Since their arrival on Saturday night from the eastern United States, one of my granddaughters and her Dad have been staying with us for the week. At six years of age, she is something of a hurricane; we’ve already gone through all of the craft projects that we had lined up for her and our house has been significantly redecorated with variations on Easter eggs and the Easter Bunny. We’re came back not too long ago from Thanksgiving Point, where we spent about two hours going through the wonderful Museum of Ancient Life — a genuine (but perhaps somewhat underappreciated?) local treasure — and then took in a 3-D IMAX film entitled Serengeti: A Journey to the Heart of Africa. Upon returning, we quickly built a small but serious snowman in our back yard, about four and a half feet tall, complete with carrot nose and, exotically, the crown of a pineapple on its head. (Plainly, this is a tropical snowman.) The hurricane slumbers not nor sleeps. Until, of course, she does — and then she’s out like the proverbial light.
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Three new items have appeared on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:
The New Testament in Context Lesson 16: “Thou Art the Christ” Matthew 15–17 and Mark 7–9
The 19 March 2023 Come, Follow Me segment of the Interpreter Radio Show featured Bruce Webster, Kris Frederickson, and Martin Tanner, who discussed New Testament lesson 16, “Thou Art the Christ” on Matthew 15–17 and Mark 7–9. It is now available at no charge and liberated from commercial breaks. The Interpreter Radio Show can be heard each and every Sunday evening from 7 to 9 PM (MDT), on K-TALK, AM 1640. Alternatively, you can listen to it live on the Internet, at ktalkmedia.com.
Interpreter Radio Show — March 26, 2023
The discussant for this episode of the Interpreter Radio Show was Martin Tanner. The “New Testament in Context” portion of this show, for the Come, Follow Me New Testament lesson 17, “What Shall I Do to Inherit Eternal Life?”, on Matthew 18 and Luke 10 will be posted on Tuesday, 11 April 2023. The Interpreter Radio Show can be heard on Sunday evenings from 7 to 9 PM (MDT), on K-TALK, AM 1640, or you can listen live on the Internet at ktalkmedia.com.
The focus of this segment of the Show, which is now made available to you at your convenience, for free and without commercial interruptions, is “Restoration Advocacy: Responses to the critics of the Book of Abraham, and reasons why it is a true translation by the “Gift and Power of God.””
And, as he regularly does, Jonn Claybaugh has provided a concise set of notes for students and teachers of the Church’s “Come, Follow Me” curriculum.
General Conference provided us with a wonderful weekend, and we’re now well into Holy Week and heading toward what Claudia Bushman likes to call “Resurrection Day.” Here are a couple of links that you might find helpful:
“Grow Your Relationship with Jesus Christ during Holy Week”
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Here are five links to recent entries on the Neville-Neville Land blog, listed in the order of their appearance:
“Jonathan Neville: A tool in the hands of our enemies”
“An open reply to Jonathan Neville”
“The “Richard Nygren” affair and some vile accusations against me”
A note on Item 3, above: I observe with interest that, in addition to Mr. Neville’s happy willingness to participate on the podcast of a vocally derisive critic of the claims of the Restoration, “TwoCumorahFraud” is now a participant on what I sometimes call the “Peterson Obsession Board.” Some readers will recall “TwoCumorahFraud,” a recent commenter here, for his vitriolic hostility to me, Jack Welch, the late John Sorenson, the late William Hamblin, and others, denouncing us for having supposedly plagiarized the evil limited Mesoamerican model for Book of Mormon geography from a long-dead member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints named L. E. Hills and, thus, turned our backs on the modern apostles and prophets. The Obsession Board is a largely atheistic place, fiercely critical of the Church and its beliefs and — since its residents overwhelmingly dismiss the Book of Mormon as a fraud — not remotely inclined to “TwoCumorahFraud’s” aggressive “Heartlander” geographical views. But a shared disdain for “apologists” seems to provide congenial common ground for everybody there, at least for the moment.
A note on Item 4, above: I’ve repeatedly said here and elsewhere that, although (like all of my academic associates, so far as I’m aware) I’m unpersuaded by “Heartlander” models of Book of Mormon geography, I’m perfectly happy to fellowship with members of the Church who hold those views. But, curiously, I’m not perfectly happy when a fellow Latter-day Saint calls me “Slander Dan,” alleges that I reject the prophets, and compares me and my friends to Lucifer and his host of devils. This is what I genuinely object to in the behavior of a few persons who are associated with the “Heartlander” movement: The apparent willingness to denounce other active and committed Latter-day Saints for failing to share their opinions on the precise GPS coordinates of the Jaredite city of Lib. While it’s interesting and even, as an academic subject, not unimportant, the geography of the Book of Mormon is, at most, a topic of secondary or tertiary significance. It isn’t worth breaking fellowship with the Saints. It isn’t worth sowing discord in the Kingdom.
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