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2026-08-29T01:44:58-06:00

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“Who is the Real Jacques Derrida?” And Paradise Regained?

Last updated on: August 29, 2026 at 1:44 am By Dan Peterson

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This article, written by James E. Faulconer, went up earlier today at Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 69 (2026): 467-504: “Who is the Real Jacques Derrida?” Abstract: Jacques Derrida and deconstruction are frequently invoked, by both admirers and critics, as arguing for relativism, denying stable meaning, and dissolving the possibility of truth. This essay argues that such characterizations misunderstand Derrida’s project. Beginning with Nietzsche’s diagnosis of the collapse of the metaphysical foundations of Western thought... Read more

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2026-08-28T09:54:16-06:00

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A partial timeline for Persia

Last updated on: August 28, 2026 at 9:54 am By Dan Peterson

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Newly posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: The Interpreter Insights Podcast — August 27, 2026: Terry Hutchinson and Dan Peterson — In the August 27, 2026, 2026 episode of The Interpreter Insights Podcast, our host Terry Hutchinson interviews the President of The Interpreter Foundation, Dan Peterson, about the Interpreter Foundation’s past year and upcoming projects. I was picked up this morning at 8:45 by our producer, Russ Richins, and I rode up with him and eventually also... Read more

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2026-08-26T20:28:07-06:00

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Without Moroni statues, is the Church rejecting its past?

Last updated on: August 26, 2026 at 8:28 pm By Dan Peterson

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I interrupt my regular blather here to bring you something that is urgently important and that could, conceivably, save a life: It seems that someone’s porch camera picked Brent Benson up walking southward on Orem’s Main Street very near to the border with Provo, or perhaps even already in Provo. Of course, we — certainly I — have no idea where he went after that sighting. Nor can we rule out the possibility that he was picked up by... Read more

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2026-08-25T17:32:24-06:00

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Against Burgeoning Anti-Semitism

Last updated on: August 25, 2026 at 5:32 pm By Dan Peterson

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But, first, an urgent message: I recognize that most of my three readers live nowhere near my neighborhood, but I want to cover all the bases on this matter (I’ve already been out looking under the bushes in my front and back yards, just in case): A member of my ward apparently went out for a walk yesterday around the noon hour and hasn’t been seen since. We’ve been asked to distribute the flyer immediately above, and so I’m... Read more

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2026-08-24T21:49:25-06:00

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How many divine beings appeared in Joseph’s First Vision?

Last updated on: August 24, 2026 at 9:49 pm By Dan Peterson

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The latest installment of the Interpreter Foundation’s Becoming Brigham series is now up: “Lives of Their Own? The Wives of Brigham Young — Becoming Brigham, Episode 31” How did Brigham Young’s rejection of his father’s harsh discipline shape daily life and family rituals in the Lion House? In what concrete ways did women such as Eliza R. Snow exercise leadership and autonomy under Brigham Young? Why do the historians argue that judging Brigham Young solely by modern standards risks... Read more

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2026-08-23T20:49:06-06:00

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Does mind derive from mindless matter?

Last updated on: August 23, 2026 at 8:49 pm By Dan Peterson

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Some time ago, I was sent a copy of a 2026 self-published book by Evan Farr Smith, entitled Machines without Makers. I’ve been enjoying it, and I want to share with you some passages that, in my opinion, nicely summarized part of an issue that interests me: If intelligence is the product of non-intelligence, then awareness must come from processes that contain no awareness at all. That is not something we observe anywhere. (16) Here, the author refers in... Read more

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2026-08-22T19:08:39-06:00

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“A cloud as small as a man’s hand is rising from the sea.”

Last updated on: August 22, 2026 at 7:08 pm By Dan Peterson

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Newly posted today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: “Conversations with Interpreter: Spencer Kraus: Transliteration in the Book of Mormon and Other Translations” This episode of Conversations with Interpreter explores Spencer Kraus’s article, “A Closer Look at Transliteration in Divine Translations.” Kraus picks up the question about transliterated words like ziff in the Book of Mormon. Because the Book of Mormon was translated by “the gift and power of God,” it can raise questions about why words like... Read more

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2026-08-21T20:39:52-06:00

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“Nephi’s Temple Hymn”

Last updated on: August 21, 2026 at 8:39 pm By Dan Peterson

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A new article, written by Nelson Chung, appeared today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 69 (2026): 451-466, under the title of “Progressing through Gradations of Holiness in the Temple: 2 Nephi 4:32–35 as a Hymn Inspired by Ritual.” Abstract: Sidney Sperry identified 2 Nephi 4:15–35 as “Nephi’s Psalm.” Using form-critical analysis, Matthew Nickerson classified it as a personal lament psalm. In this article, I build on biblical turns of phrase, imagery, symbolism, and the... Read more

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2026-08-20T21:57:38-06:00

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Thinking about D-Day, of course!

Last updated on: August 20, 2026 at 9:57 pm By Dan Peterson

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Newly posted today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: The Interpreter Insights Podcast — August 20, 2026: Terry Hutchinson and Dan Peterson — Part 1: In the August 20, 2026, 2026 episode of The Interpreter Insights Podcast, our host Terry Hutchinson interviews the President of The Interpreter Foundation, Dan Peterson, about volumes 7 & 8 of the Interpreter Journal, the Interpreter birthday and its accomplishments in the past year, including information about the Becoming Brigham video series. Barring... Read more

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2026-08-19T19:32:48-06:00

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In my best fourteenth-century English

Last updated on: August 19, 2026 at 7:32 pm By Dan Peterson

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My lecture today for the 2026 iteration of BYU Education Week focused on “Figures from the History of British Monasticism.” (My overall series title for the four lectures that I’m slated to deliver is ““After and Before the Apostles: Highlights from British Christian History Between Dispensations.”) Today, I focused on the poet Caedmon, the historian who is known as “The Venerable Bede,” the “Holy Isle” of Lindisfarne and the magnificent Lindisfarne Gospels, St. Anselm of Canterbury (including his conflicts... Read more

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