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“The Good Samaritan”

  I have a number of linguistic pet peeves.  Not all of them are related to Latter-day Saint usage — e.g., “she advocates for x” rather than, simply, the perfectly adequate “she advocates x” is not — but some of them are.  Here is one of them that is: Back in the General Conference of […]

Jewish thoughts on the “heavenly lamb”

  These two articles were posted today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “The Lamb of God: A Note on the Significance of Meir Bar-Ilan’s Paper for Latter-day Saints,” written by Jeff Lindsay Abstract: Dr. Meir Bar-Ilan’s paper, “The Heavenly Lamb, Sacrifices on the Heavenly Altar, and the Song of the […]

“The Book of Mormon as a Resurrected Book”

  This can’t go on forever:  The offer of free streaming for the Interpreter Foundation’s 2021 dramatic film Witnesses will need to come to a close at some point — we have contractual obligations, for one thing, and, for another, we have a need to raise money for future film-making — but, for the moment, […]

More on “Mormons” and the Movies

  Every week, it seems, there’s a new Hulu or Netflix miniseries focused on Latter-day Saints — and these productions never seem to be positive, friendly, sympathetic, or even balanced.  The latest of them — so far as I’m aware! — is Hulu’s Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke.  With his kind […]

‘A spiritually ‘dark, dark city’”

  I spent several hours today interviewing Dr. Ronald K. Esplin on camera regarding Brigham Young, Sidney Rigdon, the early Quorum of the Twelve, and the 1844 succession crisis for the Interpreter Foundation’s forthcoming series of short videos, which are collectively entitled Becoming Brigham.  We captured some extremely good material; he is a good interview, […]

“Let me be one of that number.”

  Tomorrow — Tuesday — I’m slated to spend a significant amount of the day interviewing Ron Esplin on camera.  He currently serves as a general editor of The Joseph Smith Papers and as director of the Brigham Young Center.  I’ll be interviewing him for the docudrama portion of the overall Six Days in August […]

A Succession of Continuity

  To my surprise, the dramatic film Witnesses is still available tonight for streaming at no charge via The Witnesses Initiative.  Evidently, nobody has bothered to take it down yet.  If you wish to take advantage of this offer, you should do so quickly.  I can’t guarantee that it will last even into tomorrow. The […]

“To Be a Witness”

  Over the past week or two, the emphasis for the Come, Follow Me curriculum in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been on the recovery of the Book of Mormon and on the witnesses to that recovery.  In that context, some of you might find this short video feature of interest […]

“A Christianized Ether,” and Today May Be Your Last Chance

  We spent much of today flying over the eastern portion of the Gulf of Australia (formerly known as the Pacific Ocean).  Happily, the flight was boring and uneventful.  Happily, too, the Interpreter Foundation continues to produce even while I’m strapped in at 37,000 feet.  Actually, as a matter of fact, it performs better when […]

Were Hiram Page, Oliver Cowdery, and David Whitmer sincere?

  This essay went up today for the first time online, on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Joseph Smith and Our Preparation for the Lord’s Final Judgment: Essays by George L. Mitton: Joseph Smith at the Veil: Significant Ritual, Symbolism, and Temple Influence at Latter-day Saint Beginnings,” written by George L. Mitton: Abstract: The […]