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Remembering Heaven, Again

    ***   I’m pleased to see that the documentary film Remembering Heaven — in which, much to the horror and disgust of decent people everywhere, I have the honor of appearing — has won Utah’s 2021 “Best of State.”  More information about that can be found on this website: https://bestofstate.org/.  Additionally, as shown in the […]

““Put Off Thy Shoes from Off Thy Feet”: Sandals and Sacred Space”

    ***   Another article — this one by John Gee — has gone up today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:   ““Put Off Thy Shoes from Off Thy Feet”: Sandals and Sacred Space” Abstract: While many have written on ancient temples looking at the big picture, John Gee discusses one […]

“The most complex puzzle for humans and also the simplest, most self-evident fact”

***   But first:     From the distributor who is overseeing the rollout of our film:   “Wow! Thank you! Due to incredible demand Megaplex Theatres has added a third showing of Witnesses Film on June 2nd! Walk the red carpet. See it first with cast and filmmakers. Hear behind-the-scenes stories involved with the […]

“It’s not self-evident for a Christian that he gets to live among Christians.”

    ***   Newly posted today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Book of Moses Essays #56: Moses Sees the Garden of Eden (Moses 3): The Naming of Animals, Angels, Adam, and Eve (Moses 3:19–20, 23; 4:26)   ***   Since I’m already extracting them for my own notes, I’m going to […]

““Beloved by All the People”: A Fresh Look at Captain Moroni”

    ***   But, first, here’s a link to my latest article in Meridian Magazine:   “The Sacred History of the Church in Hawaii”   ***   And now, on to today’s newly posted article in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship, written by Duane Boyce:   ““Beloved by All the […]

“Joseph Smith: History, Methods, and Memory”

    ***   Newly posted today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Interpreter Radio Show — May 9, 2021 The discussants on the 9 May 2021 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show were Terry Hutchinson, John Gee, and Kevin Christensen. In that episode, they interviewed Ronald O. Barney regarding his work with […]

“Worlds Without Number”

    ***   A new little essay (by Dr. Jeffrey M. Bradshaw) went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   ““Worlds Without Number”: Hugh Nibley on Science and Religion”   To which I append a very apt passage from Elder Parley P. Pratt (1807-1857), of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, in […]

Non-Attachment and the Doctrine of Sealing for All Eternity

    ***   As will, I’m sure, be immediately apparent to those who are specialists, I am anything but an expert on Buddhism.  But details on Buddhism aren’t really the point of the comment that follows.  If I’ve got something wrong, or even the whole conception of Buddhism wrong, please concentrate on the more […]

Twenty-Three Additional Theaters Will Screen “Witnesses” on Its Opening Weekend

    I’m pleased to report that, as of now, the Interpreter Foundation’s movie Witnesses is scheduled to open on the weekend of 4-5 June (and, in at least some locations, on 2-3 June, as well) in  fifty-seven theaters located in eight states — Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah.  We have just […]

Enoch, Job, and Hugh Nibley

    ***   Two new pieces went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation.  The second of them is an entry on the Interpreter Foundation’s blog, while the first appears in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:   Mack C. Stirling, “Job: An LDS Reading” Abstract: Mack C. Stirling examines the […]