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The Actual Voice of One Who Was There

    ***   As we begin to pivot from our overall “Witnesses” film project — which isn’t quite finished, but is nearing completion — to our new undertaking, “Six Days in August,” I find myself thinking very much about a remarkable recording of President Wilford Woodruff.   I distinctly remember how remarkably thrilled I […]

“So strange and unusual appearances”

    ***   I’ve been pleased to see short thirty-second ads running on KSL-Television for the Interpreter Foundation docudrama Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon.  (I believe that eight of them will have been aired this weekend, altogether.)  Undaunted will go public on 24 May 2022, somewhat less than two months from now. […]

A quite congenial galaxy

    ***   Among the most interesting living writers on religion and science is the Israeli-American Gerald L. Schroeder, an Orthodox Jew who earned his B.Sc., his M.Sc., and his Ph.D. in nuclear physics and in earth and planetary sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).  He teaches currently at the College of […]

“The Messenger of Salvation”

    ***   A new article by the indefatigable Matthew L. Bowen has just appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:   ““The Messenger of Salvation”: The Messenger-Message Christology of D&C 93:8 and Its Implications for Latter-day Saint Missionary Work and Temple Worship” Abstract: Several of the Prophet Joseph Smith’s earliest […]

A Pretty Good Planet to Be Born On

    ***   From the Best-Laid Plans Department:  I gave a lecture last night up at the Jordan Events Center on the life of the Reformer Martin Luther.  It was occasioned by the fact that, in June, I’ll be accompanying a tour to Germany in connection with the Oberammergau Passion Play.  Thanks to my […]

“Their prison is only in their own minds”

    ***   It is, I realize, a weird character flaw — or, probably more accurately said, a regrettable personality defect — but I’m quite interested in what critics of the Church have to say.  For example, I look in every few days on two extremely unpleasant (and mostly atheist) online anti-Mormon message boards, […]

“Testimonials like this one helped convince him they were real”

    ***   Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.  (Theodore Roosevelt)   As I’ve learned more about him, there is a very great deal about Theodore Roosevelt of which I disapprove.  But I also continue to find him admirable […]

On “shifting the problem to scientists in some other part of the galaxy or beyond”

    ***   I was a little bit surprised — but not at all displeased — to learn that the Interpreter Foundation’s dramatic film, Witnesses, is now streaming on Living Scriptures as well as on Deseret Video+.  It’s also available on DVD and Blu-Ray through Deseret Book (and possibly elsewhere).   We hope that […]

“Reflections on the God Debate”

  ***   I’ll be on the Interpreter Radio Show later this evening.  I’m looking forward to the conversation.   ***   Some time ago, I read Terry Eagleton, Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009).  The book is based on the 2008 Dwight H. […]

Against the Gospel of Instagram

    ***   I recently sat down with Scott and Maurine Proctor of Meridian Magazine for another “Come, Follow Me” podcast discussion:   “How the Plagues Defied the False Gods of Egypt–Come Follow Me Old Testament Podcast #14, Exodus 7-13”   (I had previously also discussed Exodus 1-6 with the Proctors.)   Tomorrow night […]