September 27, 2024

  I’m pleased to announce that a second (and final) set of “sneak peek” early screenings for the new Interpreter Foundation film Six Days in August will occur on Monday, 7 October — which is the day after General Conference — in the same nine Cinemark theaters that offered last night’s showings: Salt Lake City, Draper, American Fork, Orem, Midvale/Sandy, Farmington, Ogden, Provo, and West Jordan: “Six Days in August – Early Access” You might be amused to learn that... Read more

September 26, 2024

  Tonight is the night!  For the very first time, the new Interpreter Foundation film Six Days in August will be publicly screened in theaters.  Although the formal public opening in theaters won’t take place until Thursday, 10 October, advance showings of the film will occur tonight at 7 PM in nine Cinemark theaters along the Wasatch Front — in American Fork, Draper, Farmington, Midvale/Sandy, Ogden, Orem, Provo, Salt Lake City, and West Jordan.  Tickets can be purchased at Six... Read more

September 25, 2024

  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

September 24, 2024

  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

September 23, 2024

  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

September 22, 2024

  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

September 21, 2024

  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

September 20, 2024

  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

September 19, 2024

  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

September 18, 2024

  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


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