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Controversies Past and Present

    I should call your attention to the 2022 annual meeting of IANDS — the International Association for Near-Death Studies — which begins today, 31 August, and runs through 4 September.  It is convening in-person in the Hilton Salt Lake City Center, at 255 South West Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah, and will […]

Thinking, from Dover back to Amsterdam

    These three items went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Come, Follow Me — Old Testament Study and Teaching Helps: Lesson 37, September 5–11: Isaiah 1–12 — “God Is My Salvation” Another note for teachers and students of the “Come, Follow Me” curriculum, kindly contributed by Jonn Claybaugh.   Audio […]

Canterbury Tales

    We landed very early this morning at Dover, with a clear view from the decks of the docked ship of both Dover Castle and the area’s famous white cliffs.  But we actually spent the day walking around Canterbury, the heart of historic English Christianity, which is located fairly closely nearby.  Peter Fagg, the […]

“Why the ‘Witnesses’ Project?”

    Obviously feeling increasingly desperate, with this one the Interpreter Foundation has reached a new low:   “Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 19: Why the Witnesses Project?” What is the purpose of the Interpreter Foundation’s Witnesses Project, and all the related media: the Witnesses feature film, the Undaunted companion docudrama, and the Insights videos? This is the […]

Sacred and Anti-Sacred Sites

    We landed at Liverpool this morning, where we were met by Peter Fagg, who is, to my knowledge, far and away the premiere Latter-day Saint tour guide in the United Kingdom.  First, we walked about the dock area in Liverpool where the first missionaries to England, led by Elder Heber C. Kimball of […]

County Cork, and Something That, Sadly, Didn’t Bob Like One

    Two new items went up earlier today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:   “There Is No Beauty That We Should Desire Him,” written by Loren Blake Spendlove Abstract: In two separate passages Isaiah appears to describe the mortal Messiah as lacking in physical beauty and perhaps as even […]

A city reborn and a doomed ship

    I think that it’s perhaps time to call your attention again to some recent products of the Interpreter Foundation.  Here are three of them:   Undaunted Witnesses of the Book of Mormon Explore the history of the Three Witnesses as well as other witnesses of the Book of Mormon with Camrey Bagley Fox, […]

“Ten Ways the AP Abuse Article Misrepresented the Evidence,” and Other Matters

      I failed to notice four new items that recently appeared on the website of the Interpreter Foundation.  So here they are:   Nibley Lectures: Time Vindicates the Prophets — “Prophets and Philosophers” Between 7 March 1954 and 17 October 1954, Hugh Nibley delivered a series of thirty weekly lectures on KSL Radio […]

“O ye’ll tak’ the high road, and I’ll tak’ the low road”

    I’m not at all sure why, but, although I’ve visited Scotland on several previous occasions (including that wonderful week in my early twenties at St. Andrews) and although I have an unaccountable affection for the Celtic cross, this is the first time that I’ve really felt the pull of my Scots ancestral line.  […]

Lost causes, lost worlds, and lost monsters

    A few folks out there in my audience continue to be deeply interested in my personal finances and, it seems, rather disturbed by my travels.  So, yet again, I’m going to endeavor to set their minds at ease, even though it’s really none of their business:   My wife and I like to […]