107: Elbert Peck and Sunstone Magazine Pt. 4 - The September Six and the Decline of Sunstone
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
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🗓️ 19 December 2007
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Teach me to walk in the light of his love, Teach me to pray to my Father above. |
| 0:16.0 | Teach me to know all the things that are right. Teach me, teach me to walk in the light. |
| 0:32.0 | Before, I should tell one more story before that September 6th, before Daniel left. |
| 0:40.0 | He'd run into Elder Packer in the park, Elder Packer had run into his father in the parking lot, |
| 0:46.0 | but argued with Hartman and Richter Jr. for not controlling his son more and getting him to quit son's stone. |
| 0:51.0 | And then, I guess Elder Hartman and Richter Jr. had had a conversation with Elder Oaks about this also. |
| 0:58.0 | So Daniel got mad because he felt, why are these people getting out of my dad? My dad doesn't have, I'm an adult, my dad doesn't control me. |
| 1:06.0 | So he called Elder Oaks and asked for an audience with Elder Oaks. This is after the alternate voices talk. So it's maybe 90, 90, 91 maybe. |
| 1:18.0 | I'm getting all these years wrong, but it doesn't matter. |
| 1:22.0 | So Daniel goes and has his audience with Elder Oaks. And it's very interesting. Elder Oaks had taken the current symposium program and had categorized everything as |
| 1:35.0 | non-theological or non-religious, something like an environmentalism or something. |
| 1:42.0 | And then he had, for all the others, he had a spectrum from apostasy to questionable, to this, to innocuous, and it spread them out. |
| 1:52.0 | And for a while, Elder Packer came in and joined the conversation with Daniel and Elder Oaks. |
| 1:59.0 | But Daniel, both of them were pretty clear that on the far right of the spectrum, the far right of the spectrum was talking about the temple. |
| 2:08.0 | That is the most radioactive thing you can do. And they said, any discussion at the temple, any discussion at the temple is off limits. |
| 2:16.0 | And then theology was the next category. And theology is really a really questionable project. It was you're teaching the theology, the official theology of the church. |
| 2:26.0 | And then they went on to history and other things. And when they were talking about theology, according to Daniel, Elder Packer said, |
| 2:33.0 | well, that's what the really agenda is. They want to change the theology of the church. |
| 2:37.0 | And so I think they clearly see where, certainly Daniel and I, most people, maybe in most people's sense, felt that this was a discussion group. |
| 2:46.0 | They clearly saw it as an advocacy group trying to tell the brother and how to run the church and how it should be changed. |
| 2:53.0 | So they were very defensive about that. So they issued the statement on symposia, which brought a lot of response. |
| 3:02.0 | In New England and Ed Kimball at BYU wrote a letter explaining how the statement wasn't really about Sunstone, because Sunstone doesn't do the things that they'd listed in this statement and published it in the Daily Universe at BYU, |
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