{"id":30916,"date":"2016-02-13T16:29:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T23:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=30916"},"modified":"2016-02-13T16:49:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T23:49:56","slug":"the-faith-to-see-burning-in-the-bosom-and-translating-the-book-of-mormon-in-doctrine-and-covenants-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/02\/the-faith-to-see-burning-in-the-bosom-and-translating-the-book-of-mormon-in-doctrine-and-covenants-9.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Faith to See: Burning in the Bosom and Translating the Book of Mormon in Doctrine and Covenants 9&#8221;"},"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_30917\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30917\" style=\"width: 297px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/02\/joseph-translating-gold-plates-329346-gallery.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30917\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/02\/joseph-translating-gold-plates-329346-gallery.jpg\" alt=\"Joseph translating, as he didn't actually do it.\" width=\"297\" height=\"447\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30917\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This image isn\u2019t quite accurate, historically speaking, but it\u2019s close enough to serve my purposes here. \u00a0(LDS.org)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Interpreter<\/em> didn\u2019t miss a day yesterday. \u00a0That will almost certainly happen, eventually, but it hasn\u2019t happened yet and it\u2019s not likely to happen for at least a while to come.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just that I spent much of yesterday on airplanes, and much of the rest of it in cars, and . . . well, I fell behind.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(Some of my critics will be disappointed, by the way, to know that, while I teach a full load of classes, owing to the peculiarities of my teaching schedule and of BYU\u2019s academic calendar\u00a0I don\u2019t intend\u00a0to miss a single teaching day for this bit of goofing off \u2014 and that I\u2019m not completely goofing off, anyway. \u00a0While sitting out watching whales and gazing at the islands of Lanai and Molokai this morning, for example, I\u2019ve been re-reading Farid al-Din Attar\u2019s <em>Conference of the Birds<\/em>, and breaking that up with an account of the reclassification of Pluto as a dwarf planet and \u2014 rather curiously, while sitting on a tropical beach \u2014 of hunting for meteorites in Antarctica.)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I\u2019m happy to call your attention to Stan Spencer\u2019s new article, published yesterday:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormoninterpreter.com\/the-faith-to-see-burning-in-the-bosom-and-translating-the-book-of-mormon-in-doctrine-and-covenants-9\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.mormoninterpreter.com\/the-faith-to-see-burning-in-the-bosom-and-translating-the-book-of-mormon-in-doctrine-and-covenants-9\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Kaanapali, Maui, Hawaii<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Interpreter didn\u2019t miss a day yesterday. \u00a0That will almost certainly happen, eventually, but it hasn\u2019t happened yet and it\u2019s not likely to happen for at least a while to come. \u00a0 It\u2019s just that I spent much of yesterday on airplanes, and much of the rest of it in cars, and . . 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