108: Elbert Peck and"Remnants of His Faith"
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
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🗓️ 22 December 2007
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In the 1995 Salt Lake Sunstone symposium, Elbert Peck spoke in the annual"Pillars of my faith" presentation about the"Remnants of his faith." This presentation represents (to me) the closest thing I've ever found to expressing how I now feel about my Mormon faith. I hope some of you will find value in it as well.
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| 0:00.0 | It may not be on the mountain hide or over the stormy sea. |
| 0:10.0 | It may not be at the battle's front, my Lord would have need of me. |
| 0:20.0 | But if by still so voice he calls to pass that I do not know, |
| 0:29.0 | I'll answer dear Lord with my hand in mine. |
| 0:34.0 | I'll go where you want me to go. |
| 0:38.0 | I'll go where you want me to go dear. |
| 0:42.0 | I'd like to welcome everybody to the 17th Salt Lake Sunstone Symposium. |
| 0:50.0 | I'm Kent Frogley, I am the vice chair of the Sunstone Board of Trustees. |
| 0:57.0 | It's nice to gather tonight in what has historically been one of my favorite sessions here at the Symposium. |
| 1:04.0 | Albert Pack, as you all know, is the Albert, what are you? |
| 1:10.0 | The executive editor, director, publisher, Sunstone Magnate. |
| 1:17.0 | He's the individual along with help from a lot of his friends and colleagues that puts this together every year. |
| 1:25.0 | I've known Albert since 1985 or 1986 and he's become a very close and dear friend to me. |
| 1:35.0 | He's somebody that admire greatly and I respect his insights into theology, into the human experience, and into situations and ideas that we as Mormons confront. |
| 1:50.0 | Albert, just for his credentials, graduated from Brigham Ann University with a degree in Political Science and Philosophy, |
| 2:01.0 | and then he returned and received a Master's degree in public administration. |
| 2:07.0 | He was an urban planner for a while and then came to Sunstone in 1986. |
| 2:14.0 | For years, played around with how people have titled their pillars of my faith. |
| 2:19.0 | For those of you who've been a frequent attender of these sessions, you know that most many people end up rejecting the metaphor of pillars and replacing them with other metaphors. |
| 2:32.0 | Mary Beratford replaced it with pillows of her faith, which she could rest her head on, and well, I'll go. |
| 2:42.0 | I have named my pillars of my faith, the remnants of my faith, which is not as cynical as it may seem at the start. |
| 2:55.0 | I think my faith, I grew up and my faith was cultivated in a wonderful culture that the way I remember it, it could have been a Frank Capra movie or a Norman Rockwell painting. |
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