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“This single truth”

    For the past several years, Jeri Covey and her husband, Stephen M. R. Covey, have invited us to the annual Christmas dinner and musical event that they put on at their home.  We were there again last night.  For this year, along with a wonderful spread of food, they had a BYU faculty/staff […]

I’ll never forget Kate What’s-Her-Name

    We held our quarterly Interpreter Foundation Board meeting this morning.  It was very pleasant to welcome two new members — Matt Bowen and Jim Graham —  to the Foundation’s Board of Trustees.  There are really interesting things on the horizon.  (See here for biographies of the current members of the Interpreter Board.)   […]

“The Words of Gad the Seer”

    A new article went up today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:  “The Words of Gad the Seer: An Apparently Ancient Text With Intriguing Origins and Content,” written by Jeff Lindsay Review of Meir Bar-Ilan, Words of Gad the Seer (Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace Publishing, 2016); Christian Israel, The Words of Gad the […]

Videos of the Tenth-Birthday Party for the Interpreter Foundation

©   On Saturday, 17 September 2022, we held a special tenth-birthday party for the Interpreter Foundation at the Riverside Country Club in Provo.  (Our tenth birthday had actually occurred the previous month.)  Invited guests included Foundation volunteers and major donors. Unfortunately, limitations of space and budget precluded us from inviting everybody who has stepped […]

Science, Religion, Agency, and Flowers

    Newly posted today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Conference Talks: “Science, Religion, and Agency,” originally delivered by Richard N. Williams in 2013 Almost all conceptions of human agency are rooted in libertarianism and grounded in a set of assumptions about the nature of the non-human world, the nature of causality, […]

Things Done and Things to Do

    Three new items went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   “Nibley Lectures: Time Vindicates the Prophets — The Book of Mormon as a Witness” 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. […]

On Justifying Racism from the Book of Abraham, plus Some Thoughts on the Constitution

    A new article has appeared on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   “Interpreting Interpreter: Inheriting a Curse,” written by Kyler Rasmussen This post is a summary of the article ““Being of that Lineage”: Generational Curses and Inheritance in the Book of Abraham,” written by John S. Thompson, in Volume 54 of Interpreter: A […]

Regarding Two Christmas Carols

    I wrote two newspaper columns for Christmas 2013.  Here they are:   The first verse of the popular late-nineteenth-century Christmas carol “Away in a Manger” (often mistakenly attributed to Martin Luther) ends peacefully with “the little Lord Jesus, asleep on the hay.”  Unfortunately, though, “The cattle are lowing; the poor baby wakes, but […]

Prophecy being fulfilled, and not happily

    Here’s some potentially interesting reading for you: “The Dangers of Redefining Chastity: Even the best of motives do not allow us to change the commandments or remove the crosses of others.” “A Key Book to Understand Nahom and Bountiful is Now Free Online: Warren Aston’s Lehi and Sariah in Arabia” “From Catholic to Mormon: […]

“Generational Curses and Inheritance in the Book of Abraham”

    ““Being of that Lineage”: Generational Curses and Inheritance in the Book of Abraham,” written by John S. Thompson Abstract: The seeming appearance of a lineal or generational curse in the Book of Abraham has been used erroneously to marginalize people and justify racist ideas in Latter-day Saint history. To avoid any further misinterpretation of scripture […]