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***<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n I would like to announce an event to be held in Provo, Utah, on Thursday, 14 October 2021, sponsored by Deseret Book and Excel Entertainment.\u00a0 It is, if you will, an event that is intended to help us make noise about the DVD and the streaming availability of the Interpreter Foundation\u2019s theatrical film, Witnesses<\/em>. But it won\u2019t merely be a strictly promotional affair,\u00a0 Rather, we will watch selected scenes from the movie and have a hosted discussion of them as well as musical numbers designed to help audiences reflect on the legacy of the Three Witnesses and to ask themselves the question: What is my witness?\u00a0 Along with Russell Richins (the producer) and Mark Goodman (the director) and a curious goofball whose name somehow also<\/em> managed to appear in the credits to the film, three to four lead actors will likewise be part of the roundtable that will be hosted by Tammy Hall (host of the Sunday on Monday<\/em><\/a> podcast).<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n I notice that the \u201cRSVP\u201d button above doesn\u2019t seem to be working in my image, so, if you have a problem, please contact eventshelp@deseretbook.com.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Don\u2019t delay.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how many seats remain.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Meanwhile, work continues on the next phases of the overall Witnesses<\/em> project, and we\u2019re beginning, tentatively, to think about a Next Film Project beyond Witnesses<\/em>.\u00a0 The docudrama Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon<\/em> is in the final stages of finishing (regularizing the color and \u201csweetening\u201d the sound, or is it vice versa<\/em>?) \u2014 it will expand our coverage beyond the Three Witnesses of the Book of Mormon to the Eight Witnesses and to what I call the unofficial or informal witnesses (whose number includes several women).\u00a0 \u00a0 Moreover, this Friday we\u2019ll spend the day filming interviews for the short features or \u201csnippets\u201d that we will eventually release, at no charge, online.\u00a0 They will address specific questions and issues raised by the various Witnesses to the Book of Mormon.\u00a0 And, of course, there is the Witnesses of the Book of Mormon<\/em><\/a> website that is intended not only to supplement the film projects but to become a significant resource for research and study in its own right.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n This has been, and continues to be, enormous fun.\u00a0 Among other things.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n ***<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the newest installment of Kyler Rasmussen\u2019s series of Bayesian explorations:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cEstimating the Evidence Episode 14: On the Lost and Found (and Digging in the Ground)\u201d<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n [Editor\u2019s Note:<\/strong>\u00a0This is the fourteenth in a series of 23 essays summarizing and evaluating Book of Mormon-related evidence from a Bayesian statistical perspective. See the\u00a0FAQ<\/a>\u00a0at the end of the introductory episode for details on methodology.]<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n ***<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n And this is also fairly new on the Interpreter website:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Nibley Lectures: Come, Follow Me<\/em> Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 42 \u201cHis Sacrifice Shall Be More Sacred unto Me Than His Increase\u201d <\/em>D&C 115-120<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n ***<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n As some of you may be aware, the Interpreter Foundation is sponsoring a tour of Egypt in November<\/a>, featuring Steve Densley, Hany Tawfeek, John Gee, and some other guy.\u00a0 In connection with that tour, we\u2019re also sponsoring a lecture series to provide background for those who will be coming with us to Egypt on what they\u2019ll be seeing there.\u00a0 However, I think it quite possible that some who aren\u2019t<\/em> going with us this time will find them interesting, too.\u00a0 (Perhaps they\u2019ll even come along on a future trip.)\u00a0 So here are links to lectures from the series that have already been given:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The Ultimate Egypt Interpreter Foundation Tour Lecture Series<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n ***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n I had a good time at the FAIR open house last night.\u00a0 (They\u2019re back to FAIR<\/em> from FAIRMormon<\/em>, in response to President Russell M. Nelson\u2019s counsel regarding the nickname Mormon<\/em>.)\u00a0 It was good to chat with friends there, including some new friends and a few that I haven\u2019t seen for quite a while.\u00a0 People dropped in not only from FAIR but also from Interpreter and Book of Mormon Central.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n It\u2019s a modest facility, not huge, and it\u2019s located in a modest area, but I hope that it will serve them well.\u00a0 Although \u2014 as we\u2019ve learned even better over the past nearly two years than we had known before \u2014 very much can be done virtually, there is still something to be said for in-person contact as, among other things, a glue to bind an organization together and to build esprit de corps<\/em>, a sense of belonging and involvement in a cause.\u00a0 We haven\u2019t yet felt the need for a brick and mortar headquarters for the Interpreter Foundation, but perhaps that time will come.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n ***<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Finally:\u00a0 For several months, I\u2019ve been receiving notices regarding online broadcasts of the weekly concerts that are held at BYU\u2019s Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies \u2014 one of the best ideas that anybody has ever had for use of that marvelous space on Mount Scopus (basically, the Mount of Olives) overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem.\u00a0 I may perhaps be wrong, but it seems to me that it was the late Robert Cundick and his wife, Cholly, who, working in Israel as a service couple at the BYU Jerusalem Center, conceived the idea of the concert series.\u00a0 (The Interpreter Foundation\u2019s first filmmaking venture was Robert Cundick: A Sacred Service of Music<\/em><\/a>, produced in 2017, which is available for viewing at no charge, online.)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The Jerusalem Center is certainly one of the best musical venues in Jerusalem, if not the best, and perhaps the best in all of Israel.\u00a0 The view alone is stunning, magnificent.\u00a0 Unless and until I\u2019m told otherwise, I can see nothing wrong with passing those invitations along.\u00a0 So here\u2019s the latest:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n