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Today would be a wonderful day for it

  It’s the Sabbath, so I won’t be hounding you to go see Six Days in August today.  In fact, I hope that you don’t go today.  Go twice tomorrow, instead.  Go every day next week.  Take friends.  Take family.  Buy tickets for your children and grandchildren who live far away from you. Now, having […]

Please share your honest opinion, whatever it may be

  I’m happy to report that, because of the impressively high demand for it, free access to the 2021 Interpreter Foundation dramatic film Witnesses will continue until 18 October 2024.  It’s a perfect movie for an evening before a Sabbath, or a Sabbath day, or a family night on Monday evening, or any other night […]

“It Helps to Have a Village”

  I wax somewhat autobiographical — indeed, a little bit sentimental and perhaps even somewhat maudlin — in my introduction to the latest volume of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship, which has just gone up online:  “It Helps to Have a Village” Abstract: In preparing the next generation, it really is […]

Last Night’s Film Premiere

  Yesterday began in a one-hour conversation with my friend Safi Kaskas, about faith and religion from Latter-day Saint and Muslim points of view.  He has been in town for the 31st Annual International Law and Religion Symposium of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at Brigham Young University.  Anybody who is interested […]

“War and extermination is inevitable!”

  One of the events depicted in Six Days in August is the destruction, by order of the Nauvoo City Council, of the dissident Nauvoo Expositor newspaper on the evening of 10 June 1844.  That act was probably among the principal inflammatory factors leading to the eventual incarceration and murder of Joseph and Hyrum Smith […]

Beware, Dublin!

  There are just two days left, including today, to take advantage of the opportunity to view the 2021 Interpreter Foundation dramatic film Witnesses at no charge, which you can do here:  https://vimeo.com/824199556/ecefc622ed.  On Thursday, 10 October, when Six Days in August opens in theaters, that window of opportunity closes.  I would, frankly, love to […]

Today’s the Day. Tonight’s the Night.

  Seventeen new temples!  That’s more temples announced in one General Conference than existed in the entire Church when I was a teenager. The remarkable explosion of temple-building that commenced under President Gordon B. Hinckley continues at an even more rapid pace under President Russell M. Nelson.  Plainly, the effort is intended to make temples […]

Volcanism and the Book of Mormon

  I want to give another reminder of the “sneak peek” early showings of Six Days in August that will be available on Monday night along Utah’s Wasatch Front.  (It won’t be my last reminder.  Sorry.)  These screenings will occur in nine Cinemark theaters:  Salt Lake City, Ogden, Orem, Provo, American Fork, Draper, Farmington, Sandy/Midvale, […]

The next few days are vitally important

  A few days ago, Mark Goodman (the writer and director of Six Days in August) and I recorded a roughly twenty-minute interview with Martin Tanner up at KSL NewsRadio in Salt Lake City.  Our interview will air tomorrow (Sunday) on his regular KSL program, Religion Today.  But it’s already available in podcast form:  “Six […]

“The Pathophysiology of the Death of Jesus the Christ”

  Although I’m not identified as its author, I wrote this article that has now appeared on the KSL.com website:  “‘Six Days in August’ movie about Brigham Young will inspire and captivate audience.”  (I did not write the headline.) And — surprise! — a new article has just appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day […]