Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 167

“Them boys was here alright!”

    ***   In a 16 May 1767 letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, the French writer Voltaire (1694-1778) said “Je n’ai jamais fait qu’une seule prière à Dieu, une très courte «Ô seigneur, rendez mes ennemis ridicules». Et Dieu l’a accordé.”  (“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: […]

Anybody out there near Winchester, Virginia?

    ***   For those of you within striking distance of northern Virginia (including parts of West Virginia and Maryland and even the area around Washington DC, and even perhaps south central Pennsylvania), Jason F. Wright has organized a special showing of the Interpreter Foundation’s film Witnesses this coming Monday, 19 July 2021, at […]

“Where Much is Given, Much is Required”

    ***   A group of us met together last night to discuss the series of lectures that we intend to put on leading up to the Interpreter Foundation’s November tour of Egypt.  More information on the lecture series will be forthcoming.  We’re hoping to do occasional Interpreter tours to various significant locations.  We’ll […]

Time is short

    ***   As I’ve been recently noting here, the Interpreter Foundation’s Witnesses film is nearing the end of its theatrical run.  (I can’t tell, and we can’t tell from week to week, how much longer it will be on movie house screens.)  It will eventually be available via streaming and on DVD, in […]

“The Interpreter Foundation and an Apostolic Charge”

    ***   The Interpreter Foundation’s film Witnesses is, I presume, in its waning days on theater screens.  How much longer it will run is unclear.  What is clear, however, is that, if you want to see it, or if you want to see it again, or if you want somebody else to see […]

“It was awesome.”

    ***   This note, which, of course, gives me far too much personal credit,  arrived by email late on Friday night.  It represents the kind of reaction to the Interpreter Foundation’s Witnesses theatrical film that makes all the time and effort that went into it entirely worthwhile:   Hello Mr Peterson. I have […]

“Interpreting the Book of Mormon through the Eyes of Someone in Hell”

    ***   Like all movies, the Interpreter Foundation’s Witnesses film will eventually come to the end of its theatrical run.  And that end is much closer now than it was a few weeks back.  If you’ve been meaning to think about perhaps maybe possibly seeing it sometime, your time is running out.  And […]

“Bishops should sometimes be rich!”

    ***   This article of mine appeared a couple of days ago in Meridian Magazine, and yet I failed to notice it:   “Preaching the Gospel Where We Cannot Go”   ***   I’ve been reading Anthony Trollope’s 1855 novel The Warden — the first in the so-called “Chronicles of Barsetshire,”  which was followed […]

Idaho Falls, Logan, Panguitch, and Northern Virginia

    ***   I’m pleased to note that the Interpreter Foundation’s dramatic film Witnesses will be opening in three theaters this weekend where I suspect that I may have a reader or two: In Idaho Falls, Idaho, at the Centre In Logan, Utah, at the Cine Four In Panguitch, Utah, at the Gem Theatre. I […]

Just do the right thing

    ***   My wife and I are hoping to be able to go back to the temple soon. We haven’t attended for at least sixteen months now, and it would be really, really good to be there again.  (We finally had a reservation for the Payson Utah Temple this afternoon, but things came up […]