Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 90

Storming the land to reap the harvest

    The Interpreter Foundation’s small team of filmmakers — Jeffrey Mark Bradshaw, James Jordan, and Russell D. Richins — is now back in Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, after being out in Kisangani and Wagenya, where they had very little Internet.  They spent much of Thursday at a […]

“In This Batter’d Caravanserai”

    My introduction to volume 56 — volume 56! — of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship has now gone up online.  And, as usual, it has gone up in a variety of formats, include audible (read by y’r obt’t servant with the expert technical assistance of Tom Pittman):  “In This […]

Are the New Testament Gospels Worthy of Trust?

    This paper was presented by Nick Frederick on Saturday, 14 March 2015, at an Interpreter Foundation conference on “Exploring the Complexities in the English Language of the Book of Mormon”:  Conference Talks: “Full of grace, mercy, and truth”: Exploring the Complexities of the Presence of the New Testament within the Book of Mormon […]

Seeking “wealth” in the DR Congo

    I’ve watched with amused fascination the responses on the Peterson Obsession Board to my recent post entitled “Hearts of Darkness.”  (“Amused fascination” has been my usual reaction to the PO Board over its fifteen or so years of existence — although, sometimes, when its malicious fictions cross over into libel and slander, my […]

Of Mind and Brain

    As I’ve said, I’m copying out some of the notes that I’ve been taking from my reading over the past while, and I think that some of you might find them of occasional interest.  For this particular blog entry, my theme concerns whether or not mind is wholly reducible to brain. I start […]

Hearts of Darkness

    Another note, inspired by John W . Welch, et al., eds., Knowing Why: 137 Evidences That the Book of Mormon Is True (American Fork: Covenant Communications, 2017), and very relevant to the two Interpreter articles that I mentioned in my blog entry for last Friday: “What Is It to Speak with the Tongue of Angels?”  (143-145) 2 […]

Against dogmatic rigidity

    One of the speakers in our sacrament meeting today referred briefly to the story of John Colter, who appears to have been the first person of European descent to have explored the area of today’s Yellowstone National Park and to have seen the Grand Tetons, and  who is often termed the first of […]

Preliminary notes on faith

    I think that I failed to mention this item when it first appeared on Wednesday.  It was first delivered on Saturday, 14 March 2015, during the Interpreter Foundation’s 2015 conference on Exploring the Complexities in the English Language of the Book of Mormon: Conference Talks:  “Charity, Priest, and Church versus Love, Elder, and […]

A note on the historical reliability of the New Testament gospels

    I discovered late last night that a lengthy interview that I did a few weeks back for the Ireland-based podcast Mormonism with the Murph is now up on line, in two parts: “Evidence for the Book of Mormon with Dan Peterson” “Responding to criticisms against the Book of Mormon with Dan Peterson”   […]

Notes on Brigham Young

    But, first, a new piece of mine appeared yesterday in Meridian Magazine:  “Enduring Lessons from the Raising of Lazarus.”  I hope that you’ll see some value in it.   ***   I’m copying out, for my notes, passages that struck me while re-reading Eugene England, Brother Brigham (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1980), some […]