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Considering the Task of Latter-day Saint Intellectuals in the Church’s Third Century

    ***   Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 34: “A Principle with Promise” (D&C 89-92) The Interpreter Radio Roundtable for Come, Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 34, “A Principle with Promise,” on D&C 89-92, featured Martin Tanner, John Gee, and Kevin Christensen.  Purified of commercial interruptions, and extracted from the 11 […]

Proper Nouns in the Book of Mormon, and etc.

    ***   This new article, just posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation, was generously contributed by Jonn Claybaugh, whom I was happy to see at the Foundations’s ninth birthday party on Saturday night:   Come, Follow Me — D&C Study and Teaching Helps: Lesson 34, August 16–August 22: D&C 89-92 — “A […]

Seething Rage and Quiet Satisfaction

    This new little piece went up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation on Saturday:   Book of Moses Essays #67: Moses Witnesses the Fall: (Moses 4) Was Eve Beguiled? (Moses 4:5–12)   ***   The Interpreter Foundation celebrated its ninth birthday last night (Saturday night) with a really delicious dinner for those […]

Abraham, Sodom, the Māori, and Other Topics for a Weekend

    ***   A version of the text of Stephen Smoot’s Thursday presentation at the 2021 FAIR Conference has already been published online in Public Square Magazine:   “Abraham and the Stranger at Sodom and Gomorrah: Why were Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed? The answer provides a path that may help heal our relationships and […]

“Alma’s Reality”

    Excellent news just in from our distributor, Brandon Purdie:   Good news! Big EdWeek update: As of this morning all four of these Provo/Orem locations have confirmed that they will play Witnesses during Education Week.  • AMC I will start the film on Friday August 13 and run it through the 19th. A […]

“Witnesses” still has some theatrical life left in it

    I have some news that pleases me very much.  As you know, Witnesses, the Interpreter Foundation’s dramatic feature film, has been slowly winding down after a pretty good theatrical run.  (See “Get Tickets, at witnessesfilm.com, for a listing of theaters where Witnesses is still playing.)   Curiously, though, some people are only just […]

Day Two, at FAIR 2021

    ***   Interpreter Radio Show — July 18, 2021 The 18 July 2021 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show, which has been stripped of all commercial interruptions and archived to be conveniently available at no charge features Terry Hutchinson, Kris Frederickson, and Mike Parker. In this installment, the discussion for the first hour […]

“The Grandeur of God”

    ***   The latest installment of Kyler Rasmussen’s series of Bayesian blog entries has now appeared on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   “Estimating the Evidence Episode 5: On Witnesses”   A link also went up today to a recording — shorn of commercial interruptions — of a recent installment of the […]

“Sincerity and Reality”

    ***   My topic at this year’s annual FAIR conference is “The Book of Mormon Witnesses: Sincerity and Reality.”  (As you might have surmised the witnesses of the Book of Mormon have been somewhat on my mind of late.)  I’ll be speaking at about 4:15 PM on Friday afternoon, so, if you’re in […]

Two pillars in the contemporary study of near-death experiences

      ***   I would like to remind you that the Interpreter Foundation’s dramatic film, Witnesses, which is slowly ending its theatrical run, will actually be opening in Heber, Utah, later this week.  So, if you live in Heber or Midway or somewhere else in that vicinity and you haven’t yet seen Witnesses […]