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2026-04-15T11:45:01-06:00

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Lighting the Cody Wyoming Temple

Last updated on: April 15, 2026 at 11:45 am By Dan Peterson

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A new item went up today on the still completely dead and perpetually unchanging website of the Interpreter Foundation: “Come, Follow Me — Old Testament Study and Teaching Helps (2026): April 20-26: Exodus 19-20; 24; 31-34 — “All that the Lord hath spoken we will do” And don’t forget to stay current with, or to catch up on, the series of weekly Becoming Brigham mini-documentaries that the Interpreter Foundation is producing in cooperation with Redbrick Filmworks. All of the... Read more

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2026-04-13T17:51:12-06:00

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We definitely didn’t elect a mere choirboy.

Last updated on: April 13, 2026 at 5:51 pm By Dan Peterson

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“I did post it, and I thought it was me as a doctor, and had to do with the Red Cross, as a Red Cross worker there, which we support,” President Trump told reporters outside of the Oval Office. But isn’t it maybe reminiscent of Jesus Christ? “Only the fake news could come up with that one,” Mr. Trump continued. “I just heard about it, and I said how did they come up with that? It’s supposed to be... Read more

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2026-04-13T00:46:21-06:00

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Our Need for a Savior

Last updated on: April 13, 2026 at 12:46 am By Dan Peterson

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This weekend was our stake conference. It was a big one, too: Our long-time stake presidency was released and a new presidency was announced. Our visiting authorities were Elder Michael Cziesla, a General Authority Seventy from Germany, and Elder Helton C. Vecchi, an Area Seventy originally from Brazil. Once again, I was struck by the increasing internationalism of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. When I was younger, a Utah stake conference presided over — and a new... Read more

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2026-04-11T22:49:19-06:00

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For my Mother, twenty-one years on

Last updated on: April 11, 2026 at 10:49 pm By Dan Peterson

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My mother died twenty-one years ago today, 11 April 2005, just one day after her birthday. We had strawberries and chocolate tonight, in her honor. And, conforming to my annual tradition, I repost here the remarks that I delivered (very, very poorly) at her funeral back in 2005. It’s not much. It’s not anything, really. But it’s an attempt, grossly inadequate, at a tribute to her. An utterly insufficient attempt to tell her “Thanks.” My very earliest memories of... Read more

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2026-04-12T12:43:45-06:00

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Dangerous Idiocy

Last updated on: April 12, 2026 at 12:43 pm By Dan Peterson

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Yet again this morning I encountered the claim online that Islam isn’t really a religion. It’s actually, so today’s anonymous commenter said, a political ideology that seeks world domination. This is mere depressing nonsense, of course — although, it seems to me, there is method in the madness (at least in some iterations). The goal for some seems to be to prepare the ground for either stripping Muslims of the First Amendment rights that are constitutionally assigned to the... Read more

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2026-04-10T16:36:00-06:00

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Unto the Isles of the Sea

Last updated on: April 10, 2026 at 4:36 pm By Dan Peterson

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A new article, written by Professor Matthew L. Bowen, went up earlier today on the never-changing website of the Interpreter Foundation: ““The Travail of His Soul”: The Narratological Use of Isaiah’s Suffering Servant Typology in Mosiah 14–24” (Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 68 [2026]: 289-310): Abstract: The narrative account of Abinadi, king Noah and his priests, and Alma1—the lone believer in Abinadi’s words among Noah’s priests—ends with Alma1’s people being brought into bondage by the... Read more

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2026-04-10T15:35:28-06:00

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Historical notes about England and Hawaii

Last updated on: April 10, 2026 at 3:35 pm By Dan Peterson

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Next month, along with Kristine Wardle Frederickson of the Interpreter Foundation’s board of directors and the well-known English Latter-day Saint tour guide Peter Fagg, my wife and I will be accompanying an Interpreter Foundation study tour in England: Church History and Great Britain with the Interpreter Foundation 2026. I’m pleased, in that light and just generally, to be able to note that Peter’s Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Book 1: LDS Preston is now available as a Kindle... Read more

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2026-04-09T16:18:41-06:00

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“To boldly go where no man has gone before”

Last updated on: April 9, 2026 at 4:18 pm By Dan Peterson

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I think that it’s time to celebrate what the Artemis II mission has already accomplished and to pray for the crew’s safe return to Earth. So my photographic theme for (most of) this blog entry is images of Earth and the Moon taken from the Orion spacecraft. This chapter “reprint” — the concept of republishing a chapter is apparently a difficult one that, several years ago, sent a reader into a period of almost hysterical confusion, so please try... Read more

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2026-04-07T14:25:17-06:00

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“A whole civilization will die tonight”

Last updated on: April 7, 2026 at 2:25 pm By Dan Peterson

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“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” President Donald J. Trump declared on Truth Social. “I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.” He has set a deadline for the leaders of Iran to reach a settlement with the United States by 8 PM, eastern time, this evening. As someone who taught elements of Persian history, art, architecture, literature, and philosophy throughout my career, I have to admit that I very much... Read more

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2026-04-06T11:59:29-06:00

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There is a God

Last updated on: April 6, 2026 at 11:59 am By Dan Peterson

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This thirty-seven-minute discussion with Avram and Thora Shannon was posted on Saturday: Conversations with Interpreter: Daniel Peterson and Becoming Brigham This episode features Dr. Daniel C. Peterson, professor emeritus and president of the Interpreter Foundation. Dr. Peterson discusses the exciting new web series Becoming Brigham, which presents a fuller picture of the person and ministry of Brigham Young than is sometimes presented in our broader discourse. Although definitely a product of the Nineteenth Century, the historical evidence shows that... Read more

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