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Sneak Peeks Coming

  Here’s some really good news:  A number of Cinemark theaters — in, I believe, Orem, Provo, American Fork, Draper, Midvale, Farmington, West Jordan, and Salt Lake City — will be running sneak previews of Six Days in August on the evening of Thursday, 26 September.   That’s next week.  Tickets for these special screenings […]

“A Frere ther was, a wantowne and a merye”

  I’ve just undertaken a project to slog gradually through Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales in the original Middle English.  I’ve always intended to do it and, finally, I’ve made a start.  I was really struck by a passage in the Prologue describing a rather worldly frere or friar that, I would guess, was modeled on […]

Prediction is difficult. Especially about the future.

  I want to remind you, yet again, of the Orem, Utah, fireside that is approaching in little more than a week now and of the Interpreter Foundation conference that will follow on the weekend thereafter, on the campus of Brigham Young University: “Unveiling History: Six Days in August Fireside” (Wednesday, 25 September 2024). Incidentally, […]

The interesting hospitality rituals of great Homeric houses

  It appears that the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, once one of the two flagship periodicals of the old Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS) and of its successor, the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, is going the way of all flesh: The organizational changes at the Institute provide […]

Tonight’s the Night

  Along with Russell Richins, the producer for the Interpreter Foundation’s films Robert Cundick: A  Sacred Service of Music (2017), Witnesses (2021), and Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon (2022), as well as for the forthcoming Six Days in August (2024), I will be a guest on this evening’s installment of the Interpreter Radio […]

Astounding Evidence for the Book of Mormon?

  Somehow, I suspect that individual apostasy and immorality and other misbehavior may have been around since at least a little bit before The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.  The Times of London, though, seems to think that the Hulu miniseries is about a campaign by several young and idealistic crusaders for ecclesiastical reform, or […]

“There are only two kinds of people in the end”

  “Aftermath of the Martyrdom: Aspirants to the Mantle of the Prophet Joseph Smith,” written by R. Jean Addams Abstract: In the weeks, months, and years following the murders of the Prophet Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, several aspirants stepped forward to claim the mantle of the prophet. Who were these individuals with claims […]

Secret Lives, “Mormon” Wives, and Some Upcoming Events

  Jeffrey Mark Bradshaw and Steve Densley created the following report of upcoming Interpreter Foundation events — above and beyond the Foundation’s weekly publication of articles and its weekly two-hour Interpreter Radio Show — for this afternoon’s iteration of the regular monthly virtual meeting that the leaders of the various organizations hold to coordinate matters […]

The Wonder of It All

  We’re surrounded in this remote area of southeastern Utah by magnificent vistas and fascinating geology.  And yet, one of the great things here, with the three other couples who have come here with us, as well as elsewhere is time spent simply talking, sharing stories, reflecting on our deepest believes.  I always think, in […]

A Blog Entry from “Mars”

  Yet another new item has been posted on the moribund website of the Interpreter Foundation:  Nibley Lectures: Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon Lesson 38: “Lift Up Your Head and Be of Good Cheer”: 3 Nephi 1-7. This week for Come, Follow Me lesson 38 covering 3 Nephi 1-7, we have lectures 80, 81, […]