This is volume 54 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship published by The Interpreter Foundation. It contains the following articles: “Beautiful Patience”, “Twenty Years After ‘Paradigms Regained,’ Part 1: The Ongoing, Plain, and Precious Significance of Margaret Barker’s Scholarship for Latter-day Saint Studies”, “Rethinking the Encounter between Jacob and Sherem”, “‘Being of that Lineage’: Generational Curses and Inheritance in the Book of Abraham”, “The Words of Gad the Seer: An Apparently Ancient Text with Intriguing Origins and Content”, “We Live in the Olden Days: Reflections on the Importance of Scientific and Theological Humility”, “Puritans, Pagans, and Imperfect Christmas Gifts”, “Stained Swords: A Psalm of Redemption”, “‘We Don’t Know, So We Might as Well’: A Flimsy Philosophy for Same-Sex Sealings”, and “An Important New Study of Freemasonry and the Latter-day Saints: What’s Good, What’s Questionable, and What’s Missing in Method Infinite.” Our authors are: Daniel C. Peterson, Kevin Christensen, Loren Spendlove, John S. Thompson, Jeff Lindsay, Steven L. Clark, David F. Holland, Loren Blake Spendlove, Matthew Watkins, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw.