Two new Interpreter Foundation videos have now been posted online. I think that some of you will find them of interest. Personally, I found them moving:
As he has been doing every week for several years now, Jonn Claybaugh has generously provided a brief set of notes for teachers and students of the “Come, Follow Me” curriculum of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Come, Follow Me — New Testament Study and Teaching Helps: Lesson 47, November 13 — 19: James — “Be Ye Doers of the Word, and Not Hearers Only”
The New Testament in Context Lesson 47: “Be Ye Doers of the Word, and Not Hearers Only” (James)
In the 22 October 2023 Come, Follow Me segment of the Interpreter Radio Show, our hosts Martin Tanner and Robert Boylan discussed New Testament lesson 47, ““Be Ye Doers of the Word, and Not Hearers Only”” on James.
It has now been shorn of commercial and other extraneous interruptions, archived, and made available to you at your convenience. The other segments of the October 22 radio show can be accessed at https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-october-22 -2023.
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If you keep track of the inflammatory claims that are routinely leveled against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its leaders, you may have seen the most recent accusations directed against President M. Russell Ballard (who, incidentally, at age 95, has recently been in the hospital). Here is the Church’s official response:
And, speaking of inflammatory claims (although, this time, they target a much lesser figure than President Ballard), the anonymous slanderer that I’ve termed “Everybody’s WC” is once again publicly lying about me online, something that apparently comes as naturally to him as breathing. Many of you are probably aware that there is considerable controversy swirling at the moment around Tim Ballard, a member of the Church who was, until recently, associated with Operation Underground Railroad. For two or three years a while back, my wife and I donated a small amount each year to Operation Underground Railroad — trying to fight child sex trafficking seems to us about as intrinsically and unambiguously noble a cause as could possibly be imagined — and I even mentioned OUR a few times on this blog as an organization that seemed worth supporting. Everybody’s WC never mentioned my support of OUR or my donations to combat child trafficking back then but, now that controversy has emerged, he is portraying me, quite falsely, as Tim Ballard’s chief public cheerleader and as vocally endorsing Tim Ballard’s books, which, in fact, I don’t own and have never read. I’ve never met Tim Ballard, either. The safest rule to follow with respect to Everybody’s WC, whenever he claims insider information about me or any organization with which I’m involved or with which I’m possibly involved, is to assume that he’s lying. His malevolent and unsleeping hatred of me has long since overwhelmed any sense of honesty on his part; of course, I’m not sure that there was ever really much of a contest between the two.
Now, sit down. Make sure that a licensed counselor and a cardiologist are available and near at hand. It’s time, yet again, for a quartet of almost unendurable abominations from the Christopher Hitchens Memorial “How Religion Poisons Everything” File™:
“Church devoting ‘significant financial resources’ to relief agencies in Gaza, Israel”
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