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Was Sidney Rigdon in on the creation of the Book of Mormon?

    John Wickliffe Rigdon, a son of Sidney Rigdon, left a memoir of his father.  It was published as Karl Keller, ed., “‘I Never Knew a Time When I Did Not Know Joseph Smith’: A Son’s Record of the Life and Testimony of Sidney Rigdon,” in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 1/4 (1966): 15-42.  Here is […]

“Sturm und Drang” in 3 Nephi

    I continue with some notes from Jerry D. Grover, Jr., Geology of the Book of Mormon (2014).  (See this and other works by him and by others at Brother Grover’s Book of Mormon Scientific and Linguistic Research site.).   Here, in order, are the prior installments in this series of notes:   “Commencing another […]

Revision 4.8 “Judgment and Grace in Islam”

    I continue chugging along with my manuscript on Islam for Latter-day Saints.  Here, I’m discussing the Qur’an’s portrayal of the end of all things and the Last Judgment:   We are the witnesses of all your thoughts and all your prayers and all your actions. Not an atom’s weight in earth or heaven […]

“Scholarly Support for the Book of Abraham”

    New, on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   “Raising the Abrahamic Discourse: An Essay on the Nature of Dialogues About the Book of Abraham”, by Kerry Muhlestein   “Scholarly Support for the Book of Abraham,” compiled by the administration of the Interpreter Foundation   From Jonn Claybaugh: Come, Follow Me — Study and Teaching […]

“How Astronomers Revolutionized Our View of the Cosmos,” Revisited

    The current issue of Scientific American contains a clear and approachable summary article by the British astrophysicist and cosmologist Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, entitled “How Astronomers Revolutionized Our View of the Cosmos: The universe turns out to be much bigger and weirder than anyone thought” (Scientific American 323/3 [September 2020, 323/3]: 58-64) […]

Revision 4.7 “The Qur’an on the Last Days”

    As we saw in the last chapter, one of the major themes of the Qur’an is the Day of Judgment, when the Lord will come with his angels.[1] On that day, which will be announced by a trumpet, there will be a new heaven and a new earth. In terms very similar to […]

“How Astronomers Revolutionized Our View of the Cosmos”

    The current issue of Scientific American contains a really nice summary article by the British astrophysicist and cosmologist Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, entitled “How Astronomers Revolutionized Our View of the Cosmos: The universe turns out to be much bigger and weirder than anyone thought” (Scientific American 323/3 [September 2020, 323/3]: 58-64) about […]

“Another Breakthrough for the Arabian Peninsula Evidence for the Book of Mormon”?

    This just up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   “John W. Welch: A Personal Reminiscence,” by Stephen E. Robinson Abstract: In these glimpses of the early private life of a very public figure, Stephen E. Robinson provides a portrait that will enable readers to see how the child became father to the […]

Revision 4.6 “The Religion of Abraham”

    Yet the Qur’an does not bring any new truths. It does not claim to do so. It is merely a restoration of those truths that had been revealed from the beginning. It carries forward what was written in the books of Abraham and Moses, confirming the earlier scriptures and particularly the Torah and […]

A kind of Interpreter Foundation “annual report”

    What follows is the letter that I sent out, toward the end of this past July, to many of the donors and volunteers who make the work of the Interpreter Foundation possible:   Dear friends, The past year has been a very successful one for the Interpreter Foundation. And since, owing to the […]