{"id":93542,"date":"2021-12-15T15:38:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T22:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=93542"},"modified":"2021-12-15T15:38:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T22:38:19","slug":"the-house-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2021\/12\/the-house-of-christmas.html","title":{"rendered":"“The House of Christmas”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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The Star over Bethlehem, from the Christmas 1898 cover of Harper\u2019s Magazine
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Come, Follow Me<\/em> \u2014 D&C Study and Teaching Helps: Lesson 52, December 20-December 26: Christmas (\u201cThe Living Christ\u201d)<\/a><\/p>\n

Another piece kindly produced for the Interpreter Foundation by Jonn Claybaugh.<\/p>\n

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Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me<\/em> Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 52 \u201cThe Matchless Gift of God\u2019s Divine Son\u201d<\/em>: Christmas<\/a><\/p>\n

The Interpreter Radio Roundtable for Come, Follow Me<\/em>\u00a0Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 52,\u00a0\u201cThe Matchless Gift of God\u2019s Divine Son\u201d<\/em> on Christmas features Terry Hutchinson, John Gee, and Kevin Christensen. Although sadly bereft of commercial and other interruptions, this roundtable has now been extracted from the 14 November 2021 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show and made available to you at no charge.\u00a0 The complete program is accessible, also at no charge, at https:\/\/interpreterfoundation.org\/interpreter-radio-show-November-14-2021\/<\/a>. The Interpreter Radio Show can be heard each and every Sunday evening from 7 to 9 PM (MDT), on K-TALK, AM 1640 or, via your personal computer, on the Internet at ktalkmedia.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Nibley Lectures: Come, Follow Me<\/em> Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 19 \u201cThe Promises \u2026 Shall Be Fulfilled\u201d: D&C 46-48<\/a><\/p>\n

During 1978, 1979, and 1980, Hugh Nibley taught a Doctrine and Covenants Sunday School class. Cassette recordings were made of these classes and some have survived and were recently digitized by Steve Whitlock. Most of the tapes were in pretty bad condition. The original recordings usually don\u2019t stop or start at the beginning of the class and there is some background noise. Volumes vary, probably depending upon where the recorder was placed in the room. Many are very low volume but in most cases it\u2019s possible to understand the words. In a couple of cases the ends of one class were put on some space left over from a different class.\u00a0 Even with these flaws and missing classes, we believe these these will be interesting to listen to and valuable to your Come, Follow Me<\/em>\u00a0study program.<\/p>\n

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And, just in case you missed my earlier announcement of it:<\/p>\n

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Deseret Book\u2019s What is My Witness<\/em>\u00a0Event<\/a><\/p>\n

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I share with you a poem, entitled \u201cThe House of Christmas,\u201d by the great G. K. Chesterton:<\/p>\n

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There fared a mother driven forth<\/span>
\nOut of an inn to roam;<\/span>
\nIn the place where she was homeless<\/span>
\nAll men are at home.<\/span>
\nThe crazy stable close at hand,<\/span>
\nWith shaking timber and shifting sand,<\/span>
\nGrew a stronger thing to abide and stand<\/span>
\nThan the square stones of Rome.<\/span><\/p>\n

For men are homesick in their homes,<\/span>
\nAnd strangers under the sun,<\/span>
\nAnd they lay on their heads in a foreign land<\/span>
\nWhenever the day is done.<\/span>
\nHere we have battle and blazing eyes,<\/span>
\nAnd chance and honour and high surprise,<\/span>
\nBut our homes are under miraculous skies<\/span>
\nWhere the yule tale was begun.<\/span><\/p>\n

A Child in a foul stable,<\/span>
\nWhere the beasts feed and foam;<\/span>
\nOnly where He was homeless<\/span>
\nAre you and I at home;<\/span>
\nWe have hands that fashion and heads that know,<\/span>
\nBut our hearts we lost \u2013 how long ago!<\/span>
\nIn a place no chart nor ship can show<\/span>
\nUnder the sky\u2019s dome.<\/span><\/p>\n

This world is wild as an old wives\u2019 tale,<\/span>
\nAnd strange the plain things are,<\/span>
\nThe earth is enough and the air is enough<\/span>
\nFor our wonder and our war;<\/span>
\nBut our rest is as far as the fire-drake swings<\/span>
\nAnd our peace is put in impossible things<\/span>
\nWhere clashed and thundered unthinkable wings<\/span>
\nRound an incredible star.<\/span><\/p>\n

To an open house in the evening<\/span>
\nHome shall men come,<\/span>
\nTo an older place than Eden<\/span>
\nAnd a taller town than Rome.<\/span>
\nTo the end of the way of the wandering star,<\/span>
\nTo the things that cannot be and that are,<\/span>
\nTo the place where God was homeless<\/span>
\nAnd all men are at home.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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