“I Want To Hear Them Ring Again”

Christensen Haun's Mill painting — The massacre at Haun’s Mill, depicted here in a nineteenth-century painting by C. C. A. Christensen, occurred on 30 October 1838, three days after Governor Lilburn W. Boggs issued Missouri Executive Order 44, the so-called “Extermination Order,” in which he declared that “”the Mormons must be treated as enemies, and must be exterminated or driven from the State if necessary for the public peace.” This year will mark the 180th anniversary of the event.
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It seems that arrangements are shifting at the Deseret News. So, to my surprise, the article that I submitted earlier this week to appear in the online and print editions of the newspaper on Thursday, yesterday, has actually appeared today in LDS Living.

“The Forgotten Witness of the Book of Mormon Who Refused to Deny His Faith Even Under Threat of Death”

Very curious. I’m thinking about this new arrangement and about whether I want to continue writing my column. We’ll see how things proceed.

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A new article has appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture:

““And The Meek Also Shall Increase”: The Verb yāsap in Isaiah 29 and Nephi’s Prophetic Allusions to the Name Joseph in 2 Nephi 25–30″

I’ve been reliably informed by an anonymous critic that the Interpreter Foundation is in a state of financial crisis and that it doesn’t have long to live. This was news to me. Of course, since we haven’t yet raised a permanent endowment I do need to generate funds in order to support the basic ongoing operations of the Foundation and, as we hope, to expand and improve its efforts in the near term and for the more distant future. (Please consider making a donation!) But we’re in reasonably good financial shape and nowhere near a “crisis.”

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I always enjoy articles such as these:

“Open House Begins for the Concepción Chile Temple: Second temple in Chile”

“Artist Rendering Released for Pocatello Idaho Temple: Location announced for sixth Latter-day Saint temple in Gem State”

Some say, “I do not like to do it, for we never began to build a temple without the bells of hell beginning to ring.” I want to hear them ring again. . . . We completed a temple in Kirtland and in Nauvoo; and did not the bells of hell toll all the time we were building them? They did, every week and every day. (Discourses of Brigham Young, 410)

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And I can’t say that I’m exactly unhappy about this one:

“Toasting 21 years “Stone Cold Sober””

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From Jeff Lindsay:

“Mary at the Tomb: How We Can Easily Misjudge Evidence of a Miracle”

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“President Nelson Encourages Hurricane Survivors in Caribbean: Elder and Sister Renlund join visit to Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico”

“An unmistakeable impression: What led President Nelson to visit with missionaries in the Dominican Republic”

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On the new Saints volume:

“The Dawning of a Brighter Day”