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Fundamentals Six and Seven: A Refresher

    ***   To repeat:   “The First Presidency Urges Latter-day Saints to Wear Face Masks When Needed and Get Vaccinated Against COVID-19: “We can win this war if everyone will follow the wise and thoughtful recommendations of medical experts and government leaders””   to urge:  “to try earnestly or persistently to persuade (someone) […]

Light from the West and the Ancient East

    ***   New, from Jonn Claybaugh, on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Come, Follow Me — D&C Study and Teaching Helps: Lesson 35, August 23–August 29: D&C 93 — “Receive of His Fulness”   ***   And here are nine (count ’em, nine!) links to articles from a prior number of Interpreter: […]

“Mormon, Moses, and the Representation of Reality”

    ***   An essay by Richard L. Bushman has now been published in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:   “Mormon, Moses, and the Representation of Reality” Abstract: In this essay, Richard Bushman borrows a critical perspective from Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature. He analyzes the representation of […]

Bear Witness!

    ***   Just a reminder that this may well be — although I can’t guarantee that it will be — the very last week for people to see Witnesses on a big screen.   For BYU Education Week — that is, this week — there are four theaters within a reasonable distance of […]

Never Static

    ***   Here, for your Sabbath reading pleasure, are five links to articles in a previous number of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:   Stan Spencer, “What Did the Interpreters (Urim and Thummim) Look Like?” ABSTRACT: The interpreters were a pair of seer stones used by Book of Mormon prophets and provided to […]

Glorious Southern Utah

    ***   The fourth play that we saw during this sojourn in southern Utah was a musical adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo on the stage at Tuacahn, near St. George.  Very near to Snow Canyon State Park.  The setting among the red rocks at Tuacahn is so magnificent that I sometimes […]

“Joseph Smith as a Book of Mormon Storyteller”

    ***   A new article — this one by Brian C. Hales — has appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:   “Joseph Smith as a Book of Mormon Storyteller” Abstract: For nearly 200 years, skeptics have promoted different naturalistic explanations to describe how Joseph Smith generated all the words of […]

“Follow the Prophet!”

    Starting tomorrow, Friday (13 August):   Announcing Special Screenings of “Witnesses” During BYU Education Week   And here’s another new item from the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   ““What Would You Do with a Thousand Years To Do Whatever You Wanted?”: Contemplating the “Complete Bibliography of Hugh Nibley” (CBHN)”   ***   […]

“On a Disagreeable God”

    ***   Another installment of Kyler Rasmussen’s investigation has gone up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Estimating the Evidence Episode 6: On a Disagreeable God   ***   This article by Maureen Proctor in Meridian Magazine really resonated with me:   “To Those Who Think it is a “Relief” to […]

“Intimate Apparel”

    ***   Thus far, we’ve seen three plays at the 2021 Utah Shakespeare Festival.   The first was a production of Shakespeare’s seldom-performed Cymbeline.  (One of the many things that my wife and I like about our regular Festival attendance is the chance to see the entire canon, even more than once.)  It […]