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2024-01-07T12:30:42-07:00

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One of the greatest of all logicians on life after death

Last updated on: January 7, 2024 at 12:30 pm By Dan Peterson

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First of all, I need to explain that, for the next ten days or so, I will have limited and only occasional access to the internet and, for three of those days, very possibly none at all. So my ability to interact with people in the comments section to this blog, and to respond to emails, will be sharply restricted. That said, it’s good to be back in London again, even if for only a couple of days (at... Read more

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2024-01-06T11:22:06-07:00

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But why?

Last updated on: January 6, 2024 at 11:22 am By Dan Peterson

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Here is something from more than twelve years ago that you might find helpful as you begin your “Come, Follow Me” study of the Book of Mormon this year: “Learn more about the Book of Mormon witnesses: Read short biographies of each of the Three Witnesses and the Eight Witnesses” And please take a moment to browse through these items from the Church website, as well: “Church distributes 200 millionth copy of the Book of Mormon: ‘What is the Book of... Read more

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2024-01-05T13:32:44-07:00

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“Converging on Nahom”

Last updated on: January 5, 2024 at 1:32 pm By Dan Peterson

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Two new articles went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: “The Nahom Convergence Reexamined: The Eastward Trail, Burial of the Dead, and the Ancient Borders of Nihm,” written by Neal Rappleye Abstract: For decades, several Latter-day Saint scholars have maintained that there is a convergence between the location of Nahom in the Book of Mormon and the Nihm region of Yemen. To establish whether there really is such a convergence, I set out to reexamine where... Read more

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2024-01-05T10:12:24-07:00

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Cornucopia

Last updated on: January 5, 2024 at 10:12 am By Dan Peterson

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This just went up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: “The Temple: Ancient and Restored: ‘The Cosmic Mountain in Islamic Tradition,'” written by Daniel C. Peterson 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 Zion,” 25 October 2014 (2016) edited by Stephen D. Ricks and Donald W. Parry. For more information, go to https://interpreterfoundation.org/books/the-temple-ancient-and-restored/. And these new... Read more

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2024-01-03T16:46:29-07:00

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Every Member A Missionary: Here’s Some Important Help

Last updated on: January 3, 2024 at 4:46 pm By Dan Peterson

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For Christmas, a neighbor gave us a new book by her brother. The book is Gary C. Lawrence, Millions Believe As We Do, But Haven’t Yet Found the Church: Conversation Ideas from a National Poll. Gary Lawrence is an active Latter-day Saint — currently, I believe, an ordinance worker in the Newport Beach California Temple — and a professional public opinion researcher (with a B.A. in political science from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. in public affairs communication... Read more

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2024-01-02T19:13:09-07:00

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“I’ve seen them both, and they’re not the same.”

Last updated on: January 2, 2024 at 7:13 pm By Dan Peterson

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I’ve recently shared three or four passages here with you from Hadley Vlahos, The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life’s Final Moments (New York: Ballantine Books, 2023). Here’s another one that I really liked, and that I think you might find interesting, as well: I’ve seen just as many patients who aren’t religious and don’t believe in an afterlife have end-of-life visitations from loved ones as I have those who do believe in a life after this one. Having said... Read more

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2024-01-01T16:37:17-07:00

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“The In-Between”

Last updated on: January 1, 2024 at 4:37 pm By Dan Peterson

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As I mentioned in a recent blog entry, somebody in Modesto, California — I don’t know who it was — sent me a copy of a small and very accessible book a few days before Christmas: Hadley Vlahos, The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life’s Final Moments (New York: Ballantine Books, 2023). Ms. Vlahos is a still-young R.N., born and raised in Florida (I think) and still based there, and specifically a hospice nurse who attends to people who are... Read more

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2023-12-31T18:57:35-07:00

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Toward Lives Well-Lived

Last updated on: December 31, 2023 at 6:57 pm By Dan Peterson

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Our last church meetings of 2023 were, I thought, quite good. Our first sacrament meeting speaker today was a young woman from our ward who has interrupted her studies at Brigham Young University to accept a call to the Chile Antofagasta Mission. She spoke quite well and will, I think, be a wonderful missionary. Our bishop then spoke for the remainder of the meeting, making quite a strong plea for older people to serve as senior missionaries. (More... Read more

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2023-12-30T15:35:40-07:00

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God knows and speaks to individuals

Last updated on: December 30, 2023 at 3:35 pm By Dan Peterson

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I would like to commend two recent blog entries by the redoubtable Jeff Lindsay to your attention. It seems particularly fitting to do so as we’re about to enter a new year for the “Come, Follow Me” curriculum of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a curriculum that will be focused on the Book of Mormon: “Nephi’s Three-day Journey into the Wilderness: The Natural vs. the Naturalistic Reading” “The Glue of Forgiveness and the Anti-Nephi-Lehies (the People... Read more

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2023-12-30T11:40:41-07:00

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An attempt at a reminder

Last updated on: December 30, 2023 at 11:40 am By Dan Peterson

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My day yesterday (Friday) was completely booked, from morning until late at night, and I posted nothing. Which means that I failed to note that a new article appeared yesterday in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship. And it was just a bit unusual: For the first time in the history of the Interpreter Foundation, I think, someone other than, well, me wrote an introduction for a volume of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and... Read more

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