Mary C. Neal, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon (“fellowship-trained as a spinal surgeon”) who earned her medical degree in the School of Medicine at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and completed her orthopedic residency at the University of Southern California (USC). Like her husband, who is also a physician, she lives and practices medicine in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. In January of 1999, she suffered a catastrophic kayaking accident on a river in a remote area... Read more
The Interpreter Foundation’s small team of filmmakers — Jeffrey Mark Bradshaw, James Jordan, and Russell D. Richins — is now back in Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, after being out in Kisangani and Wagenya, where they had very little Internet. They spent much of Thursday at a school for the blind and went to see some of the students practicing for an upcoming “special olympics” event. Jeff promises “More on that and... Read more
My introduction to volume 56 — volume 56! — of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship has now gone up online. And, as usual, it has gone up in a variety of formats, include audible (read by y’r obt’t servant with the expert technical assistance of Tom Pittman): “In This Batter’d Caravanserai,” written by Daniel C. Peterson Abstract: In the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, based upon verses composed by an eleventh-century Persian mathematician and astronomer, the... Read more
This paper was presented by Nick Frederick on Saturday, 14 March 2015, at an Interpreter Foundation conference on “Exploring the Complexities in the English Language of the Book of Mormon”: Conference Talks: “Full of grace, mercy, and truth”: Exploring the Complexities of the Presence of the New Testament within the Book of Mormon While it has often been observed that the language of the New Testament plays a key role in the English text of the Book of... Read more
I’ve watched with amused fascination the responses on the Peterson Obsession Board to my recent post entitled “Hearts of Darkness.” (“Amused fascination” has been my usual reaction to the PO Board over its fifteen or so years of existence — although, sometimes, when its malicious fictions cross over into libel and slander, my attitude can become a bit darker.) I’ve never understood the gratification that some apparently derive from ascribing absurd views to others and then mocking those... Read more
As I’ve said, I’m copying out some of the notes that I’ve been taking from my reading over the past while, and I think that some of you might find them of occasional interest. For this particular blog entry, my theme concerns whether or not mind is wholly reducible to brain. I start with a quotation from the famous Cornell University astrophysicist and science popularizer Carl Sagan (1934-1996), who was a vocal atheist: My fundamental premise about the... Read more
Another note, inspired by John W . Welch, et al., eds., Knowing Why: 137 Evidences That the Book of Mormon Is True (American Fork: Covenant Communications, 2017), and very relevant to the two Interpreter articles that I mentioned in my blog entry for last Friday: “What Is It to Speak with the Tongue of Angels?” (143-145) 2 Nephi 32:2 seems to suggest an implicit doctrine of human deification in the Book of Mormon — a text from which, critics have alleged, the... Read more
One of the speakers in our sacrament meeting today referred briefly to the story of John Colter, who appears to have been the first person of European descent to have explored the area of today’s Yellowstone National Park and to have seen the Grand Tetons, and who is often termed the first of the “mountain men.” John Colter (or Coalter or Coulter) was born in the first half of the 1770s in Virginia. From 1804 to 1806, he... Read more
I think that I failed to mention this item when it appeared on Wednesday. It was first delivered on Saturday, 14 March 2015, during the Interpreter Foundation’s 2015 conference on Exploring the Complexities in the English Language of the Book of Mormon: Conference Talks: “Charity, Priest, and Church versus Love, Elder, and Congregation: The Book of Mormon’s connection to the debate between William Tyndale and Thomas More,” given by Jan J. Martin Thomas More and William Tyndale were... Read more
I discovered late last night that a lengthy interview that I did a few weeks back for the Ireland-based podcast Mormonism with the Murph is now up on line, in two parts: “Evidence for the Book of Mormon with Dan Peterson” “Responding to criticisms against the Book of Mormon with Dan Peterson” As has happened every single Friday since early August 2012, a new article has appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and... Read more
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