*** A new article — written by one Daniel C. Peterson — went up today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “An Unexpected Case for an Anthropomorphic God” Abstract: Given the knowledge of the corporeal, embodied nature of God that the Prophet Joseph Smith received in his 1820 First Vision, Latter-day Saints have argued from their earliest days that the Bible is most accurately understood as teaching precisely the same thing — that... Read more
*** Some time back, I read the very good book by Fiona Givens and Terryl Givens, The Christ Who Heals: How God Restored the Truth that Saves Us. I sometimes encounter derisive comments from certain critics about how shallow Mormonism supposedly is. Such complaints astonish me. I find the implications, entailments, and disclosures of the Restoration radical and utterly profound. And so, it seems, do Fiona and Terryl: Mormonism is so rich in doctrine, so expansive... Read more
*** It seems that I’m scheduled to speak this coming Friday up at the Latter-day Saint Institute of Religion in Logan, Utah: Fri. 11:30am: Religion in Life – Daniel C. Peterson (Producer of Witnesses movie). Refreshments after. Fri. 7pm Movie Witnesses – Treats, games, prizes, popcorn. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NEiXWtijQw And, in case you still crave more of Me (and in case you missed it on my blog), here’s a little piece of mine that was picked up... Read more
*** I do it every year, so there should be no surprise that I’m doing it again this year: Unbelievably, it was exactly ten years ago today that I received the completely unexpected and devastating news that my brother, Kenneth Dee Walters — strictly speaking, my half-brother — my only sibling, to whom I was exceptionally close, had died. I was stunned and immobilized. I still think of him, and I still miss him, every day.... Read more
*** It seems that we now have a pretty firm date for the release of the Interpreter Foundation’s new docudrama, Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon: 24 May 2022. In other words, about two months from now. I don’t know the details yet, but I believe that it will be out that day in DVD form and, very possibly, via streaming. (We are not intending a general theatrical release for it.) I’m excited to get this... Read more
I spoke last night to a surprisingly large audience in little Panguitch, Utah. For various reasons, including yesterday’s very cold and snowy weather, I hadn’t expected many people to show up. But they did. I had a good time, and I hope that maybe at least a few of them did, as well. (One of the treats of the evening was to see Laura Behling Hamblin again. She was married to my sadly departed friend and longtime partner... Read more
*** I’ve just agreed to participate on the Interpreter Radio Show a week from today, on the evening of Sunday, 27 March 2022. Please don’t let that dissuade you from listening in. I won’t be doing all the talking, after all, and the other participants — Steve Densley, Mark Johnson, and Matt Bowen — are really quite good. The show starts just after the seven o’clock news. *** Cassandra Hedelius, a very incisive Latter-day Saint... Read more
*** I recently sat down for a “Come, Follow Me” podcast with Scot and Maurine Proctor. It’s now up online, and a few of you might perhaps find it more or less endurable: “Come Follow Me- Old Testament Podcast #13-God Remembers His Covenant to a Thousand Generations, Exodus 1-6” Tomorrow night — Sunday, 20 March 2022, at 6:00 PM — I’ll be speaking at a Latter-day Saint chapel in Panguitch, Utah. The address is 550... Read more
*** ““The Wind and the Fire to Be My Chariot”: The Anachronism that Wasn’t” Abstract: In the Book of Abraham, God tells Abraham in Haran, “I cause the wind and the fire to be my chariot” (Abraham 2:7). While this initially might appear to be an anachronism, as the chariot is normally thought to have been introduced later, archaeological finds of chariots at the site of Harran predate Abraham by hundreds of years. “Interpreting Interpreter: Not-Actually-Anachronistic Chariots” This... Read more
*** Douglas Axe received superb training in engineering and molecular biology. After completing undergraduate work at the University of California at Berkeley and earning his doctorate at Caltech (the California Institute of Technology), he went on to post-doctoral work and then to a research scientist position, both at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. I’ll be extracting some notes from his book Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed (New York:... Read more
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