*** We’re in Logan for the wedding of one of my brother’s granddaughters. How he would have loved to be here! As a side benefit, we had dinner tonight at a little Italian restaurant that’s situated in an elegant old house at 129 North 100 East, just below the hill on which the Logan Utah Temple sits. It’s called Le Nonne, and I recommend it enthusiastically. Our dinner was absolutely excellent. I was delighted to learn… Read more
June 18, 2021
Mesa, Queen Creek, and Superstition Springs. And Logan.
June 18, 2021 By Dan Peterson
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June 16, 2021
Idaho Falls and Boston and Santa Clarita and a Bit of Amusement
June 16, 2021 By Dan Peterson
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*** I’m told that, at least earlier today, the Witnesses film website was listing no theaters in Idaho Falls where the Interpreter Foundation’s movie was being screened. This appears to have been an error: So, if you’re in the Idaho Falls area and you’re interested in seeing Witnesses — and what on earth is wrong with you if you’re not? — please check with the Paramount Triplex Theatre there. And you should do it soon; movie runs don’t last forever,… Read more
June 16, 2021
From slightly less than seven years ago
June 16, 2021 By Dan Peterson
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*** I maintain a blog for many reasons. However, one of them is purely personal: My blog is something of a journal for me, and, even more particularly, it’s a way of remembering things, and especially of remembering people whose memory I refuse to allow to be wholly lost. So, for instance, I’m afraid that readers of this blog will have to put up with my regular yearly memorials to my brother and my parents…. Read more
June 15, 2021
“No Comparison Between Latter-day Saint Race and Sex Teachings”
June 15, 2021 By Dan Peterson
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*** I admire what “Hypatia” has to say in this recently published article — which means, of course, that I agree with it: “No Comparison Between Latter-day Saint Race and Sex Teachings: It’s become popular to assert that sexual orientation is, and ought to be, analogous to race for Latter-day Saints. That insistence overlooks what prophets actually say.” *** Here are a trio of damning items from the Christopher Hitchens Memorial “How Religion Poisons… Read more
June 14, 2021
“Psalm 105: Chiasmus, Credo, Covenant, and Temple”
June 14, 2021 By Dan Peterson
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*** First, though, this brief excerpt from an interview with Y’r obd’t servant went up today in LDS Living: “Why the Three Witnesses left the Church, why two came back, and how, despite never coming back, David Whitmer stood by his testimony even at his gravesite” *** This article, by my longtime friend, department colleague, and former missionary companion Stephen D. Ricks, was just published a few minutes ago in Interpreter: A Journal of… Read more
June 13, 2021
The witnesses of the Book of Mormon and the problems of eyewitness testimony
June 13, 2021 By Dan Peterson
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*** Curiously, this is from Illinois News Live: “A new movie about the witnesses of the Book of Mormon premiere in eastern Idaho” *** And here’s something that some of you will find interesting: “Thinking with Ryan Burge: Concerning young Latter-day Saints, third parties and life post-Trump” (Please note that I’m not posting about politics. I don’t do politics here any more. I’ve heard that the country recently changed presidents, but I can’t… Read more
June 13, 2021
“Smallest Wingless”
June 13, 2021 By Dan Peterson
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*** I published this column in the Deseret News very nearly seven years ago. It was all that I could do. She was born seven years ago today: Some are displeased with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints over socio-political disputes, gender concerns, and other perceived grievances. While I seldom if ever share their specific issues, I don’t discount them. I know they can hurt. However, compared with ultimate questions of life and… Read more
June 12, 2021
Mesa, Arizona, and Santa Clarita, California, and Wisconsin, and the Past
June 12, 2021 By Dan Peterson
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*** I’m happy to see such events as the one shown in the image above, for Mesa, Arizona, on Monday. Here’s some news for those in Southern California. Our superb distributor, Brandon Purdie, has been able to book what I’m told is one of the most prominent and prestigious art-house theater chains in the greater Los Angeles area for Witnesses. It’s the Newhall Laemmle theater in Santa Clarita/Valencia. Lincoln Hoppe, who plays Martin Harris in the… Read more
June 11, 2021
“Their Imperfect Best”
June 11, 2021 By Dan Peterson
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*** Have you seen Witnesses yet? Are you going to watch it tonight? Tomorrow night? *** Two new articles — in this case, two book reviews — were published today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Brian C. Hales, “Seeking a Global Context for the First Vision” Review of Richard E. Bennett, 1820: Dawning of the Restoration (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center at Brigham Young University / Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2020)…. Read more
June 10, 2021
Joseph, the stone, and the hat: Why they all matter
June 10, 2021 By Dan Peterson
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*** As you can see from the illustration above, the Interpreter Foundation’s film Witnesses ranked at Number Six on Box Office Mojo for Tuesday, 8 June 2021. Of course, in the interest of full disclosure it has to be frankly admitted that the box office receipts for Witnesses come in at slightly less than a third of those for Raya and the Last Dragon, which is ranked just above it at Number Five. But they’re very nearly… Read more
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