I hope that what I’m doing here with it will count as acceptable “fair use.” I’m struck by the painting because it’s in the style of Grant Wood, which I love.
The 22 December 2019 installment of the Interpreter Radio Show is now available for your listening pleasure and edification, shorn of the commercial and other breaks that go with its broadcast version. The hosts were Martin Tanner and Matt Bowen. In this particular episode, Martin and Matt discuss various aspects of Christmas. Also featured was a roundtable on the upcoming Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon lesson #3 on 1 Nephi 8-10:
Interpreter Radio Show — December 22, 2019
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Also available through the website of the Interpreter Foundation, an LDS Perspectives podcast:
“Joseph Smith, Nauvoo Leader,” with Christian Heimburger
Christian Heimburger received a B.A. in American Studies from Brigham Young University and Ph.D. in modern American history from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on Japanese Americans who left World War II incarceration camps to work in communities around the Mountain West, and is working on a book manuscript based on that dissertation. Christian has taught nineteenth and twentieth-century American history courses at Utah Valley University and Brigham Young University. He is currently employed as a historian and documentary editor at the Joseph Smith Papers, and is a co-editor on Documents: Volume 5, Documents: Volume 9, and Documents: Volume 13.
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And here’s a very worthwhile article from the past:
“Conversation in Nauvoo about the Corporeality of God”
Religion scholar Jacob Neusner looks at the corporeal nature of God through the lens of Mormonism and Judaism. He addresses anthropomorphism and incarnation, and concludes that the way to know God is through “our relationship with him, not through our act of the incarnation of God in heart and mind and soul.” Neusner appreciates the powerful doctrine of God’s corporeality taught by the Prophet Joseph Smith in the 1842 King Follett Sermon, which says that men may converse with God “as one man converses with another.” He says, “In the formative documents of the Torah in its oral version, that same conviction of God’s corporeality….governs.” This article was originally a speech at Brigham Young University.
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Where have you gone, Lilburn W. Boggs? Lenawee County, Michigan, turns its lonely eyes to you! My thanks to Doug Ealy for bringing this obnoxious story to my notice:
“ACLU Defends Amish Community’s Religious Freedom against Lenawee County’s Threat to Bulldoze Homes”
The story is uncomfortably reminiscent of Missouri’s infamous 1838 “Extermination Order” against the Latter-day Saints: “The Mormons must be treated as enemies and must be exterminated or driven from the state, if necessary for the public good. Their outrages are beyond all description.”
What on earth are the bureaucrats at the Lenawee County Health Department smoking? Why would they imagine that they could get away with something like this?
If it came to it, and if I were in Michigan, I would be out there, seated on the ground between an Amish house and a bulldozer.
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