Of Temples and Apostolic Keys

Last updated on: August 14, 2024 at 8:22 pm By Dan Peterson

Richard N. W. Lambert, an active devotee of Latter-day Saint history who is now retired as a federal prosecutor and an Assistant United States Attorney, is featured in the newest short-video feature from the Interpreter Foundation, which is entitled “The Witnesses are Credible.” (As with the other video shorts in this series, it’s been drawn from the 2022 Interpreter Foundation docudrama Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon, which is an accompanying sequel to the 2021 theatrical film Witnesses.)... Read more

Was science possible before the Protestant Reformation?

Last updated on: August 13, 2024 at 7:03 pm By Dan Peterson

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Some new slides from a pair of lectures have just gone up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: “The Innovative and Revolutionary Book of Mormon Critical Text Project,” presentations by Royal Skousen and Stanford Carmack, given Saturday, 10 August 2024 On Saturday, August 10, 2024, Royal Skousen and Stanford Carmack spoke at a celebration for the completion of the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project. The slides used for those talks are available below. Royal Skousen’s presentation was... Read more

“The Most Profound Experience”

Last updated on: August 12, 2024 at 11:28 pm By Dan Peterson

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Yet another very short video feature has just been posted by the Interpreter Foundation. It’s entitled “The Most Profound Experience.” It focuses on David Whitmer, one of the Three Witnesses to the Book of Mormon, and it features the irreplaceable independent Latter-day Saint historian Don Bradley. Our hope is that you’ll enjoy this and all of the other videos in this series. These very brief extracts have been taken from the 2022 Interpreter Foundation docudrama Undaunted: Witnesses of the... Read more

A gift for the man who really needs nothing

Last updated on: August 13, 2024 at 10:22 pm By Dan Peterson

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We are rapidly closing in on the hundredth anniversary of President Russell M. Nelson’s birth. I hope he makes it. I’m praying that he makes it. (No, I don’t have any reliable insider information to the contrary; I simply recognize the fact that a man in his hundredth year is, by most post-diluvian standards, really old and that, according to the actuarial data, really old people occasionally die.) I expect that you’re aware of the request that President Nelson... Read more

Prevention and Possible Cure

Last updated on: August 10, 2024 at 11:39 pm By Dan Peterson

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A new Interpreter Foundation video short has once again gone up: “Martin Harris Returns.” I hope that you enjoy it. And I hope that you will share it, along with its increasingly numerous siblings. These video shorts are taken from the Interpreter Foundation docudrama Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon. We want people to eventually take a look at the entire docudrama, if they haven’t already watched it; we think that it will be rewarding and well worth... Read more

CES Letters

Last updated on: August 10, 2024 at 12:52 am By Dan Peterson

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Newly published in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “Nurture and Harvest: A Continued Conversation with The Annotated Book of Mormon,” written by Kevin Christensen Abstract: Because Grant Hardy’s important book deliberately contextualizes the Book of Mormon in light of “the generally agreed upon findings of modern biblical scholars and historians,” it invites further discussion on points in which the Book of Mormon and other significant biblical scholars and historians challenge those findings. Hardy also declares... Read more

Brigham Young, An Eyewitness of the World to Come?

Last updated on: August 8, 2024 at 11:03 pm By Dan Peterson

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A new video short has been posted by the Interpreter Foundation. It is entitled “Martin Harris Returns.” We hope that you will enjoy it and that, if you do, you will share it with friends and kinfolk. Please help us to spread these, and to call attention to the docudrama Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon, from which they have been drawn. Maurine Proctor, writing in Meridian Magazine, introduces an important new article: “Unveiling the Truth: The Real... Read more

Unexpectedly fair journalism and a wavering skeptic

Last updated on: August 7, 2024 at 10:54 pm By Dan Peterson

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I enjoyed this piece in the Deseret News, which was written by Jacob Hess: “What surprised a British journalist after spending time with Latter-day Saints: Eight discoveries in an in-depth profile about Latter-day Saints that challenged the stereotypes of a U.K. journalist and helped to ‘demystify’ the faith for her.” If you’re interested in reading the original article, written by Nina-Sophia Miralles, here it is: “Light Reading: Myth-Busting Mormonism in London: This column aims to illuminate dark corners as we... Read more

Brother Brigham on the Theater (and on Film?)

Last updated on: August 6, 2024 at 7:39 pm By Dan Peterson

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Gerrit Dirkmaat is featured in a new super-short video from the Interpreter Foundation entitled “The Faith of the Whitmers.” If you like it, share it! Thinking about what the Interpreter Foundation has accomplished since it was founded twelve years ago this week, and thinking of the critics who continually pretend to see evidence that the Foundation is in decline or that it has been marginalized and somehow rendered irrelevant, I’m reminded of the title of the 1953 Raymond Chandler... Read more

Are reason and faith diametrically opposed?

Last updated on: August 6, 2024 at 12:57 am By Dan Peterson

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While in California a couple of weeks ago, I picked up a copy of Gerard Verschuuren, A Catholic Scientist Harmonizes Science and Faith (Manchester, NH: Sophia Institute Press, 2022). Dr. Verschuuren studied human genetics and the philosophy of science at Leiden University, the University of Utrecht, and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, all in The Netherlands, and now — since 1994 — lives and writes in the southern part of New Hampshire. I found the very first lines of his... Read more