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It just never ends.

  Newly posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Joseph Smith and Our Preparation for the Lord’s Final Judgment: Essays by George L. Mitton, “Foreword: Eschewing the Ephemeral,” written by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw: “In every conversation I’ve had with George, what impresses me most is his earnestness about the important, enduring matters of life. […]

Hurrah for Excommunication!

  Well, the click-bait headline worked, as they typically do.  Gotcha. First of all, let me make it plain that I’m saddened by excommunications.  I don’t, as one very small pod of my somewhat unhinged personal critics pretend to believe, rejoice when people are excommunicated.  More precisely, though, I’m saddened by the acts of immorality, […]

Why CAN’T Mormons Send Flowers?

  Our 2021 theatrical film, Witnesses, was dedicated to the memory of “Richard Lloyd Anderson, a witness to the witnesses.”  Now it comes down to you.  One of the many spin-offs of the overall “Witnesses” project is this one, which is available for your viewing:  “Episode 17: What is your Witness?” Witnesses of the Book […]

“Why the Witnesses Project?”

  The current issue of the Journal of Near-Death Studies, the official journal of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS), to which I subscribe, arrived two or three weeks ago, and I’m finally beginning to read it.  It’s dated “Summer 2023,” which seems to make me really late.  But, alas, such delays are all […]

“Witnesses” is now available for free streaming!

  I’m very pleased to announce that the 2021 Interpreter Foundation theatrical film Witnesses is now available — and will remain available for the duration of the month of February — for free streaming:  Watch Witnesses Free! So, whether you saw Witnesses in a theater and would like to view it again, or whether you […]

6DIA is streaming, physicalism is depressing, and I’m right

  I’ve been eagerly awaiting the opportunity to announce that the 2024 Interpreter Foundation theatrical film Six Days in August is now available for streaming.  I haven’t yet checked any of these, so if there are people out there who successfully view the movie at one or more of these sites, I would welcome confirming […]

Who can be saved?

  “Perspectives on the Soteriological Problem of Evil: Nuancing the “Universalist” Theologies of Henri de Lubac and Joseph Smith,” written by Timothy Gervais. Abstract: Since the discovery of the new world by Christian European explorers during the age of discovery, the increasingly global community of the modern age has confronted Christian theologians with difficult soteriological […]

Once again, I must register a political protest

  Our exit from Afghanistan was badly botched.  And America’s abandonment of those Afghans who had helped us there — often at considerable risk to their lives and the lives of their families — has long been a national disgrace and an obvious moral failure, as well as a disastrous precedent that will be remembered […]

Can you think of any other benefits that I should mention?

  The Interpreter Foundation’s full-length documentary Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon can now be viewed for free! Please share this link far and wide with friends and family! https://witnessesfilm.com/?ref=undaunted Not infrequently, I read comments from purportedly liberated ex-Latter-day Saints about the glories of churchless Sundays.  Instead of attending mind-numbingly dull and repetitious meetings, […]

Archaeologically recovering some lectures from Hugh Nibley

  Here is another resource that you might find of value for your study and/or your teaching of the 2025 Come, Follow Me curriculum — especially as we move, in February, toward consideration of the witnesses to the Book of Mormon:  “Episode 18: Is Eyewitness Testimony Reliable?” Witnesses of the Book of Mormon—Insights Episode 18: […]