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A Transcendent Light

    I don’t know how much longer this can or will go on, but he is, quite simply, astounding: “President Russell M. Nelson Celebrates 98th Birthday: Prophet spends the day participating in meetings at Church headquarters in Utah”     I’ve just completed reading William J. Peters (with Michael Kinsella), At Heaven’s Door: What […]

On Two Women in the Old Testament, and regarding Heavenly Mother

    “Hannah’s Adversity and Peninnah’s Redemption,” written by Loren Blake Spendlove Abstract: Most biblical students are familiar with the story of Hannah, who after years of barrenness, finally gave birth to the prophet Samuel. Some will remember her adversary, Peninnah, who allegedly tormented Hannah to tears. My objective in this article is to reclaim Peninnah’s […]

Coming up on 5 November 2022

    In the first portion of this episode of the fabled Interpreter Radio Show, Neal Rappleye and Jasmin Rappleye and Hales Swift, joined by their guest Stephen O. Smoot, recap the 2022 FAIR conference., which was originally broadcast on 7 August 2022.  (It has now been edited, meaning that all commercial and other extraneous […]

Seeking help from readers in Canada, the UK, and beyond

    I’m asking a favor from readers of this blog who live, move, and have their being outside of the United States of America.   Recently, during our extensive travels overseas (which are, alas, far from over for the year), I’ve been made aware of limitations in the distribution of Witnesses and Undaunted: Witnesses […]

An infallible formula for never lapsing into inactivity in the Church

    The inexplicably weird English of the headline continues throughout the article.  Still, I think that some of you will find it of interest:   “Can BYU is mainstream and can still be ‘not of the world’?”     One day, many years ago while I was serving as a missionary in Interlaken, Switzerland, […]

Don L. Lind, RIP

    I saw the news yesterday that Don Lind has died.  Holder of a doctorate in high-energy nuclear physics, a faithful Latter-day Saint, and a retired NASA astronaut, he had written an entry for my old Mormon Scholars Testify site, now renamed Latter-day Saint Scholars Testify:   Don L. Lind   I actually only […]

At IANDS

    A new item went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   “Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 20: Who Wrote the Testimony of the Witnesses?“ Every edition of the Book of Mormon has included a copy of the Testimony of the Three Witnesses. Who wrote it? And if […]

An ancient idiom in 2 Nephi 4:33, as well as a demonic attack in Lancashire

    It’s Friday, so yet another new article has appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:   ““But That Thou Wouldst Clear My Way Before Me”: A Note on the Personal and Emotional Rendering of an Ancient Idiom in 2 Nephi 4:33,” written by Matthew L. Bowen Abstract: The biblical Hebrew […]

“What You Didn’t Hear About the LGBT Pamphlet at BYU”

    Wow.  This article, written by the forthright and courageous Cassandra Hedelius, is both extremely important and extremely concerning:   “What You Didn’t Hear About the LGBT Pamphlet at BYU: BYU was right to remove an LGBT “resource pamphlet” from freshman welcome bags, but the public doesn’t understand why. It disturbingly promoted a drag […]

Into Thin Air?

    I don’t know what to say about these new takes on the alleged incident of allegedly uncontested, unimpeded racist insults allegedly hurled by a non-student at a women’s volleyball game between Brigham Young University and Duke University.  I wasn’t there.  I assumed initially that the incident really occurred as described.  And maybe it […]