Jenet Jacob Erickson , who earned her doctorate in family social science from the University of Minnesota, is an associate professor in religious education at Brigham Young University, where she teaches the Eternal Family (Rel 200) course and the Introduction to Family Process (SFL 160) course for the School of Family Life. She is a research fellow of both the Wheatley Institute and the Institute for Family Studies and has been a columnist on family issues for the... Read more
Two new review-essays appeared today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship. They are: “A Truly Remarkable Book,” written by Louis C. Midgley Review of John Gee, Saving Faith: How Families Protect, Sustain, And Encourage Faith (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2020). 313 pages. Abstract: Saving Faith is a truly excellent book, designed especially for families concerned about their children. It is also a book appropriate for those getting ready to serve as missionaries, or for... Read more
I want to share with you a couple of passages from Brian Miller, “Does Cosmology Support Cosmic Design?” in Ann Gauger, ed., God’s Grandeur: The Catholic Case for Intelligent Design (Manchester, NH: Sophia Institute Press, 2023), 34-46. Brian Miller, who earned a B.S. in physics with a minor in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in physics from Duke University, is currently the research coordinator for the Center for Science and Culture at the... Read more
Conference Talks: “All Abraham’s Children: A Genetic Perspective” is the name of a presentation that was given by Dr. Ugo A. Perego on Saturday, 12 March 2016, as part of 2016’s Second Interpreter Science & Mormonism Symposium: “Body, Brain, Mind, and Spirit.” Dr. Perego’s presentation is now available for your listening and viewing pleasure at no cost. Apart from spending time in the swimming pool with a portion of our posterity, our most significant effort of the... Read more
We spent much of today in quest of humpback whales. And pretty successfully, too. It’s difficult (for non-specialists, anyway) to distinguish individual whales, but we saw at least half a dozen of them off in the distance, and at least four (including at least one mother and a calf) up very close to our boat. And we saw maybe two dozen Steller sea lions. Beautiful, clear, crisp weather and a calm sea. There are worse ways of spending... Read more
Surprise! Something has just been posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Interpreter Radio Show — July 9, 2023 In the 9 July 2023 episode of the Interpreter Radio Show, Martin Tanner, John Gee, and Kevin Christensen discussed Come, Follow Me New Testament lesson 32, Jeremy Runnells and John Dehlin‘s claim that “second sight” means “imagination,” and the article this week by John Gee. They were then joined by historian Ron Esplin to discuss his new Brigham... Read more
As I mentioned the other day, my wife and I recently read Prue Shaw’s Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity. Dr. Shaw studied at the University of Sydney, where she gained First Class degrees in English and in Italian, and later earned degrees at the the Universities of Oxford (B. Phil in General and Comparative Literature) and Florence (Dott. In Lett.). She taught Italian Language and Literature at the University of Cambridge, the University of London, and University... Read more
We spent the morning and into the afternoon cruising about from Ucluelet, looking (successfully) for bear. We saw four of them, eating along the shoreline at low tide, in addition to a pair of bald eagles (besides the one that we saw perched atop a tall tree in our own back yard this morning), seven sea otters, maybe a dozen Pacific harbor seals, and (I’m told, because I didn’t actually see it for myself) a porpoise. Moreover, during... Read more
Having just read two new books on the subject — Vengeance Is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath, by Richard E. Turley Jr. and Barbara Jones Brown, and Convicting the Mormons: The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture, by Janiece Johnson — I published an article in Meridian Magazine today, Friday, that appears under the title of “Searching Out the Truth about the Mountain Meadows Massacre.” You are welcome to read it. There is no charge... Read more
We were up early this morning, again — our little family group now at full strength — in order to catch the FRS Clipper from Seattle to Victoria, a favorite little trip of ours through the Salish Sea (specifically through Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca). Then we drove up to Nanaimo, where my wife had lined up a place for us on Airbnb. I’m sitting out on the veranda, writing and looking out at... Read more
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