Have you seen Six Days in August yet today? You’ve already lost the morning. What are you waiting for? You can find the locations where it is currently playing on the film’s official website: Six Days in August
At my request, my friend Thomas G. Alexander, Lemuel Hardison Redd, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Western History at Brigham Young University and author of biographies of Brigham Young and Wilford Woodruff, wrote the following in connection with the overall Six Days in August project (which will eventually include a related docudrama):
The events of early August, 1844, and particularly those of August 8, resolved the uncertainty following the murder of the Prophet Joseph Smith on June 17, 1844, and they allow us to understand succession in the church’s leadership. It is crucial to understand why the leadership of the church passed to The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. The film will reveal why the majority of the church membership followed the Twelve rather than other claimants to church leadership. It considers various claimants to the leadership. It will show why most rejected Joseph’s first counselor, Sidney Rigdon, who at first agreed to sustain the Twelve but later worked to undermine their authority; why the majority declined to follow James J. Strang, a member of the church for only four months; why William B. Smith, Joseph’s only surviving brother, claimed the right of church leadership by birthright; and why Joseph Smith III, the prophet’s eleven year old son, was clearly too young to assume the leadership at the time.
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In the meanwhile, the Interpreter Foundation, which has already long-since been dead, continues to spiral downward toward its inevitable and long-prophesied demise. I share with you here some of its most recent last gasps:
Interpreter Radio Show — October 6, 2024
In the 6 October 2024 episode of the Interpreter Radio Show, the hosts were Martin Tanner, Hales Swift, and Brent Schmidt, with, well . . . well, with special guest Dan Peterson. (Sorry!) They discussed Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon lesson 44, the Six Days in August film, and General Conference.
The episode was recorded, and it has now been disencumbered of commercial interruptions and made available to you for free and at your convenience. The “Book of Mormon in Context” portion of this show, for Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon lesson 44, will also be posted separately on Tuesday, 14 October 2024.
The Interpreter Radio Show can be heard weekly 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.
In the 29 September 2024 Come, Follow Me segment of the Interpreter Radio Show, Martin Tanner and Mark Johnson discussed Book of Mormon lesson 43: “There Could Not Be a Happier People” covering 3 Nephi 27-30 and 4 Nephi. Their discussion is now available to you online at no charge.
The other segments of the 29 September 2024 radio show can be accessed at https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-september-29-2024.
This week, for Come, Follow Me lesson 43 covering 3 Nephi 27 and 4 Nephi, we have lectures 101 through 104 from Hugh Nibley’s Book of Mormon classes at Brigham Young University, covering 3 Nephi 19 through Mormon 2.
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.
“The Temple: Symbols, Sermons, and Settings: ““And They Shall Be Joined unto Thee:” Levi, Levites, Priests, Angels, and the Importance of Joinings in Temple Architecture and Ritual,” written by Matthew L. Bowen
Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article originally appeared in The Temple: Symbols, Sermons, and Settings, edited by Stephen D. Ricks and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. For more information, go to https://interpreterfoundation.org/books/the-temple-symbols-sermons-and-settings/.
“In a study, David Calabro describes the divine handclasps that constitute one aspect of ancient Israelite covenant ritual. He additionally observes that the Hebrew verbs used to designate these handclasps were two verbs of contact: ʾḥz—“seize,” “grasp,” “hold on to,” or “take hold of”—and ḥzq, which in its causative stem means to “seize,” “grasp,” “keep hold of,” “lay hold [on],” or “catch hold on.” In this chapter, I will extend these observations to additional idioms and explore the ways in which several Hebrew verbs of interpersonal contact constitute terms of covenant entry or reentry, all in the context of the temple.”
I close, though, with a quartet of horrors that I’ve selected for your indignation from the Christopher Hitchens Memorial “How Religion Poisons Everything” File™:
“Nurturing Mothers’ Love: Global Child Nutrition Effort Comes to Indonesia”
Newsroom features stories from its dozens of websites worldwide to show what members and leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are doing to serve their communities. Today, we feature news from Burundi, Micronesia, the Philippines, Liberia, Cambodia and Mexico.
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