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My article for the Deseret News<\/em> has gone online at LDS Living<\/em>. \u00a0I think that it also appeared in the print edition of the Deseret News<\/em>, but I don\u2019t know that for sure. \u00a0Anyway, here it is in its online incarnation:<\/p>\n

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\u201cScholars Find Evidence That Book of Mormon Phrases Mocked by Critics Have a Surprising and Fascinating History\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Please note, incidentally, that the Royal Skousen\/Stan Carmack event will take place on Tuesday<\/em> night, not on Wednesday<\/em> night, contrary to the poster that went out the other day and that I trustingly posted here.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWATCH: Hebrew Evidence in the Book of Mormon!\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cHuman Flourishing Is the Fruit of Religious Freedom:\u00a0Elder Sitati speaks to government officials, scholars and religious leaders in Rwanda\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Just a reminder, to those Down Under, that I\u2019ll be speaking in Sydney, Australia, on and around 27 November 2018:<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnnual Religious Liberty Lecture\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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On the website of the Interpreter Foundation:<\/p>\n

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\u201cDay of Atonement Symbolism in LDS Discourse,\u201d with Shon Hopkin<\/a><\/p>\n

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For the 16 February 2018 episode of the Interpreter Radio Show, Bruce Webster, Kris Frederickson, and Mike Parker joined together for a discussion of such topics as the protests and excommunication of Sam Young, General Conference speculation and discussion, and keys for understanding Isaiah.<\/p>\n

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If you missed the broadcast on Sunday night, you can still listen to their conversation (sans<\/em> commercials) here:<\/p>\n

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\u201cInterpreter Radio Show \u2014 September 16, 2018\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Some additional interesting listening:<\/p>\n

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\u201cBlake Ostler Discusses Deification on the Exploring Mormon Thought Podcast\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cCleanup Efforts Underway in Asia Following Typhoon Mangkhut: Damage assessments are underway in the Philippines and Hong Kong following Super Typhoon Mangkhut, the category 5 storm that hit Asia over the weekend.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cFaith Counts Video Contest Winners Announced in Ohio:\u00a0Sister Harkness meets with ESL school, resettlement agency\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Two quotations from C. Terry Warner, who was the head of the BYU Honors Program \u2014 or, at least, of the Late Summer Honors Program \u2014 when I first arrived in Provo as a student:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe self-help movement that began in the latter half of the twentieth century suffers particularly from this flaw, for the personal and interpersonal skills it seeks to cultivate are almost always designed to get us more of what we think we want, rather than to bring about a change of heart.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cPersonal growth is not like the development of a skill. It does not take place in observable increments that can be measured and charted. Indeed, as we have seen, when we\u2019re growing in sensitivity, generosity, and compassion, we\u2019re not aware of it, because we\u2019re not focusing on ourselves. The recovery of emotional freedom simply does not have the quality, for most of us, of a controllable sequence of transformations. It\u2019s more a career of discovering futher and further weaknesses and shedding them in turn.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

C. Terry Warner,\u00a0<\/span>Bonds That Make Us Free: Healing Our Relationships, Coming to Ourselves<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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