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A River Ran Over Her

    Just this morning, my wife and I received news of the death of a relatively young friend who has been living in southern California.  It was not unexpected.  In fact, over the past week or two we’ve been, in the odd way that happens in cases of prolonged and painful terminal illness, many […]

On booking the clown show

    I had an enjoyable time last night participating in a panel at Brigham Young University.  Camrey Bagley Fox (who played Emma Smith in Witnesses), and Mark Goodman (the director of Witnesses) and Russell Richins (the producer) and I (executive producer) took questions after a showing of the film in the Education in Zion […]

Who is most blessed?

    It being Friday, another new article (this one a book review), has gone up in the pages (literal and virtual) of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:   “Examining the Origins of Temple Worship,” written by John Lynch Review of Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Freemasonry and the Origins of Latter-day Saint Temple Ordinances (Orem, UT: […]

“Evidence of the Afterlife”

    Conference Talks: “The Ark and the Tent: Temple Symbolism in the Story of Noah” (Jeffrey M. Bradshaw) Jeffrey M. Bradshaw compares Moses’ tabernacle and Noah’s ark, and then identifies the story of Noah as a temple related drama, drawing of temple mysticism and symbols. After examining structural similarities between ark and tabernacle and […]

Queen Elizabeth II and the Mysterium Tremendum

    All the way back in 2016, I posted the following here on this blog:   Encouraged by my wife, I’ve been enjoying the Anglo-American miniseries The Crown.  And, I must say, I’ve been enjoying it very much. For someone who is both an Anglophile and a passionate lover of history, it’s a feast. And, […]

On His 109th Birthday

    My father was born one hundred and nine (109) years ago today.  He’s been gone now for somewhat more than nineteen years.  But I’m thinking about him today, and I wanted to use this opportunity to commit a small handful of anecdotes about him to writing.  As I’ve said on prior occasions here, […]

“A Fulfilled Prophecy of Joseph F. Smith,” and Other Matters

    I’ve just published a new item in Meridian Magazine that some of you might find worthy of a glance: “Why We Can’t Simply Dismiss the Book of Mormon Witnesses”   Another item that went up today on the Interpreter Foundation website is this one: “Nibley Lectures: Time Vindicates the Prophets — The Prophets […]

An invitation to attend and to pray

    I would like to call your attention to an event — a special showing of the film Witnesses, accompanied by questions and answers and discussion — that will be held on the campus of Brigham Young University in Provo this coming Friday evening.  Admission is free, and there is abundant public parking that […]

“That’s me!”

    A couple of days ago, I finished reading William J. Peters (with Michael Kinsella), At Heaven’s Door: What Shared Journeys to the Afterlife Teach About Dying Well and Living Better (New York City: Simon and Schuster, 2022).  I found it interesting.  Here are five of the passages in the book that I marked […]

“Who Felt or Saw the Plates?”

    Something new has just been posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 21: Who Felt or Saw the Plates? Critics have long claimed that the various witnesses—both official and unofficial—never interacted with the plates in a physical way. First hand accounts indicate otherwise. […]