*** Just a reminder that the Interpreter Foundation’s theatrical film Witnesses is now available on DVD, both in bookstores — in Deseret Book outlets and, I’m told, at Seagull Books — and for online purchase. You know your duty. *** Yesterday was a continuation of the Dan Peterson Nostalgia Tour. With friends, we traveled up to the Huntington Library and Gardens, in San Marino, California. En route, we drove through San Gabriel, past the place... Read more
*** I’ve been on the road all day, so I’m just getting to it now, but a new article, full to overflowing with my legendary mendacity, viciousness, and venom, went up in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship today: Daniel C. Peterson, “Celebrating Exactitude, When It’s Appropriate” Abstract: It’s almost always better to be right than to be wrong, to be exact than to be sloppy. In scholarship generally and serious scriptural study specifically,... Read more
*** A few out there might find this article of interest: “Are the Lost Ten Tribes Being Found in Russia?” *** To his credit, Jacob Z. Hess is expending much more of an effort toward sympathetically understanding Latter-day Saint anti-vaxxers than I am: “COVID-19 Vaccination as an Abrahamic Test” *** I’m pleased to announce that I’ve already enjoyed my traditional date milkshake at the Crystal Cove Shake Shack, not far from... Read more
*** The most recent of Kyler Rasmussen’s Bayesian explorations has been posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: “Estimating the Evidence Episode 13: On Inverting Parallels” Also new on the Interpreter website is Interpreter Radio Show — September 26, 2021 The 26 September 2021 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show is now archived, available online and at no charge. (Sadly, though, all commercial interruptions have been removed. If you want to listen to... Read more
*** I call your attention to a pair of newly posted items on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 41: “I Will Order All Things for Your Good”: D&C 111-114 The Interpreter Radio Roundtable for Come, Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 41, “I Will Order All Things for Your Good,” on D&C 111-114, was, in one important regard, quite simple: The sole panelist was Martin Tanner. The “roundtable... Read more
*** Here are links to a few articles in a previous volume of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship that you might have missed: Daniel C. Peterson, “It Came from Beyond” Abstract: The early Latter-day Saints viewed the Book of Mormon not only as a symbol of Joseph Smith’s prophetic calling but also as the most powerful evidence for that calling. However, perhaps because they were ardent believers in the Bible who had been formed in a distinctly Bible-drenched... Read more
*** Here are two very recently posted items on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Book of Moses Essays #74: The Family of Adam and Eve (Moses 6:1–12) Interpreter Radio Show — September 19, 2021 You can listen to or download the 19 September 2021 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show. It featured Martin Tanner, Kris Frederickson, and Mike Parker, who, in the first hour of the broadcast, discussed why the Restored Church will not... Read more
*** I once held and expressed political views. I no longer do. In order to protect the wholly apolitical Interpreter Foundation, I’ve managed to transcend them, and I’ve been so successful in doing it that I can’t even name the current American prime minister or identify the two major political parties in the United States. (Labour and the Whigs, I think. Or perhaps the Christian Democrats.) Still, because (as I like to think) I’m in reasonably good... Read more
*** New, today, in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Stephen O. Smoot, “Framing the Book of Abraham: Presumptions and Paradigms” Review of Dan Vogel, Book of Abraham Apologetics: A Review and Critique (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2021). 250 pp. $18.95 (softback). Abstract: The Book of Abraham continues to undergo scrutiny in both academic and polemical publications. The latest offering of substance in the latter category, Dan Vogel’s Book of Abraham Apologetics: A Review... Read more
*** First of all, I published this article in Meridian Magazine earlier today: “When the Lord Remembers Your Name: The Oliver Granger Prophecy” *** Out of curiosity, I went to one of the local Deseret Book outlets a couple of days ago (near University Mall, in the southern part of Orem). I was pleased to see that DVDs of the Interpreter Foundation’s dramatic film, Witnesses, are available for sale at that store — and... Read more
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