Up new, today, on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: ““Encircled About Eternally in the Arms of His Love”: The Divine Embrace as a Thematic Symbol of Jesus Christ and His Atonement in the Book of Mormon,” written by Matthew L. Bowen Abstract: This study builds upon Hugh Nibley’s insightful observation that several Book of Mormon passages reflect “the ritual embrace that consummates the final escape from death in the Egyptian funerary texts and reliefs” as expressing the... Read more
“Enthroning the Daughter of Zion: The Coronation Motif of Isaiah 60-62,” in The Temple: Ancient and Restored, written by Carli J. Anderson Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article originally appeared in The Temple: Ancient and Restored, Proceedings of the Second Interpreter Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference “The Temple on Mount Zion,” 25 October 2014 (2016) edited by Stephen D. Ricks and Donald W. Parry. For more information, go to https://interpreterfoundation.org/books/the-temple-ancient-and-restored/. For the time... Read more
Up yesterday on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Conference Talks: The Messianic Sacred, Not Secret: The Son as a Hidden Name in the Gospel of Mark, originally presented by Jasmin Gimenez Rappleye on Saturday, 7 November 2020, at the Interpreter Foundation’s 2020 Temple on Mount Zion Conference The “Messianic Secret” theory proposes that Jesus Christ forbids demons and followers from revealing who he is for an enigmatic reason. While the findings of the original theory have largely... Read more
Two new Interpreter Foundation videos have now been posted online. I think that some of you will find them of interest. Personally, I found them moving: ““We Absolutely Fell in Love with the People”: A New Short Film About Africa with Elder and Sister Renlund” ““You Can Take Your Hand Off Africa Now”: A New Short Film about President Kimball, David M. Kennedy, and the Revelation on the Priesthood” As he has been doing every week for several... Read more
My wife and I met yesterday with Mark Goodman and Russell Richins, who are, respectively, the director and producer of the Interpreter Foundation’s current Six Days in August film project. For the first time, we saw some of the footage from recent filming in Ontario and New York and at the LDS Motion Picture Studio. It’s looking good, and Mark and Russ are very pleased with what they’ve gotten from the actors and the crew. Slightly more than... Read more
Last night, my wife and I attended a screening in one of our local theaters of the film After Death. , which, by the way, is distributed by Angel Studies, the Utah Valley operation that also distributes The Chosen and Sound of Freedom. I commend After Death to you. It introduces and features some of the standard names in the study of near-death experiences (e.g., Dr. George Ritchie, Dr. Kenneth Ring, John Burke, Dr. Jeffrey Long, Don Piper,... Read more
After our visit to the Churchill War Rooms in London the other day, I bought a copy of Boris Johnson’s The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2014). Boris Johnson was himself the, umm, colorful and controversial prime minister of the United Kingdom and leader of the Conservative Party from 2019 to 2022 — and, in addition to that, a member of Parliament from 2001 to 2008, the mayor of London from 2008... Read more
Well, we’re back. For a little while. (Fairly soon, we plan to be off for visits with far-flung members of our family both at home and abroad. This additional travel will drive my most obsessive critics berserk with rage, of course, but, candidly, I value my family more than I value the opinions of those critics.) And a major part of my obligation as the president of the Interpreter Foundation and as an executive producer of the film project... Read more
We will shortly board a jet airliner to return from our truncated trip to the Middle East. We were scheduled to lead discrete tours to Türkeye (on behalf of the Interpreter Foundation) and Egypt and Israel. For rather obvious reasons, the tour to Israel had to be cancelled. I would have cancelled it anyway, but factors beyond our control took the decision out of our hands: there was simply no way for us to enter Israel; Delta, United,... Read more
We’re just back from a matinee performance of Michael Frayn’s Noises Off at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. To the best of my recollection, I’ve seen only two plays by Michael Frayn, and they are about as different as could possibly be conceived. I’ve seen Noises Off twice before, I think, and it’s about the most slapstick farce imaginable. Lots of action. Hilarious. By contrast, Copenhagen, which we saw here in London years ago, is a very serious play... Read more
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