Bruce Webster
Mike Parker
You can listen to or download the November 18 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show below. It will also be included in our podcast feed (https://dev.interpreterfoundation.org/feeds/podcast). Hosts were Bruce Webster and Mike Parker. Topics discussed include Thomas Wayment’s New Testament study bible and the FIRM Foundation’s annotated edition of the Book of Mormon.
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Original air date: November 18, 2018. This recording has been edited to remove commercial breaks.
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In a recent stake conference meeting a member of our stake presidency said something similar. The new study curriculum would serve “not as an academic study — but to learn and know Christ and develop our testimony in Him.”
I don’t live in the broadcast range of KTALK, so I have to listen to the Interpreter Radio as a podcast, days or weeks after each episode. But if I had been able to listen to this show live I would have called in to say that Bruce and Mike seem to think that the new curriculum change is intended to turn the Saints into gospel *scholars.* I don’t think that is the intent at all. I love scholarship and I’m grateful to dedicated faithful scholars, like those at the Interpreter Foundation. I think the new curriculum is intended to increase faith in Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. I don’t think they want us to be able to deliver an exegesis of the grammatical errors of Paul (interesting though that may be), they want us to have the faith to keep the commandments, even when it’s hard. Sometimes Biblical scholarship accomplishes this purpose, but sometimes it undercuts it. For a good example of faith-promoting scholarship see the recent LDS Perspectives podcast episode featuring Shawn Hopkin about the Day of Atonement imagery. It is factual, historical, interesting, and deepens my devotional life.
I don’t know if anyone will ever actually see this comment, and I suppose it doesn’t matter in the end. I just needed to put this out there.
Thanks for all you folks do.