Newly posted today on the Interpreter Foundation website: Interpreter Radio Show — March 16, 2025, including Doctrine and Covenants in Context: D&C 30-36: “Lift Up Your Voices . . . to Declare My Gospel”
For the 16 March 2025 instantiation of the Interpreter Radio Show, Bruce Webster and Kris Frederickson discussed Come, Follow Me Doctrine & Covenants lesson 15 and Easter. Their conversation was recorded and archived. It has now been edited, commercial interruptions have been removed, and it has been made available to you, at your convenience, for your listening pleasure and for free.
The Interpreter Radio Show can be heard every Sunday evening from 7 to 9 PM (MDT), on K-TALK, AM 1640. Or, if you prefer (or have no viable alternative), you can listen to it live on the Internet at ktalkmedia.com.
Also newly posted, on Interpreter’s blog: “A Quick Review of Covenant of Christ: A Modern English Version of the Book of Mormon,” written by Brant A. Gardner
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The savants over on the Peterson Obsession Board have redundantly unveiled still another “pretty damning” specimen (their words) of my depraved idiocy: On Friday last, I mentioned that the article that went up that day on the Interpreter Foundation website represented the 661st consecutive Friday on which the Interpreter Foundation had published at least one article. Why did I make such a claim? Because Friday’s article represented the 661st consecutive Friday on which the Interpreter Foundation had published at least one article. That’s why.
A small handful of the Obsession Board’s small group of active posters claims that I’m lying, and that (of course!) I’m attempting to deceive them (although, of course!, they’re too savvy to be taken in by my ham-handed sophistry). They seem to feel that I’ve been equivocating, that, for instance, I’ve been counting Thursday reprints as Friday articles in order to maintain the illusion that we’ve published an article every Friday for the 661 Fridays since we launched our journal, hoping that nobody would notice my cunning sleight-of-hand. Perhaps even — their reasoning is a bit opaque, to me at least — that I’ve been counting occasional blog entries (or passing sparrows, or broadcasts of Music and the Spoken Word, or whatever) in the total.
But I haven’t been. I said that the article that went up Friday on the Interpreter Foundation website represented the 661st consecutive Friday on which the Interpreter Foundation had published at least one article because it represented the 661st consecutive Friday on which the Interpreter Foundation had published at least one article. For whatever it’s worth, things have simply turned out that way. It was never a goal of ours, and I didn’t even begin to notice our uninterrupted streak until it was quite far along. But I have an important announcement to make: This coming Friday will be the 662nd Friday in a row on which the Interpreter Foundation has published at least one article. That, friends, is how running totals work.
I appreciate these two kind articles that were occasioned by the very premature passing of former Utah Congresswoman Mia Love. The first of them briefly mentions her Latter-day Saint faith:
- Los Angeles Times: “Mia Love, the first Black Republican congresswoman, dies at 49”
- National Review: “Mia Love, R.I.P.”
I had high hopes for Sister Love’s political future representing my adopted home state and, in a very real fashion, representing our shared faith. But she collided, first, with a transmogrified Republican Party and then, thereafter, with brain cancer. Such is mortality. Such is this fallen world.
Thinking, though, about the contributions that have been made by Latter-day Saint women, and the contributions that they are making right now and that they will make into the boundless future, I want to note that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently released a new Gospel Topics essay on “Women’s Service and Leadership in the Church.” These essays are intended to be read.
Finally, in the spirit of the meme shown immediately above, here’s a story from the Christopher Hitchens Memorial “How Religion Poisons Everything” File™ that will nicely illustrate the blithering stupidity of theists. It even includes an interesting seven-minute video: “BYU–Hawaii: Rooted in Tradition, Focused on a Sustainable Future: The university, along with the Laie Hawaii Temple and the Polynesian Cultural Center, are on track to be energy independent in 2026”
And, as if more evidence were needed, here’s yet another item from the Hitchens File identifying a way in which adherence to the Latter-day Saints’ ridiculous “Word of Wisdom” may infantilize those who follow it by depriving them of some of the rich life experiences that they might otherwise have enjoyed (e.g., earlier and, if they survive, more frequent heart attacks): “Opinion: Marijuana’s newfound health problems”
This is another Hitchens File instance of religion corrupting a community and its history: “Church Receives Award for Reconstruction, Preservation of Ohio Historic Site: Dedicated in 2023, the Joseph and Emma Smith Home was honored for enriching and preserving Kirtland’s historic and cultural heritage”
Finally (for today), I can just about guarantee that, if you watch enough of this forty-minute video, it will enrage you quite deliciously to see how certain unprincipled theists are shamelessly attempting to spread their toxic influence among African-Americans and, in fact, within Africa itself: “New documentary follows young adults during Latter-day Saint and NAACP fellowship to Ghana: Video shows how the Church and NAACP are building ambassadors of peace and harmony”
Posted from Poʻipū, Kauaʻi, Hawaiʻi
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