“Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone but in every leaf of springtime.” Martin Luther (1483-1546)     Read more

    Another Easter Week message from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:   https://www.mormon.org/easter/principles-of-peace/hope     Read more

    An interesting and Easter-relevant discussion from Book of Mormon Central:   https://knowhy.bookofmormoncentral.org/content/how-does-the-book-of-mormon-help-date-christ’s-death     Read more

    If you haven’t yet watched the two-and-a-half-minute Easter 2017 video from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, please do:   https://www.mormon.org   If you haven’t yet shared it with family and friends, please share it with them today or tomorrow.   Happy Easter!     Read more

    http://www.ldsliving.com/What-We-May-Have-Been-Getting-All-Wrong-About-the-Savior-s-Cross-and-the-Beautiful-Symbolism-Behind-it/s/85138   An excellent video, not quite eight minutes long, about how the judicial murder of Jesus was carried out.  It’s tough, but the presentation isn’t gruesome or gratuitously shocking, and, in my judgment, it’s very useful for helping us to understand a little better the magnitude of the Savior’s suffering and the extent, therefore, of his love for us.  Highly appropriate for Easter.   In that context — and prompted by what the narrator says at about 6:30... Read more

    “Dark matter” is very, very mysterious.  (See my “We’re so very clueless” and/or my “Materialism isn’t what it used to be.”)  But we’re learning a bit more about it, and what we’re learning is rather weird.  Certainly it’s nothing that I was ever taught in high school:   Researchers Image Dark Matter Bridge Between Galaxies     Read more

    The latest installment of the biweekly Hamblin/Peterson column in Salt Lake City’s Deseret News:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865677886/Choosing-the-date-of-Easter-and-how-Western-Eastern-celebrations-are-on-the-same-day-this-year.html?clear_cache=1     Read more

    This past Wednesday night, Royal Skousen gave a really fine lecture to an audience at Brigham Young University.  A video recording of that lecture is now available, at no charge, on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Video Presentation: Celebrating the new edition of Royal Skousen’s Analysis of Textual Variants     Read more

    My thanks to Virginia Brown for bringing this poem — by the English novelist, translator, and essayist (and friend of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis) Dorothy Sayers (d. 1957) — to my attention.  It’s a short and simple but profound piece:   Hard it is, very hard To travel up the slow and stony road To Calvary, to redeem mankind; far better To make but one resplendent miracle, Lean through the cloud, lift the right... Read more

    With this 2017 Easter message from Ann Madsen, the Interpreter Foundation wishes you and yours a joyous Easter:   The Healing and Exalting Powers of Christ Weave Together at Easter   Please note, on the right hand side, the various ways in which you can access our articles.  For example, you can listen to an MP3 recording of Ann Madsen reading her essay.   Blessings to all!     Read more