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An Interpreter Foundation volunteer works to set up the Foundation\u2019s new radio tower, in a bid to boost our signal strength. Below him are the twin cities of Orem and Provo, separated by the mighty Provo River.
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Many of us are essentially trapped at home these days. \u00a0Our usual activities \u2014 e.g., cockfighting, bear-baiting, chariot races, gladiatorial combat, and rambling through exotic bazaars, gambling halls, saloons, and opium dens \u2014 have been closed down. \u00a0Some of us are even having to work<\/em> from home. \u00a0But we\u2019re not left without resources, without things that we can enjoy safely and from within the confines of our domestic castles.<\/p>\n

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Here, for instance, are three new online offerings from the Interpreter Foundation:<\/p>\n

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Interpreter Radio Show \u2014 March 15, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n

You can listen to or download the 15 March 2020 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show at the link given immediately above. \u00a0The discussants for this particular program\u00a0were Bruce Webster, Kris Frederickson, and Mike Parker. In this episode, they discuss COVID-19 and preparation at the individual, family and Church levels. Also featured was a roundtable on the upcoming\u00a0Come, Follow Me<\/em>\u00a0Book of Mormon lesson #15 on Mosiah 1-3. \u00a0All commercial and other extraneous interruptions have been edited out of this archived version of the broadcast, which is now available to you at no charge and at all hours of both day and night.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTeachings and Testimony of the First Vision:\u00a0Sister Ida Romney Obtains a Testimony of the First Vision:\u00a0Part 16 of a Series Compiled by Dennis B. Horne\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cDespite All We Can Do,\u201d with Daniel O. McClellan<\/a><\/p>\n

For whatever it may be worth, Daniel McClellan was a star student, years ago, in a seminar that my late friend and colleague Bill Hamblin and I once taught at Brigham Young University.<\/p>\n

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Even under siege from the coronavirus, Sic et Non<\/em> has not forgotten your ever-voracious and perpetually needy\u00a0Christopher Hitchens Memorial \u201cHow Religion Poisons Everything\u201d Files<\/em>. \u00a0Here are two new items that virtually cry out to be included in such collections:<\/p>\n

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\u201cLatter-day Saints Provide Disaster Relief to Tennessee Tornado Victims\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cLatter-day Saint Charities Makes Significant Donation to Kangaroo Island Residents\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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And, on a related note:<\/p>\n

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\u201cMnuchin Warns GOP Senators of 20 Percent Unemployment if Stimulus Not Passed\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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If, say, we were to enter into a period of 20 percent unemployment \u2014 the unemployment figure was, I\u2019m told, at 23% during the Great Depression \u2014 do you think it possible that claims on Church welfare funds might increase? \u00a0Do you think that fast offerings and other donations might plummet? \u00a0Do you think that stocks and other investment vehicles might lose some of their value? \u00a0Do you think that those who wept and moaned and complained and waxed indignant and howled with outrage over reports of an allegedly sizeable Church \u201crainy-day fund\u201d \u2014 something like $6000 or $7000 per Latter-day Saint \u2014 would still find reason to attack the Church? \u00a0I<\/em> most certainly do!<\/p>\n

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