I’ve known Matt Roper well for . . . I dunno, maybe a quarter of a century or so?   I know him to be a person of exceptional, irreproachable character and complete integrity.   Just so you know.   In other words, I take him at his word on this matter:   http://etherscave.blogspot.com/2015/09/setting-record-straight.html   Posted from Mentor, Ohio     Read more

    This week’s new article from Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/zarahemla-revisted-nevilles-newest-novel/   Posted from Mentor, Ohio     Read more

    Here’s an announcement issued by BYU Studies today:   We are pleased to announce our next Temple Studies event. Dr. Joshua Berman, Senior Lecturer in the Bible Department at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel, will present a lecture on Wednesday, October 7, at 7:00 pm in the Varsity Theater at BYU, Provo, Utah. His presentation is “The Differences between the Tabernacle and the Temple: Architecture and Ideology.”   It is open to the general public, and admission is free.... Read more

    Whoever the Salt Lake area Saints were in this case, I’m proud of them, and grateful for them:   http://billingsgazette.com/news/opinion/mailbag/kindness-over-religion/article_1519a7b9-9711-5b17-84aa-689cd83f21f6.html   May we always behave this way.  May we always share the Savior’s love with those around us.   Posted from Mentor, Ohio     Read more

    Humor is in short supply among fanatics, and is something carefully avoided by most pretenders to sanctity. Yet George Q. Cannon remembered Joseph Smith’s “sense of gentle humor.”[1] Likewise, his modern biographer Robert Remini, a preeminent scholar of Jacksonian America and a non-Mormon, writes that he “came to like the man very much,” not only because he possessed “compelling charisma, charm, persuasiveness,” but partly because Joseph Smith was “joyously funny.” “I like them when they’re funny. Andrew Jackson... Read more

    This is more than a little weird:   http://www.livescience.com/52272-mysterious-saturn-hexagon-explained.html   Had you heard of it before?   Anyway, a natural explanation for it may now be available.   Posted from Mentor, Ohio     Read more

    The brutal murders committed by the so-called “Islamic State” aren’t precisely redeemed by their determined cultural barbarism:   http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/isis-blew-ancient-temple-palmyra-180956383/?no-ist   (Thanks to Ira Laney for reminding me of this tragic story.)   Posted from Mentor, Ohio     Read more

    Joseph Smith recalled that, during the dedication of the Kirtland Temple on 27 March 1836, “George A. Smith arose and began to prophesy, when a noise was heard like the sound of a rushing mighty wind, which filled the Temple, and all the congregation simultaneously arose, being moved upon by an invisible power; many began to speak in tongues and prophesy; others saw glorious visions; and I beheld the Temple was filled with angels, which fact I declared... Read more

    Almost since the beginning, Sidney Rigdon has been a principal suspect among those who don’t want to believe Joseph Smith’s account of the Restoration.  He consistently declined the honor:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865637440/Did-Sidney-Rigdon-write-the-Book-of-Mormon.html   Posted from Nauvoo, Illinois     Read more

      http://www.mormoninterpreter.com   Posted from Nauvoo, Illinois     Read more