{"id":70684,"date":"2019-02-21T23:34:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T06:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=70684"},"modified":"2019-02-21T23:37:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T06:37:44","slug":"of-apiculture-and-keeping-the-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2019\/02\/of-apiculture-and-keeping-the-faith.html","title":{"rendered":"Of Apiculture and Keeping the Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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The official flag of Utah, the \u201cBeehive State\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0(Wikimedia Commons public domain image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This column \u2014 full of my typical vitriolic insults and brazen lies \u2014 appeared in the print edition of the Deseret News<\/em> today, as well as online at LDS Living<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cHow Recent Findings on Beekeeping in Ancient America Relate to the Book of Mormon\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Utah's<\/a>
Some are suggesting this as the new Utah state flag.
(Taken from a communication from Utah state senator Keith Grover)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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From the remarkable Stephen Smoot, who, having been back in Utah for a while now and having even been twice to Egypt since his return from the North, has apparently begun to thaw out from the time he spent doing graduate work in ancient Near Eastern studies and Egyptology among the igloos at the University of Toronto<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Need for Historicity of the Book of Mormon\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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And, while we\u2019re on the subject of Stephen Smoot, here\u2019s another offering from him that\u2019s worth reading:<\/p>\n

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\u201cRetrograde Nelson\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cAlma Son of Judah: The Ancient Bar Kokhba Letters from Israel Refute a Popular Argument Against the Authenticity of the Book of Mormon\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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All the way back in 2015, I posted a blog entry and a link under the title of \u201cCatholic Higher Education in Ruins.\u201d \u00a0(It\u2019s publicly unavailable at the moment. \u00a0Maybe I\u2019ll need to dredge it up again.)<\/p>\n

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We Latter-day Saints shouldn\u2019t feel complacent, though, let alone smugly superior.<\/p>\n

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Some of you may have missed this bracing article by my friend and BYU colleague Ralph Hancock<\/a>\u00a0that appeared in the March 2014 issue of the superb non-LDS magazine on faith and public affairs First Things<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/article\/2014\/03\/keeping-faith-in-provo<\/a><\/p>\n

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I once na\u00efvely thought that Brigham Young University and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/a> were immune to such things. \u00a0I no longer think so. \u00a0Apostasy and drift seem to me normal tendencies among fallen humanity in a fallen and ambiguous world, and I\u2019m now convinced that we must all remain vigilant if we would prefer to avoid such falling away \u2014 individually, yes, but also collectively. \u00a0I say this neither out of paranoia nor panic, but simply because I\u2019ve now orbited the earth enough times that I\u2019ve seen a few things. \u00a0(To put it in geologic terms: \u00a0Since I was born, North America has moved very nearly two yards to the west-southwest.) \u00a0I\u2019ve seen strong people fade away, drop into inactivity, or even, in a few particularly painful cases, become avowed enemies of things that they once loved. \u00a0And I\u2019ve certainly seen the ambient culture become much more hostile to many things that I believe and treasure \u2014 and I\u2019ve seen that hostility cause grievous damage and leave casualties among the Saints.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 This column \u2014 full of my typical vitriolic insults and brazen lies \u2014 appeared in the print edition of the Deseret News today, as well as online at LDS Living: \u00a0 \u201cHow Recent Findings on Beekeeping in Ancient America Relate to the Book of Mormon\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0 *** \u00a0 From the remarkable Stephen […]<\/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-70684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nOf Apiculture and Keeping the Faith<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"    This column -- full of my typical vitriolic insults and brazen lies -- appeared in the print edition of the Deseret News today, as well as\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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