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Of Rainbow Flags and Anarchy

    ***   Interpreter Radio Show — June 5, 2022 In the first hour of the 5 June 2022 episode of the Interpreter Radio Show, Neal Rappleye, Jasmin Rappleye, Hales Swift, and Stephen Smoot discussed the Mormon History Association and ancient trans-oceanic crossings.  The second portion of the Show was devoted to a roundtable […]

An experience with Hugh Nibley

    ***   These three new items went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   “Nibley Lectures: Time Vindicates the Prophets — A Prophet’s Reward” From March 7 to October 17 in 1954, Hugh Nibley delivered a series of 30 weekly lectures on KSL Radio that were also published as pamphlets. […]

“Is my faith ‘terrible for women’?”

    Today marks the one hundred and seventy-eighth anniversary of the assassination of the Prophet Joseph Smith by an anti-Mormon mob in western Illinois.  It is entirely appropriate to spare him a thought or two today.  And so, happily and wholeheartedly, I join with President John Taylor, who himself was severely wounded in the […]

“What were the Kinderhook Plates?”

    ***   We’re just back from what I think were exceptionally good Sunday meetings.  I noticed no reason to believe that it was by conscious design, but both the opening and closing prayers in our sacrament meeting today, and all three of the talks, were given by women.  (When some who don’t know […]

Among the Knights

      ***   We’re just back from a performance of The Audience, written by Peter Morgan, at the Liahona Preparatory Academy in Pleasant Grove.  The production was put on, quite well, as part of the 2022 season of the Creekside Theatre Fest, with Jayne Luke portraying Queen Elizabeth II.  I had, I confess, […]

“Jonathan Edwards’s Unique Role in an Imagined Church History”

    ***   A new article has just appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:   “Jonathan Edwards’s Unique Role in an Imagined Church History,” by Spencer Kraus Review of Jonathan Neville, Infinite Goodness: Joseph Smith, Jonathan Edwards, and the Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City: Digital Legends Press, 2021. 339 pages. $22.99 (paperback). […]

Apropos of nothing in particular

    ***   On the flight from Munich, I began reading Rolf Dobelli, Die Kunst des digalen Lebens: Wie Sie auf News verzichten und die Informationsflut meistern (“The Art of Living Digitally: How to Abstain from ‘News’ and Master Information Overload.”   He is an author — Swiss, by the way, residing in Bern […]

Maybe it improved after this?

    ***   Although I had his kind permission to share this here already a while ago, I’m not sure whether I’ve done already done so or not.  (I have just a few minutes to spare, and no time to check.)  So here is Jim Bennett’s response to the first episode of the FX/Hulu […]

What might have been

    ***   During much of my life, especially during my earlier years, the so-called “great man” approach to history has been out of fashion.  And there are good reasons for that.  Overwhelmingly, for example, the deep, epochal, transformative changes of history — e.g., the domestication of the horse, the invention of movable type, […]

It’s not true that all good things come to an end. But this one has.

    ***   Here are some items that have been newly posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   “Nibley Lectures: Time Vindicates the Prophets — A World without Prophets” From March 7 to October 17 in 1954, Hugh Nibley delivered a series of 30 weekly lectures on KSL Radio that were also […]