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A Twentieth-Century Corruption of 1 Corinthians 13:12?

  I was out and about all day today, Friday, sadly bereft of my computer.  So I’m very late in calling attention to today’s new article in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship to your notice.  It is “Through a Glass Darkly: Was There a Twentieth-Century Corruption of 1 Corinthians 13:12?” which […]

“Reclaiming Jefferson’s University”

  This Thursday Interpreter Foundation chapter reprint — not to be confused, although some folks really seem to enjoy being confused on the subject, with a Friday journal article — went up on, well, Thursday:  “The Lead Books,” written by Margaret Barker, from The Temple: Plates, Patterns, & Patriarchs: Part of our book chapter reprint […]

“Change and Decay in All Around I See”

  This little article of mine has just gone up in Meridian Magazine:  “Can You Trust the Reliability of Eyewitnesses?”  It was inspired by one of my critics, whom I wish to thank for the impetus that he provided. I also wish to remind you of the resources that are available at The Witnesses Initiative. […]

It’s been quite a day for the Hitchens File

  By the way, in a bid to cement the status of this blog as your one-stop news source, I promise to keep you posted if I receive any really interesting tidbits from the National Security Advisor, the Secretary of Defense, the Director of the CIA, the Vice President of the United States, or the […]

The Beat Goes On

  Newly posted today on the Interpreter Foundation website:  Interpreter Radio Show — March 16, 2025, including Doctrine and Covenants in Context: D&C 30-36: “Lift Up Your Voices . . . to Declare My Gospel” For the 16 March 2025 instantiation of the Interpreter Radio Show, Bruce Webster and Kris Frederickson discussed Come, Follow Me […]

“Realer than Real”

  Before leaving for church today, I read “Brigham Young Unfiltered: His Life, Conversion, and Faith in His Own Words” (BYU Studies 64/1 [2025]: 5-19), written by the irreplaceable LaJean Purcell Carruth.  I commend it to your attention: “When we have Brigham Young’s own words, what he really said according to the shorthand record, we hear […]

Wisdom begins with wonder

  We spent much of Saturday out on the ocean, traveling from Port Allen, in Eleele on the south coast of Kaua’i, around to the end of the famous and spectacular Na Pali cliffs on the northwest side of the island, and back again.  The weather was perfect.  (Sunnier than in the image above.)  We […]

“Anchoring Nephi’s Account in the Real World”

  As happens several times each week, something new has appeared on the website of the nearly-dead and never-changing website of the Interpreter Foundation.  It’s a new review-article in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:  “Wonder No More: A Review of Into Arabia,” written by Brant A. Gardner: Review of Warren P. Aston, […]

Thoughts, even in Poʻipū

  A new item has appeared in the Interpreter Foundation’s regular Thursday reprint series — which, for those out there who have had trouble with the concept, is entirely distinct from the Foundation’s regular publication on Friday of new journal articles.  The latest item to appear in the reprint series is The Temple: Plates, Patterns, […]

“Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink”

  I would like to call your attention to an upcoming conference, on “Abraham and His Family in Scripture, History, and Tradition.”  It will be convened on the campus of Brigham Young University on two successive Saturdays, 3 May 2025 and 10 May 2025.  Please see the poster above and, for further details (e.g., on presenters, […]