{"id":96142,"date":"2022-08-05T20:41:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T02:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=96142"},"modified":"2022-08-15T02:56:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T08:56:12","slug":"it-was-a-feast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2022\/08\/it-was-a-feast.html","title":{"rendered":"It was a feast"},"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_35601\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35601\" style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/08\/Provo_City_Center_Temple_02.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-35601\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/08\/Provo_City_Center_Temple_02.jpg\" alt=\"The Provo CC Temple\" width=\"597\" height=\"518\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35601\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The old\/new Provo City Center Temple is located not too terribly far from where the 2022 FAIR Conference was held.\u00a0 Much of it is actually below ground.\u00a0 (Wikimedia Commons public domain image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Interpreter Foundation\u2019s docudrama <a href=\"https:\/\/witnessesundaunted.com\/#:~:text=is%20a%20companion%20docudrama%20to,Book%20of%20Mormon%20was%20translated.\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon<\/em><\/a>, already available on DVD, is now streaming via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livingscriptures.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Living Scriptures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 2022 FAIR Conference is now over.\u00a0 I think it was a strong one.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a run-down of the Thursday presentations, since I\u2019ve <em>already<\/em> provided <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2022\/08\/a-day-filled-with-good-people.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">a quick summary<\/a> for the <em>Wednesday<\/em> session:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Unfortunately, I wasn\u2019t able to listen to all of <a href=\"https:\/\/rsc.byu.edu\/author\/woodworth-jed\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Jed Woodworth\u2019s<\/a> remarks \u2014 always a recurring problem for me at the Conference but rather better for me this year than in recent years, at least on the first day \u2014 which treated the \u201cproblem of doubt\u201d in the third volume of <em>Saints<\/em>.\u00a0 The parts that I did hear, though, were good, and they make me want to go back and watch his presentation when it\u2019s up online.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/interpreterfoundation.org\/author\/kentj\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kent Jackson\u2019s<\/a> address (on whether the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible was influenced by outside sources) were very cogent.\u00a0 A couple of years ago, there was a flurry of attention given to allegations that Joseph had been strongly influenced by Adam Clarke\u2019s Bible commentaries.\u00a0 I never thought it would be a particularly big deal if he <em>had<\/em> been, but that little wave seems to have crested, at least partly because the evidence for the allegations was exceedingly weak.\u00a0 And Professor Jackson deserves a lot of the credit for pointing that out.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/matt-mcbride-8193955\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Matthew McBride<\/a> discussed the simultaneously inspiring and saddening case of William Paul Daniels, a faithful Black convert from Capetown, South Africa, who passed away in the thirties of the last century.\u00a0 Once again, my attention was distracted and I didn\u2019t hear all of what Brother McBride had to say.\u00a0 But it was a great and affecting account.\u00a0 And, as Brother McBride points out, while a relatively high degree of attention has justifiably been given to Black members during the nineteenth century (e.g., Green Flake, Jane Manning James, and Elijah Abel; see, for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org\/article\/president-ballard-dedicates-monument-black-pioneers\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cPresident Ballard Dedicates Monument to Black Pioneers: Utah community celebrates Green Flake, Hark Wales, Oscar Smith and Jane Elizabeth Manning James\u201d<\/a>), the small but remarkable group of faithful Black Saints from the early to mid-twentieth century have scarcely been noticed.\u00a0 (Of course, this fits the general pattern: Latter-day Saint history during the lives of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, for instance, receives much more notice than does, say, the history of the Church between 1950 and 1960.)<\/li>\n<li>A series of presentations \u2014 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollandhart.com\/bandrewsen\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Brent Andrewsen<\/a>, followed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormonwomenstand.com\/carol-rice-hey-im-judging\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Carol Rice<\/a>, followed by <a href=\"https:\/\/nathanrichardson.com\/about\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nathan<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormonwomenstand.com\/meet-the-latter-day-saint-women-stand-facebook-admins\/jelaire-richardson\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jelaire Richardson<\/a> \u2014 then ensued that focused on the so-called \u201cFamily Proclamation.\u201d\u00a0 I was distracted multiple times, but I think that I heard most of what they had to say.\u00a0 They all seemed to be connected with <a href=\"https:\/\/thefamilyproclamation.org\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">TheFamilyProclamation.org<\/a>.\u00a0 I clearly need to spend some time on their website.\u00a0 Potentially, I think, it may help to serve a very big need:\u00a0 Many of those who are having testimony issues these days, or so it seems to me, start off by having problems not so much with scriptural or modern Church history with the teachings of the Church about family, sexuality, and gender.\u00a0 Which leads me to the last presentation given on Thursday:<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/latterdaysaintmag.com\/author\/cassandra-showell-hedelius\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cassandra Hedelius<\/a>, who appears to be not only extremely bright but utterly fearless, gave a densely evidenced and argued presentation entitled \u201cCompassion and Evidence: The Wisdom of Church Guidelines for Transgender Individuals and Their Families.\u201d\u00a0 It abundantly deserves a re-view.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 The Interpreter Foundation\u2019s docudrama Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon, already available on DVD, is now streaming via Living Scriptures. \u00a0 *** \u00a0 The 2022 FAIR Conference is now over.\u00a0 I think it was a strong one.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a run-down of the Thursday presentations, since I\u2019ve already provided a quick summary for [&hellip;]<\/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":[56,259,30544,30547,21043,5691,13829,984,30541,30538,30532,30526,30529,30523,30517,30553,18473,30520,30550,30535,5688,21643,21646,4003,921,6384,21713],"class_list":["post-96142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-book-of-mormon","tag-book-of-mormon-witnesses","tag-brent-andrewsen","tag-carol-rice","tag-cassandra-hedelius","tag-eight-witnesses","tag-fair","tag-fairmormon","tag-family-proclamation","tag-green-flake","tag-hark-wales","tag-jane-james","tag-jane-m-james","tag-jane-manning-james","tag-jed-woodworth","tag-jelaire-richardson","tag-kent-jackson","tag-matthew-mcbride","tag-nathan-richardson","tag-oscar-smith","tag-three-witnesses","tag-undaunted","tag-undaunted-witnesses-of-the-book-of-mormon","tag-witness","tag-witnesses","tag-witnesses-film","tag-witnesses-of-the-book-of-mormon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>It was a feast<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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