Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 139

False accounts of the supposed war between science and religion

    ***   I was delighted, some time ago, to discover that the British ITV mystery/detective series Midsomer Murders (1997-) has, at least in the past, featured a character named “Dr. Dan Peterson.”   Who, I wondered, could they have hired to portray a person bearing so solemn — so august, respectable, and important […]

“It is not the critic who counts”

    ***   “Interpreter Radio Show — February 6, 2022” During the 6 February 2022 episode of the Interpreter Radio Show, Neal Rappleye and Jasmin Rappleye discussed the Old Testament and various relevant poetic forms. The second portion of the two-hour show was devoted specifically to a roundtable discussing the upcoming Come Follow Me […]

Character Witnesses, regarding Joseph Smith

  ***   In an 1850 debate with several Christian ministers, John Taylor — the British-born member of the Council of the Twelve who would eventually succeed Brigham Young to serve as the third president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and who was grievously wounded in the same anti-Mormon mob attack on the jail […]

How can I help?

      ***   I now own an “I Stand with Ukraine” t-shirt that bears the image of a Ukrainian flag.  That pleases me, of course.  But it’s pretty weak stuff, really, and wholly unsatisfying.  Like so many others around the world, I’m deeply indignant at Russia’s unprovoked invasion of a sovereign, democratic nation.  […]

August 1844 and the Reorganization

    ***   This relatively short piece by Kyler Rasmussen went up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation yesterday, after I had begun the round of errands that I needed to undertake prior to last night’s debut of Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon:   “Interpreting Interpreter: Reynolds’ Scribal Proposal”   ***   […]

Onward and Upward!

    ***   Well, we’re back from the premiere of Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon.  It went very well, I think.  The large theater at the SCERA Center for the Arts has something on the order of 750 seats, and I overheard someone (someone who would know) say that all but 72 […]

Noel Reynolds on “”Lehi and Nephi as Trained Manassite Scribes”

    ***   In conjunction with the premiere, tonight, of the Interpreter Foundation’s new docudrama Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon, I’m scheduled to do an interview with Doug Wright of KSL Radio (1160 AM) at roughly 2 PM today.  (Probably a few minutes after 2 PM, I suppose, because of the news […]

Martin Luther, on “people to whom Christ is just a joke and a laughing-stock”

    ***   I’ve been reading somewhat about Martin Luther of late — chiefly in two very readable and readily accessible biographies of him:  Roland H. Bainton’s classic Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther (1950) and Eric Metaxas, Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World (2017).  I like […]

A scientist at MIT against scientism

    ***   I had a good time this evening delivering a private lecture as part of the Cruise Lady “Learn Our Religion” series up in West Jordan.  I gave it the title “Prelude to the Reformation,” but it was the first half of a two-part presentation on Martin Luther.  In the lecture tonight […]

This coming Friday. Be there, or be somewhere else.

    ***   I would like to remind you of the premiere, this coming Friday evening — 4 March — of the Interpreter Foundation’s new docudrama Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon.  It will be shown as part of the 2022 LDS Film Festival at the SCERA Theater in Orem, Utah.  Undaunted differs […]