***   How, you may ask, is the Interpreter Foundation’s forthcoming two-part 2.5-hour docudrama, Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon, different from the Foundation’s theatrical film, Witnesses?   Thank you for asking!   Both Witnesses and Undaunted are parts of the same overall project, and the docudrama’s production and release have long been intended to follow on the heels of the earlier film’s run in theaters.  Unlike Witnesses, though, which focused entirely on Oliver Cowdery, Martin Harris,… Read more

    ***   I’m pleased to announce that Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — the Interpreter Foundation docudrama that has been created to deepen understanding of and to comment upon Interpreter’s theatrical film, Witnesses — will receive its red-carpet premiere on Friday, 4 March, during the annual LDS Film Festival.  And tickets for it and for the festival as a whole are now available.   “The various witnesses of the gold plates, both official and unofficial, represent… Read more

    ***   Critics of the Church of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sometimes dismiss articles written by Latter-day Saint scholars and/or published in Latter-day Saint venues on the grounds that they’re Latter-day Saints.  Such dismissals are very common among certain types of critic.   So I’m going to cut to the chase.  Arguments — and I use the term argument here as scholars and logicians typically do, to refer to orderly presentations of evidence intended… Read more