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2026-07-01T14:18:07-06:00

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Last updated on: July 1, 2026 at 2:18 pm By Dan Peterson

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I’m pleased to report that a full audio recording of John Donovan Wilson’s interview with Sam Weston is now available at BecomingBrigham.com: On the 4th of April 2025, we recorded a conversation between Sam Weston and John Donovan Wilson, one of our hosts. It looks into the accusation by some—it’s one that crops up from time to time—that Brigham Young (Brigham Young!), orchestrated the killing of Joseph and Hyrum Smith. Through careful testing and analysis, Sam explains why he... Read more

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2026-06-30T15:14:24-06:00

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Mandatory Bible reading in Texas public schools?

Last updated on: June 30, 2026 at 3:14 pm By Dan Peterson

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I call your attention, once again, to our series of Becoming Brigham videos. The latest of them (Becoming Brigham, Episode 23 — Brigham Young Was Sent Away from Leadership?) is up online now and, as always, it’s brief, manageable, accessible, and open to viewing at no charge. What is there to lose? You can do difficult things. Watch it. As we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we should take the opportunity to reflect upon our... Read more

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2026-06-30T14:05:09-06:00

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Fire, Fireworks, the Fourth, the Twenty-Fourth, and Prudence

Last updated on: June 30, 2026 at 2:05 pm By Dan Peterson

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The latest installment of our Becoming Brigham series is now available online: “Becoming Brigham, Episode 23 — Brigham Young Was Sent Away from Leadership?” As always, it’s accessible at no charge. You are, though, entirely welcome to make a supporting donation to the Interpreter Foundation. It would be much appreciated, and it would be put to good and efficient use — as is the volunteer labor that is responsible for much of what we do. (Only seventy-eight percent of... Read more

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2026-06-28T19:37:42-06:00

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“Praise to the Man”

Last updated on: June 28, 2026 at 7:37 pm By Dan Peterson

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About a month after the martyrdom of the Prophet Joseph Smith, his friend and associate William Wines Phelps (1792–1872) penned a heartfelt tribute to him. It was eventually set to a famous Scottish folk melody that is most familiar, outside of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as “Scotland the Brave.” (You can listen to it here, in a recording from a recent General Conference of the Church by the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square: “Praise to... Read more

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2026-06-27T22:40:11-06:00

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“An Early Christian Context for the Book of Moses”?

Last updated on: June 27, 2026 at 10:40 pm By Dan Peterson

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I hope that at least some of you will enjoy this installment of Conversations with Interpreter: David Calabro: “An Early Christian Context for the Book of Moses.” It features Thora Florence Shannon, Avram R. Shannon, and their guest, David M. Calabro: In this episode of Conversations with Interpreter, Avram and Thora interview David Calabro about his intriguing article where he argues that there is an underlying Christian ritual context for the Book of Moses. This article, entitled “An Early... Read more

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2026-06-26T17:40:13-06:00

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Faith, Doubt, and “Caractors”

Last updated on: June 26, 2026 at 5:40 pm By Dan Peterson

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Two new articles appeared today in the journal of the Interpreter Foundation, each of them accompanied by a helpful and concise “Interpreting Interpreter” summary that has been prepared by the invaluable Kyler Rasmussen: The first is “The Opposite of Faith Is not Doubt: The Spiritual Gift of Doubt,” which was written by Caleb Lemon and which appears in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 69 (2026): 99-118: Abstract: Doubt is not the opposite of faith but functions... Read more

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2026-06-25T19:00:11-06:00

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Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.

Last updated on: June 25, 2026 at 7:00 pm By Dan Peterson

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The principal theme of our filming this week, although not the only one, was the infamous mass murder that occurred in southern Utah on 11 September 1857. A fairly vigorous discussion has ensued in the wake of my Tuesday evening blog entry, “On the Massacre at Mountain Meadows,” and I call your attention to the comments there. One critic has posted a number of times to contradict my expressed judgment that theology, as such, had little or nothing to... Read more

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2026-06-24T23:27:00-06:00

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St. George, at Its Core

Last updated on: June 24, 2026 at 11:27 pm By Dan Peterson

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Apart from a few minutes directly in front of it, we spent the morning and the afternoon today filming inside the St. George Tabernacle, up on the speaker’s stand — where prophets and apostles have spoken from Brigham Young’s time down to the present day. Our discussion focused on a special conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that was convened in August 1852. The conference obviously didn’t convene in the Tabernacle in St. George, on... Read more

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2026-06-25T14:29:00-06:00

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On the Massacre at Mountain Meadows

Last updated on: June 25, 2026 at 2:29 pm By Dan Peterson

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These study notes for students and teachers of the Sunday School curriculum of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, generously provided by Jonn Claybaugh for the next appropriate lesson, went up earlier today on the notoriously unchanging website of the Interpreter Foundation: Come, Follow Me — Old Testament Study and Teaching Helps — June 29-July 5, 2026: 1 Kings 12-13; 17-22 — “If the Lord Be God, Follow Him” We spent the day filming for our Becoming... Read more

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2026-06-22T20:24:21-06:00

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Of violence and a violent storm

Last updated on: June 22, 2026 at 8:24 pm By Dan Peterson

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The latest installment of the Interpreter Foundation’s series of mini-documentary videos has now appeared: Becoming Brigham Episode 22: “Out of the Storm”: How did God dramatically protect Zion’s Camp from a violent mob? Why did the Lord call Zion’s Camp a success even though they didn’t redeem Zion or fight any battles? How did the hardships of Zion’s Camp transform Brigham Young and prepare him to lead the Saints westward? This episode concludes the story of Zion’s Camp, the... Read more

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