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“The Most Profound Experience”

  Yet another very short video feature has just been posted by the Interpreter Foundation.  It’s entitled “The Most Profound Experience.”  It focuses on David Whitmer, one of the Three Witnesses to the Book of Mormon, and it features the irreplaceable independent Latter-day Saint historian Don Bradley. Our hope is that you’ll enjoy this and […]

A gift for the man who really needs nothing

  We are rapidly closing in on the hundredth anniversary of President Russell M. Nelson’s birth.  I hope he makes it.  I’m praying that he makes it.  (No, I don’t have any reliable insider information to the contrary; I simply recognize the fact that a man in his hundredth year is, by most post-diluvian standards, […]

Prevention and Possible Cure

  A new Interpreter Foundation video short has once again gone up:  “Martin Harris Returns.”  I hope that you enjoy it.  And I hope that you will share it, along with its increasingly numerous siblings. These video shorts are taken from the Interpreter Foundation docudrama Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon.  We want people […]

CES Letters

  Newly published in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:  “Nurture and Harvest: A Continued Conversation with The Annotated Book of Mormon,” written by Kevin Christensen Abstract: Because Grant Hardy’s important book deliberately contextualizes the Book of Mormon in light of “the generally agreed upon findings of modern biblical scholars and historians,” […]

Brigham Young, An Eyewitness of the World to Come?

  A new video short has been posted by the Interpreter Foundation.  It is entitled “Martin Harris Returns.”  We hope that you will enjoy it and that, if you do, you will share it with friends and kinfolk.  Please help us to spread these, and to call attention to the docudrama Undaunted: Witnesses of the […]

Unexpectedly fair journalism and a wavering skeptic

  I enjoyed this piece in the Deseret News, which was written by Jacob Hess:  “What surprised a British journalist after spending time with Latter-day Saints: Eight discoveries in an in-depth profile about Latter-day Saints that challenged the stereotypes of a U.K. journalist and helped to ‘demystify’ the faith for her.” If you’re interested in reading […]

Brother Brigham on the Theater (and on Film?)

  Gerrit Dirkmaat is featured in a new super-short video from the Interpreter Foundation entitled “The Faith of the Whitmers.”  If you like it, share it! Thinking about what the Interpreter Foundation has accomplished since it was founded twelve years ago this week, and thinking of the critics who continually pretend to see evidence that […]

Are reason and faith diametrically opposed?

  While in California a couple of weeks ago, I picked up a copy of Gerard Verschuuren, A Catholic Scientist Harmonizes Science and Faith (Manchester, NH: Sophia Institute Press, 2022).  Dr. Verschuuren studied human genetics and the philosophy of science at Leiden University, the University of Utrecht, and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, all in The […]

The Interpreter Foundation, Twelve Years On

  The launch of the Interpreter Foundation was publicly announced twelve years ago, at the beginning of August 2012, during the concluding session of the 2012 FAIR conference.  (The decision to launch the Foundation had been made only one week before, over soup and salad at the Olive Garden Restaurant in Provo.)  As part of […]

On Judgment

  A new very short video that features retired federal judge Paul Warner has now been posted by the Interpreter Foundation.  Drawn from the Interpreter Foundation’s 2022 docudrama Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon, it is entitled “They Never Denied Their Testimonies.” If you enjoy it, I hope that you will share it further. […]