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Contra Calvinism 1

  Interpreter Radio Show — May 5, 2024 In the 5 May 2024 episode of the Interpreter Radio Show, Spencer Kraus, Hales Swift, Brent Schmidt, and Martin Tanner discussed Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon lesson 22 and various topics related to the Book of Mormon. Their conversation is now available to you at your […]

Differing cultures, seeing the world differently

  I’m gratified to report that Jeffrey Mark Bradshaw, the Interpreter Foundation’s Vice President for Special Projects, is headed at this very moment to Cotonou, Benin, in west Africa, where he will join with a few associates for further work on the Foundation’s Not By Bread Alone film project, on which see here and here. […]

An introduction to Pascal and his wager

  The intrepid archaeologists over at FAIR Latter-day Saints recently uncovered a 2001 FAIR conference address and posted it to YouTube.  It was given by a devilishly handsome fellow who is nearly a quarter of a century younger than I am, and is titled  “The Divine Source of the Book of Mormon in the Face […]

“Mormon and Moroni’s Rhetoric”

  Fair warning, so that you can avoid these places on the dates indicated below.  In company with others, I will be speaking in the following locations during the first half of June: Saturday, 1 June 2024 — Rome, Italy Saturday, 8 June 2024 — Salzburg, Austria Saturday, 15 June 2024 — Göteborg, Sweden Tonight, […]

Thaïs

  I want to remind everyone out there again of the gathering tomorrow night — Friday night, 10 May 2024 — in honor of the contributions of George L. Mitton.  The event will take place at 7 PM in the large room upstairs at Legacy Village, 4146 North University Avenue, Provo, UT 84604. A new […]

“The Hello Girls”

  As prophesied by critics, the long-dead website of the long-dead Interpreter Foundation continues to do absolutely nothing and to show no sign of life.  Want proof?  See, for just four examples, these new entries: “Conference Talks: The Doctrine and Covenants and the Book of Moses: An Outpouring of Revelations and the Beginning of Joseph […]

They just keep on saying these things!

  A new self-published book advocating a novel theory for the origin of the Book of Mormon has recently appeared — the previous theories having, umm, not exactly swept the field before them.  It claims to have found the sources that were used to create the text of the  Book of Mormon.  Alas, though, this […]

“How to Know a Person”

  For the 28 April 2024 episode of the Interpreter Radio Show, the hosts were Steve Densley and John Thompson, joined by their special guest Clifford Jones. They discussed Brother Jones’s recent article in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship, as well as Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon lesson 21. Their […]

Observations on two simple passages

  My wife noticed something this morning in one of our readings for today’s “Come, Follow Me” lesson.  Here is the relevant passage: 11 And again I say unto you as I have said before, that as ye have come to the knowledge of the glory of God, or if ye have known of his […]

An American in Iran

  Those members of the board of the Interpreter Foundation who were able to do so spent most of today together (or, in one case, with us via Zoom) in a board retreat.  It was the first such meeting that we’ve ever had, and it was a good opportunity to discuss the strengths and weaknesses […]