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Three new items went up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation today:<\/p>\n
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Nibley Lectures: Time Vindicates the Prophets<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 Prophets and Office<\/a><\/p>\n Between 7 March 1954 and 17 October 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 This lecture discusses the degree to which a spiritual message can or must be implemented in a physical manner.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Come, Follow Me<\/em> \u2014 Old Testament Study and Teaching Helps: Lesson 33, August 8\u201314: Psalms 1\u20132; 8; 19\u201333; 40; 46 \u2014\u00a0\u201cThe Lord Is My Shepherd\u201d<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Once again, Jonn Claybaugh kindly shares a concise set of notes for students and teachers of the \u201cCome, Follow Me\u201d Old Testament curriculum.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me<\/em> Old Testament Lesson 33: \u201cThe Lord Is My Shepherd\u201d<\/em>: Psalms 1\u20132; 8; 19\u201333; 40; 46<\/a><\/p>\n The Interpreter Radio Roundtable for Come, Follow Me<\/em>\u00a0Old Testament Lesson 33,\u00a0\u201cThe Lord Is My Shepherd,\u201d<\/em> on Psalms 1\u20132; 8; 19\u201333; 40; 46, features Neal Rappleye, Jasmin Rappleye, and Hales Swift.\u00a0 Originally broadcast as part of the 3 July 2022 installment of the Interpreter Radio Show, this roundtable has now been extracted, denuded of commercial and other interruptions, for your listening pleasure and edification.\u00a0 However, the complete two-hour program may still be heard at https:\/\/interpreterfoundation.org\/interpreter-radio-show-July-3-2022\/<\/a>. The Interpreter Radio Show can be heard live each and every week of the year on Sunday evenings, from 7 to 9 PM (MDT), on K-TALK, AM 1640.\u00a0 If, though, radio doesn\u2019t work out for you for some reason, you can listen live nevertheless via the Internet, at ktalkmedia.com<\/a>.\u00a0 I\u2019ve done it.\u00a0 I know that it works.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The 2022 instantiation of the annual FAIR conference begins tomorrow (Wednesday) morning.\u00a0 Check-in will begin at 8:15 AM in the Experience Event Center in Provo, Utah. The Event Center is located at 1440 N Moon River Dr, Provo, UT 84604<\/a>. There is parking to the south of the Event Center and to the south-east, behind Maceys.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The program for the conference is available here<\/a>, although there will be a printed program available on site as well.\u00a0 I\u2019m really pleased that the program will be available via streaming at no cost.\u00a0 But I have to candidly saying that being there in person is far better.\u00a0 I, for one, always look forward to seeing people there.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Over the past few hours, I\u2019ve had a brief and quite unsatisfying exchange with a fellow who showed up here from another message board, a place where my personal inadequacies, depravities, and buffooneries are a significant and perpetual theme.\u00a0 His major focus, so far as I can determine, was to challenge me about the inadequacy of personal spiritual experience as a basis for orienting one\u2019s life.\u00a0 (There\u2019s very possibly something autobiographical behind his challenge.)\u00a0 Evidently, though, he has now bowed out of the conversation.\u00a0 At least, he\u2019s announced that he\u2019s done so on his home board.\u00a0 He\u2019s finished with me.\u00a0 And his announcement was accompanied by a couple of appropriately sneering expressions of personal contempt for me that, I\u2019m sure, will win the approval of his audience there and gain enhanced \u201cstreet cred\u201d for him<\/em>.\u00a0 I expect that I\u2019m simply too illogical and disingenuous for his tastes.\u00a0 And he explicitly says that I\u2019m too old<\/em> for him to want to waste any more time on me.\u00a0 Alas!\u00a0 My ludicrously advanced age is yet another<\/em> of my defects!<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Reflecting on his assertions as to the impotence of personal spiritual experiences, though, is good for me.\u00a0 I find myself thinking, yet again and from a slightly different angle, about such individual religious experiences as those related in the Bible about Isaiah<\/a> and Saul of Tarsus<\/a>, and about St. Thomas Aquinas (see \u201cWho is the \u2018Angelic Doctor\u2019 and what did he write?\u201d<\/a>), and about the Indian emperor Ashoka (see \u201cIndian ruler sowed seeds of Buddhism\u201d<\/a>), and about St. Joan of Arc.<\/a>\u00a0 And about Joseph Smith\u2019s First Vision<\/a>.\u00a0 And about this one:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n When the great seventeenth-century French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Blaise Pascal died at the age of just slightly past thirty-nine in 1662, his servant found a small piece of parchment that had been sewn into his coat. At the top of the paper, Pascal had drawn a cross. Underneath the cross were these words:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n In the year of the Lord 1654 Fire<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob Jesus Christ. \u00a0<\/p>\n This was Pascal\u2019s reminder to himself of what had evidently been an intense and very personal two-hour religious experience.\u00a0 It occurred when he was approximately thirty-one years old.\u00a0 The historical evidence suggests that he kept the event secret until his death.\u00a0 However, although we know few if any details about, he plainly regarded it as an\u00a0 encounter with God, and as so personally significant that it transformed him and altered the course of his life. He kept his record of it \u2014 what scholars today often call \u201cThe Memorial\u201d \u2014 in the lining of his coat, close to his heart. For the eight years of life that remained to him thereafter, he carefully transferred the document from one coat to another, newly sewing it into the lining every time that he changed his clothing.\u00a0 Obviously, the note preserved Pascal\u2019s memory of a treasured experience, something to which he could return over and over again.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n There is, to me, something very moving in Pascal\u2019s story.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 \u00a0 Three new items went up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation today: \u00a0 Nibley Lectures: Time Vindicates the Prophets\u00a0\u2014 Prophets and Office Between 7 March 1954 and 17 October 1954, Hugh Nibley delivered a series of thirty weekly lectures on KSL Radio that were also published as pamphlets. 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\nMonday, November 23
\nFrom about half-past ten in the evening
\nuntil half-past twelve.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
\nNot of philosophers nor of the scholars.
\nCertitude. Certitude. Feeling. Joy, Peace.
\nGod of Jesus Christ,
\nMy God and thy God.
\n\u201cThy God shall be my God.\u201d
\nForgetfulness of the world and of everything, except God.
\nHe is to be found only by the ways taught in the Gospel.
\nGreatness of the soul of man.
\n\u201cRighteous Father, the world hath not known thee,
\nbut I have known thee.\u201d
\nJoy, joy, joy, tears of joy.
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\nI have fallen away: I have fled from Him,
\ndenied Him, crucified him.
\nMay I not fall away forever.
\nWe keep hold of him only by the ways taught in the Gospel.
\nRenunciation, total and sweet.
\nTotal submission to Jesus Christ and to my director.
\nEternally in joy for a day\u2019s exercise on earth.
\nI will not forget Thy word. Amen.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n