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My Column in the "Mormon Times"
Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 5:23 pm
by _Daniel Peterson
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-seasonRelated items on “Mormon Scholars Testify” include:
http://mormonscholarstestify.org/1972/mark-l-mcconkiehttp://mormonscholarstestify.org/2065/steven-c-harperhttp://mormonscholarstestify.org/1477/gordon-a-madsen.
Re: My Column in the "Mormon Times"
Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 5:47 pm
by _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?
Re: My Column in the "Mormon Times"
Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 5:53 pm
by _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.
Re: My Column in the "Mormon Times"
Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 6:05 pm
by _Molok
Merry Christmas Dan!
Re: My Column in the "Mormon Times"
Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 6:09 pm
by _Daniel Peterson
Molok wrote:Merry Christmas Dan!
Merry Christmas to
you!
Re: My Column in the "Mormon Times"
Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 10:19 pm
by _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
Re: My Column in the "Mormon Times"
Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 12:59 am
by _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.
Re: My Column in the "Mormon Times"
Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 7:11 am
by _Daniel Peterson
moksha wrote: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.
moksha wrote: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.
Re: My Column in the "Mormon Times"
Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 11:35 am
by _Dr. Shades
Daniel Peterson wrote: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.
Re: My Column in the "Mormon Times"
Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 5:53 pm
by _Daniel Peterson
Dr. Shades wrote:Daniel Peterson wrote: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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