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I’m sure we meant “less active.” What does it mean? I guess I’d say it’s someone who doesn’t have a desire to gather with the saints often. I’m a bit of a solitary person, so I can relate on that basis. There has been a time or two that my association with the saints has been a grudging offering, and yet I have cried (in loneliness, as it happened) when I have to move from congregation to congregation.

There are other reasons someone might not want to be active, being offended is believed to be a fairly common cause. After my first child died and before I had others, it was very hard to be in church in a way that I imagine single and divorced people feel, with the focus on family and all that.

I don’t know what the answer is (to the question I don’t want to ask in print.) The church is a tree that needs constant pruning, digging, dunging, and grafts.

Maybe he did come back, or maybe this is his final mormon movie. Sounds like it will be interesting to see!

Anyone know what it’s rated?

I thought he said he was done with mormons? did he come back?

I find this discussion incredibly insightful and provocative. Keep up the dialoge and I hope you don’t mind a few of us peeking in. I’m always a little curious about the moniker “inactive.” What exactly does it mean and what are the repercussions of those of us who are forced to wear this scarlett letter?
Keep musing….

I’m kind of afraid to watch states of Grace, because my husband and my Mom thought it was the best movie of last year, and possibly ever. But I guess we’ll see.

You say, “it is because of their sin the community improves.” I agree. But acknowledging their actions as sin implies that we intuit such actions as contra an over-arching ideology. In otherwords, we still feel it is wrong–however inevitable and however naively justified by the characters.

Re: “Dramatic debate,” I’m talking about Shakespeare’s charity toward his characters. With rare exception, he gives the audience ample opportunity to empathize with all his major characters. And so, we are rarely at a loss in hearing all sides of the dramatic debate.

When you speak of the dramatic debate being unbalanced, it seems that you are implying the protagonist[s]’s ill-fated narrative–that is, the cards are stacked against them. If so, I agree.