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Day Two, with Isaiah

    The first presentation at today’s FAIR Conference was “BYU-Pathway: Serving the Hidden Many” from Brian K. Ashton, the president of BYU-Pathway Worldwide.  It was absolutely thrilling.  BYU-Pathway Worldwide (obviously yet another horror drawn from the Christopher Hitchens Memorial “How Religion Poisons Everything” File™) is something of which, I think, all members of the […]

From the floor

    The Interpreter Foundation has been around long enough that, rather in the manner of Turner Classic Movies, it has amassed a considerable library of good materials that are as satisfying today as they were when they first appeared.  Here is one of them, which went up earlier today: “Conference Talks: “By the Blood […]

Oppenheimer

    So, yes, I’ve now seen Oppenheimer.  And yes, it’s very long (though I didn’t feel it so) and, yes, it contains a few minutes of (pretty mundane) nudity and a couple of quite unappealing (and not exactly necessary) sexual episodes. But I liked it very much.  Largely, I suppose, because it covers history […]

Don’t miss out!

    If you’re in Utah or planning to be in Utah between now and sometime in October, you really should stop by the free, full-scale, outdoor “Tabernacle of the Old Testament” exhibit that is running in various locations here.  Currently, in fact, and continuing on through 15 August, the Tabernacle stands on the park […]

“If it isn’t science, it’s fiction”

    I’m sitting on an open-air balcony looking across a golf course up at the mountains during a gentle but solid rain.  The aroma is delicious.  Life can be very good.   The remarks below are based largely though not quite entirely upon Roger Trigg, Does science undermine faith? (London: Society for the Promotion […]

Glimpses of Brigham Young

    Earlier this year, in preparation for sitting down to interview Professor Alexander in connection with the Interpreter Foundation’s Six Days in August film project, I re-read Thomas G. Alexander, Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019).  That interview with him — he’s been a friend of ours […]

Not a prudent move, but a brilliantly successful one

    Some of you, I think, will enjoy this:  “How to watch the Tabernacle Choir’s pilot of ‘Music & the Spoken Word’ in Spanish: The Spanish pilot of the Tabernacle Choir’s ‘Music & the Spoken Word’ airs Sunday, July 30” There is much food for thought in the survey data reported here.  I’m not […]

“Nephi’s Eight Years in the ‘Wilderness'”

    “Nephi’s Eight Years in the “Wilderness”:  Reconsidering Definitions and Details,” written by Godfrey J. Ellis Abstract: A traditional reading of Nephi’s chronicle of the trek through Arabia relies heavily on two verses in 1 Nephi 17. In verse 4, Nephi states that they “did sojourn for the space of many years, yea, even […]

Cosmology and Cosmic Design, Again

  “2023 FAIR Conference: Ticket sales close on July 28! Save your spot now!“   I disagreed fairly comprehensively with what I knew of her views on politics and religion, but I did and do love her rendition of “Nothing Compares 2 U”:  “Singer, activist Sinead O’Connor has died at the age of 56: O’Connor, […]

Does faith in God require rational arguments?

    Newly posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation “Conference Talks: The Future Isn’t What It Used to Be,” originally presented by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw on Saturday, 12 March 2016, at the 2016 Second Interpreter Science & Mormonism Symposium: Body, Brain, Mind, and Spirit. Moreover, two new items went up yesterday on the […]