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Jonathan Neville’s “Response to Recent Reviews”

    Three new items went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation — two of them in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:   “A Man That Can Translate and Infinite Goodness: A Response to Recent Reviews,” written by Jonathan E. Neville Abstract: Since 1829, various theories about the production of the […]

Stephen King and James Joyce, on behalf of the Book of Mormon

    I imagine that very few of the readers here are unfamiliar with Murphy’s Law:  “Everything that can go wrong will go wrong.”  If you’re like me, alas, you know it intimately well, from direct personal experience.  There are also a whole host of corollaries to Murphy’s Law, all of them somewhat dire and […]

“Royal and Temple Themes Common to the Psalms and the Dead Sea Scrolls”

    Two new links appeared today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Conference Talks: “From Dust to Exalted Crown: Royal and Temple Themes Common to the Psalms and the Dead Sea Scrolls,” by David J. Larsen David J. Larsen, after showing how many of the Qumran texts rely on the “Royal Psalms” […]

Two Ways of Remembering the Dead in Manhattan

    Three new items have gone up on the Interpreter website:   “Nibley Lectures: Time Vindicates the Prophets — Prophets and Gnostics” 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 “Time Vindicates the Prophets,” […]

Cardinal Dolan and his church

    First of all, I want to apologize to all of those who, on my recommendation, tried to watch the promised fireside by Jeffrey Mark Bradshaw this past Sunday night.  (See “Virtual Fireside Tonight on “Freemasonry and the Origins of Latter-day Saint Temple Ordinances.”“)  Something technological went wrong, I guess, and, for whatever little […]

Virtual Fireside Tonight on “Freemasonry and the Origins of Latter-day Saint Temple Ordinances”

    Here’s a note from Dr. Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, who serves on the board of trustees and as one of the vice presidents of the Interpreter Foundation:   Virtual Fireside on Freemasonry and the Origins of Latter-day Saint Temple Ordinances As is well known, there are elements of the Nauvoo temple ordinances—for example, some of […]

“Did Lucy Harris Support the Book of Mormon?”

    Yet another of the products of our overall “Witnesses” film project went up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation at 7 PM on Saturday evening, Utah time.  You can view it, along with the other “Insights” videos in this series, at absolutely no charge.  And we hope that you will share it […]

The Halifax Explosion

    Halifax, Nova Scotia, is sadly well acquainted with tragedy.  In a blog entry that I posted yesterday, I mentioned the city’s connection with the sinking of the Titanic, which occurred seven hundred nautical miles away, and with some of the victims of that terrible event.  About five and a half years thereafter, though, […]

Funny, Touching, Titanic

    Two new articles appeared today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation.  The first of them is the latest article to appear in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:   ““Unto the Taking Away of Their Stumbling Blocks”: The Taking Away and Keeping Back of Plain and Precious Things and […]

On his eightieth birthday

    As I’ve explained here several times before, one of the  functions that this blog serves for me is as a kind of journal and even as a place for rough drafts of my life history.  And a part of that, though a relatively minor part in terms of “bulk” or word count, is […]