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Some pleasant reading for a Sabbath evening

  This is a great story:  “BYU’s James Corrigan earns miraculous bid to Paris Olympics with special steeplechase performance: Corrigan achieved the unimaginable on a hot, humid night in Philadelphia” I think, though, that knowing the background helps very much in appreciating it.  Here’s an article that was published before Brother Corrigan’s successful race:  “Inside the […]

Horizons

  My adopted home state is taking a starring role in a new set of films.  If you can access these — I know that you can access the third one but I’m less certain about the first two — I think that you’ll find them interesting: National Review:  “Horizon Is Costner’s Daring Love Letter […]

Another Anniversary

  Yesterday marked an important anniversary in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  And so does today: Deseret News:  “A 195-year look back at the men and women who saw and held the plates that became the Book of Mormon: Friday, June 28, is the 195th anniversary of the day […]

Today, let us remember.

  I would guess that very few people, even among the Latter-day Saints, are thinking about this.  But today marks the 180th anniversary of the murder of Joseph and Hyrum Smith by a mob while they were in the custody of the state in the jail at Carthage, Illinois. I’ve been thinking about that terrible […]

Something Wicked This Way Comes

  I was mightily unhappy, almost physically ill in fact, when I first came across this story: “Heretic: Check out the scary new trailer, plot, cast, creative team and release date of Hugh Grant starrer movie” “Heretic Trailer Previews A24 Horror Movie About Mormon Missionaries Starring Hugh Grant” “Hugh Grant Plays a Disturbed Trickster Who […]

A Full Life

  1. Come, lay his books and papers by, he shall not need them more; the ink shall dry upon his pen, so softly close the door. His tired head, with locks of white, and like the winter’s sun, hath lain to peaceful rest tonight,—The teacher’s work is done. 2. His work is done; no […]

Did I do any good in the world in those days?

  A twelve-minute piece that we recorded in Kirtland, Ohio, during the same May 2024 trip on which we filmed much of “Who Actually Saw the Gold Plates? | A Marvelous Work Episode 5” has now gone up online as an “extended cut”:  See “School of the Prophets – Dan Peterson” I returned home from […]

Some accounts of near-death experiences

  This bit of footage, shot back in May at the foot of Torleif Knaphus’s Angel Moroni monument which stands atop the Hill Cumorah near Palmyra, New York, somehow didn’t survive into the Final Cut of “Who Actually Saw the Gold Plates? | A Marvelous Work Episode 5.”  I can’t imagine why! I want to […]

New Light on Ancient Seafaring

  Although I no longer possess public political opinions or interests, I’m reliably informed that a national election is approaching in the United States of America.  In fact, I’ve actually seen apparent political news coverage.  (And somebody to whom I’m as close as anybody possibly can be really, really, really liked this article.)  But I […]

“Matthew Black and Mircea Eliade Meet Hugh Nibley”

  I was surprisingly sad to leave Switzerland this time.  As we were packing up to leave the house in which we’d been staying, the couple that takes care of the place arrived to tidy up after us for the absentee landlord, who is a lifelong friend of theirs (but who now resides in the […]