{"id":19063,"date":"2015-03-28T15:49:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T21:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=19063"},"modified":"2015-03-28T15:49:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T21:49:59","slug":"however-versus-therefore-what-are-your-fundamental-commitments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/03\/however-versus-therefore-what-are-your-fundamental-commitments.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;However&#8221; versus &#8220;therefore&#8221;: What are your fundamental commitments?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19064\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19064\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/03\/bountiful-utah-808x480-0001681.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19064\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/03\/bountiful-utah-808x480-0001681-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"The temple that sits high above Bountiful.\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I\u2019m sitting\u00a0essentially across a (not very wide) street from the Bountiful Utah Temple.<br>(Click to enlarge.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you want a way to reflect about who and what and where you are \u2014 or, with appropriate caution, humility, and charity, about who, what, and where certain other individuals and organizations are \u2014 you could do far worse than to start with the issue outlined here:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/seesangelsinthearchitecture.wordpress.com\/2014\/12\/15\/however-organizations-versus-therefore-organizations\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/seesangelsinthearchitecture.wordpress.com\/2014\/12\/15\/however-organizations-versus-therefore-organizations\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Bountiful, Utah<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 If you want a way to reflect about who and what and where you are \u2014 or, with appropriate caution, humility, and charity, about who, what, and where certain other individuals and organizations are \u2014 you could do far worse than to start with the issue outlined here: \u00a0 https:\/\/seesangelsinthearchitecture.wordpress.com\/2014\/12\/15\/however-organizations-versus-therefore-organizations\/ \u00a0 Posted from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;However&quot; 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