Have you seen Six Days in August yet today? You’ve already lost the morning. What are you waiting for? You can find the locations where it is currently playing on the film’s official website: Six Days in August At my request, my friend Thomas G. Alexander, Lemuel Hardison Redd, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Western History at Brigham Young University and author of biographies of Brigham Young and Wilford Woodruff, wrote the following in connection with the overall Six Days... Read more
Russ Richins, the producer for Six Days in August, and I traveled up to Ogden yesterday to record an interview with Sen. John D. Johnson for PoliticIt. I’m not sure whether PoliticIt has ever done a non-political podcast before, but ours was definitely not political. It was — surprise! — about Six Days in August. I can already sense your breathless anticipation; I’ll let you know when it’s out. Incidentally, Six Days in August received a B+ from What... Read more
If I’m not mistaken, at least some of the movie theaters in my area offer discount ticket prices on Tuesdays. If that’s true, today — Tuesday — would be a remarkably good day to go see Six Days in August, or to go to see it a second time, or to watch it a third time, or to treat your children to it (you can buy tickets for them, or for friends or cousins, at a distance), or to... Read more
A very good review by Maurine Proctor in Meridian Magazine: “Six Days in August: Brigham Young as You’ve Never Seen Him Before”: Bottom line, she writes, “Put this movie on your must-see list.” I frankly admit that I was disheartened by a conversation after church yesterday. I was talking with a friend who knows about, and has already seen, Six Days in August. Another person came up and wanted to know what we were talking about. I said that... Read more
It’s the Sabbath, so I won’t be hounding you to go see Six Days in August today. In fact, I hope that you don’t go today. Go twice tomorrow, instead. Go every day next week. Take friends. Take family. Buy tickets for your children and grandchildren who live far away from you. Now, having encouraged you not to attend a showing of Six Days in August on the Sabbath . . . Since our 2021 film Witnesses is temporarily... Read more
I’m happy to report that, because of the impressively high demand for it, free access to the 2021 Interpreter Foundation dramatic film Witnesses will continue until 18 October 2024. It’s a perfect movie for an evening before a Sabbath, or a Sabbath day, or a family night on Monday evening, or any other night of the week on which you don’t happen to be watching Six Days in August. It’s perfect for gatherings of neighbors, ward members, business colleagues,... Read more
I wax somewhat autobiographical — indeed, a little bit sentimental and perhaps even somewhat maudlin — in my introduction to the latest volume of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship, which has just gone up online: “It Helps to Have a Village” Abstract: In preparing the next generation, it really is helpful when parents don’t stand alone and they have the help of others outside the family. This is one of the reasons why the seemingly... Read more
Yesterday began in a one-hour conversation with my friend Safi Kaskas, about faith and religion from Latter-day Saint and Muslim points of view. He has been in town for the 31st Annual International Law and Religion Symposium of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at Brigham Young University. Anybody who is interested can watch a video of our discussion at this link: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/x4cxlmuj0tpow1b38adms/Safi-Kaskas-Daniel-Peterson.mp4?rlkey=v2mkpzhtxzxk8il5ncg8uviqs&st=c0s5z85s&dl=0 Last night, we had the formal premiere of Six Days in August at Thanksgiving... Read more
One of the events depicted in Six Days in August is the destruction, by order of the Nauvoo City Council, of the dissident Nauvoo Expositor newspaper on the evening of 10 June 1844. That act was probably among the principal inflammatory factors leading to the eventual incarceration and murder of Joseph and Hyrum Smith about two and a half weeks later. In the immediate wake of the destruction of the Expositor, opponents of Joseph Smith and the Latter-day Saints... Read more
There are just two days left, including today, to take advantage of the opportunity to view the 2021 Interpreter Foundation dramatic film Witnesses at no charge, which you can do here: https://vimeo.com/824199556/ecefc622ed. On Thursday, 10 October, when Six Days in August opens in theaters, that window of opportunity closes. I would, frankly, love to make Witnesses freely available all the time. And, someday, we’ll do that. But not for quite a while. In the meantime, we’re bound by contractual... Read more
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