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2023-03-16T13:04:07-06:00

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On the Conversion of Sidney Rigdon

Last updated on: March 16, 2023 at 1:04 pm By Dan Peterson

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On the way over here, I began reading Richard S. Van Wagoner, Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religious Excess (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1994). I’ve intended to read it for a long time. However, I approach it with some degree of wariness, given its subtitle and my impression that its author, the late Richard Van Wagoner (1946-2010), had, well, a complex relationship with the claims of the Restoration. But there hasn’t been a lot of biographical writing... Read more

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2023-03-14T13:52:11-06:00

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We’re unexpectedly back in the land of unending Shalom

Last updated on: March 14, 2023 at 1:52 pm By Dan Peterson

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My wife and I hadn’t expected to be in Israel again this month. We were just here in November, after all, and we’re scheduled to be back again at the very end of October. A relatively short while ago, however, an extended family that I still have not met — we’ll meet them tomorrow, probably at Ben Gurion Airport — asked me to accompany them around the Jerusalem area. So here we are again. At the late date... Read more

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2023-03-13T12:38:49-06:00

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Backgrounding

Last updated on: March 13, 2023 at 12:38 pm By Dan Peterson

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I appreciate very much the attempts of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in recent years — exemplified in such efforts as the Joseph Smith Papers project (which is now being emulated for one of Joseph’s most prominent followers by the private Wilford Woodruff Papers Foundation) and the four-volume Saints series — to educate Church members about their history. Such education is, in my judgment, not only valuable in and of itself but very helpful as... Read more

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2023-03-12T13:10:17-06:00

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“Blessed are the peacemakers”

Last updated on: March 12, 2023 at 1:10 pm By Dan Peterson

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“Blessed are the peacemakers,” Jesus declares in Matthew 5:9,” for they shall be called the children of God.” Plainly, the Lord desires peace, and he dislikes contentiousness. It is very significant, in that light, that the Restoration begins in a response to a time of contention. Listen, with that in mind, to the account given by the Prophet Joseph Smith: Some time in the second year after our removal to Manchester, there was in the place where we... Read more

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The Book of Mormon, Mesoamerica, and Me

Last updated on: March 12, 2023 at 10:05 am By Dan Peterson

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For an unpleasant few days recently, a zealous and pseudonymous advocate of the “Heartland” model for the geography of the Book of Mormon was active in the comments section of this blog. His not particularly convincing approach was to call me stupid and incompetent, to insult many of my best friends, to predict that I will be severely punished in the next life for my failure to share his geographical ideas, and to accuse me of having stolen... Read more

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2023-03-10T13:18:49-07:00

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In the Land of the Long White Cloud

Last updated on: March 10, 2023 at 1:18 pm By Dan Peterson

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A new article, this one a review article, has been published in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “In New Zealand: Even More Faithful Latter-day Saints,” written by Louis C. Midgley Review of Selwyn Kātene, ed., Let Their Light So Shine: Mormon Leaders in New Zealand (Wellington, NZ: Huia Publishers, 2021). “Foreword” by Charles A. Rudd (pp. vii–viii); “Preface” by Peter Lineham (p. ix–x); “Introduction” by Selwyn Kātene (pp. 1–3); “Contributors” (pp. 215–18); “Glossary” (and “Mormon Terms”)... Read more

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2023-03-10T13:52:44-07:00

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“Joseph Smith and the Architecture of Genesis”

Last updated on: March 10, 2023 at 1:52 pm By Dan Peterson

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More than a few of you, I think, will find this enjoyable: Conference Talks: “Joseph Smith and the Architecture of Genesis,” presented by David Calabro Dr. Calabro’s interesting remarks were originally delivered on 25 October 2014 at the Interpreter Foundation’s 2014 Temple on Mount Zion Conference. And, speaking of Genesis, how about a visit to Eden? The folks at Bountiful Travel want me to mention this trip so that people out there will be aware of... Read more

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2023-03-08T12:38:33-07:00

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You should probably sit down for this

Last updated on: March 8, 2023 at 12:38 pm By Dan Peterson

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But, first, these items are (relatively) newly up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Interpreter Radio Show — February 26, 2023 The 26 February 2023 installment of the Interpreter Radio Show is now available at your convenience, at no charge, and for your listening pleasure. Moreover, it has been freed from commercial and other interruptions, so that your enjoyment may be unalloyed. In this episode, Steve Densley and Mark Johnson are joined by Jan Francisco and... Read more

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2023-03-07T19:31:41-07:00

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A sentient puddle comes out in favor of cosmic “fine-tuning”

Last updated on: March 7, 2023 at 7:31 pm By Dan Peterson

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Recently, I’ve published four blog posts — see my “An initial survey of the “four fundamental forces” and the “cosmological constant” and “Initial Conditions and ‘Brute Facts’” and “Local” Planetary Conditions and “Three More “Local Planetary Conditions”” — that have been based on the online “List of Fine-Tuning Parameters” posted by Jay W. Richards. These four blog posts represent an initial pass through a topic that interests me very much and that, should I continue to survive past my sell-by date,... Read more

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2023-03-08T23:12:38-07:00

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Fear and Loathing in a Very Strange Place

Last updated on: March 8, 2023 at 11:12 pm By Dan Peterson

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There is virtual certainty over at the Peterson Obsession Board that Stephen Smoot, going by the pseudonym of “Peter Pan,” is the author and proprietor of the invaluable Neville-Neville Land blog. But I know for a fact that he is not. Up until about two years ago (or thereabouts) I myself was unaware of the identity of the blog’s proprietor, although I suspected that it was someone in my circle of acquaintances. At that point, “Peter Pan” identified... Read more

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