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New, from the Interpreter Foundation!

    I’m pleased to announce two new items that have appeared on the website of the Interpreter Foundation.  The first was created by Alan Sikes.  It will be, I think, a very helpful resource for many people:   “Introducing the General Conference, Improvement Era, and Journal of Discourses Bibliography Collections” Have you ever had questions like the following, […]

Some Ways to Light the World

    Four new links have appeared on the website of the Interpreter Foundation over roughly the past twenty-four hours.  I hope that you enjoy them:   “Nibley Lectures: Time Vindicates the Prophets — Prophets and Miracles” Between 7 March 1954 and 17 October 1954, Hugh Nibley delivered a series of thirty weekly lectures on KSL […]

“How inexpressibly sad are all holidays.”

    As I write, there are only twenty-five shopping days remaining until Christmas.  But I hope that, amidst all of the frenetic activity that precedes the biggest holiday of the year, we’ll all be able to find at least a little bit of time for reflection.   Here is something that I wrote for […]

It’s the most generous time of the year

    For various reasons — some probably having to do with the emotions and sentiments of the holiday season and others no doubt connected with American tax policy and the Internal Revenue Service — a disproportionate percentage of annual charitable donations are made during the final quarter of the year, at least in the […]

A story, briefly heard when I was still in my teens, that has stayed with me ever since

    Slightly more than four years ago, I posted two back-to-back blog entries about an experience that made a deep impression on me and that, consequently, has remained with me for many decades, well into my current state of advanced geezerly old age.  It was that important to me.  I reproduce the two blog […]

To Be a Witness

    A newly available video is up online from the Interpreter Foundation:   “Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 32: To Be a Witness” The need to stand as a witness is not just something from historical times, but just as necessary today. President of the Interpreter Foundation, Dan Peterson, shares his […]

“Rethinking the Encounter between Jacob and Sherem”

    Two new articles have just gone up in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:   “Rethinking the Encounter between Jacob and Sherem,” written by Loren Blake Spendlove Abstract: The Book of Mormon story of Jacob and Sherem has been evaluated and interpreted from many different viewpoints over the years. In his retelling of […]

Two final thoughts on Thanksgiving

    I wrote these two columns in 2016 and 2017:   It’s not insignificant that the verbs “to think” and “to thank” (compare German “denken” and “danken”) share the same linguistic root.  The scriptures are replete with exhortations to “remember,” to reflect, to thank: “O give thanks unto the Lord,” says the psalmist (105:1-5), […]

For Thanksgiving Day

    Happy Thanksgiving!   I hesitated just a bit before deciding to call your attention to a new piece that has appeared on the blog of the Interpreter Foundation, where it will remain for the next several weeks.  Today is an important holiday here in the United States, and I don’t want to mar […]

An Atmosphere of Gratitude and Grounds for Appreciation

    I wrote these two newspaper columns for Thanksgiving 2019:   As we in the United States approach the national Thanksgiving holiday for 2019, it’s appropriate to consider things for which we should express our gratitude.  Obviously, of course, there’s the good food that many of us will be eating.  There are the family […]