“Catholic Professor: The Book of Mormon Is a Miraculous Text”

I was pleased to see this new tribute to our friend Steve Webb:

http://www.ldsliving.com/Catholic-Professor-The-Book-of-Mormon-Is-a-Miraculous-Text/s/81553?utm_source=ldsliving&utm_medium=email

I wrote a column about his thinking here and reflected at greater length on his views here, and I paid my own brief, shocked, and inadequate tribute to him here.  (My Interpreter Foundation colleague and friend Jeffrey Mark Bradshaw published an interesting account about Steve in an article on another topic that was published not too long ago.)

My wife and I had the privilege and opportunity to take Steve with us to church in August of 2015.  He had a great time — both sacrament meeting and Sunday school were exceptionally good that day — and, when we left at the beginning of the third hour, he spoke enthusiastically about what he’d seen and heard all the way to the airport.

The previous evening, I had been privileged to moderate a discussion with Margaret Barker and with Steve that was videotaped and is available for viewing online:

http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/an-evening-with-margaret-barker-stephen-webb/

At the time of his sudden and quite unexpected death, Steve was set to come out to Utah in just a few days for an Interpreter Foundation conference on Mormonism and science.  Addressing that conference the following weekend, I read some of the notes that he had sent to us for his remarks:

http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/notes-from-stephen-h-webb-1961-2016-at-science-mormonism-symposium/

We miss him.  He had so much more yet to offer, and — this isn’t always the same thing — he was a wonderful human being.