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Should religious colleges and universities be permitted to continue having codes for student and faculty behavior?

    Will religious universities continue to be permitted to set their own behavioral standards for students (and, for that matter, for faculty and administrators) if those standards conflict with Western society’s rising orthodoxy on gender and sexuality?  Should they be permitted to do so?  New York City’s Yeshiva University, an Orthodox Jewish institution, has […]

Et in Acadia ego

    Here are four new items that have gone up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation during the past twenty-four to thirty-six hours:   Nibley Lectures: Time Vindicates the Prophets — “The Ancient Law of Liberty” Between 7 March 1954 and 17 October 1954, Hugh Nibley delivered a series of thirty weekly lectures […]

On Brigham Young and Violence (2)

    I recently read Paul Alan Cox, “The Orchid and the Missile: Reflections on the MX,” BYU Studies Quarterly 61/2 (2022): 31-50.  His entry on my Latter-day Saint Scholars Testify website can be found here, and I append immediately below the relevant portion of the little bio given for him by BYU Studies:   […]

On Brigham Young and Violence (1)

    As I’ve mentioned here before, I’ve lately been re-reading Eugene England, Brother Brigham (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1980), and thoroughly, thoroughly, enjoying it.  I’m consistently amazed at the similarity of Gene’s opinion of Brigham Young to mine.  But then, maybe the similarity shouldn’t be such a surprise.  It may be that Gene’s view […]

Breathtaking Audacity

    I think that it was Elder Quentin L. Cook of the Quorum of the Twelve who, in the second to the last talk of the just-concluded October conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, knowing that the concluding speaker would be President Russell M. Nelson, bore his testimony that President […]

“Money and Prices in the Book of Mormon”

    But first, this new “Insights” video has just gone up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: “Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 24: What was Joseph’s Witness?” When we discuss the witnesses of the Book of Mormon, we often overlook the first witness of the plates: Joseph Smith himself. What […]

“Understanding How the Scriptures Came to Be”

    Three new articles appeared today, Friday, in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship.  We hope that you’ll take the time to enjoy them!   “The Last Nephite Scribes,” written by Noel B. Reynolds Abstract In an earlier paper, I concluded that Lehi and Nephi were highly trained Josephite scribes and were associated […]

“A continuous melody and a thunderous appeal”

    First of all, just so that you’ll be aware: Interpreter Foundation Tour Announcement! The tour will run from 9 October 2023 to 18 October 2023, with an optional five-day extension running from 18 October 2023 to 22 October 2023. Please note, too, that one of our hosts on the tour, Murat Çakir, is […]

The Prophet Joseph F. Smith

    But, first, here are a couple of items that have recently gone up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   “Conference Talks: The Divine Handclasp in the Hebrew Bible and in Ancient Near Eastern Iconography,” by David M. Calabro David Calabro explores what he describes as the “divine handclasp” in the Hebrew […]

“If I were placed on a cannibal island”

    Two new items have gone up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Come, Follow Me — Old Testament Study and Teaching Helps: Lesson 41, October 3–9: Isaiah 58–66 — “The Redeemer Shall Come to Zion” Once again, Jonn Claybaugh has generously supplied a concise set of notes for students and teachers […]