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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 […]

Flawed reporting about the new temple proposed for Las Vegas

  You’ll simply need to deal with it:  I’m intending to remind you every day until they’ve actually taken place of the “sneak peek” early screenings of Six Days in August that will occur this coming Monday evening in Cinemark theaters located in Salt Lake City, American Fork, Draper, Farmington, Midvale/Sandy, Ogden, Orem, Provo, and […]

The Marks of a “Cult”

  For a very limited time — up until 10 October 2024 — its creators are offering you the opportunity to view the 2021 Interpreter film Witnesses at no cost.  If you go to the official website of Six Days in August and wait for just a few seconds, a button will appear that will […]

Victims of the Mormons

  I really enjoyed this article by my friend Robert Starling, who is a multi-decade veteran of the film and television industry and who co-founded the organization called Associated Latter-day Media Artists, or ALMA:  “The (Lord’s Media) Empire Strikes Back – with the light saber of truth.”  If, like me, you’re interested in the image […]

Shameless

  I’ve already offered summaries of most of the presentations at Saturday’s Interpreter Foundation conference here and here.  I’ll finish with such summarizing in this post. The fourth speaker during the afternoon portion of the conference was Professor Stephen D. Ricks, a longtime friend and both a former department colleague of mine and a former […]

Temples, Ancient and Modern

  Yesterday, I provided a few notes on the two morning sessions of the Seventh Interpreter Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference, Temple on Mount Zion 2024, which focused on the theme “Seership, Craftsmanship, and Fellowship.”  Today, I’ll continue with that effort.  (We’ll see how far I get.) Those who returned sufficiently early from lunch were […]

From the morning sessions of today’s superb conference

  Today, I attended the Seventh Interpreter Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference.  The overall theme of these conferences, as befits Matt Brown’s interests, is “The Temple on Mount Zion.”  The theme of this particular 2024 iteration of the conference was “Seership, Craftsmanship, and Fellowship.” The conference was not live-streamed, but it was recorded, and I […]

“Alma” as a Semitic Name, and Reaching Irreantum

  I’m pleased to announce that a second (and final) set of “sneak peek” early screenings for the new Interpreter Foundation film Six Days in August will occur on Monday, 7 October — which is the day after General Conference — in the same nine Cinemark theaters that offered last night’s showings: Salt Lake City, […]