{"id":92163,"date":"2021-08-03T21:59:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T03:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=92163"},"modified":"2021-08-22T00:03:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T06:03:09","slug":"sincerity-and-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2021\/08\/sincerity-and-reality.html","title":{"rendered":"“Sincerity and Reality”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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The Experience Event Center in Provo, Utah, where the 2021 FAIR conference will be held from Wednesday through Friday of this week.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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My topic at this year\u2019s annual FAIR conference is \u201cThe Book of Mormon Witnesses: Sincerity and Reality.\u201d\u00a0 (As you might have surmised the witnesses of the Book of Mormon have been somewhat on my mind of late.)\u00a0 I\u2019ll be speaking at about 4:15 PM on Friday afternoon, so, if you\u2019re in the vicinity, beware of motorists desperately fleeing the parking lot after about 4 PM<\/p>\n

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This year\u2019s talk is intended as a companion to last year\u2019s FAIR conference talk, which was entitled \u201cThe Book of Mormon Witnesses: Variety and Complexity.\u201d\u00a0 For some reason, though, so far as I can tell \u2014 I never checked until just now \u2014 it doesn\u2019t seem that my talk from last year is up on the FAIR website either as a transcript or in video form.\u00a0 I have no idea why that would be so.\u00a0 In the meantime, though, you can (if you\u2019re interested) watch a pretty similar presentation that I gave (online) under the auspices of the Stanford LDS Institute of Religion a week or two later:<\/p>\n

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\u201cDaniel C. Peterson \u2013 The Witnesses: Variety and Complexity (Stanford Institute Fireside)\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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I prepared the remarks that I\u2019ll present on Friday (again, \u201cSincerity and Reality\u201d) at FAIR as a presentation for BYU Education Week that I expected to follow fairly closely after the 2020 FAIR conference on \u201cVariety and Complexity.\u201d\u00a0 But, owing to the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 BYU Education Week was made entirely virtual.\u00a0 I recorded the talk under the auspices of BYU Continuing Education for eventual release online.\u00a0 And then came a problem:\u00a0 The talk was already recorded, with its images, and we came up against an intractable copyright issue that we could not resolve in time for it to be broadcast.\u00a0 (The apparent holder of the copyright could not be located.)<\/p>\n

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So we eventually decided not to put that talk online.\u00a0 And then the brilliant idea came to me of presenting it this year, at FAIR 2021.\u00a0 So that\u2019s what I\u2019m going to do.\u00a0 Each talk, \u201cVariety and Complexity\u201d and \u201cSincerity and Reality,\u201d stands alone and makes its own argument.\u00a0 But they\u2019re closely related arguments, and I think they make a decent case for the reliability of the Book of Mormon witnesses alone and and even stronger when when taken together.<\/p>\n

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The Experience Event Center<\/a>, where this year\u2019s FAIR Conference<\/a> will be held, is located at 1440 North Moon River Drive, in Orem, Utah.\u00a0 I look forward to seeing some of you there.<\/p>\n

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