{"id":75,"date":"2014-03-14T19:50:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T19:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mortalmoroni.wpengine.com\/?p=75"},"modified":"2014-07-06T15:32:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T15:32:21","slug":"onward-saint-luke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortalmoroni.com\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"Onward, Saint Luke!"},"content":{"rendered":"

On January 17, 2014, UVU Review<\/a>, The Independent Student Voice, ran an article of testimonials about David’s impact from UVU students, faculty and staff. <\/p>\n

\"freakin<\/p>\n

I absolutely love the following passage: <\/p>\n

Thirteen years ago as an undergraduate student I approached David (more or less out of the blue) and, after explaining my thin set of qualifications, asked if I could be his research assistant. It was an absurd gamble, and I had little hope of a positive response from him. David looked at me, and in his great booming voice said, \u201cYES, LUKE, THAT WOULD BE EXCELLENT!\u201d<\/strong> He continued to take unwise chances with me, letting me organize symposia, conferences, and an entire lecture series on behalf of the Ethics Center. When I decided to pursue an LDS mission, David sent me off with his secular blessing. One of my most vivid mission memories is of sitting on a hill overlooking Florence, and unwrapping a long parcel from David. Inside I found a hideous Jerry Garcia tie, and an attached yellow sticky note that read: \u2018ONWARD, SAINT LUKE!\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

The tie (and sticky note) are among my most prized possessions.<\/p>\n

For a dozen years David took chances on me for no good reason other than his unflinching faith in the boundless potential of his students. I owe David more than I can say for giving me the high wire, the pole, and for taking away the net. Now, I can only hope to repay him by emulating that same unwavering faith in the students who approach me with short resumes and grand ambitions to change the world.<\/p>\n

Luke Peterson
\nDirector, Corporate & Community Partnerships
\nUtah Valley University\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Luke’s story illustrates is how receptive DK was to people with different beliefs. I feel like we live in self-imposed camps now: Liberal\/Conservative; Christian\/Atheist; White\/Black; Urban\/Rural. Let’s be more like DK, and cross whatever chasm divides us from others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On January 17, 2014, UVU Review, The Independent Student Voice, ran an article of testimonials about David’s impact from UVU students, faculty and staff. I absolutely love the following passage: Thirteen years ago as an undergraduate student I approached David (more or less out of the blue) and, after explaining my thin set of qualifications, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mortalmoroni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mortalmoroni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mortalmoroni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mortalmoroni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mortalmoroni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mortalmoroni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mortalmoroni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mortalmoroni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mortalmoroni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}