{"id":101897,"date":"2023-09-20T00:18:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T06:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=101897"},"modified":"2023-09-20T12:52:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T18:52:26","slug":"walk-in-the-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2023\/09\/walk-in-the-spirit.html","title":{"rendered":"“Walk in the Spirit”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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A partial map of the Eastern Roman Empire (covering, for example, today\u2019s Turkey, as well as the Mediterranean and the Black Sea), showing Galatia in dark red.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Two more items have gone up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation. \u00a0As is typically the case, they are available to you at no charge:<\/p>\n
The New Testament in Context Lesson 40: \u201cWalk in the Spirit\u201d<\/em>: Galatians<\/a><\/p>\n
In the 3 September 2023 Come, Follow Me<\/em> segment of the Interpreter Radio Show, Terry Hutchinson (the moderator), Spencer Kraus, Brent Schmidt, and Hales Swift discussed New Testament lesson 40, \u201cWalk in the Spirit,\u201d covering Galatians.<\/p>\n
You can listen to or download the New Testament in Context segment of the September 3 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show via the link given above. The other segments of the 3 September 2023 radio show can be accessed at https:\/\/interpreterfoundation.org\/interpreter-radio-show-september-3-2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n
The Interpreter Radio Show can be heard weekly on Sunday evenings from 7 to 9 PM (MDT), on K-TALK, AM 1640. \u00a0Or, if that doesn\u2019t work for you or if you prefer, you can listen live on the Internet at ktalkmedia.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Come, Follow Me<\/em> \u2014 New Testament Study and Teaching Helps: Lesson 40, September 25 \u2014 October 1: Galatians \u2014 \u201cWalk in the Spirit\u201d<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n
As he regularly does, Jonn Claybaugh has again kindly provided those who follow the Interpreter Foundation with a concise set of notes to accompany the Church\u2019s \u201cCome, Follow Me\u201d curriculum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
In the meantime, the Interpreter Foundation\u2019s new film project continues. \u00a0Once again, I\u2019m sharing a few still photographs from the current location of our crew and our actors in Ontario, Canada. \u00a0It\u2019s impractical to do much filming in Nauvoo today, what with tourists and automobiles and power lines and historical sites that remain staffed and open. \u00a0But Upper Canada Village offers similar landscapes, virtually identical foliage, and buildings and roads that have been carefully conserved in their early-nineteenth-century form.<\/p>\n
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Brigham Young (John Donovan Wilson) and his wife, Mary Ann (Twyla Wilson), rehearse a scene for Brigham\u2019s departure to England, on the set of the Interpreter Foundation\u2019s \u201cSix Days in August\u201d film project.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n*
** *\u00a0<\/p>\nBack in 2018 and 2019 \u2014 and, I\u2019m now told, for several years prior to that \u2014 my wife and I donated to Operation Underground Railroad and encouraged others to do so as well. \u00a0(Child sexual trafficking seems about as unambiguously evil a crime as can be imagined \u2014 not unlike its near-cousin, slavery.) \u00a0Moreover, a little more than two \u00a0months ago, we watched the film Sound of Freedom<\/em>, which tells a story connected with the founder of Operation Underground Railroad, Tim Ballard. \u00a0I mentioned the film here on this blog (in an entry largely on the subject of \u201cSearching Out the Truth about the Mountain Meadows Massacre\u201d<\/a>), as follows:<\/p>\n
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My wife and I saw Sound of Freedom<\/em> on Tuesday, the Fourth of July.\u00a0 There isn\u2019t a trace of QAnonism in it, so far as I could tell.\u00a0 (I have no sympathy whatever for QAnon.\u00a0 Quite the contrary, in fact.)\u00a0 My<\/em> only complaint, to be perfectly candid, is about the film\u2019s pacing.\u00a0 I thought it somewhat slow, especially in its first half, and overly long.\u00a0 It could have been edited down a bit.\u00a0 That said, I hope that as many people as possible will go to see it.\u00a0 Efforts like this need to be supported, and the cause to which the film seeks to call attention is enormously important:\u00a0 \u201cGod\u2019s Children Are Not for Sale.\u201d<\/p>\n
And, by the way, Tim Ballard \u2014 who is portrayed in the film by Jim Caviezel (who starred in such films as The Passion of the Christ<\/em> and in The Count of Monte Cristo<\/em>) \u2014 is a Latter-day Saint, and, although the film doesn\u2019t mention his religious affiliation (it actually shows him drinking coffee and tea and, on one occasion, smoking a cigarette to create rapport with a captured pedophile) and wasn\u2019t produced by members of the Church, Angel Studios, which is distributing Sound of Freedom<\/em>, is based in Provo, Utah.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
At the same time, we were also donating to \u2014 and encouraging others to donate to \u2014 what was then known as the Liahona Children\u2019s Foundation, which has since changed its name to Bountiful Children\u2019s Foundation<\/a>. \u00a0Eliminating malnutrition in children seems to me, quite clearly, to be another unambiguously good cause.<\/p>\n
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Brigham and Mary Ann just prior to his departure with the Twelve to Great Britain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n*
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** *Now, it seems, there is a controversy swirling around Tim Ballard (who evidently left Operation Underground Railroad back in June or so).<\/p>\nThis is extremely unfortunate. \u00a0Human trafficking does exist<\/a>, and the sexual trafficking of children is, in a sense, especially heinous. \u00a0Anything that hinders the goal of putting an end to the sexual exploitation of minors is, to put it mildly, regrettable.<\/p>\n
All I know about this particular matter, though, is what I\u2019ve read online, and I haven\u2019t been following it with any special care until today. \u00a0But here are five relevant links that have now provided me with at least some slight orientation:<\/p>\n
FAIR LDS: \u00a0\u201cTim Ballard \u2013 Current Events\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n
\u201cLDS Church removes content promoting Tim Ballard\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n
\u201cSound of Freedom<\/em>\u2019s Tim Ballard Is a Star on the Right. Why Would His Church Denounce Him? \u00a0The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/a> is conservative. But maybe not like this.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n
\u201cLDS Church Delivers Blow to Tim Ballard\u2019s Hero Status\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n
\u201cTim Ballard, former CEO of Operation Underground Railroad, issues response to church statement\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n
I intend to try to monitor what, if anything, comes of this.<\/p>\n
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Brigham Young ponders what to do following the assassination of Joseph Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n*
** *\u00a0<\/p>\nI posted a blog entry here on Saturday, under the title of \u201cMore about \u201cLD$ Inc.,\u201d\u201d<\/a> in which I shared the links to three very good analyses of Church finances. \u00a0Here now, I offer a fourth link that is very relevant to the discussion:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Latter-day Saints the Washington Post<\/em> Forgot: While the Washington Post<\/em> sheds light on the Church of Jesus Christ\u2019s finances, it overlooks key perspectives, instead allowing our critics to speak for us.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n
The last few paragraphs of an article that I wrote for Meridian Magazine<\/em> a couple of months ago may also be apropos: \u00a0\u201cAre Latter-day Saint Temples Too Lavish?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n
As for me, to be perfectly candid, my faith in both the Church and its mission and in the goodness and sincerity of its leaders (more than a few of whom I\u2019ve had the good fortune to know) is such that, to be honest, I can\u2019t really generate much personal interest in this topic \u2014 let alone any indignation.<\/p>\n
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Posted from Park City, Utah<\/p>\n
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