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Remembering 27 June 1844

    ***   I had intended to write an extensive post on Sunday regarding the martyrdom of the Prophet Joseph Smith and his older brother, the Patriarch Hyrum Smith.  Sunday marked the 177th anniversary of that horrific event.  Alas, though, the day simply got away from me and I didn’t have time.   But […]

Water 1

    ***   First, though:  Sunday — tomorrow — marks the 177th anniversary of the murder of the Prophet Joseph Smith by a mob in Carthage, Illinois.  I don’t think it morbid or expressive of a persecution complex but, rather, entirely fitting and appropriate to reflect for at least a few moments on that […]

Nephi’s Gethsemane, the Existence of Jesus, Massachusetts, and Arizona

      ***   But, first:  Especially for those of you in the Boston area and in the vicinity of Mesa and Gilbert, Arizona, don’t miss this weekend’s screenings of Witnesses!   MESA! GILBERT! Do NOT miss this! Witnesses Film actor Lincoln Hoppe will be in theaters this weekend and will do Q&A with audiences […]

“Do We Have Non-Biblical Evidence that Jesus Existed?”

    ***   First, though, some Witnesses news:   Some will be interested know that the entire Witnesses film is illegally available online at a site that, for obvious reasons, I won’t identify.  (It apparently comes out of one foreign country via another.). Theft of intellectual property is really no different than any other […]

Martin Harris’s Sacrifice

    ***   I suspect, given the many years and the considerable inflation intervening since the late 1820s, that we modern Latter-day Saints typically fail to grasp the magnitude of the sacrifice made by Martin Harris in order to publish the Book of Mormon.   Printer E. B. Grandin’s price was $3000 to produce […]

Attention, people in or near Orlando, Florida!

    ***   First of all, although Witnesses is evidently being shown in the Orlando, Florida, area at the Epic Clermont theater, publicity for that fact has been, well, minimal. So I would like to give a shout-out to people who might be in that area or who might know people who live in the vicinity […]

Two very significant anniversaries are rapidly approaching

    ***   Witnesses had quite strong numbers at the box office over the past weekend.  This is encouraging, and such figures are extremely important — they’re vital, in fact — for keeping the film in theaters.  We’re deeply grateful for the support of those who have attended showings, just as we are for […]

What remains to do in the “Witnesses” project?

    ***   Well, the Interpreter Foundation’s Witnesses film is now out there in theaters.  It’s an interesting period to premiere a new indie film, as we’re still suffering the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of church meetings and other public gatherings, including movie screenings.  That throws a wild card into […]

In which I’m outed as an anti-Mormon who is guilty of priestcraft!

    ***   While we were up in Logan yesterday, my wife and I took the opportunity to visit the gravesite of Martin Harris.  He was, of course, one of the Three Witnesses to the Book of Mormon, and the only one of the Book of Mormon witnesses — whether we’re speaking about the […]

“De Profundis”

    ***   A little piece by yours truly went up today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:   “De Profundis” Abstract: Is the Gospel profound? Yes, it is. And one of the goals of the Interpreter Foundation is to call attention to that sometimes-overlooked profundity. In one sense, though, the […]