*** A new item has gone up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Book of Moses Essays #76: Noah (Moses 8) Was Noah’s Ark Designed as a Floating Temple? (Moses 8:22–30; Genesis 6:5–22; chapters 7–8) *** Sigh. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary to call an individual or a group out for persistent and significant errors, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that the reasons for... Read more
*** A new article — this one by Taylor Halverson — went up today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “Be Ye Therefore Loyal, Even as Your Father Which is in Heaven is Loyal” Abstract: The scriptures are saturated with covenantal words and terms. Any serious or close reading of the scriptures that misses or ignores the covenantal words, phrases, and literary structure of scripture runs the risk of missing the full purpose... Read more
*** An interesting claim appeared on Wednesday, 6 October, in a post on something called BOFM Blog: Annotated Book of Mormon. The article is by one Rian Nelson. I know nothing about him or his blog, except that he is an ardent and vocal advocate of the “Heartland” model of Book of Mormon geography and, now, that he’s a COVID denier. Someone else called this item to my attention. The article is titled “Light of Christ... Read more
*** Today would have been my brother’s — strictly, my half-brother’s — seventy-eighth birthday. My only sibling’s. But he only made it to sixty-nine. His sudden, unexpected death in early 2012 stunned me, and it still wounds me from time to time. I feared, given his biological father’s own sudden (and much younger) death, that he might pass away before he reached a very advanced age. But he had been (or so I thought) doing well, and... Read more
*** I’ve been delinquent in sharing a link to an article that I published three days ago in Meridian Magazine: “A Historical Case for the Literal Resurrection of Jesus” I hope that at least a few out there will find it either helpful or useful or both. *** On Wednesday, 13 October 2021, I will be delivering a lecture in West Jordan, Utah, in connection with the Interpreter Foundation’s “Ultimate Egypt Tour” the... Read more
*** I would like to announce an event to be held in Provo, Utah, on Thursday, 14 October 2021, sponsored by Deseret Book and Excel Entertainment. It is, if you will, an event that is intended to help us make noise about the DVD and the streaming availability of the Interpreter Foundation’s theatrical film, Witnesses. But it won’t merely be a strictly promotional affair, Rather, we will watch selected scenes from the movie and have a hosted... Read more
*** Interpreter’s sister organization FAIR has opened up an office for the first time — at 377 East 60 South in American Fork — and all are invited to an open house for it tonight. (Sorry I’m so late in calling public attention to the event; I’ve been busy and I wasn’t clear for a while whether it was fully public or merely for selected invitees.) I hope to go myself; I’ve been involved with FAIR since... Read more
*** New on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Come, Follow Me — D&C Study and Teaching Helps: Lesson 42, October 11-October 17: D&C 115-120 — “His Sacrifice Shall Be More Sacred unto Me Than His Increase” Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 42 “His Sacrifice Shall Be More Sacred unto Me Than His Increase”: D&C 115-120 The discussants in the Interpreter Radio Roundtable for Come, Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 42, “His Sacrifice... Read more
*** Here’s a new piece that went up on the Interpreter Foundation website a couple of days ago: “Book of Moses Essays #75: Noah (Moses 8): The Sons of God and the Sons of Men (Moses 8:1-21)” Here is how to order a copy of the conference edition of the Liahona. As I pretty well suggested in yesterday’s blog entry, I intend to do it: https://store.churchofjesuschrist.org/liahona-1200-1 *** With friends, we attended a... Read more
*** Many years ago now, I found myself sitting in the office of a BYU faculty colleague. I had been with her in a meeting in her building and, forty-five minutes after it concluded, I was scheduled for another appointment in that same building. She, though, was teaching a class during that intervening hour, and she offered me the use of her office while I waited, so that I wouldn’t need to walk to my own office... Read more
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