Tonight is the night! For the very first time, the new Interpreter Foundation film Six Days in August will be publicly screened in theaters. Although the formal public opening in theaters won’t take place until Thursday, 10 October, advance showings of the film will occur tonight at 7 PM in nine Cinemark theaters along the Wasatch Front — in American Fork, Draper, Farmington, Midvale/Sandy, Ogden, Orem, Provo, Salt Lake City, and West Jordan. Tickets can be purchased at Six Days in August – Early Access. Or, if you’re lucky, you’ll be able to buy them at the door.
Incidentally, one of the regulars on the Peterson Obsession Board, my Mini-Stalker, claims to have bought a ticket for one of tonight’s screenings and has promised to post a review of Six Days in August for the enjoyment of his associates there by sometime tomorrow. I’m on pins and needles. Will he love the movie? Will his review be gushingly positive? I doubt it. In fact, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if his review were already largely written and complete. One or two others on the Obsession Board have announced that they have or will have bought tickets to another movie, adjacent to Six Days but more worthwhile (a very low bar!), and that, when it’s over, they plan to sneak into the auditorium where Six Days is showing, in order to catch it for free. Which, if they do it, will obviously be a kind of theft.
A new article of mine went up in Meridian Magazine this morning: “Understanding Brigham Young’s Spiritual Depth: A Fresh Perspective.” If you have absolutely nothing else to do today, if you’ve tired of playing tic-tac-toe against yourself and you don’t have the cards available to play Solitaire, you might find it of interest.
I’m unaware, thus far, of any archived recording of the three brief two- to three-minute interviews that John Donovan Wilson (Brigham Young) and I did on KSL-Radio yesterday morning between 8 AM and 9 AM, but here’s a link to the six-minute interview that the Wilsons (John Donovan and his wife, Twyla, who plays Mary Ann Angell Young) did with Brooke Walker on Monday for Studio 5, on KSL Television: “New Film Explores 1844 Succession Dilemma of the Church of Jesus Christ”
And, incidentally, for those who have expressed interest in the question (as well as for those who haven’t), a video of last night’s well-attended Six Days in August fireside will be published online within the reasonable future, either on the Six Days in August website or on the Interpreter Foundation website or both.
This went up two or three days ago but, in the press of this week’s public (and private) events, I’ve neglected to call attention to it: “Interpreter Radio Show — September 15, 2024.”
In the 8 September 2024 episode of the Interpreter Radio Show, Bruce Webster, and Kris Frederickson hosted special guests Dan Peterson and Russ Richins. They discussed Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon lesson 41, and the new film by Interpreter, Six Days in August.
The conversation has been edited to remove commercial breaks, and the “Book of Mormon in Context” portion of the show, for the Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon lesson 41, will also be posted separately on Tuesday, 1 October.
The Interpreter Radio Show can be heard on Sunday evenings between 7 PM and 9 PM (MDT), on K-TALK, AM 1640, or you can listen live on the Internet at ktalkmedia.com.
And these items have been posted on the (barely active, nearly comatose) Interpreter Foundation website more recently:
This week for Come, Follow Me lesson 40 covering 3 Nephi 12-16, we have lectures 84 and 85 from Hugh Nibley’s Book of Mormon classes at Brigham Young University, covering 3 Nephi 11-20. These were the last two classes in semester 3. At the start of semester 4, the lectures jump back to the beginning of 3 Nephi and lectures 86 through 100 discuss chapters we have already covered and on up through 3 Nephi 18 in more detail. Therefore, this week, we have a total of 17 lectures!
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.
The Book of Mormon in Context Lesson 40: “I Am the Law, and the Light” 3 Nephi 12-16
In the 8 September 2024 Come, Follow Me segment of the Interpreter Radio Show, Terry Hutchinson, Kevin Christensen, and Mark Johnson discuss Book of Mormon lesson 40, “I Am the Law, and the Light” covering 3 Nephi 12-16. The other segments of the September 8 radio show can be accessed at https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-september-8-2024.
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.
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