{"id":32982,"date":"2016-04-23T09:19:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T15:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=32982"},"modified":"2016-04-23T09:19:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T15:19:42","slug":"capernaum-bears-witness-of-christ-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/04\/capernaum-bears-witness-of-christ-4.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Capernaum bears witness of Christ&#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_32983\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32983\" style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/04\/800px-Polenov_na_tiver_ozere.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32983\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-32983\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/04\/800px-Polenov_na_tiver_ozere.jpg\" alt=\"Polenov at the Sea of Galilee\" width=\"595\" height=\"313\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vasily Polenov, \u201cOn the Tiberiad Lake\u201d [the Sea of Tiberias, or the Sea of Galilee), 1888 [\u0412\u0430\u0441\u0438\u043b\u0438\u0439 \u041f\u041e\u041b\u0415\u041d\u041e\u0412. \u041d\u0430 \u0422\u0438\u0432\u0435\u0440\u0438\u0430\u0434\u0441\u043a\u043e\u043c \u043e\u0437\u0435\u0440\u0435] \u00a0(Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I think, while I\u2019m underway over these next few weeks, that I\u2019ll revisit a few of my columns for the <em>Deseret News \u2014\u00a0<\/em>which I\u2019ve now been contributing for just slightly more than six years \u2014 that are connected with Israel. \u00a0This will be in lieu of my running commentary on the Book of Mormon, which I think I just won\u2019t have time to do while traveling.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Newspaper columns are ephemeral things, forgotten almost immediately even by those who read them. \u00a0Still, most of my columns aren\u2019t time-sensitive, and perhaps a few of you will find them slightly interesting.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a short piece about one of my favorite places in the Holy Land:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/700038919\/Capernaum-bears-witness-of-Christ.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/700038919\/Capernaum-bears-witness-of-Christ.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 I think, while I\u2019m underway over these next few weeks, that I\u2019ll revisit a few of my columns for the Deseret News \u2014\u00a0which I\u2019ve now been contributing for just slightly more than six years \u2014 that are connected with Israel. \u00a0This will be in lieu of my running commentary on the Book of [&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-32982","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>&quot;Capernaum bears witness of Christ&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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