Of Media, Media Suppression, QAnon, and Book of Mormon Authorship

Last updated on: May 29, 2021 at 3:02 pm By Dan Peterson

*** I’m pleased beyond expression that the new Interpreter Foundation film Witnesses will now be available in forty of the fifty United States of America. (What’s up, I wonder, with the other ten?) In many of these locations, Witnesses will be prominently displayed on the theater marquee, advertised by theatrical posters, and on the regular schedule of the movie house. In others, and particularly in areas where the Latter-day Saint audience is relatively small, the film will be available... Read more

Huge News: Many, Many More Theaters Will Now Show “Witnesses”

Last updated on: May 28, 2021 at 11:07 pm By Dan Peterson

*** I’m excited to announce that the number of theaters where the Interpreter Foundation’s dramatic film Witnesses will soon be available has just vastly increased. Vastly. Please take a look at the “Get Tickets” section on the Witnesses Film website and see whether there will now be a screening near you. Please don’t assume, simply because none was listed in your area a few days or a few weeks ago, that none will be listed now. Further: If... Read more

“The Life-Giving ‘Water’ of the Restoration”

Last updated on: May 28, 2021 at 11:13 pm By Dan Peterson

*** Two new articles — by, respectively, David R. Seely and Duane Boyce — went up today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: David R. Seely, “Remembering Hugh Nibley as a Scholar and, More Importantly, as a Man: Observing the Faith of the Observer” Review of Hugh Nibley Observed, edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Shirley Ricks, and Stephen Whitlock (Orem, UT: Interpreter Foundation, 2021). 820 pages. $45.00 (hardback), $35.00 (paperback). Abstract: Those who knew Brother Nibley best knew... Read more

A note from one of the principal conspirators

Last updated on: May 27, 2021 at 4:56 pm By Dan Peterson

*** I’m amused to report that the first “review” of the Interpreter Foundation’s theatrical film Witnesses has been posted. (I’m quite sure that other, similarly negative, reviews have already been written — it saves time! — and that their authors are simply waiting for the movie to actually appear.). “Peter Pan,” the principal figure behind the valuable Neville-Neville Land blog — whose identity I do not know, although I wouldn’t be surprised if s/he were someone with... Read more

Is America on “a one-way trip to secularism”? Is Europe?

Last updated on: May 27, 2021 at 5:11 pm By Dan Peterson

*** You may perhaps have missed this article by Steve Densley, which appeared in Meridian Magazine: “Witnesses: New Movie and Website Examine Testimonial Evidence for the Book of Mormon” *** Latter-day Saints continue to enjoy the coveted place in popular culture that they’ve occupied since at least the days of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet, Mark Twain’s Roughing It, and Zane Grey’s Riders of the Purple Sage: From Lancashire, in... Read more

Remembering Heaven, Again

Last updated on: May 26, 2021 at 9:06 pm By Dan Peterson

*** I’m pleased to see that the documentary film Remembering Heaven — in which, much to the horror and disgust of decent people everywhere, I have the honor of appearing — has won Utah’s 2021 “Best of State.” More information about that can be found on this website: https://bestofstate.org/. Additionally, as shown in the image above, the documentary has won a video industry prize called a “Telly Award.” (See https://www.tellyawards.com/.) *** The subject of that video has been very... Read more

““Put Off Thy Shoes from Off Thy Feet”: Sandals and Sacred Space”

Last updated on: May 24, 2021 at 10:02 pm By Dan Peterson

*** Another article — this one by John Gee — has gone up today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: ““Put Off Thy Shoes from Off Thy Feet”: Sandals and Sacred Space” Abstract: While many have written on ancient temples looking at the big picture, John Gee discusses one small detail on a single Egyptian temple from the New Kingdom. He focuses on depictions of Ramses III in and out of the temple of... Read more

“The most complex puzzle for humans and also the simplest, most self-evident fact”

Last updated on: May 24, 2021 at 12:27 am By Dan Peterson

*** But first: From the distributor who is overseeing the rollout of our film: “Wow! Thank you! Due to incredible demand Megaplex Theatres has added a third showing of Witnesses Film on June 2nd! Walk the red carpet. See it first with cast and filmmakers. Hear behind-the-scenes stories involved with the making of Witnesses Film — the Movie Event of the Summer! Hurry to secure your tickets at https://www.megaplextheatres.com/film/HO00001567/true… #bearwitness“ In this connection, Dallin Redd has... Read more

“It’s not self-evident for a Christian that he gets to live among Christians.”

Last updated on: May 24, 2021 at 9:51 pm By Dan Peterson

*** Newly posted today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Book of Moses Essays #56: Moses Sees the Garden of Eden (Moses 3): The Naming of Animals, Angels, Adam, and Eve (Moses 3:19–20, 23; 4:26) *** Since I’m already extracting them for my own notes, I’m going to share a few passages here (in my rough translations) that I think some of you might find of interest. They come from Christiane Tietz, Dietrich Bonhoeffer:... Read more

““Beloved by All the People”: A Fresh Look at Captain Moroni”

Last updated on: May 24, 2021 at 9:52 pm By Dan Peterson

*** But, first, here’s a link to my latest article in Meridian Magazine: “The Sacred History of the Church in Hawaii” *** And now, on to today’s newly posted article in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship, written by Duane Boyce: ““Beloved by All the People”: A Fresh Look at Captain Moroni” Abstract: In his well-known volume about the Book of Mormon, Grant Hardy focuses primarily on the book’s main narrators. However, he... Read more