{"id":67389,"date":"2018-11-14T10:06:33","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T17:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=67389"},"modified":"2018-11-14T10:09:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T17:09:17","slug":"join-the-cause-a-note-on-the-power-of-cumulative-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2018\/11\/join-the-cause-a-note-on-the-power-of-cumulative-effort.html","title":{"rendered":"Join the Cause!  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\u2014 each and every one of the roughly 330 million people in the United States signed up for Amazon.com and designated the Interpreter Foundation as their charity of choice, and if every single one of them spent $100 dollars over the next month for Christmas gifts through Amazon.com, that would yield $165 million \u2014 very nearly enough to cover my annual salary as chairman of the Foundation!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And now, switching gears just a bit: \u00a0Are you thinking about what to buy your friends and loved ones for Christmas? \u00a0Look no further! \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/interpreterfoundation.org\/books\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Here<\/a> are some excellent suggestions for the readers in your life:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"tG0E4EqjDy\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/interpreterfoundation.org\/books\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Books<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cBooks\u201d \u2014 The Interpreter Foundation\" src=\"https:\/\/interpreterfoundation.org\/books\/embed\/#?secret=Zkz0PqMlsZ#?secret=tG0E4EqjDy\" data-secret=\"tG0E4EqjDy\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, the article below reminded me that I should probably note the fact that the Interpreter Foundation has just recently sent the first of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mormoninterpreter.com\/author\/mittromney\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">contributors<\/a> to the Senate of the United States:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/voices\/2018\/11\/11\/mitt-romney-free-press-friend-not-enemy-media-trump-column\/1942665002\/?fbclid=IwAR3CVlYpf5_fYsKWu8Whr-zc0vBs0nE7Gf6T3om6_WtwocbYYGXOgSAFjAM\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cRomney: Trump is wrong to vilify the press. It\u2019s not the enemy, it\u2019s critical to democracy.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I hope and expect that there will be future Interpreter authors in Congress. \u00a0And perhaps \u2014 who knows? \u2014 someday in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a private note to those who harbor political ambitions: \u00a0At any given moment, only 100 out of 330 million American citizens serve in the United States Senate. \u00a0That\u2019s one out of 3,300,000. \u00a0Interpreter has published, thus far, about 145 distinct authors. \u00a0And one of them has just been elected to the Senate. \u00a0Plainly, publishing an article in <em>Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture<\/em> enormously increased his chances of election. \u00a0I mean, you can\u2019t really argue with the numbers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So perhaps this is a place where you can, as the saying goes, do well by doing good. \u00a0Contribute!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 I\u2019m hoping that this will encourage you to join in the great task of sharing the Gospel \u2014 in a multitude of ways, including your own very personal fashion (whatever it might be) \u2014 with the world, online. \u00a0No one person can do it, obviously, but a \u201croyal army\u201d of Latter-day Saints, collectively, [&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-67389","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>Join the Cause! 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