shared her testimony and experiences. I think she did a great job.

(The questioner is Sally Quinn.)

Here I took out the main twelve questions during the interview as below:

September 23, 2008

1.Tell us where you are from? What's your early religious experience while growing up?
2.How do you practice your religion? How does that effect your every day life?
3.When you got here you become more religious than you were at home?
4.Have you done your missionary work?Is that something you'll do?
5.Since you came to Harvard, have you have any conversations or incidents with people that challenge your faith?
6.There are ex-mormons perticularly women, who says there's not equality for women in mormon church. What do you feel about that?
7.Can you give me some ideas of what you think the culture you feel that aren't true that you don't follow wholeheartedly.
8.Can you tell us who Joseph Smith is and what he means to you?
9.Who is Jesus Christ to you?
10.There are evangelicals call mormon cults, about the secrecy in the temple and garments. Can you talk about what garments are and what it means?
11.After you leave college, will you go back to Utah? or do you want to stay in the larger world, be a part of the community?
12.Will you marry a mormon?

Here's an article about the interview at Summa Theologica, where you can also check interviews with students from other faiths.


Day of Faith: Personal Quests for a Purpose - 3. Rachel Esplin from Harvard Hillel on Vimeo.

今天我收到來自美國友人的一封email，當中附上一個網址連結，並告訴我這是絕對值得我花時間去看的一段影片，
一位年輕的哈佛女大學生Rachel Esplin，應邀參與校內的一場關於宗教信仰的研討會，她是後期聖徒，和我們一樣，我覺得她誠實的表現好極了，也反映出許多年輕學生教友的心聲，值得推薦。

日期:2008.9.23.
受訪者：Rachel Esplin
提問者：Sally Quinn

以下我將訪談內容的主要十二個部份和問題翻譯列出如下：

1.請告訴我們妳來自哪裡，和你成長過程中的宗教背景。
2.妳如何實行妳的宗教信仰？這對妳的日常生活有何影響？
3.在妳來到哈佛之後，妳對信仰的態度有何不同？
4.妳傳過教了嗎？妳未來有此打算嗎？
5.自從妳來到哈佛，是否曾遭遇過別人質疑妳的信仰的談話或事件？
6.我讀過前摩爾門人士，尤其是女性，所寫的書，指控女性在教會受到的不平等待遇。妳對此有何想法？
7.關於妳剛提到的，教會中衍生出來的一些週邊文化是妳所不贊同的，可否舉例？
8.妳可否告訴我們誰是約瑟斯密，和他對妳的意義？
9.對你來說，耶穌基督是誰？
10.許多其他教會稱摩爾門教會為異教徒，尤其針對聖殿和加門的神秘性，妳可否告訴我們什麼是加門和它的意義？
11.在妳從大學畢業後，妳是否打算回猶他州？或者你會選擇留在這外面較大的世界而成為社群的一員？
12.妳會嫁給一位摩爾門教徒嗎？

其他受訪者還有來自回教、猶太教、基督教、佛教，可經由網站連結收看他們的訪問。