{"id":96598,"date":"2022-09-07T19:53:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T01:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=96598"},"modified":"2022-09-09T22:28:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T04:28:44","slug":"coming-up-on-5-november-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2022\/09\/coming-up-on-5-november-2022.html","title":{"rendered":"Coming up on 5 November 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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In the first portion of this episode of the fabled Interpreter Radio Show, Neal Rappleye and Jasmin Rappleye and Hales Swift, joined by their guest Stephen O. Smoot, recap the 2022 FAIR conference., which was originally broadcast on 7 August 2022.\u00a0 (It has now been edited, meaning that all commercial and other extraneous interruptions have been meticulously removed from it, and archived, made accessible to you at your convenience and at no charge.)\u00a0 By contrast, the second portion of the show features a roundtable in which Brother and Sister Rappleye, Brother Swift, and Brother Smoot discuss the upcoming Come, Follow Me<\/em> lesson #38 (Isaiah 13\u201314; 24\u201330; 35).\u00a0 Moreover, as they sometimes say from the balcony of St. Peter\u2019s Basilica in Vatican City, Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum<\/em> (\u201cI announce to you a great joy!\u201d):\u00a0 The Interpreter Radio Show can be heard each and every Sunday evening from 7 to 9 PM (MDT), on K-TALK, AM 1640.\u00a0 As an alternative, though, especially if you\u2019re not located along the Wasatch Front in Utah, you can listen to the festivities live on the Internet at ktalkmedia.com<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201cO frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!\u201d we chortle in our joy.<\/p>\n

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The year is rapidly moving toward its end.\u00a0 (There are only one hundred and eight \u2014 108 \u2014 shopping days left until Christmas!)<\/a>\u00a0 November is not far off.\u00a0 (It\u2019s a little closer, I\u2019ll admit, than December is.)\u00a0 Please don\u2019t forget to mark your calendar for<\/p>\n

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The Sixth Interpreter Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference<\/h3>\n

Saturday, November 5, 2022<\/h4>\n

Sponsored by
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Conference Talks: \u201cThe Crown of Creation\u201d (by David R. Seely and Jo Ann H. Seely)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

In anticipation of the 2022 Temple on Mount Zion Conference on Saturday, 5 November 2022 \u2014 see https:\/\/interpreterfoundation.org\/conferences\/2022-temple-on-mount-zion-conference\/<\/a> for more information \u2014 we begin a new series of articles: Conference Talks. Each week, we will feature one talk, starting with the first Temple on Mount Zion Conference, held less than one month after the founding of The Interpreter Conference.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Presented at:<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nThe 2012 Temple on Mount Zion Conference<\/span>
\nSaturday, September 22, 2012<\/span>
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Creation as Model for Adam and Eve as Co-Creators. The creation stories in the scriptures contain many links with temple theology and ritual. Within these links we explore how these narratives describe God as creator, and the essential elements of how he creates. In particular we explore how God created Adam and Eve and gave them the responsibility of both caring for his creation as well as becoming, primarily through procreation, co-creators with God by following the model that he gave them as creator.<\/span><\/p>\n

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You can listen to an audio recording of this talk at the link given above.<\/p>\n

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Still on the subject of the temple: \u00a0Truman Madsen<\/a>, who died in 2009 and whom I greatly miss, changed the direction of my life at a crucial stage when I was a high school student in California. \u00a0I probably would not have attended Brigham Young University absent a particular encounter with him. \u00a0Eventually, he became a faculty colleague, and then a friend. \u00a0In a month or two, barring unforeseen developments, I\u2019ll be back in Jerusalem again \u2014 where, among other things, I taught for nearly six months on the faculty of BYU\u2019s Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies during a period when Truman was serving there as the Center\u2019s director.<\/p>\n

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Here are two passages from a devotional address titled \u201cFoundations of Temple Worship\u201d that Truman Madsen delivered at the Idaho campus of Brigham Young University in October 2004:<\/p>\n

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President McKay asked for a million dollars from the local saints, and had pledge cards before the meeting was over for that amount, plus. Then he spoke about the temple. I\u2019ll spare you the details except for the core statement that I have cherished, and which bent, as it were, the twig in me, which has grown and grown ever since.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said, \u201cBrothers and sisters, I believe there are few, even temple workers, who comprehend the full meaning and power of the temple endowment. Seen for what it is, it is the step-by-step ascent into the eternal presence. If our young people could only glimpse it, it would be the most powerful spiritual motivation of their lives.\u201d I resolved that day, because of what happened in my heart, always to raise my voice in testifying of the temple and never of criticizing it, to carry out as best I could my dream of finding a queen who would share in me the total conviction that the temple is ours, made for us and prepared for us, and that out of that could come a family who would love the Lord Jesus Christ as nothing else in the universe.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The fulness of truth, and the fulness of the Holy Ghost, and the fulness of the priesthood, and the fulness of the glory of the Father are all phrases that are ocurrent in connection with the temple, and cannot be received anywhere else, nowhere else on the planet. You cannot receive the fulness that the Lord has for you without coming through the temple and having the temple come through you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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This incident (or, perhaps, this non<\/em>-incident) continues to reverberate:<\/p>\n

Deseret News<\/em>:\u00a0 \u201cPerspective: The BYU-Duke volleyball story became a national Rorschach test: Like the famed psychological test, how we see the game depends on what we want to see. The truth might be more complicated\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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And, on a separate but somewhat comparable issue:<\/p>\n

\u201cSandy police now linking 12 churches in vandalism investigation\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Compare this article, which appeared yesterday:<\/p>\n

\u201cOrem Utah Temple fire declared as arson\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Somehow, this little article seems especially relevant this summer:<\/p>\n

\u201c5 Ancient Societies that Collapsed When the Water Ran Dry: From Mesa Verde to the Mayans, these ancient societies collapsed without water.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Finally, here are a few horrors that I found recently while looking through the Christopher Hitchens Memorial \u201cHow Religion Poisons Everything\u201d File<\/em>\u00a9:<\/p>\n

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\u201cGoing to an away BYU football game this year? Do more than just cheer for the Cougs: Service tailgates to benefit local nonprofits at 2022 away games\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cHow to Get Involved in National Day of Service on September 10: Serve with your family or ward, or find ideas through JustServe.org\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cChurch Helps Refugees in Rome Find Respect, Empathy and Services: Latter-day Saints believe in helping support and improve the lot of refugees, says President Dallin H. Oaks\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cHow the Church Combats Malnutrition in Liberia: The HELINA project from Catholic Relief Services receives funding support from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cHundreds of Latter-day Saints Volunteer in Eastern Kentucky Flood Recovery Efforts: Helping Hands spends two weekends cleaning up hundreds of homes\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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