Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 31

These books have really changed my mind

  By the way, Six Days in August is still playing in four or five theaters through this Thursday, and will survive in two more — in Pocatello and, I believe, in Kaysville — over at least this coming weekend.  We’re also arranging some private showings.  (My wife and I will be involved with one […]

A meditation on the passage of time

  My wife and I took Royal Skousen out to dinner last night; we had a pleasant visit before, during, and after the meal.  A major topic of conversation, of course, was his wife, Sirkku Unelma Skousen, to whom he was and is deeply devoted.  Sirkku died on 9 November 2024, following a lengthy and […]

Another Note on “Mormonism” in the Movies

  Some here may be interested in this 44-minute discussion between an Evangelical Protestant and a Latter-day Saint:  “Heretic Review: Why Everyone Should Oppose Religious Misrepresentations.”  I myself have listened, thus far, to only about twenty-five percent of the recording, but I’ve enjoyed it thus far. In this conversation, Jacob Hansen and Jeff McCullough discuss […]

Looking Beyond

  The so-called “secret combinations” of the Book of Mormon have long been of particular interest to me.  Here are three articles about them from Jeff Lindsay, a valued member of the Interpreter Foundation’s board of directors and until recently one of the editors of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship, that […]

Latter-day Saints and immigration

  World news?  Insignificant.  And who cares about the outcome of tonight’s BYU football game?  It seems of no importance at all compared to this exciting dispatch from TMZ Sports:  “MORMON MISSIONARYPOUNDS PUPUSAS IN EL SALVADOR …Dominates Eating Contest!!!” In the wake of the recent American presidential election, there has been a considerable amount of […]

Going, Going, Go . . . ing

  In view of the Interpreter Foundation’s ever-declining productivity, its long-prophesied, eagerly anticipated, and rapidly accelerating downward spiral, the items below — posted earlier today — may perhaps represent your very last chance ever to see any trace of its existence.  Unless, of course, you look in again next week.  Or next month.  Or next […]

EModE in the BofM?

  Surely the long-predicted demise of the Interpreter Foundation must be very near at hand.  In the meanwhile, though, hopeful critics will be obliged to content themselves with its tantalizing death rattles.  Here’s one of them, which appeared today:  “Video and Audio Recordings are Now Available for the 2024 Temple on Mount Zion Conference” Audio […]

Good people voted for the other candidate. Really.

  Here’s another book from the Interpreter Foundation that you might want to consider as a Christmas gift (even to yourself!):  The Temple: Plates, Patterns, & Patriarchs: Proceedings of the Sixth Interpreter Foundation Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference: Temple on Mount Zion Series 7: 4–5 November 2022, edited by Stephen D. Ricks and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, published by […]

“Shall We Not Go On in So Great a Cause?”

  New, from the long-comatose and perpetually dying Interpreter Foundation: Take a Journey into Arabia Just in time for Christmas, we are pleased to announce the publication of a brand-new book, Into Arabia: Anchoring Nephi’s Account in the Real World. Focusing on the first eighteen chapters of the Book of Mormon, Into Arabia examines the […]

Notes on Latter-day Saints and the Third Reich, Then and Now

  The following note went out yesterday to the subscriber list of the Interpreter Foundation.  I’ve redacted it slightly, so as not to make public the contact information of the Interpreter volunteer who is overseeing this matter.  I don’t want to expose him or her to the tender mercies of the obsessive critics who monitor […]