{"id":66840,"date":"2018-10-31T11:10:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T17:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=66840"},"modified":"2018-10-31T11:10:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T17:10:49","slug":"66840","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2018\/10\/66840.html","title":{"rendered":"“We’re prophets to the whole world”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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The newly-dedicated Concepci\u00f3n Chile Temple \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0(LDS Media Library)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The headline is slightly misleading, since only President Russell M. Nelson and Elder Gary E. Stevenson are actually interviewed in this particular video clip:<\/p>\n

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\u201cLatter-day Saint Prophet, Wife and Apostle Share Insights of Global Ministry:\u00a0President Nelson says process of Church restoration continuing\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s an interesting conversation, though. \u00a0I especially enjoyed the last portion of it.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re prophets to the whole word,\u201d says President Nelson. \u00a0I can\u2019t recall a president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/a> in my lifetime who has been more open about what it\u2019s like to preside over the Church, receiving revelation, and more candid about publicly claiming prophethood. \u00a0I\u2019m enjoying it enormously.<\/p>\n

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You might also find this interview \u2014 which, at times, mentions a couple of \u00a0sensitive \u00a0subjects \u2014 rather interesting:<\/p>\n

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\u201cPope\u2019s Biographer Interviews Latter-day Saint President\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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The temple in Concepci\u00f3n, Chile, having just been dedicated, another South American temple now nears its dedication date:<\/p>\n

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\u201cSecond Colombian Temple Opens for Free Public Tours:\u00a0Barranquilla Temple completed\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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A thoughtful and important speech from President Dallin H. Oaks, first counselor in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:<\/p>\n

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\u201cPresident Oaks Speaks on the Paradox of Love and Law:\u00a0Proper balance of the two can help us \u201ctranscend all boundaries of nation, creed, and color\u201d\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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A brief comment on the Church\u2019s recent \u00a0announcement regarding \u201cpageants,\u201d from the invaluable Jeff Lindsay<\/a> in Shanghai:<\/p>\n

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\u201cMoving Away from Big Pageants: New Announcement\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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For your ever-growing \u201cReligion Poisons Everything\u201d file or, alternatively, for your \u201cThe Mormon Cult is Evil and Never Helps Anybody, Especially Non-Mormons\u201d collection, here\u2019s a helpful 1:30-minute video from a non-Latter-day Saint news source located in the Florida Panhandle:<\/p>\n

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\u201cMormon Helping Hands Bringing Thousands To Help The Panhandle\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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But is it true? \u00a0Here is a really interesting short article about a presentation given by Professor Anthony Sweat \u2014 with whom I shared the program down in Ephraim last Saturday \u2014 back on 24 October 2015, during the annual\u00a0Sidney B. Sperry Symposium at Brigham Young University:<\/p>\n

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\u201cHefted and Handled: Speaker Shares Tangible Interactions with Book of Mormon Objects\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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This is part of the story that we\u2019re trying to tell in the film that we\u2019re creating about the many witnesses \u2014 both official and unofficial \u2014 to the material objects associated with the recovery of the Book of Mormon in the late 1820s. \u00a0I\u2019m very, very excited about the project.<\/p>\n

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***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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An interesting attempt to apply evolutionary psychology to the history and anthropology of religion:<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhy Are Some Religions More Popular Than Others?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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I\u2019m not sure that I would count such speculations as fully scientific, but they\u2019re thought-provoking, in their way.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 The headline is slightly misleading, since only President Russell M. Nelson and Elder Gary E. Stevenson are actually interviewed in this particular video clip: \u00a0 \u201cLatter-day Saint Prophet, Wife and Apostle Share Insights of Global Ministry:\u00a0President Nelson says process of Church restoration continuing\u201d \u00a0 It\u2019s an interesting conversation, though. \u00a0I especially enjoyed the […]<\/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-66840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n"We're prophets to the whole world"<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"    The headline is slightly misleading, since only President Russell M. Nelson and Elder Gary E. 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