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***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Here are some new items that have recently gone up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Nibley Lectures: Time Vindicates the Prophets<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 Introduction<\/a><\/p>\n From 7 March 1954 to 17 October in 1954, Hugh Nibley delivered a series of thirty weekly lectures on KSL Radio that were also published as pamphlets. The series, called \u201cTime Vindicates the Prophets,\u201d was given in answer to those who were challenging the right of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/a> to call themselves Christians.<\/p>\n All thirty recordings are available immediately in the Complete Bibliography for Hugh Nibley (CBHN)<\/em>\u00a0at\u00a0https:\/\/interpreterfoundation.org\/bibliographies\/hugh-w-nibley\/lectures\/<\/a><\/p>\n I\u2019m really excited about having these lectures up online.\u00a0 They are superb, thought-provoking, and, I think, important.\u00a0 Nibley at his best.\u00a0 I once listened to all of them on cassette tapes while doing a solo drive from our home in Orem to a destination in Berkeley, California.\u00a0 I finished the last of them mere minutes before reaching the end of my drive.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me<\/em> Old Testament Lesson 26 \u201cThy Kingdom Shall Be Established for Ever\u201d<\/em>: 2 Samuel 5\u20137; 11\u201312; 1 Kings 3; 8; 11<\/a><\/p>\n The Interpreter Radio Roundtable for Come, Follow Me<\/em>\u00a0Old Testament Lesson 26,\u00a0\u201cThy Kingdom Shall Be Established for Ever,\u201d<\/em> on 2 Samuel 5\u20137; 11\u201312; 1 Kings 3; 8; 11, features Bruce Webster, Mike Parker, and Kris Frederickson. It was extracted from the 15 May 2022 broadcast of Interpreter Radio, but the complete show may be heard at https:\/\/interpreterfoundation.org\/interpreter-radio-show-May-15-2022\/<\/a>.\u00a0 In fact, now that you\u2019ve mentioned it, the Interpreter Radio Show can be heard live each week on Sunday evenings, from 7 to 9 PM (MDT) on K-TALK, AM 1640.\u00a0 If that fails, or if, for some reason, that option is repugnant to you, you can listen live on the Internet at ktalkmedia.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Come, Follow Me<\/em> \u2014 Old Testament Study and Teaching Helps: Lesson 26, June 20\u201326: 2 Samuel 5\u20137; 11\u201312; 1 Kings 3; 8; 11 \u2014\u00a0\u201cThy Kingdom Shall Be Established for Ever\u201d<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Jonn Claybaugh has kindly contributed another of his concise notes for the students and teachers and families who are following the Sunday curriculum of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n ***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n My ongoing angry obsession with the FX\/Hulu miniseries Under the Banner of Heaven<\/em> has manifested itself most recently in the fact that McKay Coppins has just published a very good essay in The Atlantic<\/em> about that recent production by Dustin Lance Black and Andrew Garfield.\u00a0 I must be extremely<\/em> upset:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cUnder the Banner of Hulu: A buzzy new true-crime series advances an old, insidious idea\u2014that Mormons<\/a> are a threat to the American project.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n ***<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n And I\u2019ll probably be incensed and obsessed with this<\/em> one, too!<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cEx-FLDS Women Describe Horrific Loss Of Freedom, Eventual Escape In \u2018Keep Sweet\u2019\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n ***<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n These articles represent a thoroughly lamentable trend:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cPro-Abortion Rights Protesters Interrupt Joel Osteen Church Service\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cAs We Await SCOTUS Decision On Abortion, Press Avoids News About Church Vandalism\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cPathetic media shrugs at assassination attempt of Supreme Court justice: Concha: Armed man reportedly told police he wanted to kill Kavanaugh as Supreme Court threats continue\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n I first visited the glorious Wieskirche, a pilgrimage church that stands essentially by itself out in a lush green meadow surrounded by forest, in 1970.\u00a0 (The German word Wies<\/em> means \u201cmeadow.\u201d)\u00a0 I\u2019ve been back at least half a dozen times since then.\u00a0 So we took our group there today, as well.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n This time, though, was different.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never had a local guide or lecturer at the Wieskirche; apart from that very first time, I\u2019ve never visited the Wieskirche with a group.\u00a0 But, this time, a local woman who identified herself as the music director for the Wieskirche gave a lecture about the church (auf Deutsch<\/em>; our German guide translated it into English for our group) and then, wonderfully, sang and played the church\u2019s pipe organ.\u00a0 Her first piece was Johann Sebastian Bach\u2019s peerless Toccata and Fugue in D minor<\/a>, which has been one of my absolute favorite pieces of music since I first encountered it as a high school student (possibly in my German class but most memorably in Disney\u2019s Fantasia<\/em>).\u00a0 It was, by the way, interesting to hear the music of Bach, who is surely one of the very most Protestant of German composers, played in what is certainly one of the most exuberantly Catholic of all German churches.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Amusingly, after she finished her presentation and as we were getting up and preparing to exit the church, the organ began to play a very powerful and well-executed version of \u201cCome, Come, Ye Saints.\u201d\u00a0 I look up trying to see who was playing.\u00a0 I looked around to see who was missing from our group.\u00a0 (We have a retired Utah State University professor of music history along with us, to name one potential suspect.\u00a0 I made some remarks today on the bus about Richard Wagner, his operas, and his relationship with King Ludwig II of Bavaria, and he kindly supplemented them with some very insightful music-historical additions.)\u00a0 It turned out that another Latter-day Saint group had entered the church, and it was a woman of their number.\u00a0 I talked to her afterward.\u00a0 She had simply asked whether she might be allowed to play the organ, and, astoundingly, the church\u2019s music director had said \u201cYes!\u201d\u00a0 The Latter-day Saint woman had, her husband told me, played the Tabernacle organ, the Conference Center organ, and the organ in Salt Lake City\u2019s Cathedral of the Madeleine.\u00a0 Her level of experience on big pipe organs was pretty obvious.\u00a0 Then, a few minutes later, a man from that same Latter-day Saint group played \u201cAs I Have Loved You.\u201d\u00a0 Really nice.<\/p>\n<\/a>
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