{"id":68172,"date":"2018-12-10T15:37:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T22:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=68172"},"modified":"2018-12-10T15:37:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T22:37:47","slug":"christmas-with-the-interpreter-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2018\/12\/christmas-with-the-interpreter-foundation.html","title":{"rendered":"Christmas with the Interpreter Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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\"From<\/a>
Feliz Navidad! \u00a0For when you can\u2019t afford an expensive olive wood Nativity set, perhaps because you\u2019ve donated so much to the Interpreter Foundation. \u00a0(Thanks to Doug Hernandez for sending this to me.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A few years ago, we at the Interpreter Foundation decided that we didn\u2019t want our flagship journal to feature just any random article \u2014 regarding, say, the precise GPS coordinates of the Jaredite city of Lib, or the detailed evolutionary history of the Mesoamerican curelom \u2014 to appear on the Friday closest to Christmas or Easter.<\/p>\n

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In the case of the former holiday, of course, it\u2019s very possible, given our regular Friday publication schedule, that our last December article could come out on Christmas Day itself. \u00a0 (The odds are approximately 1\/7. \u00a0Or, more precisely, they\u2019re 58\/400.) \u00a0Did we really want to mark Christmas with a piece on ancient American airfields? \u00a0To have happy families sit down after opening their presents and enjoying a festive dinner to contemplate a heavily footnoted article on the reflexive verb in Early Middle Nephite?<\/p>\n

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The answer, of course, was No.<\/p>\n

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So we began to invite selected people to contribute original articles or essays \u2014 of any kind they chose, whether scholarly or devotional or autobiographical or whatever \u2014 written specifically for Interpreter<\/em> and specifically aimed at either Christmas and Easter.<\/p>\n

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Our first essay in this new series was a piece written for Christmas 2014 by the famous and award-winning Latter-day Saint novelist Orson Scott Card, which I again call to your attention as part of the lead-up to Christmas this year:<\/p>\n

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\u201cChristmas Is About a Baby\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Coincidentally, on Friday, 30 November 2018, we actually published an article revisiting a much earlier (non-Christmas and pre-Interpreter<\/em>) essay by Scott Card:<\/p>\n

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\u201cOrson Scott Card\u2019s\u00a0\u201cArtifact or Artifice\u201d:\u00a0Where It Stands\u00a0After Twenty-five Years\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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If you haven\u2019t read it, I think you\u2019ll find it interesting.<\/p>\n

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***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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New, on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Church in the DR Congo: A Personal Perspective: Part 7, Taking the Gospel to the \u201cEnds of the Earth\u201d\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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I hadn\u2019t been able to participate in the Interpreter Radio Show for a couple of months, at least, so it was fun on Sunday last to join Terry Hutchinson<\/a> and John Gee<\/a> in the (to me still new) K-Talk studio and Kevin Christensen<\/a>\u00a0for the most recent iteration of the weekly program. \u00a0And, for most of the last hour, we spoke with Julie M. Smith<\/a> about her imminently forthcoming commentary on the gospel of Mark, to which I\u2019m very much looking forward.<\/p>\n

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