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“Feet of Clay: Queer Theory and the Church of Jesus Christ”

    I’ll bet that title caught your attention.   Well, here’s the newly published article in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship, written by the brilliant and fearless Gregory L. Smith, that provided that title:   “Feet of Clay: Queer Theory and the Church of Jesus Christ” Review of Taylor G. Petrey, Tabernacles of […]

What will we do with all the money?

    The Interpreter Foundation’s theatrical film, Witnesses, will have its formal opening in theaters three months from today, on 4 June 2021.  (Once again, mark your calendars!)   I’ve said that, for us, it’s not really about the money but, really, about the size of the audience that the film can reach.  We want […]

Our New Website

    First of all, I want everyone out there to be aware of the Interpreter Foundation’s new specialized website:   Witnesses of the Book of Mormon   I’ve mentioned the website here before, obviously, but I think that I probably haven’t put enough emphasis on it.  We launched it not very long ago, and […]

A Note on Evidence (Part Two)

    Continued from “A Note on Evidence (Part One)”:   I’ve tried to explain to this blog’s resident atheist that, in cases where the publicly-available, objective, agreed-upon evidence is insufficient to convince everyone beyond a reasonable doubt — where an issue remains unresolved, that is, but where a decision must inescapably be made — […]

“Māori Seers and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand”

  ***   New today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:   Robert Joseph, “The Lord Will Not Forget Them! Māori Seers and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand” Abstract: This essay demonstrates that the key prophetic matakite dreams and visions of at least the nine […]

A Note on Evidence (Part One)

    There is a zealous atheist who comments multiple times daily on my blog.  (He’s entirely welcome to do so, by the way.  He’s polite and — by social media standards, anyway — quite respectful.)  One of his recurring themes is that there is no evidence at all to support the claims of theism. […]

“Witnesses” News

    I’m pleased to report that the Interpreter Foundation’s Witnesses theatrical film won first prize on Saturday night in the Feature Film category at the twentieth annual LDS Film Festival.  That is a well-deserved honor for Mark Goodman, Russell Richins, and James Jordan, the principal movie makers behind the project.   Again, I want […]

“Hebrew Literary Features of Moses 1,” etc.

    My wife and I will be back at the LDS Film Festival this afternoon.  At 4 PM, in Room 201, Russell Richins (the producer of Witnesses) and Mark Goodman (the film’s director) will speak and entertain questions on the theme “From Plates of Gold to Big Screens of Silver: Witnesses releasing Summer 2021.”  […]

“That Which You Have Translated, Which You Have Retained”

    I’ve been busy with cinematic matters today — among other things, we made some real progress on the Witnesses-related documentary — and so I’m getting to this a bit late.  (It now appears that the documentary or docudrama will be about 2.5 hours long, and that we’ll wait to put it out until […]

Mostly African Thoughts, But Some Heavenly Ones, Too

    My wife and I attended a screening of Heart of Africa 2: Companions last night at the LDS Film Festival.  It is, to some extent, a retelling of the story in the first Heart of Africa movie, but this time the story is told from the standpoint of the white American half of […]