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2026-04-24T21:00:33-06:00

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“A New Reading of Lehi”

Last updated on: April 24, 2026 at 9:00 pm By Dan Peterson

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Today’s new journal article appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 68 (2026) : 371-420: “A New Reading of Lehi: A Rhetorical Context for Understanding His Teachings about the Fall of Adam and Eve,” written by Kelly E. Taylor: Abstract: Based on Lehi’s teachings in 2 Nephi 2, many Latter-day Saints conclude that it was necessary for Adam and Eve to partake of the forbidden fruit to acquire the ability to have children. While this appears... Read more

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2026-04-23T23:37:23-06:00

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Preparing for his birthday

Last updated on: April 23, 2026 at 11:37 pm By Dan Peterson

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I failed to announce it yesterday, but a new “chapter reprint” — not, mind you, a piece pretending to be one of our new journal articles, which go up on Fridays — appeared on the website of the Interpreter Foundation on Wednesday: “Proper Names and Foreign Words in the Book of Abraham,” written by Stephen D. Ricks: Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article originally appeared in Abraham and His Family in Scripture, History, and Tradition, edited by... Read more

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2026-04-22T23:52:54-06:00

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Native Americans and Latter-day Saints in Early Utah

Last updated on: April 22, 2026 at 11:52 pm By Dan Peterson

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Book-length accounts of single near-death experiences are not my preferred means of gaining information on the subject, though I don’t summarily dismiss them. I’m much more inclined to credit short, modest, anonymous accounts provided to reputable researchers by people who didn’t seek their attention and who don’t stand to gain financial profit or notoriety from the reports that they give. Extravagantly detailed narratives and exceedingly didactic or preachy discussions also worry me. Nevertheless, I share with you a couple... Read more

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2026-04-22T00:16:13-06:00

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“Protecting the Symbols of Christ’s Church”

Last updated on: April 22, 2026 at 12:16 am By Dan Peterson

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The lawsuit that has been filed against John Dehlin’s Mormon Stories podcast by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has drawn considerable attention, some of it both confused and negative. Here is a helpful article on the subject by my friend Steve Densley, an attorney who also happens to be the Executive Vice President of the Interpreter Foundation: “Protecting the Symbols of Christ’s Church: How a Trademark Lawsuit Aligns with Prophetic Guidance” There have been hundreds of... Read more

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2026-04-21T00:10:48-06:00

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Another glimpse of my glamorous life as an apologist

Last updated on: April 21, 2026 at 12:10 am By Dan Peterson

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A few of my online critics like to claim that my involvement in apologetics and with the Interpreter Foundation has afforded me a lifestyle of exotic travel and extravagant dining out. And, of course, they’re right: Today is the first of five days devoted to another bout of precisely such fine dining and adventurous sightseeing. With John Donovan Wilson and Camrey Bagley Fox, as well as James Jordan and Russ Richins and Mark Goodman of Redbrick Filmworks — unfortunately,... Read more

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2026-04-19T12:10:34-06:00

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How are we doing?

Last updated on: April 19, 2026 at 12:10 pm By Dan Peterson

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Two weeks after the close of the most recent iteration of General Conference, it’s perhaps time to take a concrete step toward ensuring that what was said there doesn’t altogether fade into complete oblivion. I choose to focus on the Sunday morning remarks of President Dallin H. Oaks, who had been sustained in the previous morning’s solemn assembly as the new president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Not surprisingly, it being Easter Sunday, President Oaks... Read more

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2026-04-18T19:28:26-06:00

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Tomorrow, Out of Africa

Last updated on: April 18, 2026 at 7:28 pm By Dan Peterson

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We took a third-generation unit — whose personal name is redacted here so as to avoid the tender ministrations of some of my more obsessive and unhinged anonymous online critics — to see an afternoon performance today of the Disney musical version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The performance took place at the Hale Centre Theatre in Sandy, Utah, which, as I generally like to point out, is a major local, state, and regional cultural treasure. Many of... Read more

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2026-04-17T15:06:49-06:00

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From the sublime to the monstrous

Last updated on: April 17, 2026 at 3:06 pm By Dan Peterson

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A new article, written by Janet Ewell, went up today on the ne’er-changing website of the Interpreter Foundation: “Gamma Marks: Recent Works Relevant to Their Study” (Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 68 [2026]: 311-370): Abstract: Many are familiar with the so-called gamma marks as they are portrayed on early medieval mosaics in Ravenna and Rome. They appear as right-angle marks, usually with toothed ends, or in a shape like a capital H on the corners of... Read more

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2026-04-17T23:04:06-06:00

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Thoughts from the “Information Age”

Last updated on: April 17, 2026 at 11:04 pm By Dan Peterson

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Here’s some interesting food for thought from There is a God: How to Respond to Atheism in the Last Days, by Hyrum Lewis, who teaches history at BYU-Idaho: From the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, Western nations passed through an industrial era in which machines took over much of humans’ physical work. Accordingly, scientists saw the universe itself as a vast machine in which everything could be understood as matter in motion. Even our bodies were machines, and any talk... Read more

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2026-04-15T16:01:11-06:00

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Feeling small? Just wait!

Last updated on: April 15, 2026 at 4:01 pm By Dan Peterson

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Newly up on the never-changing website of the Interpreter Foundation: “‘That Lineage’: Rival Priesthood Claims in Abraham 1,” in Abraham and His Family in Scripture, History, and Tradition,” written by Avram Shannon: Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article originally appeared in Abraham and His Family in Scripture, History, and Tradition, edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, John S. Thompson, Matthew L. Bowen, and David R. Seely. For more information, go to https://interpreterfoundation.org/books/abraham-and-his-family. “The Book of Abraham is... Read more

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