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A Sunday walk back and forth along the road to Emmaus

  We had our special Easter service today, and it was an excellent one.  We enjoyed various musical numbers on piano and violin, as well as a children’s choir and the ward choir and a very good talk by one of our sisters.  For me, the male quartet singing Keith and Kristyn Getty’s “In Christ […]

Elegiac thoughts on why it matters so very, very much

  I hope that people out there are not so confused as to be unable to decide which holiday they should celebrate tomorrow:  “Biden Proclaims Easter Sunday ‘Transgender Day of Visibility’” Both of my grandfathers died well before I was born.  Both of my grandmothers died when I was five years old.  I’ve always envied […]

Notes on Easter and Good Friday

  As has been our tradition at the Interpreter Foundation for most of our existence, today — Good Friday — we have published a devotional essay for Easter.  Unfortunately, I’m the author (and the audio narrator) of today’s essay, which is entitled “Christ is Risen! Truly, He is Risen!” The person who was slated to […]

Valuing People

  Another article has been newly posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:  Hugh Nibley Observed: “Hugh Nibley and the Church,” written by Robert L. Millet “I am honored to be invited to contribute to this volume celebrating the remarkable life and work of Hugh W. Nibley. I believe Hugh was one of a […]

Thoughts on Spy Wednesday

  Before the Interpreter Foundation altogether disappears (as has been reliably predicted), I would like to call your attention to a few more of its most recent last gasps: Conference Talks: The Priestly Interests of Moses the Levite: 2020 Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses Conference, presented by John W. Welch and Jackson […]

“Were You There?”

  Some people will be very disappointed by these reports: Deseret News:  “Gallup polling: Latter-day Saints have the highest rate of weekly church attendance: Two-thirds of Latter-day Saints attend church weekly or nearly weekly” Gallup:  “Church Attendance Has Declined in Most U.S. Religious Groups: Three in 10 U.S. adults attend religious services regularly, led by Mormons at […]

I’m happy to see this

  This week commemorates the most important week in the history of the world.  Here are some links that might help you to mark it, to remember it, and to ponder its meaning: Christianity Today:  “Why Every Day This Week Is Holy: Christians should celebrate from Palm to Easter Sunday—and everything in between.” “The ‘Lamb of […]

“Are religious people happier?”

  I think that, this time around, I’ll lead off with something from the Christopher Hitchens Memorial “How Religion Poisons Everything” File™.  I mean, this claim, asserted by Dr. Stephen Cranney, is so horrible and so very alarming that it really does cry out for drastic emergency action: “Are religious people happier? The science is […]

“Shall we not go on in so great a cause?”

  News from along the frontier of religious liberty: National Catholic Reporter:  “Wisconsin Supreme Court makes bad law in religious liberty case” Christianity Today:  “Must Social Service Providers Nix Their Faith to Receive Federal Funds?  Rather than follow the equal protections secured in Supreme Court decisions, the Biden administration opted for a complicated and soul-killing […]

“King Benjamin’s Sermon as a Type of Temple Endowment”

  With friends, my wife and I attended the open house this morning of the renovated Manti Utah Temple, which was built and first dedicated nearly a century and half ago.  (We were intending to go yesterday, but life intervened.)  For many reasons, the temple in Manti has long been one of my very favorite […]