My wife and I had a very useful meeting this morning with our friends at Red Brick Film Works with regard to the Interpreter Foundation’s forthcoming series of short Becoming Brigham docudramas. I’m very excited about this project. On Monday, 26 January, we will begin to release an online episode from it each and every week. Forty episodes are already pretty much complete. It’s possible that the number of episodes will eventually reach into the mid-70s — which means... Read more
I’ve made it a practice not to post about or discuss politics on this blog, and I’ve kept to that resolution quite faithfully. And I’ve made it absolutely rigid rule not to post about or discuss politics on the Sabbath. However, I perceive an inaudible but insistent clamor for a comment from me about the U.S. operation in Venezuela, and the time for doing so is passing: “O sagacious swami,” I imagine the multitude begging me, “enlighten us, please,... Read more
At the end of another long day of driving, I’m going to content myself with offering a few highlighted passages from my recent reading of Sam Parnia’s still relatively-new book Lucid Dying: The New Science Revolutionizing How We Understand Life and Death (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2024). I’m just too tired to do much more. You may perhaps recall that Dr. Parnia, M.D., Ph.D., is an associate professor of medicine at New York University’s Langone Medical Center, where... Read more
I hope that you’ll enjoy this article, written by Jeff Lindsay, which has just appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “Parallels between the Book of Moses and the Book of Mormon, Part 2: The Updated List of 146 Parallels”: Abstract: In exploring the connections between the texts of the Book of Mormon and the Book of Moses, several updates to previously published parallels need to be made, including the discovery of even more apparent... Read more
First of all, I wish everybody out there Happy New Year and a wonderful 2026. And I express regret for having, once again, missed a golden opportunity: Places such as Korea and Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia entered into 2026 a day earlier than the place where I’m currently located. I should have asked them for a report from the New Year. To be in possession of solid information about 2026 while still demonstrably positioned in 2025 would have... Read more
First of all, however, Happy New Year! In the Interpreter Foundation’s regular chapter reprint series, an article by Dr. Gregory L. Smith went up this week: Steadfast in Defense of Faith: “All Bleeding Stops . . . Eventually”: Helaman”s Warriors and Modern Principles of Trauma Revisited”: “In 2002, Dialogue published an article entitled “Helaman’s Stripling Warriors and the Principles of Hypovolemic Shock.” The author addresses the report in Alma 57:25–26 that 200 of Helaman’s 2,060 stripling warriors suffered loss... Read more
I had a long and very busy day today, and am only getting back to my computer rather late at night. So I think that I’ll share some passages that I marked during a recent reading of Michael Nahm, Marjorie Woollacott, and Natasha Tassell-Matamua, eds., On the Banks of the River Styx: New Perspectives on Terminal Lucidity and other Near-Death Phenomena. Perhaps you’ll find them of interest. First, I offer some general comments on the phenomenon of “terminal lucidity”:... Read more
We stayed in downtown Las Vegas on Saturday night, and I was mildly amused to notice that the floor carpet in our bedroom bore an Islamicate geometric design that I’ve seen previously at the Alhambra in Spain, in various places in Cairo, in the gardens of the Taj Mahal complex in India, and in probably two dozen other places during my travels. It’s yet more evidence, I suppose, of the way we’re being infiltrated and overrun by Muslims. You... Read more
In the account of Alma’s and Amulek’s preaching to the apostate people of Ammonihah that is given in the Book of Mormon, the two are arrested and imprisoned, stripped of their clothing, deprived of food and water, and forced to watch the vengeful incineration not only of precious scriptural manuscripts but of many who had believed their words. [A]nd the judge . . . smote them . . . on their cheeks. And many came forth also, and smote... Read more
When I learned on Christmas Eve that President Jeffrey R. Holland had gone into the hospital, I knew that his medical condition was serious. So I wasn’t really surprised when the news arrived this morning of his passing. Still it hits hard. It’s a real loss. After October 2022, a serious illness almost claimed him. He had a stunning near-death experience during that time — see his accounts here and here — and he returned from it with an... Read more
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