{"id":29833,"date":"2016-01-09T10:01:14","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T17:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=29833"},"modified":"2016-01-09T10:01:14","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T17:01:14","slug":"benjamin-the-scribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/01\/benjamin-the-scribe.html","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin the Scribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29834\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29834\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/01\/palmyra-temple-lds-1079094-gallery.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29834\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/01\/palmyra-temple-lds-1079094-gallery-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"In or near the Sacred Grove\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29834\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Palmyra New York Temple<br>(LDS.org; click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A resource that many teachers and students of this year\u2019s Gospel Doctrine curriculum might find useful is being offered by Ben Spackman (on whom, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/benjaminthescribe\/about\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormoninterpreter.com\/author\/tbspackman\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>). \u00a0He\u2019s posting thoughtful\u00a0entries keyed to the lessons in the class manual, and has already put up two:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/benjaminthescribe\/2016\/01\/me-the-blog-and-book-of-mormon-gospel-doctrine-lesson-1-changes\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Lesson 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/benjaminthescribe\/2016\/01\/bom-gospel-doctrine-lesson-2-1-nephi-1-7\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Lesson 2 (1 Nephi 1-7)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And, back in December, at another blog, he offered <a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2015\/12\/2016-gospel-doctrine-recommended-resources-on-the-book-of-mormon\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">this list of helpful materials<\/a> \u2014 which could, of course, be greatly expanded \u2014 for the serious study of the Book of Mormon.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 A resource that many teachers and students of this year\u2019s Gospel Doctrine curriculum might find useful is being offered by Ben Spackman (on whom, see here and here). \u00a0He\u2019s posting thoughtful\u00a0entries keyed to the lessons in the class manual, and has already put up two: \u00a0 Lesson 1 \u00a0 Lesson 2 (1 Nephi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Benjamin the Scribe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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