In our priesthood meeting today, we considered the address given by Elder Ulisses Soares of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles at the most recent annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is entitled “Covenant Confidence through Jesus Christ.” The passage in his remarks that most stood out to me is actually repeated twice, almost verbatim. I think that Elder Soares really wanted us to register the point that he was making: Therefore,... Read more
I’m pleased to report that a full video recording of the lectures given on Saturday, 10 August 2024, by Royal Skousen (“The Innovative and Revolutionary Book of Mormon Critical Text Project”) and Stanford Carmack (““The Archaic Language of the Original Book of Mormon”) has now been posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: “The Innovative and Revolutionary Book of Mormon Critical Text Project: Royal Skousen and Stanford Carmack: Saturday, August 10, 2024” The sound at the beginning of the... Read more
It’s Friday, so — once again, as happens with tiresome regularity, new materials have appeared on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: ““That They May Know That They Are Not Cast Off Forever”: Jewish Lectionary Elements in the Book of Mormon,” written by Bradley J. Kramer Abstract: It is not uncommon for Jews who join The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to notice connections between certain events in the Book of Mormon and modern Jewish practices associated... Read more
I notice that there are some (including the lamentable Salt Lake Tribune — which, I’m told, is the only newspaper in America to have succeeded in a campaign to deprive women of the vote — and this) who are ginning up controversy about the fact that Tina Descovich, a co-founder of the conservative organization Moms for Liberty and, it appears, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is speaking (or has spoken) this year at... Read more
I was really busy yesterday — that’s why I didn’t post a blog entry for Wednesday — but I think that, for journalling purposes, I’ll write up a note on what I was doing. I spent the entire day with Larry Eastland , of what is now been renamed the John A. and Leah D. Widtsoe Foundation, and Salam al-Marayati, of the Muslim Public Affairs Council. It began with a breakfast with Larry and Salam, over which and after which... Read more
Retired federal judge Paul Warner is the “star” of the latest video short from the Interpreter Foundation. Like the others in this series, “A Dying Declaration” — that’s the title of this one — has been drawn from the Interpreter docudrama Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon. And, as with the rest of the series, we hope that you’ll both enjoy it and share it further. And, by the way, did you know that the forthcoming Interpreter Foundation... Read more
The moribund and never-changing website of the Interpreter Foundation continues to post new items. Here’s one that went up earlier today: Interpreter Radio Show — August 11, 2024 For the 11 August 2024 episode of the Interpreter Radio Show, Terry Hutchinson, Mark Johnson, and Kevin Christensen discussed Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon lesson 36, the recently-concluded FAIR Conference, books on Bruce R. McConkie and Joseph Fielding Smith, the completion of the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project, and... Read more
Retired federal judge Paul Warner is the featured interview in this latest very short video from the Interpreter Foundation, titled “Testimony of a Judge.” We hope that you will enjoy these short features, which have been drawn from the Interpreter Foundation’s 2022 docudrama Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon. However, not only do we hope that you’ll enjoy them, we hope that you will share them with others. And today, Sunday, is a great day on which to... Read more
A second article went up yesterday in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship after I posted my blog entry for the day, so I’m mentioning it to you now. And it was accompanied by a second “Interpreting Interpreter” entry from the remarkably dependable Kyler Rasmussen: “Insights into the Story of Korihor Based on Intertextual Comparisons,” written by Noel Hudson Abstract: A brief outline of the saga of Korihor, the Anti-Christ, is provided along with a discussion... Read more
First, two stories that can be taken as pointing in two quite different directions: (1) As a teenager, I worked every summer for the Southern California construction company that my father owned. He didn’t want me to be or to seem spoiled, so he often made sure that I received the dirtiest, least glamorous, and most onerous assignments that were available. (I sometimes thought that he overdid it.) One of those assignments was to serve as a flagman, telling... Read more
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