My Column in the "Mormon Times"

[Guest]

A new column of mine appeared in the “Mormon Times” section of the Deseret News today, entitled by the newspaper’s editors “Prophet’s Birthday Fits with Season”:

http://www.mormontimes.com/article/1902 ... ith-season

Related items on “Mormon Scholars Testify” include:

http://mormonscholarstestify.org/1972/mark-l-mcconkie

http://mormonscholarstestify.org/2065/steven-c-harper

http://mormonscholarstestify.org/1477/gordon-a-madsen


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[_Wisdom Seeker]

Daniel,

Over in the evil Terrestrial forum someone wanted to know, not how many scholars were LDS, but how many scholars became LDS as converts?

While I am sure most of the people on your website are probably BIC scholars, do you have any information on which are converts?

[_Daniel Peterson]

I haven't done the math recently, but every time I've checked in the past, I've been a bit surprised to discover that the proportion of converts on the site was remaining constant at about 22%. That's absolutely not the result of any effort or intention on my part.

Some converted in their youth, some later. My first "volunteer" converted, as I recall, in his early sixties.

[_Molok]

Merry Christmas Dan!

[_Daniel Peterson]

Merry Christmas Dan!

Merry Christmas to you!

[_Daniel Peterson]

I've just added a third relevant "Mormon Scholars Testify" link, to the testimony of Gordon A. Madsen, in the opening post, above:

http://mormonscholarstestify.org/1477/gordon-a-madsen

[_moksha]

I think Dr. Peterson should have his own regular column in the Deseret News. He could pick and choose his subject matter much like Robert Kirby does for the Salt Lake Tribune. Especially interesting would be his thoughts on subject matter he has gleaned from participation on message boards.

[_Daniel Peterson]

I think Dr. Peterson should have his own regular column in the Deseret News.

I have one.

I've been writing a column every other week since February 2010.

It goes to weekly after the first of the year.

He could pick and choose his subject matter much like Robert Kirby does for the Salt Lake Tribune. Especially interesting would be his thoughts on subject matter he has gleaned from participation on message boards.

There might be a little bit of that. Probably not much, though.

[_Dr. Shades]

It goes to weekly after the first of the year.

How will you find the time?*


*This question is a serious one; I'm not being sarcastic.

[_Daniel Peterson]

It goes to weekly after the first of the year.

How will you find the time?*

*This question is a serious one; I'm not being sarcastic.

That's a serious concern of mine. It's why, for this past year, I only agreed to do a column every other week. Now, though, I'm cautiously moving things up. We'll see how it goes.

The most serious problem is that I travel a lot. Often for weeks at a time. (I'm whispering because, plainly, my doing so absolutely infuriates a few people here.) I'm curious to see how well I'll actually be able to create a stockpile of columns-written-in-advance to meet such situations.


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