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Les contes d’Hofmann

    ***   The comments below are loosely related to my 21 March 2021 blog entry, “Mark Hofmann, the “Salamander Letter,” and Me”:   I’ve just learned from a small sub-handful of my semi-professional critics that I’m still seething with anger today at the fact that, while the leadership of the Church of Jesus […]

For Kenneth, Nine Years On

    Unbelievably, it was nine years ago today that I received the completely unexpected and devastating news that my brother, Kenneth Dee Walters — strictly speaking, my half-brother — my only sibling, to whom I was exceptionally close, had died.   I was stunned and immobilized.  I still think of him, and I still miss […]

Volcanos, Polygamy, the Gods, and Other Interesting Things

    ***   Interpreter Radio Show — March 14, 2021 The 14 March 2021 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show is now available online.  It involved Terry Hutchinson, John Gee, and Kevin Christensen, who discussed Mark Hofmann’s forgeries and how to assess new approaches to Church history in the Show’s first hour. The second portion […]

Mark Hofmann, the “Salamander Letter,” and Me

    For one reason or another, I still haven’t managed to watch the Netflix documentary series Murder Among the Mormons.  Somehow, when I’ve begun to wind down late at night in recent weeks, I just haven’t been in the mood for it.  I know that I need to watch the thing, but I always […]

“Lamb of God”

    But first, two new items went up today on the website of the always-dying Interpreter Foundation:   Book of Moses Essays #47: Moses Witnesses the Creation (Moses 2): The Creation of Light and the Heavenly Host (Moses 2:3-5)   Interpreter Radio Show — March 7, 2021 The 7 March 2021 broadcast of the […]

“Variety and Complexity in the Witnesses to the Book of Mormon”

    ***   Newly published as the latest article in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:   Daniel C. Peterson, “Variety and Complexity in the Witnesses to the Book of Mormon” Abstract: This paper examines the testimonies of the witnesses of the Book of Mormon— not only the Three Witnesses and the Eight Witnesses, […]

A Contemporary Report on the Death of David Whitmer

    ***   Up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   “Hearing the Voice of the Lord in the Mind: Blessing, Helping and Informing Mission Presidents and Their Wives, Missionaries and Others” (Part Four of a Series Compiled by Dennis B. Horne)   ***   “How Did News of Ancient Ruins Support […]

A Note on Evidence (Part Three)

    ***   One reaction:  “Just Started Dan Vogel’s New Book: Already Chagrined by the Treatment of Champollion”   ***   An outspoken atheist who frequently comments on my blog routinely declares that there is no evidence at all in favor of theistic belief — a claim that, frankly, I find completely risible — and […]

“A Note on Evidence (Part Three)”

    ***   One reaction:  “Just Started Dan Vogel’s New Book: Already Chagrined by the Treatment of Champollion”   ***   An outspoken atheist who frequently comments on my blog routinely declares that there is no evidence at all in favor of theistic belief — a claim that, frankly, I find completely risible — and […]

Creation, Gathering, and Temple Architecture

    Two new items went up today on the (evidently) not yet quite dead website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 13: “Jesus Christ Will Gather His People” D&C 29 The discussants for the Interpreter Radio Roundtable on Come, Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 13, “Jesus Christ Will Gather His People,” on D&C […]