Fried Froth

Sister Peterson, our most delightful of Sunday school teacher, pulled out a John Taylor quote that I didn't recall concerning 'fried froth' As I came home and googled and found this Elder Holland reference from the 1998 Ensign.

Are we really nurturing our youth and our new members in a way that will sustain them when the stresses of life appear? Or are we giving them a kind of theological Twinkie—spiritually empty calories? President John Taylor once called such teaching "fried froth," the kind of thing you could eat all day and yet finish feeling totally unsatisfied. 18 During a severe winter several years ago, President Boyd K. Packer noted that a goodly number of deer had died of starvation while their stomachs were full of hay. In an honest effort to assist, agencies had supplied the superficial when the substantial was what had been needed. Regrettably they had fed the deer but they had not nourished them


Theological twinkies, fried froth both clear metaphors. A cahllenge for teaching at home, work, school as well as church