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On the docks of Liverpool

  We met up with Kris Frederickson, a member of the Interpreter Foundation board and an organizer and co-host of this Interpreter Church history tour of England and then went to meet our motor coach and our local guide and friend, Peter Fagg, and the rest of our group — save two, who didn’t arrive […]

Magnificence and Mystery

  My wife and I spent multiple hours yesterday, Wednesday, scouting out the glorious British Museum.  My usual strategy there over the years has been to try to see every room.  By the end of the day, my head is splitting and I’m no longer enjoying it, but I’m determined to visit each and every […]

Of Heavenly Councils and Heavenly Books

  New, on the blog of the Interpreter Foundation, where nothing ever changes: “The Heartland Versus Mesoamerica, Part 5: The Narrow Strip of Wilderness,” written by Brant A. Gardner. As a small constituent part of a long-term project that I’m working on, I’ll be extracting notes over the next several weeks or (more likely) months […]

In Londinium

  From the “Sometimes, You Can Only Laugh” Department:  As usual on such occasions, I didn’t sleep on the non-stop trans-Atlantic flight from Salt Lake City to London.  Instead, I read Agatha Christie’s first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in which she first introduced the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot — I can’t recall having […]

The “Practical Man of Action”

  Back in 2022, in preparation for the launch of our Six Days in August film project (which continues with our series of forthcoming Becoming Brigham documentary short features, currently in production), I reread Eugene England, Brother Brigham (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1980) and, as on my two previous readings of the book, really enjoyed […]

C. S. Lewis and Baptism for the Dead

  I was browsing last night in W. H. Lewis, ed., Letters of C. S. Lewis (New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1966), when I came across the following passage, which I don’t recall having ever noticed before.  It’s an excerpt from a letter “To a Lady” (otherwise unidentified by the editor) that is […]

Who is the most important character in the Bible?

  Although I can’t honestly recommend the presentation that began at 1:35 PM this afternoon, I’ll make this overall comment otherwise:  If you didn’t come to the Tanner Building at BYU today and you didn’t listen online, you missed some really interesting material.  Here is the program for today’s second and concluding session — Saturday, […]

Warfare in the Book of Mormon, and Chiasmus

  These four new items were posted today on the moribund website of the comatose Interpreter Foundation: Anachronisms: Accidental Evidence in Book of Mormon Criticisms: Chapter 2 “Warfare in the Book of Mormon,” written by Matthew Roper [Editor’s Note: We are pleased to present chapter 2 from a book entitled Anachronisms: Accidental Evidence in Book […]

An Economic Chiasm and Remarkable Textual Consistency

  Newly posted on the blog of the perpetually unchanging, completely comatose website of the Interpreter Foundation: “My Favorite Chiasm in the Book of Mormon,” written by Mark Skousen The Temple: Plates, Patterns, & Patriarchs: “Jacob’s Temple Journey to Haran and Back,” written by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw and Matthew L. Bowen Part of our book […]

Some movies, some movie-making, and Book of Mormon geography

  We spent another solid day today filming for the Interpreter Foundation’s forthcoming Becoming Brigham series of short documentaries, this time doing indoor “studio” conversations at a home in Pleasant Grove.  I think that we captured some good discussions, and I’m looking forward to eventually making these materials public.  I hope and I believe that […]