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Against “tolerance,” and “adieu” to teaching

    ***   I cordially dislike the idea of “religious tolerance.”  Not because (as certain of my critics will hasten to declare) I favor religious intolerance, but because mere “tolerance” seems too bloodless to me.  It suggests that, while I’ll permit differing religious beliefs to exist, I do so at the cost of considerable […]

A New Ancient Egyptian City and New Doubts about My Perennial Viking Excuse

    ***   First, some news from the banks of the River Nile:   “‘Lost golden city’ found in Egypt reveals lives of ancient pharaohs: The discovery of a 3,000-year-old city that was lost to the sands of Egypt has been hailed as one of the most important archaeological finds since Tutankhamun’s tomb.”   And […]

The Book of Mormon and the Temple

    ***   Two new items appeared today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:   Val Larsen, “Josiah to Zoram to Sherem to Jarom and the Big Little Book of Omni” Abstract: The first 450 years of Nephite history are dominated by two main threads: the ethno-political tension between Nephites and […]

“What Was Hugh Nibley Thinking About When He Landed His Jeep on the Beach on D-Day?”

    ***   This new little article, by Jeffrey Mark Bradshaw, appeared today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   ““The Book Nobody Wants”: Hugh Nibley and the Book of Mormon”   You might also enjoy these newly posted videos:   “What Was Hugh Nibley Thinking About When He Landed His Jeep on […]

A film about pre-mortal life and near-death experiences

    ***   First, though:   My inaugural installment of what is intended to be a regular column for Meridian Magazine has now appeared:   “But what do the witnesses’ testimonies prove?”   ***   And, speaking of the witnesses to the Book of Mormon:   The Interpreter Foundation’s first theatrical film, Witnesses, will […]

“Father Lehi’s faithful descendants” live “in Latin America”

    ***   Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 16 “If Ye Are Not One Ye Are Not Mine” D&C 37-40 The Interpreter Radio Roundtable for Come, Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 16, “If Ye Are Not One Ye Are Not Mine,” on D&C 37-40, was extracted from the 7 March 2021 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show. […]

“The Past and Future of the Temple Lot in Independence, Jackson County, Missouri,” and Etc.

    ***   Newly published in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:   R. Jean Addams, “The Past and Future of the Temple Lot in Independence, Jackson County, Missouri” Abstract: Fifteen months after the Church of Christ’s inception in April 1830, Joseph Smith received a revelation indicating that Independence, Jackson County, Missouri, was […]

Χριστός Ανέστη! Aληθώς ανέστη!

    ***   Χριστός Ανέστη!   To put it in Roman letters, Christos Anesti! is the traditional greeting given by Greek Christians, and by other Christians in the Greek or Orthodox tradition, on Easter morning.  “Christ is risen!”   Aληθώς ανέστη!   Alithos Anesti! (“Truly, he is risen!”) is the traditional response.   I offer […]

“But I tell you, I saw it!”

  ***   New today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Book of Moses Essays #49: Let Us Make Man in Our Image, After Our Likeness (Moses 2-26)   ***   If you love music and you haven’t seen Lamb of God, please try to attend a screening of it:   “How the […]

“Resurrection Month”

    ***   The new article that went up today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship is our annual Easter article — though, for reasons that I fully understand and with which I can sympathize, its author, Claudia Bushman, is not overly fond of that word, Easter:   “Resurrection Month” […]