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Cold Harbor and a Warm Farewell

    Newly posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:  “Largely Shadow, Short of Reality,” written by Allen Wyatt Review of Ronald V. Huggins, Lighthouse: Jerald and Sandra Tanner, Despised and Beloved Critics of Mormonism (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2022). 392 pages. $39.95 (hardback), $24.95 (paperback). Abstract: Jerald and Sandra Tanner have had […]

Welcoming a former infidel

    These new items have gone up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Not By Bread Alone: “A Place of Peace in War-Torn Goma”: Blog Post #2 For more information on the “Not by Bread Alone: Stories of the Saints in Africa” series, go to https://notbybreadalonefilm.com/en/ For more information in French, go to […]

Of Nuance

    Why do I pay attention to the Peterson Obsession Board?  My nickname for it explains the reason.  I look in on the POB several times each week because, on a daily basis for something like the past fifteen years — in other words, for however long it has existed — I have been […]

We have been very fortunate

    First of all, I want to thank the readers of this blog, who continue to read it, or at least to summon it up on their computer screens, despite my manifold (and manifest) incapacities.  I read a couple of appraisals of myself online this morning that indirectly illustrate just how charitable and forgiving […]

Brigham Young, homicidal tyrant and bully?

    The passing of President M. Russell Ballard of the Twelve represents the departure of a long-familiar figure from Church leadership.  He had been a General Authority since 1976 (nearly half a century), and an apostle for thirty-eight years, since 1985.  With his death, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland becomes the senior apostle within the […]

Some thoughts on reading about Brigham Young

    On a message board where harshly negative reviews of the Interpreter Foundation’s as-yet uncompleted film project Six Days in August have been pouring in by the dozens, appraisals of Brigham Young have also been abundant.  Brigham was, it seems, not a decent man.  Indeed, he was a frightening bully and a murderous tyrant. […]

God, Fathers, and Families

    Newly posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:  Preview Video of “Not by Bread Alone: Stories of the Saints in Africa     I found this article unusually interesting:  “It’s Not Politics: Fatherhood Decline Causing Rise of Religious Nones” It reminded me of a column that I originally wrote for the Provo […]

The Jerusalem that Lehi Left

    Up new, today, on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: ““Encircled About Eternally in the Arms of His Love”: The Divine Embrace as a Thematic Symbol of Jesus Christ and His Atonement in the Book of Mormon,” written by Matthew L. Bowen Abstract: This study builds upon Hugh Nibley’s insightful observation that several […]

A note on the politics of archaeology

    “Enthroning the Daughter of Zion: The Coronation Motif of Isaiah 60-62,” in The Temple: Ancient and Restored, written by Carli J. Anderson Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article originally appeared in The Temple: Ancient and Restored, Proceedings of the Second Interpreter Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference “The Temple on Mount […]

“The Man in the Arena,” or “Citizenship in a Republic”

    Up yesterday on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Conference Talks: The Messianic Sacred, Not Secret: The Son as a Hidden Name in the Gospel of Mark, originally presented by Jasmin Gimenez Rappleye on Saturday, 7 November 2020, at the Interpreter Foundation’s 2020 Temple on Mount Zion Conference The “Messianic Secret” theory proposes […]