{"id":76929,"date":"2019-08-09T16:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T22:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=76929"},"modified":"2019-08-09T16:00:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T22:00:27","slug":"friday-afternoon-at-the-2019-fairmormon-conference-in-provo-et-finis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2019\/08\/friday-afternoon-at-the-2019-fairmormon-conference-in-provo-et-finis.html","title":{"rendered":"Friday afternoon at the 2019 FairMormon Conference in Provo, et finis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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A view of Mount Timpanogos from Y Mountain, above the Provo campus of Brigham Young University
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I\u2019ve already reported briefly on Scott Gordon\u2019s extremely effective presentation on the so-called \u201cCES Letter,\u201d with which the final afternoon session of the 2019 FairMormonConference began:<\/p>\n

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\u201cWelding Another Link in Wonder\u2019s Chain\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Wendy Ulrich<\/a> was the second speaker of the afternoon, addressing the topic of \u201cWomen, Men, and Priesthood Power.\u201d \u00a0She takes a thoroughly orthodox view of the topic, but set about to demonstrate how women do in fact share in the power of the priesthood. \u00a0One obvious way is this: \u00a0Both women and<\/em> men \u2014 not merely men alone \u2014 participate in the administration of the highest priesthood rituals, the ordinances required for salvation. \u00a0And women do something like fifty percent of the preaching, teaching, expounding, and exhorting in the Church. \u00a0(Compare Doctrine and Covenants 20:46.) \u00a0She went through various priesthood offices (e.g., that of deacon and then that of elder), demonstrating how women hold responsibilities and carry out functions analogous to those of such offices.<\/p>\n

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I think that many out there will find her remarks valuable and helpful.<\/p>\n

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Incidentally, having just returned last night from Russia, Sister Ulrich related a fun joke that she heard there:<\/p>\n

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There are four things that you don\u2019t get to choose: \u00a0You don\u2019t get to choose your family. \u00a0You don\u2019t get to choose where you are born. \u00a0You don\u2019t get to choose your religion. \u00a0And you don\u2019t get to choose the president of Russia.<\/p>\n

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The penultimate speaker at the conference, Elder Tad Callister<\/a>, made an eloquently \u201cA Case for the Book of Mormon\u201d drawn from his recently published and useful book of that same name<\/a>. \u00a0He first offered a brief but handy survey of the history of secular explanations for the authorship and existence of the book, suggesting in each case why the proposed explanation fails. \u00a0Then he laid out, in very lucid fashion, several discrete kinds of argument that he makes for the authenticity of the Book of Mormon. \u00a0A critic may quibble with this or that specific item. \u00a0Overall, though, the case is strong and persuasive and, I think, quite difficult to overcome.<\/p>\n

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The remarks of the conference\u2019s final speaker, entitled \u201c\u2018Idle Tales\u2019? The Witness of Women,\u201d are best passed over in charitable silence. \u00a0If there were any conference activities or festivities planned for the time after his presentation, they didn\u2019t happen. \u00a0Things just stopped. \u00a0Ended. \u00a0Coincidence? \u00a0As the Latin saying has it,\u00a0Post hoc ergo propter hoc.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Posted from Provo, Utah<\/p>\n

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