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“Celebrating Exactitude, When It’s Appropriate”

    ***   I’ve been on the road all day, so I’m just getting to it now, but a new article, full to overflowing with my legendary mendacity, viciousness, and venom, went up in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship today:   Daniel C. Peterson, “Celebrating Exactitude, When It’s Appropriate” Abstract: It’s […]

The Elixir of Nostalgia

    ***   A few out there might find this article of interest:   “Are the Lost Ten Tribes Being Found in Russia?”   ***   To his credit, Jacob Z. Hess is expending much more of an effort toward sympathetically understanding Latter-day Saint anti-vaxxers than I am:   “COVID-19 Vaccination as an Abrahamic […]

Young Brigham

    ***   The most recent of Kyler Rasmussen’s Bayesian explorations has been posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   “Estimating the Evidence Episode 13: On Inverting Parallels”   Also new on the Interpreter website is   Interpreter Radio Show — September 26, 2021 The 26 September 2021 broadcast of the Interpreter […]

“And that is dying”

    ***   I call your attention to a pair of newly posted items on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 41: “I Will Order All Things for Your Good”: D&C 111-114 The Interpreter Radio Roundtable for Come, Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 41, “I […]

It Came from Beyond, and Folks Haven’t Always Appreciated That

    ***   Here are links to a few articles in a previous volume of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship that you might have missed:   Daniel C. Peterson, “It Came from Beyond” Abstract: The early Latter-day Saints viewed the Book of Mormon not only as a symbol of Joseph Smith’s prophetic calling […]

The festival of Sukkot concludes on Monday

    ***   Here are two very recently posted items on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Book of Moses Essays #74: The Family of Adam and Eve (Moses 6:1–12)   Interpreter Radio Show — September 19, 2021 You can listen to or download the 19 September 2021 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio […]

“As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.”

    ***   I once held and expressed political views.  I no longer do.  In order to protect the wholly apolitical Interpreter Foundation, I’ve managed to transcend them, and I’ve been so successful in doing it that I can’t even name the current American prime minister or identify the two major political parties in […]

“Framing the Book of Abraham”

    ***   New, today, in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:   Stephen O. Smoot, “Framing the Book of Abraham: Presumptions and Paradigms” Review of Dan Vogel, Book of Abraham Apologetics: A Review and Critique (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2021). 250 pp. $18.95 (softback). Abstract: The Book of Abraham continues […]

Brief Ruminations on a BYU Education

    ***   First of all, I published this article in Meridian Magazine earlier today:   “When the Lord Remembers Your Name: The Oliver Granger Prophecy”   ***   Out of curiosity, I went to one of the local Deseret Book outlets a couple of days ago (near University Mall, in the southern part […]

On “View of the Hebrews,” “The Late War,” and a Museum in Providence

    ***   A new installment of Kyler Rasmussen’s series of Bayesian essays on the claims of the Book of Mormon and the Restoration more generally has now gone up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Estimating the Evidence Episode 12: On Hebraic Views and Late Wars   So has a newly […]