{"id":27148,"date":"2015-10-14T11:17:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T17:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=27148"},"modified":"2015-10-14T11:17:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T17:17:13","slug":"elder-sitati-addresses-race-self-reliance-and-church-growth-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/10\/elder-sitati-addresses-race-self-reliance-and-church-growth-in-africa.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Elder Sitati Addresses Race, Self-Reliance, and Church Growth in Africa&#8221;"},"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_27149\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27149\" style=\"width: 278px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/10\/joseph-w-sitati-large.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27149\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/10\/joseph-w-sitati-large.jpg\" alt=\"Sitati, Joseph W., Elder\" width=\"278\" height=\"345\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elder Joseph W. Sitati<br>of the First Quorum of the Seventy<br>(Photo from LDS.org)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the Church\u2019s news release regarding that recent conference on <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/mormonism' target='_blank'>Mormonism<\/a> and the black experience held at the University of Utah and, specifically, the remarks that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lds.org\/church\/leader\/joseph-w-sitati?lang=eng\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Elder Joseph Sitati<\/a> gave there:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormonnewsroom.org\/article\/elder-sitati-address-race-self-reliance-growth-africa\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.mormonnewsroom.org\/article\/elder-sitati-address-race-self-reliance-growth-africa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Here\u2019s the Church\u2019s news release regarding that recent conference on Mormonism and the black experience held at the University of Utah and, specifically, the remarks that Elder Joseph Sitati gave there: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.mormonnewsroom.org\/article\/elder-sitati-address-race-self-reliance-growth-africa \u00a0 \u00a0<\/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-27148","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;Elder Sitati Addresses Race, Self-Reliance, and Church Growth in Africa&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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