I really, really dislike fundraising. More precisely, I hate to ask people for money. I’m happy to go out and encourage people to give to good causes, of course. And I have several good causes — the Interpreter Foundation is certainly way high up there on my list, as well as a principal responsibility of mine — to which I’m more than happy to call attention. But when it comes to sitting across from specific people, face... Read more
For many, tonight will be a night of considerable imbibing, of drinking unusually high quantities of alcohol. It has always seemed to me an odd way to ring in a new year. Commencing the year in a booze-induced stupor and/or with a hangover is arguably not quite consistent with a time of new resolutions for self-improvement and achievement. I realize that very many in my audience don’t drink at all. But there’s a curious subset of my... Read more
I call your attention to something that has just been posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Science & Mormonism Series 1: Cosmos, Earth, and Man: The Outer Solar System: A Window to the Creative Breadth of Divinity Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article by Jani Radebaugh originally appeared in Science & Mormonism Series 1: Cosmos, Earth, and Man (2016). Abstract: In this chapter, planetary scientist Jani Radebaugh explores the creative side of our Creator with a... Read more
We’re just back from the Hale Centre Theatre in Sandy. We went out to dinner with a group of neighbors and then on to the play, which was Seussical. (Despite my continual anger, bitterness, cruelty, and misery, I’ve managed to hold on to a few friends. It’s probably my wife’s doing.) I read lots and lots of Dr. Seuss when I was small but, somehow, I had never seen Seussical before tonight. I’ll be honest: There... Read more
The 22 December 2019 installment of the Interpreter Radio Show is now available for your listening pleasure and edification, shorn of the commercial and other breaks that go with its broadcast version. The hosts were Martin Tanner and Matt Bowen. In this particular episode, Martin and Matt discuss various aspects of Christmas. Also featured was a roundtable on the upcoming Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon lesson #3 on 1 Nephi 8-10: Interpreter Radio Show — December 22, 2019... Read more
The intensity surrounding this recent scandal du jour seems to have largely subsided. Those — including myself — who trusted and revered the Church’s leaders prior to the Washington Post‘s exposé still trust and revere them. Such folks faithfully paid their tithes to the Church, and they still do. Those who despised the Church before the Post article appeared continue to despise the Church. They withheld their tithes, and they still do. But I’ve recalled a little... Read more
I published the article below exactly eight years ago today in the Deseret News, on 29 December 2011. Curiously, it fits pretty neatly into the curriculum schedule right now, when we’re again about to commence a year dedicated to the Book of Mormon: We’re approaching the new year, and a new gospel doctrine curriculum year devoted to the Book of Mormon is almost upon us. So, with that flimsy justification, let’s look at the transition, roughly 65 B.C., between two... Read more
One of the high points of our recent visit to Richmond, Virginia, was taking a little girl to her very first movie theater, where we watched Frozen II. We weren’t sure how she would handle it, and there were moments before the previews when she was running around so much, and was so unwilling to sit still, that I was afraid that the experiment would need to be abandoned. However, once things got going, she was enthralled. Of course,... Read more
I’ve been very delinquent in posting the link for this article, which went up on the Interpreter Foundation website all the way back on Monday last: Science & Mormonism Series 1: Cosmos, Earth, and Man: Joseph Smith and Modern Cosmology Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article by Ron Hellings originally appeared in Science & Mormonism Series 1: Cosmos, Earth, and Man (2016). Abstract: In this chapter, physicist Ron Hellings takes a look at some of the teachings of... Read more
Although I did see Cats last night — and forfeited some needed sleep in order to do so — I’m really not in a terribly dyspeptic mood. I had some quite nice hours earlier today. But I’m sitting down, now, to deliver yet another negative review: As I write, I’m sitting in the Staples Mill Amtrak Station in Richmond, Virginia. We came down from Washington DC via Amtrak and we’re now returning to Washington DC via... Read more
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