I’m pleased to report that, as of now, the Interpreter Foundation’s movie Witnesses is scheduled to open on the weekend of 4-5 June (and, in at least some locations, on 2-3 June, as well) in fifty-seven theaters located in eight states — Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah. We have just added a large number of theaters, many (but not all) of them in Arizona. Please have a look at the witnessesfilm.com website to see… Read more
May 18, 2021
Twenty-Three Additional Theaters Will Screen “Witnesses” on Its Opening Weekend
May 18, 2021 By Dan Peterson
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May 17, 2021
Enoch, Job, and Hugh Nibley
May 17, 2021 By Dan Peterson
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*** Two new pieces went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation. The second of them is an entry on the Interpreter Foundation’s blog, while the first appears in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Mack C. Stirling, “Job: An LDS Reading” Abstract: Mack C. Stirling examines the well-known story of Job, one of the literary books of the Bible and part of the Wisdom literature (which is heavy in temple mysticism and… Read more
May 16, 2021
“Religion, Spirituality, and Health”
May 16, 2021 By Dan Peterson
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*** I offer here a potpourri of appalling horrors from the essentially inexhaustible Christopher Hitchens Memorial “How Religion Poisons Everything” File©: “Donation to Assist Exploited Children in Hawaii: Church partners with Ho’ōla Nā Pua to support the Bromley Family Pearl Haven Campus” “Latter-day Saint NBA CEO tells Wall Street Journal that his faith gives him a ‘longer view’” “Why BYU, other church schools rejected tens of millions in COVID-19 relief” “LDS congregation donates… Read more
May 15, 2021
Four Books That Can Fortify Faith
May 15, 2021 By Dan Peterson
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I’m pleased to report that, based on views and shares, the Interpreter Foundation’s theatrical film, Witnesses, is currently ranked Number Two nationally on iTunes Apple Trailers. (To put this in perspective, Above Suspicion, starring Emilia Clarke, comes in fifth, and The Misfits, starring Pierce Brosnan, ranks seventh.) It would be fun if we were able to reach the Number One slot. So, if you want to help, please watch the trailer and share it as widely as you can: … Read more
May 14, 2021
Close Readings of the Book of Mormon and Other Scriptural Texts
May 14, 2021 By Dan Peterson
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Two new items went up today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship. The first is by A. Keith Thompson, and the second is by Blake T. Ostler: “The Brass Plates: Can Modern Scholarship Help Identify Their Contents?” Abstract: The Book of Mormon contains little information about what the Brass Plates contain. Nephi said it was a larger record than the Hebrew Bible brought to America by the Gentiles. But it could not have contained the records of… Read more
May 13, 2021
“For all find what they truly seek.”
May 13, 2021 By Dan Peterson
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Another trio of new items has gone up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: ““We Will Still Weep for Zion”: War and Wealth” This is the seventh of eight weekly blog posts published in honor of the life and work of Hugh Nibley (1910–2005). The series is in honor of the new, landmark book, Hugh Nibley Observed, available in softcover, hardback, digital, and audio editions. Each week our post is accompanied by interviews and insights in pdf, audio,… Read more
May 12, 2021
Interreligious Dialogue, Effective and Ineffective
May 12, 2021 By Dan Peterson
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Driving southbound on I-15 early this morning, I was pleased to see an advertisement for the Interpreter Foundation’s soon-to premiere theatrical film, Witnesses, on an electronic billboard. And just a few hours ago, I saw the same advertisement on an electronic billboard at the corner of University Parkway and State Street — in other words, at the southwest corner of University Mall — in Orem. Good grief. It looks as if this thing could really happen. If… Read more
May 11, 2021
Creation
May 11, 2021 By Dan Peterson
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I think that I failed to call y0ur attention to this item, which went up two or three days ago on the still barely-alive website of the Interpreter Foundation: “Book of Moses Essays #54: Moses Sees the Garden of Eden (Moses 3): Spiritual Creation (Moses 3:5–7)” Thinking about creation right now, I can’t help but picture the crater of Haleakala, where we stood on Sunday afternoon. (See above.) In a very real way, it is a… Read more
May 10, 2021
“Matthew Black and Mircea Eliade Meet Hugh Nibley”
May 10, 2021 By Dan Peterson
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*** This interesting reminiscence was just published in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Gordon C. Thomasson, “Matthew Black and Mircea Eliade Meet Hugh Nibley” Abstract: As a graduate student, Gordon Thomasson had the opportunity to introduce two internationally renowned scholars to the publications and scholarship of Hugh Nibley: Matthew Black, an eminent scholar of ancient Enoch writings; and Mircea Eliade, famed chair of the History of Religions program at the University of Chicago. Upon… Read more
May 10, 2021
The view from Haleakalā on Mother’s Day 2021
May 10, 2021 By Dan Peterson
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*** After a leisurely morning that included partaking of the sacrament, we drove over to the Kula district — where, by the way, most of the famous Maui onions are grown — on the western slope of the massive volcano Haleakalā. We had a specific reason for going there: We wanted to see the historic little Pulehu Chapel once again. My next column for Meridian Magazine will probably center, to at least some degree, on Pulehu. We… Read more
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