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Oliver Cowdery: Latter-day Saint “Second Elder”

    ***   From our distributor:   Who do you study church history with? Bring your family or class or group of friends to June 2nd 7:20 Premiere showing of Witnesses Film and the popcorn is on us!* We need feedback on how Witnesses Film brings Come Follow Me to life! So gather your […]

Possible Free Popcorn on Wednesday Night!

    ***   This announcement is important enough and fun enough and (in a sense) urgent enough that I thought I should give it its own blog entry.  And I’ll give you the text from the image above in slightly larger font:   Who do you study church history with?  Bring your family or […]

Would you like to join us for the Wednesday night premiere of “Witnesses”?

    ***   The Interpreter Foundation’s Witnesses film premieres tomorrow night — Wednesday, 2 June 2021 — at the Larry H. Miller Megaplex at Thanksgiving Point, in Lehi, Utah.  Thereafter, it will have its real opening weekend at various theaters nationally, commencing officially on Friday, 4 June.  In some locations, though — and in […]

“From Dust to Exalted Crown”

    ***   An article by David J. Larsen has just appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:   “From Dust to Exalted Crown:Royal and Temple Themes Common to the Psalms and the Dead Sea Scrolls” Abstract: David J. Larsen, after showing how many of the Qumran texts rely on the […]

Thanks to FAIR, and a filmed test

    ***   Just a reminder, for whoever cares, that I’ll be on the Interpreter Radio Show with Martin Tanner and Terry Hutchinson between 7 PM and 9 PM (Utah time) this evening.  One hour of the two-hour program — probably the second hour, but I’m not certain of that — will be devoted […]

Of Media, Media Suppression, QAnon, and Book of Mormon Authorship

    ***   I’m pleased beyond expression that the new Interpreter Foundation film Witnesses will now be available in forty of the fifty United States of America.  (What’s up, I wonder, with the other ten?)  In many of these locations, Witnesses will be prominently displayed on the theater marquee, advertised by theatrical posters, and on the […]

Huge News: Many, Many More Theaters Will Now Show “Witnesses”

    ***   I’m excited to announce that the number of theaters where the Interpreter Foundation’s dramatic film Witnesses will soon be available has just vastly increased.  Vastly.  Please take a look at the “Get Tickets” section on the Witnesses Film website and see whether there will now be a screening near you.  Please don’t […]

“The Life-Giving ‘Water’ of the Restoration”

    ***   Two new articles — by, respectively, David R. Seely and Duane Boyce — went up today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:   David R. Seely, “Remembering Hugh Nibley as a Scholar and, More Importantly, as a Man: Observing the Faith of the Observer” Review of Hugh Nibley Observed, […]

A note from one of the principal conspirators

    ***   I’m amused to report that the first “review” of the Interpreter Foundation’s theatrical film Witnesses has been posted.  (I’m quite sure that other, similarly negative, reviews have already been written — it saves time! — and that their authors are simply waiting for the movie to actually appear.). “Peter Pan,” the […]

Is America on “a one-way trip to secularism”? Is Europe?

    ***   You may perhaps have missed this article by Steve Densley, which appeared in Meridian Magazine:   “Witnesses: New Movie and Website Examine Testimonial Evidence for the Book of Mormon”   ***   Latter-day Saints continue to enjoy the coveted place in popular culture that they’ve occupied since at least the days […]