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“We Absolutely Fell in Love with the People”

    Two new Interpreter Foundation videos have now been posted online.  I think that some of you will find them of interest.  Personally, I found them moving: ““We Absolutely Fell in Love with the People”: A New Short Film About Africa with Elder and Sister Renlund” ““You Can Take Your Hand Off Africa Now”: […]

Brigham Young, and the Church’s emergence in Africa

    My wife and I met yesterday with Mark Goodman and Russell Richins, who are, respectively, the director and producer of the Interpreter Foundation’s current Six Days in August film project.  For the first time, we saw some of the footage from recent filming in Ontario and New York and at the LDS Motion […]

“After Death”

    Last night, my wife and I attended a screening in one of our local theaters of the film After Death. , which, by the way, is distributed by Angel Studies, the Utah Valley operation that also distributes The Chosen and Sound of Freedom.  I commend After Death to you.  It introduces and features […]

Insights into a flawed but very great man

    After our visit to the Churchill War Rooms in London the other day, I bought a copy of Boris Johnson’s The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2014).  Boris Johnson was himself the, umm, colorful and controversial prime minister of the United Kingdom and leader of the Conservative […]

“Degrees of Glory: A Brief History of Heaven and Graded Salvation”

    Well, we’re back.  For a little while.  (Fairly soon, we plan to be off for visits with far-flung members of our family both at home and abroad.  This additional travel will drive my most obsessive critics berserk with rage, of course, but, candidly, I value my family more than I value the opinions […]

Preparing to head off across the Atlantic

    We will shortly board a jet airliner to return from our truncated trip to the Middle East.  We were scheduled to lead discrete tours to Türkeye (on behalf of the Interpreter Foundation) and Egypt and Israel.  For rather obvious reasons, the tour to Israel had to be cancelled.  I would have cancelled it […]

“Noises Off”

    We’re just back from a matinee performance of Michael Frayn’s Noises Off at the Theatre Royal Haymarket.  To the best of my recollection, I’ve seen only two plays by Michael Frayn, and they are about as different as could possibly be conceived.  I’ve seen Noises Off twice before, I think, and it’s about […]

Hanging Out with Sir Winston, Just 78 Years Too Late

    I’m not sure that I called this Meridian Magazine article of mine to your attention, although it was published roughly two weeks ago:  “What Are the Seven Churches in the Revelation of John?” It isn’t coincidental that the article appeared at roughly the same time that I was actually visiting the churches addressed […]

Correcting errors

    Halloween is nearly upon us — here in England as well as in the colonies — so some of you might find this article of interest that my late and much lamented friend Bill Hamblin and I published in the Deseret News back in 2015:  “Are Halloween’s roots evil and satanic?” And, speaking […]

A road not taken

    Just back in from a leisurely stroll with my wife along the south bank of the River Thames near Blackfriars Bridge and the Tate Modern.  As the evening came in and the lights went on, the view across to St. Paul’s Cathedral and to the new skyscrapers to its east was absolutely gorgeous.  […]