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“Plural Marriage — Part 1” and a Disappointment

    A new entry in our series of short video “reels” went up on Saturday evening, Utah time, on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 13: Plural Marriage – Part 1 What do we know about the practice of plural marriage in the early Church? […]

Out under the sky in southern Alberta

    I spoke outdoors this evening to a large group of young single adults (YSAs) at a YSA stake encampment on a private piece of land somewhere between Cardston, Alberta, and Waterton Lakes National Park.  I’m still at the gathering; we’re staying in a remarkably nice RV that has been very generously provided for […]

“This Great Mystery”

    Two new articles appeared today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship.  I hope that you will enjoy them and, moreover, that you will have a very enjoyable weekend:   ““This Great Mystery”: Gathering Still Other Sheep through the New Covenant of Peace,” by Matthew Scott Stenson Abstract: The Book of Mormon sheds […]

“From the moment the light spoke to me, I felt really good”

    I was scheduled pretty solidly today — I gave a fireside here at the Calgary Stake Centre tonight for which I needed to create or at least significantly revise my PowerPoint presentation (since the title that had been given out didn’t really fit what I was originally planning to present) and I wrote […]

A Formative Experience from My Childhood

    We’re just back from spending nearly six hours at the Calgary Stampede with a number of Canadian friends.  Great fun — including delicious barbecue, chuckwagon races, trick riding, First Nations bareback pony races, country singers, rope tricks, bands, dancers, fireworks, multicolored illuminated drones in spectacular formations, and good conversation.  (We never tried any […]

Up and then down again, though not in the same place

      Three new items went up today on the (obviously pretty much moribund and comatose) website of the Interpreter Foundation:   “Nibley Lectures: Time Vindicates the Prophets — Prophets and Scriptures” Between 7 March and 17 October in 1954, Hugh Nibley delivered a series of thirty weekly lectures on KSL Radio that were […]

“Unto what shall I liken these kingdoms, that ye may understand?”

    I find myself deeply moved and profoundly impressed by the images from the new NASA James Webb Space Telescope that are being released.  I offer three of them here, with captions from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration itself.     For behold, there are many worlds that have passed away by the […]

“I . . . created them for mine own purpose”

    I have a little more information about the talk that I’ll be giving in Calgary on Thursday, 14 July 2022, at 7:30 PM.  I’ll be speaking in the building known as the Calgary Stake Centre, for which the address is 2021 17 Ave SW Calgary, AB T2T 0G2.   If you’re in the Calgary […]

“The colors and lights in heaven were simply sublime”

    In the portion of my post from yesterday that talked about our visit to Vancouver Island’s famous Butchart Gardens, I commented on the brilliant colors that are often reported in accounts of near-death experiences.  I think that I’ll revisit the topic again, briefly.   Here are four passages from John Burke, Imagine Heaven: […]

“Who were the Danites?”

    The Interpreter Foundation’s Witnesses film project continues to produce.  Having completed its theatrical run, the original Witnesses dramatic film is now available on DVD and via streaming.  Its docudrama sequel, Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon, which came out a few weeks ago, is available on DVD and BluRay and will soon […]