{"id":67530,"date":"2018-11-19T03:24:33","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T10:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=67530"},"modified":"2018-11-19T03:24:33","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T10:24:33","slug":"the-church-does-good-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2018\/11\/the-church-does-good-around-the-world.html","title":{"rendered":"The Church does good around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Aerial view of Sydney Harbour. Our hotel is, I think, on the very leftmost edge of this photo.
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One of the great things about the Interpreter Foundation is the great people who have come together to make it work.<\/p>\n

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On Friday evening, for example, my wife and I went out to dinner at Provo\u2019s Bombay House with a couple whom we really like. \u00a0The wife, who was formerly a secretary with the old Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, now volunteers to help us send thank-you letters and provide year-end tax information to Interpreter donors. \u00a0We would have a very, very difficult time keeping up with that task if she hadn\u2019t come forward to help, and we\u2019re deeply grateful to her and to her kind and tolerent husband.<\/p>\n

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Even later that evening, the prolific and indispensable Jeff Lindsay<\/a> dropped by our house. \u00a0In town only briefly for some family matters, he was due to return to his home in Shanghai the very next day, on Saturday morning. \u00a0(We ourselves didn\u2019t leave until Saturday evening.) \u00a0I haven\u2019t had a lot of opportunities to speak with Jeff at any length, since we live on different and distant continents. \u00a0So I really enjoyed and appreciated his visit and getting to know him a little bit better.<\/p>\n

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(Why do I give his name and not hers? \u00a0That\u2019s easy. \u00a0He\u2019s already publicly out there and subjected to the derision and to the unkind, uncharitable, and often vicious attacks that frequently come from certain critics of the Church. \u00a0She\u2019s not, and I don\u2019t feel authorized to \u201cout\u201d her without her permission. \u00a0I\u2019m accustomed to the critics. \u00a0Others, mercifully, aren\u2019t, and they shouldn\u2019t have<\/em> to be. \u00a0I don\u2019t, for instance, name my wife and my children publicly; even so, they\u2019ve been assaulted and insulted more than once online because of their wicked connection to me. \u00a0Even my daughter has been dragged into this, sometimes used, by people who claim to know her well, as an insider source for dirt about my failures as a father and sometimes derided for her unthinking, robotic Mormonism<\/a>. \u00a0And I don\u2019t even\u00a0have<\/em> a daughter.)<\/p>\n

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Some Church news:<\/p>\n

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\u201cPresident Nelson Addresses Life\u2019s Challenges During Texas Devotional:\u00a0Prophet and wife joined by the Bednars, Ochoas\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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If you\u2019re one of the more hostile critics out there, you can add the next two items to your already overstuffed file of Bad Things That the Church Does:<\/p>\n

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\u201cChurch Helps Provide Comfort and Aid to California Fire Victims\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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From the Australian Newsroom: \u00a0\u201cSending Love and Relief to Drought-Stricken Farmers and Their Families:\u00a0Australian volunteers get organised to make a difference\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Posted from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia<\/p>\n

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