A few years ago, we at the Interpreter Foundation decided that we didn’t want our flagship journal to feature just any random article — regarding, say, the precise GPS coordinates of the Jaredite city of Lib, or the detailed evolutionary history of the Mesoamerican curelom — to appear on the Friday closest to Christmas or Easter.
In the case of the former holiday, of course, it’s very possible, given our regular Friday publication schedule, that our last December article could come out on Christmas Day itself. (The odds are approximately 1/7. Or, more precisely, they’re 58/400.) Did we really want to mark Christmas with a piece on ancient American airfields? To have happy families sit down after opening their presents and enjoying a festive dinner to contemplate a heavily footnoted article on the reflexive verb in Early Middle Nephite?
The answer, of course, was No.
So we began to invite selected people to contribute original articles or essays — of any kind they chose, whether scholarly or devotional or autobiographical or whatever — written specifically for Interpreter and specifically aimed at either Christmas and Easter.
Our first essay in this new series was a piece written for Christmas 2014 by the famous and award-winning Latter-day Saint novelist Orson Scott Card, which I again call to your attention as part of the lead-up to Christmas this year:
Coincidentally, on Friday, 30 November 2018, we actually published an article revisiting a much earlier (non-Christmas and pre-Interpreter) essay by Scott Card:
“Orson Scott Card’s “Artifact or Artifice”: Where It Stands After Twenty-five Years”
If you haven’t read it, I think you’ll find it interesting.
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New, on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:
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I hadn’t been able to participate in the Interpreter Radio Show for a couple of months, at least, so it was fun on Sunday last to join Terry Hutchinson and John Gee in the (to me still new) K-Talk studio and Kevin Christensen for the most recent iteration of the weekly program. And, for most of the last hour, we spoke with Julie M. Smith about her imminently forthcoming commentary on the gospel of Mark, to which I’m very much looking forward.
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