“The Spirit of Things”

I’m just back from pre-recording an interview with Rachael Kohn of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for her ABC Radio National program “The Spirit of Things.”  This is, I believe, the third time that I’ve had an interview with her — once before in studio and, on another occasion, at a Sydney hotel down by Darling Harbour.  She also came to a conference of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies (ICLRS) at BYU once, a while back, and may perhaps have interviewed me then.  Moreover, if I’m not mistaken, she was in Istanbul a few years ago for an ICLRS conference at which I was one of the speakers, but I don’t think that she interviewed me on that occasion.  She’ll be retiring at the end of this year, which I find personally a little sad; I like her, and she’s a very intelligent interviewer.

I think that the interview went quite well.  By which I mean that I neither revealed myself to be a fool nor exhibited the utter moral rottenness that my Malevolent Stalker and the less talented Mini-Stalker like to pretend to see in me.  I try to follow the dictum, loosely derived from the Hippocratic Oath, of Primum non nocere:  “First, do no harm.”  After that, if I do any good, I’m delighted.  Some good may have been done today.  I hope so, anyway.

We — by which I mean my wife and I, along with Elder Robert Dudfield, of the Seventy, and Keith Thompson, an associate dean at the law school of the University of Notre Dame Australia — were scheduled to have lunch with a pair of Muslim professors from the law school of the University of Sydney, but there was evidently a miscommunication somewhere, so that didn’t happen.  Instead, though, we all went to a Malaysian restaurant located not too far away, which I really enjoyed.

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An apostle in England:

“British Prime Minister Receives Family History from Elder Jeffrey R. Holland”

“At Oxford, Elder Holland lays out Latter-day Saint theology before religious scholars, students”

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Don’t miss this one:

“The Book of Abraham, Revelation, and You”

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On the Interpreter Foundation website, an interview with Thomas Wayment:

“A New Translation of the New Testament”

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I like this piece, and commend it to your attention:

“This is what it looks like when the prophet speaks as a prophet”

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I hope that you intend to participate in this effort:

“Service Emphasized in 2018 ‘Light the World’ Initiative: Global effort offers opportunities to follow the Savior”

Posted from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia