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In the footsteps of Martin Luther

        ***   Before leaving for the Wartburg yesterday, we did a guided walking tour within the walls of Rothenburg ob der Tauber.  It’s a quaint and picturesque little city, the very image of a late medieval German town.  (Or even of a French one.  I can easily imagine the story of […]

He’s a very quotable fellow

    ***   I’ve been late in calling attention to this article, which I published nearly a week ago in Meridian Magazine — whose leadership I ran into in Oberammergau just a couple of days back.  Shocking.  You can be sure  that things have gotten seriously out of hand when I’m so busy that […]

“Differently Wired Brains”

      ***   We left Oberammergau this morning and drove to the nearby Schloss Linderhof, the only one of his palaces that Ludwig II lived to see actually completed.  It’s a small gem, surrounded by beautiful fountains and grounds and remarkably ornate inside.  Unfortunately, the “Venus Grotto,” inspired by Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser, is […]

“An Unfortunate Approach to Joseph Smith’s Translation of Ancient Scripture”

    ***   A new article appeared today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:   “An Unfortunate Approach to Joseph Smith’s Translation of Ancient Scripture,” by Spencer Kraus Review of Jonathan Neville, A Man That Can Translate: Joseph Smith and the Nephite Interpreters. Salt Lake City: Digital Legends Press, 2020. 385 pages. […]

In the Halls of the Mountain King

    ***   Sahar Qumsiyeh is an assistant professor of mathematics at Brigham Young University-Idaho in Rexburg and the author of Peace for a Palestinian: One Woman’s Story of Faith Amidst War in the Holy Land.  (The Interpreter Foundation published two reviews of her book soon after its publication.  See “Peace in the Holy […]

Once more, with feeling

    ***   I’m afraid that you’re either going to have to skip this entry or endure another very personal entry from me.   The other day, I marked the anniversary of the birth of our first granddaughter.  (See “It’s been eight years now.”)  She was our first grandchild, altogether, and she spent the […]

Stunning man-made beauty in the midst of stunning natural beauty

    ***   Here are some new items that have recently gone up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Nibley Lectures: Time Vindicates the Prophets — Introduction From 7 March 1954 to 17 October in 1954, Hugh Nibley delivered a series of thirty weekly lectures on KSL Radio that were also published as […]

On Self-Absorption and Suppression: Though Not an Autobiographical Fragment

    ***   We took our group today to the Chiemsee, the largest lake in the region, and, via boat, out to the Herreninsel (roughly, “Gentlemen’s Island,” which sits not far from Fraueninsel, “Ladies’ Island”).  The most famous feature on the island is King Ludwig II’s Schloss Herrenchiemsee, his Versailles-inspired palace.  I’ve passed by […]

It’s been eight years now

    ***   I maintain a blog for many reasons.   One of them is purely personal:  It’s a kind of journal for me, and, even more particularly, it’s a way of remembering things, and especially of remembering people, whose memory I refuse to allow to be wholly lost.   So, for instance, I’m […]

Please. Unfriend Me.

    ***   A new Witnesses-related short feature has been posted for your viewing pleasure:   “Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 8: What was the Cost of Being a Witness?” What price did the witnesses pay for being witnesses—and for never denying their testimonies of the Book of Mormon? This is […]