{"id":74447,"date":"2019-05-25T13:58:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T19:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=74447"},"modified":"2019-05-25T17:09:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T23:09:02","slug":"of-holy-islands-and-other-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2019\/05\/of-holy-islands-and-other-matters.html","title":{"rendered":"Of holy islands and other matters"},"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_30965\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30965\" style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/02\/papeete-tahiti-temple-1232272-gallery.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-30965\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/02\/papeete-tahiti-temple-1232272-gallery.jpg\" alt=\"The Tahitian Temple\" width=\"595\" height=\"446\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30965\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Papeete Tahiti Temple \u00a0\u00a0(LDS.org)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The latest installment of the bi-weekly column that Bill Hamblin and I do for the <em>Deseret News<\/em> has appeared:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/900072174\/william-hamblin-and-daniel-peterson-delos-the-holy-island.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cDelos, the holy island\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Neal Rappleye, Jasmin Rappleye, Stephen Smoot and Hales Swift were the hosts for the 5 May 2019 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show. \u00a0They discussed the recent <em>Interpreter<\/em> article on Joseph Smith as the \u201cWorld\u2019s Greatest Guesser\u201d and a new volume on the New Testament, as well as \u201cCome Follow Me\u201d lesson #20:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/interpreterfoundation.org\/interpreter-radio-show-may-5-2019\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Interpreter Radio Show \u2014 May 5, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you would prefer, you can listen instead to\u00a0a free-standing Interpreter Radio (audio) Roundtable for\u00a0<em>Come, Follow Me<\/em>\u00a0New Testament Lesson 20,\u00a0<em>\u201cBehold, Thy King Cometh,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>covering Matthew 21-23, Mark 11, Luke 19-20 and John 12. \u00a0Again, the panelists for this roundtable were Neal Rappleye, Jasmin Rappleye, Stephen Smoot, and Hales Swift. The roundtable was extracted from the 5 May 2019 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/interpreterfoundation.org\/cfm-audio-roundtable-come-follow-me-new-testament-lesson-20\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Audio Roundtable:\u00a0<em>Come, Follow Me<\/em>\u00a0New Testament Lesson 20\u00a0<em>\u201cBehold, Thy King Cometh\u201d<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\">***<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 12 May 2019 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show is also now available at no charge online. \u00a0The hosts for it were Terry Hutchinson and Kevin Christensen, who discussed the influence of mothers and new books, as well as \u201cCome Follow Me\u201d lesson #21:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/interpreterfoundation.org\/interpreter-radio-show-may-12-2019\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Interpreter Radio Show \u2014 May 12, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Again, though, for your convenience, the audio roundtable has been extracted from the 12 May 2019 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show. \u00a0The roundtable focuses on\u00a0<em>Come, Follow Me<\/em>\u00a0New Testament Lesson 21,\u00a0<em>\u201cThe Son of Man Shall Come,\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>covering Joseph Smith-Matthew 1, Matthew 25, Mark 12-13 and Luke 21. \u00a0The panelists for this roundtable, plainly, were Terry Hutchinson, and Kevin Christensen\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/interpreterfoundation.org\/cfm-audio-roundtable-come-follow-me-new-testament-lesson-21\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Audio Roundtable:\u00a0<em>Come, Follow Me<\/em>\u00a0New Testament Lesson 21\u00a0<em>\u201cThe Son of Man Shall Come\u201d<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\">We have been driven out of the land of our inheritance; but we have been led to a better land, for the Lord has made the sea our path,\u00a0and we are upon an isle of the sea. \u00a0But great are the promises of the Lord unto them who are upon the isles of the sea;\u00a0wherefore as it says isles, there must needs be more than this, and they are inhabited also by our brethren. \u00a0(2 Nephi 10:20-21)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mormonnewsroom.org\/article\/president-nelson-pacific-ministry-2019-tahiti\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cPresident Nelson Concludes 2019 Pacific Ministry in Tahiti:\u00a0The 175th anniversary of Latter-day Saints in French Polynesia celebrated\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Surely you have to admit that the headline, at least, is pretty funny:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/owners-of-a-noahs-ark-replica-sue-for-rain-damage\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cOwners of Noah\u2019s Ark replica sue for rain damage\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2019\/05\/24\/owners-of-biblical-noahs-ark-replica-sue-over-rain-damage-to-property\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cOwners of biblical Noah\u2019s ark replica sue over rain damage to property\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from London, England<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 The latest installment of the bi-weekly column that Bill Hamblin and I do for the Deseret News has appeared: \u00a0 \u201cDelos, the holy island\u201d \u00a0 *** \u00a0 Neal Rappleye, Jasmin Rappleye, Stephen Smoot and Hales Swift were the hosts for the 5 May 2019 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show. \u00a0They discussed the [&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-74447","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>Of holy islands and other matters<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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