Professor John Turner, a member of the faculty at Virginia’s George Mason University who is not a Latter-day Saint, is the focus of the newest very short video clip (“Ask God Whether It is True”) from the Interpreter Foundation. These clips have been drawn from the 2022 Interpreter Foundation docudrama Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon.
As before, we hope that you will enjoy this one and that you will pass it on.
Here is something that might interest you if you haven’t yet seen the Interpreter Foundation’s 2021 theatrical film, Witnesses, or its 2022 docudrama, Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — or if you would like to watch one or both of them again. Or if you would like to show either one of them to family or friends. Or if you know anybody who ought to see one or both of them: The folks at Living Scriptures are offering a free month for you to try out their offerings, and they are emphasizing Witnesses: https://www.livingscriptures.com/film-1/
And here are yet more recent items that have been newly posted on the website of the utterly dormant Interpreter Foundation:
“The Book of Mormon in Context Lesson 36: “Remember the Lord”: Helaman 7-12”
During the 11 August 2024 Come, Follow Me segment of the Interpreter Radio Show, hosts Terry Hutchinson, Mark Johnson, and Kevin Christensen discussed Book of Mormon lesson 36, “Remember the Lord” covering Helaman 7-12.
Their conversation was recorded. It has now been liberated from commercial breaks, archived, and made freely available. The other segments of the 11 August 2024 radio show can be accessed at https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-august-11-2024.
Interpreter Radio Show — August 18, 2024
For the 18 August 2024 episode of the Interpreter Radio Show, Martin Tanner and Kris Frederickson discussed Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon lesson 37, the Proclamation on the Family, and the founding fathers of the United States. You can listen to or download the August 18th broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show below. These audio tracks are also included in our podcast feed (https://interpreterfoundation.org/feeds/podcast).
You can listen to their conversation at the link given above. The “Book of Mormon in Context” portion of this show, for the Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon lesson 37, will also be posted separately on Tuesday, 3 September 2024.
The Interpreter Radio Show can be heard every week on Sunday evenings between 7 and 9 PM (MDT) on K-TALK, AM 1640, or you can listen live on the Internet at ktalkmedia.com.
“Nibley Lectures: Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon Lesson 36: “Remember the Lord”: Helaman 7-12″
This week for Come, Follow Me lesson 36, covering Helaman 7-12, we have lectures 78 and 79 from Hugh Nibley’s Book of Mormon classes at Brigham Young University, covering Helaman 6-13.
During 1988, 1989, and 1990, Hugh Nibley taught Honors Book of Mormon classes for four semesters at Brigham Young University. The lectures were video-taped and audio cassettes and printed transcripts were made of the lectures. We believe these recordings will be interesting to listen to and valuable to your Come, Follow Me study program this year. Each week, we will include the lectures covering the Book of Mormon chapters being studied that week.
Editor’s Note: Four years ago, Jonn Claybaugh began writing the Study and Teaching Helps series of articles for Interpreter. We now have these wonderful and useful posts for all four years of Come, Follow Me lessons. Beginning this year we will be reposting these articles, with dates, lesson numbers, and titles updated for the current year’s lessons. Jonn has graciously agreed to write new study aids for those lessons that do not directly correspond to 2020 lessons.
This is a wonderful story: “BYU Runner Meghan Hunter Nominated for NCAA Woman of the Year: Latter-day Saint was also named a CWSA Inspiration Award finalist.” And this embedded CBS Sports video, not quite seven minutes long, is well worth a watch.
And, speaking of Brigham Young University, I’m really liking what I’ve seen thus far from Shane Reese: “Q&A with President Reese on “reinforcing mission-aligned hiring””
See also this Deseret News article by Tad Walch, who is always worth reading: “Prophetic guidance, emphasis on students more important for BYU than lofty new research status: BYU appears poised to become an R-1 research school, but Elder Ronald A. Rasband tells annual University Conference that President Russell M. Nelson’s leadership is the ‘strategic asset’ that ‘shapes and strengthens this university.’”
I absolutely love the theme that President Reese has chosen to emphasize: “Becoming BYU.”
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It’s obvious that the author of this piece drew some of her material from the Christopher Hitchens Memorial “How Religion Poisons Everything” File™: “The state bucking the national ‘dechurching’ trend: Survey: Majority of Utahns say they attend church at least once a month.”
It’s actually been apparent to me for some time now, when I’ve been deeply immersed in the Hitchens File and looking around in it, that I haven’t always been entirely alone there. I’ve heard others moving about as well, and I’ve even heard the occasional — and quite understandable — howl of indignation and shocked moral outrage.
Whether directly or indirectly, she also drew upon the Hitchens File for this catalogue of horrors: “How Latter-day Saints served their communities across the globe this summer: Service projects focused on helping children with malnutrition, rebuilding schools and more,” Compare this awful litany of barbarities from the Newsroom of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: “Latter-day Saints Around the World: August 2024: Medical equipment donated to Kosrae State Hospital, African families blessed with free medical and nutritional aid, and missionaries clean up storm debris in Switzerland.”
By contrast, this story may seem to cover only a small matter: “Church Announces New Initiative to Provide Support for Military Veterans: The Church was a sponsor for the 38th annual National Veterans Golden Age Games, athletic competitions for veterans 55 and older.” But that shouldn’t make it any less distasteful to right-thinking anti-theists.
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