Well, I always knew that it would happen someday. I knew that I was bound to make a mistake. And I did. It happened this morning, when John Donovan Wilson (who plays Brigham Young in Six Days in August) and I were being interviewed earlier today by Tim Hughes and Amanda Dickson during their Utah’s Morning News program on KSL NewsRadio. (John and his wife, Twyla, who portrays Mary Ann Angell Young in the film) were on a KSL-TV... Read more
Yes, I’m reminding you yet again of the Six Days in August event that will be held tomorrow (Wednesday) night in the SCERA Center for the Arts, which is located in Orem: “Unveiling History: Six Days in August Fireside.” And I’m calling your attention once more to the “sneak peek” early screenings of Six Days in August that will be given in nine Carmike theaters along the Wasatch Front — in Ogden, Farmington, Salt Lake City, West Jordan, Midvale/Sandy,... Read more
The game is afoot! This is the week that things really begin to get underway for the new Interpreter Foundation film Six Days in August: There will be special early screenings of the film at 7 PM on Thursday — that is, this very week — in nine Carmike theaters along the Wasatch Front in Utah. These theaters are located in Ogden, Farmington, Salt Lake City, West Jordan, Midvale/Sandy, Orem, Provo, American Fork, and Draper. If you’re interested, you can... Read more
Well, the click-bait headline worked, didn’t it? Gotcha! But here are a couple of brief items before we get to that: Have you seen Six Days in August Official Trailer #2? Take a look. Apparently it’s more popular with women than with men, whereas Official Trailer #1 is evidently preferred by men more than women. The invaluable Jacob Hess strikes again: “National study finds Latter-day Saints are the faith community ‘most resilient to political division and polarization’: Strong prohibitions in... Read more
My wife and I attended Scripture Central’s annual “Moroni Day” dinner and program last night in the Hyatt Regency in Salt Lake City. We enjoyed it (not least for the conversations with friends there both before and afterwards), and we were impressed — as we were intended to be! — by the scope of what our colleagues at Scripture Central are doing. Out of the wreckage of the old Maxwell Institute some wonderful things have emerged. It’s very possible,... Read more
If you’re located along the Wasatch Front, don’t miss the opportunity of seeing Six Days in August this coming Thursday night. There will be special early screenings in American Fork, Draper, Farmington, Jordan Landing, Ogden, Orem, Salt Lake City, and Sandy: Six Days in August – Early Access. Quite frankly, we’re offering these advance screenings in the hope of generating word-of-mouth publicity, buzz, for the film. This is an independent and non-profit movie venture. It has been funded entirely... Read more
Here’s some really good news: A number of Cinemark theaters — in, I believe, Orem, Provo, American Fork, Draper, Midvale, Farmington, West Jordan, and Salt Lake City — will be running sneak previews of Six Days in August on the evening of Thursday, 26 September. That’s next week. Tickets for these special screenings are already on sale right now: Six Days in August – Early Access. Click on Thurs 9/26 and then click on the 7:00pm button, and... Read more
I’ve just undertaken a project to slog gradually through Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales in the original Middle English. I’ve always intended to do it and, finally, I’ve made a start. I was really struck by a passage in the Prologue describing a rather worldly frere or friar that, I would guess, was modeled on actual fourteenth-century friars known to Chaucer, who was an acute observer of the social world around him. I won’t generalize, of course, to say that... Read more
I want to remind you, yet again, of the Orem, Utah, fireside that is approaching in little more than a week now and of the Interpreter Foundation conference that will follow on the weekend thereafter, on the campus of Brigham Young University: “Unveiling History: Six Days in August Fireside” (Wednesday, 25 September 2024). Incidentally, I’ve just seen a 32-minute slide show, created by Russ Richins, the producer of Six Days in August, that will, as I understand it, be... Read more
It appears that the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, once one of the two flagship periodicals of the old Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS) and of its successor, the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, is going the way of all flesh: The organizational changes at the Institute provide an opportune occasion to wind down production of its academic periodical, The Journal of Book of Mormon Studies. “The Journal was a vital home for... Read more
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