*** Another installment of Kyler Rasmussen’s investigation has gone up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Estimating the Evidence Episode 6: On a Disagreeable God *** This article by Maureen Proctor in Meridian Magazine really resonated with me: “To Those Who Think it is a “Relief” to Leave the Church” I’ve encountered the same claim many times: People who have left the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have explained... Read more
*** Thus far, we’ve seen three plays at the 2021 Utah Shakespeare Festival. The first was a production of Shakespeare’s seldom-performed Cymbeline. (One of the many things that my wife and I like about our regular Festival attendance is the chance to see the entire canon, even more than once.) It was performed in the fairly small Eileen and Allen Anes Studio Theatre. The mostly-black cast was a small one, with all of the actors — including... Read more
*** Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 34: “A Principle with Promise” (D&C 89-92) The Interpreter Radio Roundtable for Come, Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 34, “A Principle with Promise,” on D&C 89-92, featured Martin Tanner, John Gee, and Kevin Christensen. Purified of commercial interruptions, and extracted from the 11 July 2021 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show, the discussion may now be heard at https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-july-11-2021/. The Interpreter Radio Show is broadcast every Sunday evening... Read more
*** This new article, just posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation, was generously contributed by Jonn Claybaugh, whom I was happy to see at the Foundations’s ninth birthday party on Saturday night: Come, Follow Me — D&C Study and Teaching Helps: Lesson 34, August 16–August 22: D&C 89-92 — “A Principle with Promise” *** Perhaps you missed these articles from a prior issue of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship?... Read more
This new little piece went up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation on Saturday: Book of Moses Essays #67: Moses Witnesses the Fall: (Moses 4) Was Eve Beguiled? (Moses 4:5–12) *** The Interpreter Foundation celebrated its ninth birthday last night (Saturday night) with a really delicious dinner for those of our volunteers and donors who were able to come. Bruce Webster and Ryan Campbell provided perhaps the best smoked beef and pork that I’ve... Read more
*** A version of the text of Stephen Smoot’s Thursday presentation at the 2021 FAIR Conference has already been published online in Public Square Magazine: “Abraham and the Stranger at Sodom and Gomorrah: Why were Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed? The answer provides a path that may help heal our relationships and our nation.” *** Carl R. Trueman, “Dogma Drives the Christian Life” Carl Trueman, an ordained Presbyterian minister and a noted academic, delivered... Read more
Excellent news just in from our distributor, Brandon Purdie: Good news! Big EdWeek update: As of this morning all four of these Provo/Orem locations have confirmed that they will play Witnesses during Education Week. • AMC I will start the film on Friday August 13 and run it through the 19th. A full week. • Megaplex will start the film on Friday the 13th also and run it through Thursday the 19th. A full week. • Cinemark... Read more
I have some news that pleases me very much. As you know, Witnesses, the Interpreter Foundation’s dramatic feature film, has been slowly winding down after a pretty good theatrical run. (See “Get Tickets, at witnessesfilm.com, for a listing of theaters where Witnesses is still playing.) Curiously, though, some people are only just now hearing about Witnesses . And, of course, many people live in areas where Witnesses didn’t screen, or where it was only shown in theaters... Read more
*** Interpreter Radio Show — July 18, 2021 The 18 July 2021 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show, which has been stripped of all commercial interruptions and archived to be conveniently available at no charge features Terry Hutchinson, Kris Frederickson, and Mike Parker. In this installment, the discussion for the first hour centers on the early Latter-day Saint pioneers and on Pioneer Day. The second portion of the show is devoted to a roundtable discussion of the... Read more
*** The latest installment of Kyler Rasmussen’s series of Bayesian blog entries has now appeared on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: “Estimating the Evidence Episode 5: On Witnesses” A link also went up today to a recording — shorn of commercial interruptions — of a recent installment of the Interpreter Radio Show: Interpreter Radio Show — July 18, 2021 The discussants for the 18 July 2021 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show are... Read more
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