{"id":92530,"date":"2021-09-02T22:23:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T04:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=92530"},"modified":"2021-09-03T23:32:12","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T05:32:12","slug":"moving-forward-excelsior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2021\/09\/moving-forward-excelsior.html","title":{"rendered":"Moving Forward.  Excelsior!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29565\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29565\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/12\/Retouched-Colorized-Oliver-Cowdery-daguerreotype-584x773.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29565\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/12\/Retouched-Colorized-Oliver-Cowdery-daguerreotype-584x773.jpg\" alt=\"Bryce's colorized Cowdery\" width=\"584\" height=\"773\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29565\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oliver Cowdery<br>For the background of this daguerreotype, colorized by Bryce Haymond, see http:\/\/www.mormoninterpreter.com\/oliver-cowdery-daguerreotype-restored-in-full-color\/<br>(The Interpreter Foundation)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve now moved on to the second phase for the <em>Witnesses<\/em> dramatic film:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/witnessesfilm.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Witnesses<\/em>: Now on Blu-Ray and DVD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And we\u2019re well into the next phases of the overall Witnesses project:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The docudrama, <a href=\"https:\/\/witnessesundaunted.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon<\/em><\/a>, is currently undergoing color correction.<\/li>\n<li>I spent the morning conducting an interview with a well-known Latter-day Saint scholar for our forthcoming short features (aka \u201csnippets\u201d).\u00a0 It went very nicely, I think.<\/li>\n<li>And, for two and a half hours this afternoon, my wife and I participated, along with Russell Richins, James Jordan, and Mark Goodman) in a meeting with the two principal on-camera personalities for the \u201csnippets.\u201d\u00a0 I believe that the resulting mini-films are going to be very lively and even fun, as well as informative.\u00a0 I\u2019m quite optimistic.\u00a0 Excited, even.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">***<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/journal.interpreterfoundation.org\/volume-35-2020\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Volume 35 of <em>Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship<\/em><\/a> was given over entirely to the publication of a book-length manuscript by Brant Gardner entitled <em>Labor Diligently to Write: The Ancient Making of a Modern Scripture<\/em>.\u00a0 We presented it in serialized form as an aid to help readers prepare for the 2020 <em>Come Follow Me<\/em> course of study. It was a new approach for <em>Interpreter<\/em> that we hope many found helpful.\u00a0 That 2020 course of study has obviously come and gone, but <em>Labor Diligently to Write <\/em>retains its importance and its relevance to anybody interested in the Book of Mormon.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">***<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You may have noticed that something of a controversy has arisen over some recent remarks made to the faculty, staff, and administrators of Brigham Young University by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Council of the Twelve Apostles of the <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/mormonism' target='_blank'>Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/a>.\u00a0 I like these two articles written in the light of the controversy:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/2021\/8\/26\/22639600\/churchbeat-newsletter-lds-mormon-church-elder-holland-byu-talk-missed-news-clark-gilbert?fbclid=IwAR27L1gD8iwUFsFN6ZNtyQmvN7FfXnwB-UbyAG0qZBQ10qJM9CpT95dXzd8\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cThe news people missed in Elder Holland\u2019s BYU talk: Apostle issued a formal charge\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/2021\/9\/1\/22651693\/elder-holland-lgbtq-buy-speech-is-right-byus-heritage-of-faith-is-its-strength\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cOpinion: Elder Holland is right, BYU\u2019s heritage of faith is its strength: BYU\u2019s godly mission means fidelity to commandments and orthodoxy. It also means calling out cruelty and bigotry\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/publicsquaremag.org\/sexuality-family\/a-new-kind-of-lgbt-advocacy\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cA New Kind of LGBT+ Advocacy?\u00a0 In the wake of Elder Holland\u2019s BYU talk, I can\u2019t help but wonder\u2014what would LGBT+ Advocacy \u201cbathed in the light of the gospel\u201d look like?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">***<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Finally, it is my humble duty to bring you yet another appalling item that I\u2019ve drawn from the <em>Christopher Hitchens Memorial \u201cHow Religion Poisons Everything\u201d File<\/em>\u00a9:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org\/article\/local-church-leaders-in-louisiana-making-early-assessment-of-hurricane-ida-s-wrath\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cLocal Church Leaders in Louisiana Making Early Assessment of Hurricane Ida\u2019s Wrath\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 *** \u00a0 We\u2019ve now moved on to the second phase for the Witnesses dramatic film: \u00a0 Witnesses: Now on Blu-Ray and DVD \u00a0 And we\u2019re well into the next phases of the overall Witnesses project: \u00a0 The docudrama, Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon, is currently undergoing color correction. 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