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Companion Films

    In which I lay out a basic  and relatively brief argument regarding the various witnesses, and classes of witnesses, to the Book of Mormon:   “Come Follow Me Week 8 – Doctrine & Covenants 14-17 “Stand as a Witness””   ***   Well, the Interpreter Foundation’s theatrical film, Witnesses, had its first public […]

Film-Making and -Screening in the Plague Year

    ***   On Facebook:  “Heartfelt thanks from Caleb Josiah Spivak aka Oliver Cowdery for a SOLD OUT audience at LDS Film Festival! Summer 2021!”   Beginning at roughly 26:00 in this KSL-Radio interview and continuing until approximately 33:45, Doug Wright talks about the 2021 LDS Film Festival, which runs from Wednesday night through Saturday night, […]

“LDS Film Festival celebrates 20 years of cinema” (with a shout-out to the “Witnesses” movie)

    Here’s a brief article from Provo’s Daily Herald about the LDS Film Festival, which opens on Wednesday night and continues through Saturday night.  It refers, in passing, to the Interpreter Foundation’s theatrical film, Witnesses:   “LDS Film Festival celebrates 20 years of cinema”     With her kind permission, I’m sharing some thoughts […]

Addendum 2: Some notes on religion in pre-Islamic Iran

    For my revised and expanded book on the Middle East for a Latter-day Saint audience:   The dominant religious tradition among the pre-Islamic Iranian peoples was Zoroastrianism.  In the West, the tradition was named after its founder, the priest and prophet Zoroaster, whose name in Persian is Zartosht or Zardosht.   (In Persian, it is called Mazdayasna, meaning […]

“Remembrance and Return: Essays in Honor of Louis C. Midgley”

    The 7 February 2021 installment of the Interpreter Radio Show is now archived and available, free of commercial and other intrusions,  The participants in this episode were Neal and Jasmine Rappleye, Hales Swift, and Spencer Marsh. They discussed the Book of Mormon and anti-discrimination, the translation of the Book of Abraham, and the witnesses […]

“Hail Caesar! We who are about to die salute you!”

    First, though:   “Witnesses Movie Interview and Special Screening”   Book of Moses Essays #43: Moses 1: A Literary Masterpiece.  Many-Great Waters and Moses’ Mission to Baptize (Moses 1:25-26)   ***   “Bill Gates is investing big in American farmland: The Microsoft co-founder’s personal investments mirror a growing trend amongst the uber-wealthy.” “Farmland offers […]

“All Can Partake, Freely”

    New, today, on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Daniel C. Peterson, “All Can Partake, Freely” Abstract: The Interpreter Foundation welcomes faithful ideas, insights, and manuscripts from people of all backgrounds. In this brief essay, I share some that were recently shared with me regarding Lehi’s vision of the tree of life, as recorded […]

“America’s culture of contempt”

    I’ve written on two previous days here — see “Love in a Time of Tribalism” and “Some notes following the death of Rush Limbaugh” — about the toxicity and personal animosity that characterize far too much of our contemporary public discourse.  I had thought that I was done with the subject.  But I’ve seen […]

Some notes following the death of Rush Limbaugh

    I posted a blog entry yesterday (“Love in a Time of Tribalism”) in which, citing the case of Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), I lamented the ideological passions and partisan rifts that are increasingly tearing families, neighborhoods, and friendships apart.   Rod Dreher, a writer for whom I have considerable respect — see, for […]

Love in a Time of Tribalism

    It seems that we’re going to have to wait a little bit longer for the long-promised hammer of extinction to come crashing down upon the Interpreter Foundation.  Here are two new items that appeared on Interpreter’s website just today:   Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 9 “The Worth of Souls Is Great” D&C […]