{"id":41454,"date":"2017-04-19T08:47:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T14:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=41454"},"modified":"2017-04-19T09:23:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T15:23:02","slug":"new-mormon-relief-society-president-speaks-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/04\/new-mormon-relief-society-president-speaks-un.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;New Mormon Relief Society President Speaks at the UN&#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_41455\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41455\" style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/04\/768px-New_York_City_United_Nations_UNO_04.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41455\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-41455\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/04\/768px-New_York_City_United_Nations_UNO_04-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"UN HQ NYC NY USA\" width=\"597\" height=\"796\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41455\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The headquarters of the United Nations in New York City<br>(Wikimedia Commons public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps you missed this one. \u00a0In any event, it was quite the opener for Sister Bingham, whose announcement as the new general president of the Relief Society was announced in the afternoon session of General Conference on Saturday, 1 April, to speak at the United Nations on 13 April:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormonnewsroom.org\/article\/new-mormon-relief-society-president-speaks-un\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.mormonnewsroom.org\/article\/new-mormon-relief-society-president-speaks-un<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I note with some satisfaction that she was accompanied to New York City by Sister Sharon Eubank, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mormoninterpreter.com\/the-song-i-cannot-sing\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">contributor<\/a> to <em>Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture. \u00a0<\/em>(And, of course, another <em>Interpreter<\/em> author, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormoninterpreter.com\/three-streams-of-gratitude-for-jesus\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mitt Romney<\/a>, recently accompanied Elder Neil Andersen of the Twelve,\u00a0Bishop G\u00e9rald Causs\u00e9, and Elder Larry Wilson of the Seventy to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lds.org\/church\/news\/elder-neil-l-andersen-and-other-leaders-meet-media-at-paris-temple-open-house?lang=eng\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">launch the open house for the new Paris France Temple<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Perhaps you missed this one. \u00a0In any event, it was quite the opener for Sister Bingham, whose announcement as the new general president of the Relief Society was announced in the afternoon session of General Conference on Saturday, 1 April, to speak at the United Nations on 13 April: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.mormonnewsroom.org\/article\/new-mormon-relief-society-president-speaks-un \u00a0 I [&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-41454","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;New Mormon Relief Society President Speaks at the UN&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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