{"id":67911,"date":"2018-12-01T09:43:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T16:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=67911"},"modified":"2018-12-01T21:14:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T04:14:43","slug":"artifact-or-artifice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2018\/12\/artifact-or-artifice.html","title":{"rendered":"“Artifact or Artifice?”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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The Los Angeles California Temple \u00a0(Wikimedia Commons public domain) \u00a0While I was growing up in southern California, this was my temple. \u00a0It\u2019s also where my parents were sealed after my father\u2019s conversion, and where my brother and I were sealed to them. \u00a0So I was pleased to catch a glimpse of it in the distance during our final approach to Los Angeles International Airport just a few minutes ago.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A new article \u2014 or, anyway, an article that\u2019s still relatively<\/em> new (I\u2019ve been traveling) \u2014 in the pages of Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cOrson Scott Card\u2019s \u2018Artifact or Artifice\u2019:\u00a0Where It Stands\u00a0After Twenty-five Years\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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The article is by the indefatigible Jeff Lindsay, who also has a short related article on his blog:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Evolution of Language and the Book of Mormon\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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From the Australian newsroom of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/a>, an article about some of what I was up to this past Thursday:<\/p>\n

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\u201cPerspectives on Religious Freedom and Truth by BYU Scholar\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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And, for those who might have been wondering what I was up to Down Under but who missed the following two earlier articles, I offer a pair of links:<\/p>\n

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\u201cSydney Congregation Learns about Evidence and Witnesses of the Book of Mormon\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cDaniel C. Peterson to Deliver Religious Liberty Lecture at University of Notre Dame\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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I want to express my particular gratitude to those who spent a great deal of time with us, and a great deal of effort on<\/em> us, during our stay in Australia \u2014 most notably to Brother and Sister Keith Thompson, to Elder and Sister Robert Dudfield, and to Elder and Sister Lloyd in Melbourne. \u00a0They made things very easy \u2014 and very pleasant \u2014 for us.<\/p>\n

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Particularly in view of my talk about religious liberty on Tuesday evening in Sydney, I was pleased to see this item:<\/p>\n

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\u201cLatter-day Saint Leaders Discuss Religious Intolerance at Baghdad Conference:\u00a0Church continues to assist Yazidis\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Stephen Smoot weighs in on an issue that has potential implications for the debate between adherents of the \u201cHeartland\u201d model of Book of Mormon geography and advocates of a Mesoamerican setting for the Book:<\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2018No Kings Upon the Land\u2019: A Note on 2 Nephi 10\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Also relevant to the Heartland vs. Mesoamerican issue is the following short piece from Book of Mormon Central:<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhere is the Location of the Hill Cumorah?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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I freely confess that I\u2019m partial to a Mesoamerican model.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Posted from Los Angeles, California<\/p>\n

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