Dr. Hales Swift continues to contribute videos (and their transcripts) to the Interpreter Foundation for the use of students and teachers in the Gospel Doctrine classes of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Here’s his latest:
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I strongly recommend this very short piece from the folks associated with Pearl of Great Price Central:
Here’s a comment on the Pearl of Great Price Central article from Robert Boylan in Dublin:
“Pearl of Great Price Central on ‘Shinehah'”
And here’s something from Book of Mormon Central that you might enjoy.
“Incredible Video Explains the Story of the Plates of Mormon”
That link-title above does remind me of a pet peeve, though: It’s one of my dreams to see the eventual retirement of the use of the word incredible to mean “excellent” or “well done” or “very good.” After all, isn’t this video supposed to be, well, credible?
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I’m pleased beyond words by the fact that, unlike so very many Evangelical Protestants and their leaders, a substantial proportion of the Latter-day Saints have resisted bending the knee to Baal:
“Mitt Romney is having an important moment. His faith might be, too.”
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“What a conservative New York Times columnist had to say to BYU students”
Watch and listen to David Brooks’s speech here:
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For those who may be new to my blog, one of the frequent features here is where I offer recommendations to people who are still seeking more materials for their already bulging Christopher Hitchens Memorial “How Religion Poisons Everything” files. Here’s a promising item:
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I had occasion yesterday (Tuesday) to commend this 1983 article (by my friend, former missionary companion, and department colleague Dr. Stephen D. Ricks) to someone who called me about some points of contact between Judaism and the Restoration. Having done so, it seems appropriate to bring it to your notice, as well. I think it extremely interesting. You can download it at no charge:
“The Appearance of Elijah and Moses in the Kirtland Temple and the Jewish Passover”
A brief note in the History of the Church under the date of Sunday, 3 April 1836, records the appearance of the Lord, Moses, Elias, and Elijah to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery in the Kirtland Temple. Subsequent writers have noted that this date corresponds to the Jewish Passover, during which the arrival of Elijah is traditionally awaited. A parenthetical note in the Missionary Training Manual: For Use in the Jewish Proselyting Program states the correlation of the two events emphatically. There we are informed that Elijah appeared in the Kirtland Temple “at about the same hour that the Jewish families in that time zone would have been preparing to begin their feast of the Passover.” These statements, although correct in their identification of the Jewish Passover with the ritual expectation of Elijah and in their connecting the time of the appearance of Elijah in the Kirtland Temple with the Passover season, warrant further elucidation and modest chronological correction.
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