Some are still curious to know when I’m speaking in Poway, here in the greater San Diego area. So I’m providing a schedule:
Tonight — at 7 PM, on Thursday, 11 April — I’m participating in an interfaith panel on the Tabernacle of Moses with a Jewish cantor, a representative of the Muslim community, a Catholic priest, and a Protestant pastor. The title for the panel is “What the Moses Tabernacle Means to Us.”
Tomorrow night — on Friday, 12 April, at 7 PM — I’m speaking on the subject “The Significance of Moses’ Tabernacle to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.”
On Saturday night — 13 April, at 7 PM — I’ll be speaking for about half an hour to youth of the sponsoring stake on the subject of “Sacrifice.”
All of these things will take place at the Poway California Stake Center, which is located at 15759 Bernardo Heights Parkway, San Diego, CA 92128.
Everything is being done in connection with the display of a full-scale reproduction of the ancient Tabernacle of Moses, which has been erected adjacent to the Stake Center. It has been open for public visits — at no charge — since Monday. It will be open today (Thursday) and tomorrow (Friday) from 3 PM until 6:30 PM. On Saturday, it will be open to the public from 9 AM until 3 PM. After being closed on Sunday, it will again be open to the public from Monday (15 April) through Thursday (18 April), between the hours of 3:00 PM and 8:00 PM.
The Tabernacle made the local television news on Monday:
“Replica of Tabernacle of Moses comes to San Diego”
https://www.kusi.com/replica-of-tabernacle-of-moses-comes-to-san-diego/
https://www.kusi.com/replica-of-tabernacle-of-moses-comes-to-san-diego/
On a very different subject, but one that’s still related to the Middle East, here’s an item about BYU’s “Arabic Camp”:
https://arabiccamp.ce.byu.edu/?fbclid=IwAR0eoHGHAvY8Gl1oMwvJvZR_HubydC79CZqpMwVS2jIsF1fVIJdo_BKb8lI
I think it safe to say that BYU has become one of the premiere places in North America for the study and teaching of the Arabic language. I can say this without boasting because I claim no role, not even an insignificant one, in that success, which I attribute rather to the talents and efforts of my now recently-retired friend and colleague Dilworth Parkinson (who is currently serving a humanitarian mission in Jordan with his wife), as well as to my colleague and friend Kirk Belnap. They are now being ably supported by such fine teachers as Spencer Scoville, Kevin Blankinshipp, and Ahmed Karout. (See here.)
Posted from San Diego, California
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