Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 49

“Six Days in August” has its gala European premiere!

  Well, our new Interpreter Foundation theatrical film, Six Days in August, just had its first European screening.  My wife and I watched it on my computer here in our hotel room.  It’s the second time that we’ve seen the whole movie; we saw it the first time, in a slightly different (and very slightly […]

Some Saints you may still not have met

  I’m falling behind on the photographs that Jeff Bradshaw, one of the Interpreter Foundation’s vice presidents, has been sending to me.  (He is over in Africa, working on the Interpreter Foundation’s Not by Bread Alone film project.)  Here, for example, are some photos that arrived in my inbox fully a week ago under the […]

A witness at 1500 miles

  This week, Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship offers the perspective of a non-Latter-day Saint looking in:  “The Eucharist of the Latter-day Saints: The Sacrament in the Broader Christian Context,” written by Robin Douglas Abstract: This paper views the sacrament prayers and rituals of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day […]

The Sound of Silence

  We had hoped to be able to take in a session at the still relatively new Richmond Virginia Temple, but it seems that our schedule — coupled with the cold that I came down with on the flight from Denver to here (I could almost give you the precise minute that it hit me) […]

Contra Calvinism 2

  About nine days ago, I posted a blog entry that was entitled “Contra Calvinism 1.”  If you read it, you’ll be able to judge for yourself whether, as my Malevolent Stalker and his small tribe of fellow warriors have characterized it, the blog entry was “motivated by bigotry, hatred, and revenge,” and whether, as […]

“Among the most significant holy sites in the world”

  I’ve just finished reading Keith A. Erekson and Matthew J. Grow, “Assuming Stewardship: Notes on the Recent Transfer from Community of Christ,” BYU Studies 63/1 (2024): 4-32.  Their article is a useful and well-illustrated summary account of the properties and the artifacts whose change in ownership was announced on 5 March 2024.  I found […]

Thinking about Evolution

  I have a new article up in Meridian Magazine and I hope that you’ll take a look at it.  In it, I recommend a book that I recently read and that I very much enjoyed:  “How Can We Make Sense of Evolution?: A Latter-day Saint Perspective” Now let me continue on that subject for […]

“I did liken all scriptures unto us”

  On Thursday night, in company with our core group of filmmakers and two of their wives, my wife and I were able to see a complete version of the forthcoming Interpreter Foundation theatrical film, Six Days in August.  There is still post-production work to be done, of course.  But there were several scenes in […]

Recording the Stories of African Saints

  Dr. Jeffrey Mark Bradshaw, vice president for special projects at the Interpreter Foundation, is in Africa at the moment in connection with the Foundation’s effort (under the title of Not By Bread Alone) to document some of the stories of the Saints there.  He has kindly been sharing photographs with me from his travels […]

A really serious challenge

  Just in time for the weekend, two new articles have appeared on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: ““One Drop of Salvation from the House of Majesty”: An Analysis of the Revelation of the Magi and Restoration Scripture,” written by Spencer Kraus Abstract: An early Christian text called the Revelation of the Magi presents […]