Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 38

Getting the word out, or not

  At this point, I’m pretty sure that you regret having spent last night watching that boring and utterly predictable football game between BYU and Oklahoma State when, instead, you could have been in the audience for a screening of Six Days in August.  And, of course, you have nobody to blame for that but […]

A “Mormon Village” in Poland?

  Thanks to the generosity of FAIR, I was able to record a couple of video interviews this afternoon in their American Fork studio.  One was with Samuel T. Wilkinson, author of the superb book Purpose: What Evolution and Human Nature Imply about the Meaning of Our Existence.  The other was with Ben Spackman.  Both […]

The horror!

  Have you seen Six Days in August yet today?  You’ve already lost the morning.  What are you waiting for?  You can find the locations where it is currently playing on the film’s official website:  Six Days in August At my request, my friend Thomas G. Alexander, Lemuel Hardison Redd, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Western […]

Misrepresenting the Lone Mountain Nevada Temple, Etc.

  Russ Richins, the producer for Six Days in August, and I traveled up to Ogden yesterday to record an interview with Sen. John D. Johnson for PoliticIt.  I’m not sure whether PoliticIt has ever done a non-political podcast before, but ours was definitely not political.  It was — surprise! — about Six Days in […]

Reducing the Witnesses’ Testimony

  If I’m not mistaken, at least some of the movie theaters in my area offer discount ticket prices on Tuesdays.  If that’s true, today — Tuesday — would be a remarkably good day to go see Six Days in August, or to go to see it a second time, or to watch it a […]

Making the List

  A very good review by Maurine Proctor in Meridian Magazine:  “Six Days in August: Brigham Young as You’ve Never Seen Him Before”:  Bottom line, she writes, “Put this movie on your must-see list.” I frankly admit that I was disheartened by a conversation after church yesterday.  I was talking with a friend who knows […]

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 […]