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2026-10-15T10:35:03-06:00

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Learning more about a region of which I’ve known little

Last updated on: October 15, 2026 at 10:35 am By Dan Peterson

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Yet another newly posted item has appeared from the never-changing and essentially dead Interpreter Foundation: “Trailer for Epis0de 39 — Mud! Down payment on an Exodus?” It lasts thirty-six (36) seconds, which is probably a manageable length even for busy readers of this blog:: Everywhere it’s mud and sickness, but unless Brigham Young and the Twelve can show they’re leaving Nauvoo, the restored Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will be “blown to the Seven Winds.” And be... Read more

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2026-10-14T15:31:49-06:00

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From Serbia’s “White City,” Belgrade

Last updated on: October 14, 2026 at 3:31 pm By Dan Peterson

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Have you watched our latest installment yet? It’s entitled “Sacrifice For What? — Becoming Brigham Episode 38.” In other, slightly related, news: I was absolutely delighted when the news — to me, quite unexpected — was announced that Brigham Young University would be launching a medical school, and I continue to be thrilled at new developments. Here are two of the most recent: “BYU’s School of Medicine takes major step forward, receives preliminary accreditation: The school is now authorized... Read more

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2026-10-13T15:45:55-06:00

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Accounts of Premortality?

Last updated on: October 13, 2026 at 3:45 pm By Dan Peterson

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It’s been a very, very long day, and, quite unaccountably, I’ve just lost the blog entry that I was about to post. Frustrating! So I think that I’ll share a few more passages that I marked while reading P.M.H. Atwater, The Big Book of Near-Death Experiences: The Ultimate Guide to What Happens When We Die (Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing Company, 2007). As I’ve noted here already, P.M.H. Atwater herself died about three months ago, at the age... Read more

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2026-10-12T14:10:59-06:00

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King St. Stephen of Hungary

Last updated on: October 12, 2026 at 2:10 pm By Dan Peterson

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The latest installment of Becoming Brigham is now up for your viewing pleasure and edification: “Sacrifice for What?—Episode 38.” Be sure to watch it! For that matter, be sure to share it with friends, family, ward members, business associates, fellow workers, wrong-number callers, telemarketers, Jehovah’s Witnesses at your door, and puzzled perfect strangers who are stopped alongside you at red traffic lights. I’m ambivalent about the death penalty. As long as the evidence for their guilt is conclusive and... Read more

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2026-10-11T15:17:11-06:00

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Violence and the Sacred

Last updated on: October 11, 2026 at 3:17 pm By Dan Peterson

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Times and dates become a bit confused when one is on the road and several time zones from home. That doesn’t excuse my lapse, but it helps to explain why I’ve failed to call attention to this new item by Kevin Christensen that appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 70 (2026): 85-90: Review of Alan Goff, A Stop to the Shedding of Blood: The Book of Mormon, Violence, and the Sacred (Draper, UT: Common... Read more

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2026-10-12T10:38:17-06:00

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Notes on Women, Priesthood, and General Conference

Last updated on: October 12, 2026 at 10:38 am By Dan Peterson

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A few days ago, I saw a comment from a critic of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints about the just-concluded October general conference of the Church. He pointed out — and I’ll assume that his count is correct — that only three of the conference’s thirty-seven speakers were female, and used this to illustrate the Church’s devaluation of women. There is no serious question that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is, in some... Read more

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2026-10-09T11:43:41-06:00

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“America’s Most Neighborly City”? It’s not in Switzerland

Last updated on: October 9, 2026 at 11:43 am By Dan Peterson

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Once again, we haven’t made our way down to the city of Bern. (It’s about an hour from where we’re staying.) I don’t come to Switzerland for its cities, frankly, but I’m relatively fond of Bern. I like its Old City and its cathedral and the park adjacent to the cathedral with its dramatic view of the Aare River, and I would love to go again to the temple in Zollikofen, which is a suburb of Bern. Someday I’ll... Read more

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2026-10-08T04:40:11-06:00

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“The Book of Moses as a Temple Text”

Last updated on: October 8, 2026 at 4:40 am By Dan Peterson

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I think that I failed to mention a couple of still-new items that have recently been posted on the website of the essentially dead and never-changing Interpreter Foundation. In my own defense, I plead that I’m overseas, out of sync with any American time zone, still residually jet-lagged, and not as often in front of my computer as I usually am, In any case, here are a couple of pieces that have lately appeared on the Foundation’s website: “Reprint:... Read more

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2026-10-07T14:48:21-06:00

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A Place Charged with Memory

Last updated on: October 7, 2026 at 2:48 pm By Dan Peterson

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It took many years, but I was finally able to show my beloved Switzerland to my late brother and his late wife. (Strictly speaking, he was my half-brother — hence the different last name — but he was my only sibling and we were, I think, exceptionally close.) They enjoyed it so much that we eventually did it a second time. On one of those trips, we drove up to the Grimsel Pass. It was literally a dark and... Read more

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2026-10-06T11:44:56-06:00

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From up above . . .

Last updated on: October 6, 2026 at 11:44 am By Dan Peterson

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We drove up to Lauterbrunnen today, past Trümmelbach and all the way to Stechelberg at the end of the valley. When I first saw it, I immediately thought that Lauterbrunnen was exactly how I pictured Rivendell, the Valley of the Elves, in The Lord of the Rings. It was only many years later that I learned that J. R. R. Tolkien had, in fact, based Rivendell, the home of Elrond, on Lauterbrunnen. It is absolute perfection. Then we turned... Read more

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