One of the great moments at the current Summer Olympics in Paris, one of the most impressive displays of heroism, was not an athletic one. It had nothing directly to do with sports, and it won’t — alas! — win a gold medal. It was Céline Dion singing “Hymne à l’amour,” a song that was originally made famous by the great Édith Piaf (1915-1963), at the base of the Eiffel Tower. Coincidentally, as I’m writing this, a television drama... Read more
As, according to credible reports, the Interpreter Foundation continues to fade and its website and journal continue to stagnate, here are four new articles that have just appeared: “LDS Perspectives on the Atonement?” written by Blake T. Ostler Review of Deidre Nicole Green and Eric D. Huntsman, eds., Latter-day Saint Perspectives on Atonement (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2024). 344 pages, $35.00 (paperback). Abstract: Latter-day Saint Perspectives on Atonement promises to provide new perspectives on the atonement that reflect... Read more
A new Interpreter Foundation video short was posted earlier today. Entitled “The Book of Mormon Came from Somewhere!” it features Professor Steven C. Harper of Brigham Young University: Please give it a quick look and, if you like what you see, please share it with others! We want to get these out among the people. Incidentally, while I’m at it, did you see Professor Harper in the still fairly recent Scripture Central video “Who Actually Saw the Gold Plates? |... Read more
Utahns and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will be aware of the fact that today, 24 July, is Pioneer Day. It commemorates the 1847 entry into the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Brigham Young and the vanguard company of the “Mormon pioneers.” Not coincidentally, the Interpreter Foundation released the trailer for its forthcoming theatrical film Six Days in August today, on Pioneer Day. I hope that you will enjoy it and that,... Read more
The Interpreter Foundation has published yet another short video feature that has been drawn from its 2022 docudrama Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon. This one, featuring Professor Steven C. Harper, bears the title “Eyewitness Testimony Regarding Book of Mormon Translation”: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jVPlJB4s8O8 I invite you to watch it and to share it (along with the rest of the video shorts that have been created and that will be created in the series) with others. Newly posted on the... Read more
The former president of the United States Theodore Roosevelt, slightly more than a year out of office, delivered perhaps his most famous speech at the Sorbonne in Paris on 23 April 1910. Although its formal title is “Citizenship in a Republic,” it is probably more widely known as “The Man in the Arena.” His statements at the Sorbonne were part of a larger European trip that also included visits to Vienna, Budapest, and Oslo, where on 5 May 1910,... Read more
We attended the middle of three English-language sacrament meetings today in the stake center located adjacent to the Newport Beach California Temple. It was absolutely packed, and traffic directors had been posted out in the parking lot to help with the crush. I can only assume, since I’m reliably informed by anonymous online anti-Mormons that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint is shrinking, collapsing, in free fall, that the stake center must have been reduced in size.... Read more
I share here two more of the Interpreter Foundation’s super-short videos about the witnesses to the Book of Mormon plates. As with the previous short features that I have called to your attention, they have been drawn from the Foundation’s two-part docudrama Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon. The first of them (“Cumulative Evidence of the Plates”) features Paul Warner, who is a retired federal judge. The second that I will share today is focused on the question... Read more
Two new articles went up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation today, although — I’ve been on the road all day — I’m somewhat late in calling your attention to them: ““I Shall Gather In”: The Name Joseph, Iterative Divine Action, and the Latter-day Harvest Ingathering of Israel as Themes in 3 Nephi,” written by Matthew L. Bowen Abstract: The identity of “the people of Nephi who were spared, and also those who had been called Lamanites, who... Read more
I’m falling behind in calling these new short Interpreter Foundation videos to your attention, so I will be highlighting not one but two of them today. The first (“A Witness in High Demand”) features Richard Lambert, the former Assistant United States Attorney who recruited me to serveas an expert witness in the federal prosecution of Brian David Mitchell (the kidnapper of Elizabeth Smart). He is also a serious student of Latter-day Saint history, and has been deeply involved in... Read more
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