{"id":43477,"date":"2017-07-16T01:08:05","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T07:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=43477"},"modified":"2017-07-16T01:23:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T07:23:22","slug":"black-mormon-mans-thoughts-race-priesthood-churchs-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/07\/black-mormon-mans-thoughts-race-priesthood-churchs-essay.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Black Mormon Man&#8217;s Thoughts on Race, Priesthood, and the Church&#8217;s Essay&#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_43478\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43478\" style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/07\/dt.common.streams.StreamServer.cls_.jpeg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43478\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-43478\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/07\/dt.common.streams.StreamServer.cls_.jpeg\" alt=\"Haiti's pending temple\" width=\"597\" height=\"472\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43478\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An architect\u2019s rendering of the Latter-day Saint temple proposed for Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The groundbreaking for the temple is scheduled for 28 October 2017 under the direction of Elder Walter F. Gonz\u00e1lez of the Seventy, who currently serves as president of the Caribbean Area of the Church.<br>(2017 copyright image courtesy of Intellectual Reserve, Inc., following principle of fair use)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ldsliving.com\/A-Black-Mormon-Mans-Thoughts-on-Race-Priesthood-and-the-Churchs-Essay\/s\/85553?page=1#story-content\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.ldsliving.com\/A-Black-Mormon-Mans-Thoughts-on-Race-Priesthood-and-the-Churchs-Essay\/s\/85553?page=1#story-content<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Matt Bowen for bringing this little article to my notice.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Honolulu, Hawaii<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 http:\/\/www.ldsliving.com\/A-Black-Mormon-Mans-Thoughts-on-Race-Priesthood-and-the-Churchs-Essay\/s\/85553?page=1#story-content \u00a0 Thanks to Matt Bowen for bringing this little article to my notice. \u00a0 Posted from Honolulu, Hawaii \u00a0 \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-43477","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;A Black Mormon Man&#039;s Thoughts on Race, Priesthood, and the Church&#039;s Essay&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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