{"id":61568,"date":"2018-06-03T20:59:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T02:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=61568"},"modified":"2018-09-05T09:53:37","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T15:53:37","slug":"the-1978-priesthood-revolution-church-finances-and-so-forth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2018\/06\/the-1978-priesthood-revolution-church-finances-and-so-forth.html","title":{"rendered":"The 1978 Priesthood Revelation, Church Finances, and So Forth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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When the Durban South Africa Temple is dedicated, probably before the end of 2018, it will be the second Latter-day Saint temple in that important nation, and will join several others already dedicated or under construction on the continent. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0(Image from LDS Newsroom site)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I think that some of you may find this piece, now available on the blog of the Interpreter Foundation, of considerable interest:<\/p>\n

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\u201cElder Bruce R. McConkie\u2019s Witness of the 1978 Revelation on the Priesthood\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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If you would like to read about \u2014 or to view \u2014 Friday night\u2019s celebration of that great 1978 revelation, here\u2019s the site for you:<\/p>\n

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\u201cAt \u2018Be One\u2019 Celebration, a Call for Optimism and Overcoming Prejudice\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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On a quite distinct topic, I was pleased to read this item:<\/p>\n

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\u201cChurch Honors Cardinal Wuerl of Washington for Commitment to Religious Liberty\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Over the past few days, I\u2019ve been following a rather intermittent online conversation about a recent review\u00a0(titled \u201cD. Michael Quinn, Mormon Capitalism, and New Mormon History\u201d<\/a>)\u00a0of D. Michael Quinn\u2019s book The Mormon Hierarchy: Wealth and Corporate Power<\/em><\/a>, which was published in August 2017. \u00a0The conversation involves a small group of very harsh critics of Mormonism<\/a> and of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/a>, and they deeply dislike the review.<\/p>\n

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Still, they compare the new review, of which they strongly disapprove, with the allegedly vicious style cultivated by me and my minions at the old FARMS Review<\/em>, and they imagine how nasty old-style apologists like me and my lamentable associates would handle Dr. Quinn\u2019s book. \u00a0Presumably, they seem to concur, our approach would be full of ad hominem<\/em> attacks on Dr. Quinn.<\/p>\n

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Well, there\u2019s no real need to fantasize or to speculate, because, in fact,\u00a0Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture\u00a0<\/em>\u2014 the flagship journal of the Interpreter Foundation, of which I\u2019m currently both the president and the chairman of the board \u2014 has actually published<\/em> a review of\u00a0The Mormon Hierarchy: Wealth and Corporate Power.<\/em> \u00a0Our review is easily available, for free and online, for inspection:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThrough a Glass Darkly: Examining Church Finances\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve just finished listening to this week\u2019s Interpreter Radio Show, which featured Neal Rappleye (as host), Kwaku El, Jasmin Gimenez, Stephen Smoot, and Hales Swift.<\/p>\n

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I hope that you<\/em> were listening, too.<\/p>\n

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If not, repentance is possible. \u00a0A new episode of the Interpreter Radio Show \u2014 with varying hosts and varying discussants and a variety of topics \u2014 is broadcast every single Sunday night. \u00a0And those weekly programs are eventually\u00a0archived on the Interpreter Foundation website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The discussants this week focused first on Friday night\u2019s remarkable celebration and then opened onto the history of blacks in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as well as the priesthood ban and priesthood revelation themselves.<\/p>\n

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Good stuff. \u00a0Serious discussion of serious topics. \u00a0But fun<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 I think that some of you may find this piece, now available on the blog of the Interpreter Foundation, of considerable interest: \u00a0 \u201cElder Bruce R. 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