Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 19

Facing the Facts

  Such stories don’t get much coverage in the major media: National Review, from back in 2018:  “Desperate Pakistani Christians Languish in Thailand: The U.S. should provide asylum.” BBC, from way back in May 2019:  “Christian persecution ‘at near genocide levels’: The persecution of Christians in parts of the world is at near “genocide” levels, […]

“Mormon Wife Designs Future Planet On Pinterest”

  Newly posted on the blog of the Interpreter Foundation:  “The Discernable Chronology of Mormon’s Life,” written by Brant A. Gardner And also newly posted on the Interpreter Foundation’s never-changing website:  Interpreter Radio Show — March 9, 2025, including Doctrine and Covenants in Context: D&C 29: For the 9 March 2025 episode of the Interpreter […]

“Reexploring the Book of Mormon”

  As a small constituent part of a long-term project that I’m working on, I’ll be extracting notes over the next several weeks or (more likely) months from John W. Welch, ed., Reexploring the Book of Mormon: A Decade of New Research (Salt Lake City and Provo: Deseret Book, 1992), and intermittently sharing them here.  They […]

A reflection from President Hinckley

  We’re drawing ever nearer to Easter season or, as Claudia Bushman prefers to call the holiday itself, to “Resurrection Day.”  I have long wished that Americans and/or Latter-day Saints paid more serious and sustained attention to this holiday.  So I may make some efforts here, in my inescapably limited way, toward encouraging such attention. […]

A reflection on our now owning the sites in Nauvoo

  I’m several days late in calling attention to something that I recently published in Meridian Magazine.  I can only offer as my defense that I’ve been very busy elsewhere and that I’ve been off of my customary routine:  “Things Deserving of “Awesome Wonder”” Up today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and […]

“It is good for us to be here”

  Our three core movie makers — Russ Richins, James Jordan, and Mark Goodman — filmed Camrey Bagley Fox and John Donovan Wilson and me today at various locations, mainly at the Smith Family Homestead, in front of the John and Elizabeth Browning Home and Gun Shop (where I wanted to announce the formation of […]

“A resting-place for the weary traveler”

  Camrey Bagley Fox and I spent the first part of the day being filmed in conversation together down at the Mansion House, mostly inside, and then on the grounds of the Smith Homestead, across from the Bidamon Stable and, much more importantly, the adjacent Nauvoo House. Joseph and Emma lived in the Mansion House […]

At Carthage Jail

  We were up early and spent most of the first part of the day filming in and around Carthage Jail, a place of deeply tragic significance in the story of the Church.  It was the longest time that I’ve ever spent at the site in Carthage, and it was pleasant to be there with […]

Exotic Antiquity in Western Illinois

  My wife and I headed out this morning, Monday morning, over the Mississippi River and into Illinois, to the Cahokia Mounds, which are both a UNESCO World Heritage Site and an Illinois State Historic Site.  I’ve wanted to visit Cahokia for many years but, somehow, we’ve always been in a hurry and unable to […]

Taking Leave of Darwin?

  The flight today from Salt Lake City to St. Louis took something on the order of two and a half hours.  O, the suffering that I endure for my art!  I couldn’t help but associate myself in my mind with the discomforts and hardships undergone by nineteenth-century Latter-day Saint pioneers, who often traveled roughly […]