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The passing of a legend who meant very much to me and my family

    I’m sitting right now at the Experience Event Center in Provo, where the 2022 FAIR Conference is underway.  So far, it’s been very, very good. There is a numerous crowd in attendance at the conference venue, but apparently also a quite large audience watching remotely.  It is, Scott Gordon says, the largest audience […]

A Powerful and Very Private Spiritual Experience

    Three new items went up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation today:   Nibley Lectures: Time Vindicates the Prophets — Prophets and Office 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 […]

In which I recommend a play and cite a song that supposedly celebrates an acid trip

    I hope to see you at the annual FAIR conference this week.  It begins tomorrow (Wednesday) and will continue through my sorry performance late on Friday afternoon or relatively early on Friday evening.   ***   Last night, my wife and I shared a meal with sixteen of our closest friends in a […]

In which I try again

    Yesterday was a day that will live in infamy.  (In my little personal history, anyway.)   I needed to be in Irvine, California, for a Sunday fireside at 4:30 PM, Pacific time.  My usual practice, if I need to be somewhere for a lecture or something, is to travel to the location at […]

Our new film project begins, while our earlier project continues to produce

    The latest in the Interpreter Foundation’s series of short-video features relating to the witnesses of the Book of Mormon has now gone up:   Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 15: Are Prophets Perfect? God uses human beings as his leaders on the earth. Do these people need to be perfect […]

“The Body as the Temple of God”

    A trio of new articles went up today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship.  We hope that you’ll both enjoy them and find them helpful.  They are:   “Witnessing to the New Witness,” written by Brant A. Gardner Review of Robert A. Rees, A New Witness to the World (Salt Lake […]

Two Palestinian Christians, and a visit with one of the most interesting of Latter-day Saint historians

    We’re just back from attending a performance, with friends, of Singing in the Rain at the Hale Centre Theatre in Sandy, Utah.  It was extremely well done.  The whole cast was good.  The leads were strong.  David Paul Smith did remarkably well with both the singing and the dancing of Gene Kelly’s famous […]

Do any arguments against the Church have any merit?

    For what it’s worth, I’m scheduled to speak at the 2022 Orange Country LDS Singles Conference this coming Sunday, 31 July 2022, at 4:30 PM.  I believe that I’ll be holding forth in the Irvine Stake Center at 23 Lake Road in Irvine, California.   ***   Several times, I’ve been confronted with […]

“What is the Relationship Between Freemasonry and the Temple Endowment?”

    Nibley Lectures: Time Vindicates the Prophets — Easter and the Prophets 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, was given in answer to those who were challenging the […]

Suddenly remembering Ioan Culianu

    These new items went up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation earlier today:   Interpreter Radio Show — June 26, 2022 For the first half of this episode of the storied Interpreter Radio Show which has now (shorn of commercial and other interruptions) been processed and archived for your enjoyment, regular monthly […]