But, first, I failed to mention two items that went up yesterday on the website of the Interpreter Foundation. So here they are. The first was generously provided by Jonn Claybaugh: Come, Follow Me — D&C Study and Teaching Helps: Lesson 14, March 29–April 4: Easter — “I Am He Who Liveth, I Am He Who Was Slain” The second came from the weekly Interpreter Radio Show: Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 14 “I Am... Read more
*** The comments below are loosely related to my 21 March 2021 blog entry, “Mark Hofmann, the “Salamander Letter,” and Me”: I’ve just learned from a small sub-handful of my semi-professional critics that I’m still seething with anger today at the fact that, while the leadership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bought the fraudulent “Salamander Letter” hook, line, and sinker, the late critic of the Church Jerald Tanner publicly declared it false... Read more
Unbelievably, it was nine years ago today that I received the completely unexpected and devastating news that my brother, Kenneth Dee Walters — strictly speaking, my half-brother — my only sibling, to whom I was exceptionally close, had died. I was stunned and immobilized. I still think of him, and I still miss him, every day. Literally every day. I’ve made it my practice on this blog to post something about him (typically my hastily composed and... Read more
*** Interpreter Radio Show — March 14, 2021 The 14 March 2021 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show is now available online. It involved Terry Hutchinson, John Gee, and Kevin Christensen, who discussed Mark Hofmann’s forgeries and how to assess new approaches to Church history in the Show’s first hour. The second portion of the Show was devoted to a roundtable discussing the upcoming Come Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants lesson #17 (D&C 41-44). The Interpreter Radio Show... Read more
For one reason or another, I still haven’t managed to watch the Netflix documentary series Murder Among the Mormons. Somehow, when I’ve begun to wind down late at night in recent weeks, I just haven’t been in the mood for it. I know that I need to watch the thing, but I always decide that I’ll watch it tomorrow night. Mañana. My wife and I like to relax before bedtime with BBC versions of classic novels or British... Read more
But first, two new items went up today on the website of the always-dying Interpreter Foundation: Book of Moses Essays #47: Moses Witnesses the Creation (Moses 2): The Creation of Light and the Heavenly Host (Moses 2:3-5) Interpreter Radio Show — March 7, 2021 The 7 March 2021 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show featured Neal Rappleye, Jasmine Rappleye, Hales Swift, and Spencer Marsh. In this episode, they discussed a recent Netflix documentary (Murder Among the... Read more
*** Newly published as the latest article in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Daniel C. Peterson, “Variety and Complexity in the Witnesses to the Book of Mormon” Abstract: This paper examines the testimonies of the witnesses of the Book of Mormon— not only the Three Witnesses and the Eight Witnesses, but many others who experienced and testified of the reality of the Book of Mormon plates. Together, these testimonies offer impressive support for the claims of Joseph Smith... Read more
*** Up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: “Hearing the Voice of the Lord in the Mind: Blessing, Helping and Informing Mission Presidents and Their Wives, Missionaries and Others” (Part Four of a Series Compiled by Dennis B. Horne) *** “How Did News of Ancient Ruins Support the Faith of the Witnesses?” *** Let’s hope that Sunday scheduling for BYU becomes an issue this year! “NCAA tournament prepared to... Read more
*** One reaction: “Just Started Dan Vogel’s New Book: Already Chagrined by the Treatment of Champollion” *** An outspoken atheist who frequently comments on my blog routinely declares that there is no evidence at all in favor of theistic belief — a claim that, frankly, I find completely risible — and then adds that, anyway, the only kind of evidence that really counts is what he calls “tangible evidence” (emphasis mine). He has responded (after a... Read more
Two new items went up today on the (evidently) not yet quite dead website of the Interpreter Foundation: Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 13: “Jesus Christ Will Gather His People” D&C 29 The discussants for the Interpreter Radio Roundtable on Come, Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 13, “Jesus Christ Will Gather His People,” on D&C 29, were Terry Hutchinson, John Gee, and Kevin Christensen. This roundtable was extracted from the 14 February 2021 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show. The... Read more
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