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“Be Ye Therefore Loyal, Even as Your Father Which is in Heaven is Loyal”

    ***   A new article — this one by Taylor Halverson — went up today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:   “Be Ye Therefore Loyal, Even as Your Father Which is in Heaven is Loyal” Abstract: The scriptures are saturated with covenantal words and terms. Any serious or close […]

Misrepresenting an apostle

    ***   An interesting claim appeared on Wednesday, 6 October, in a post on something called BOFM Blog: Annotated Book of Mormon.  The article is by one Rian Nelson.  I know nothing about him or his blog, except that he is an ardent and vocal advocate of the “Heartland” model of Book of […]

“How I Made a Fortune with Dirty Water”

    ***   Today would have been my brother’s — strictly, my half-brother’s — seventy-eighth birthday.  My only sibling’s.  But he only made it to sixty-nine.  His sudden, unexpected death in early 2012 stunned me, and it still wounds me from time to time.  I feared, given his biological father’s own sudden (and much […]

“Vulgar imperialistic scientism”

    ***   I’ve been delinquent in sharing a link to an article that I published three days ago in Meridian Magazine:   “A Historical Case for the Literal Resurrection of Jesus”   I hope that at least a few out there will find it either helpful or useful or both.   ***   […]

What is my witness?

    ***   I would like to announce an event to be held in Provo, Utah, on Thursday, 14 October 2021, sponsored by Deseret Book and Excel Entertainment.  It is, if you will, an event that is intended to help us make noise about the DVD and the streaming availability of the Interpreter Foundation’s […]

Tonight! (Tuesday, 5 October 2021)

    ***   Interpreter’s sister organization FAIR has opened up an office for the first time — at 377 East 60 South in American Fork — and all are invited to an open house for it tonight.  (Sorry I’m so late in calling public attention to the event; I’ve been busy and I wasn’t […]

Isaiah, the Book of Abraham, and the Restoration of the Priesthood

    ***   New on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Come, Follow Me — D&C Study and Teaching Helps: Lesson 42, October 11-October 17: D&C 115-120 — “His Sacrifice Shall Be More Sacred unto Me Than His Increase”   Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 42 “His Sacrifice Shall Be […]

Back Into the Compound

    ***   Here’s a new piece that went up on the Interpreter Foundation website a couple of days ago:   “Book of Moses Essays #75: Noah (Moses 8): The Sons of God and the Sons of Men (Moses 8:1-21)”   Here is how to order a copy of the conference edition of the […]

A thought on General Conference

    ***   Many years ago now, I found myself sitting in the office of a BYU faculty colleague.  I had been with her in a meeting in her building and, forty-five minutes after it concluded, I was scheduled for another appointment in that same building.  She, though, was teaching a class during that […]

Back to My Beginnings

    ***   Just a reminder that the Interpreter Foundation’s theatrical film Witnesses is now available on DVD, both in bookstores — in Deseret Book outlets and, I’m told, at Seagull Books — and for online purchase.  You know your duty.   ***   Yesterday was a continuation of the Dan Peterson Nostalgia Tour.  […]