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2024-10-20T21:17:36-06:00

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Once More, Can There Be Any Valid Criticisms of the Church?

Last updated on: October 20, 2024 at 9:17 pm By Dan Peterson

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I saw this title (or something like it) on a Latter-day Saint-related message board. I never read through the thread there and, now, I probably wouldn’t be able to find it. But I once posted something on this subject and have been attacked ever since for what I said, by people who plainly didn’t understand what I said. So I thought, What the heck? I’ll try it again. Yes, there can be valid criticisms of the Church. Both of... Read more

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2024-10-19T16:57:39-06:00

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Getting the word out, or not

Last updated on: October 19, 2024 at 4:57 pm By Dan Peterson

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At this point, I’m pretty sure that you regret having spent last night watching that boring and utterly predictable football game between BYU and Oklahoma State when, instead, you could have been in the audience for a screening of Six Days in August. And, of course, you have nobody to blame for that but yourself. Fortunately, though, you still have a shot at redemption. Go see it today! I jest but, candidly, turnout for Six Days in August has... Read more

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The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives

2024-10-18T19:13:56-06:00

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A “Mormon Village” in Poland?

Last updated on: October 18, 2024 at 7:13 pm By Dan Peterson

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Thanks to the generosity of FAIR, I was able to record a couple of video interviews this afternoon in their American Fork studio. One was with Samuel T. Wilkinson, author of the superb book Purpose: What Evolution and Human Nature Imply about the Meaning of Our Existence. The other was with Ben Spackman. Both revolved around questions of biological evolution and faith. I’ll let you know when they go up. Professor Wilkinson gave an excellent lecture yesterday on the... Read more

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2024-10-17T13:03:54-06:00

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The horror!

Last updated on: October 17, 2024 at 1:03 pm By Dan Peterson

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Have you seen Six Days in August yet today? You’ve already lost the morning. What are you waiting for? You can find the locations where it is currently playing on the film’s official website: Six Days in August At my request, my friend Thomas G. Alexander, Lemuel Hardison Redd, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Western History at Brigham Young University and author of biographies of Brigham Young and Wilford Woodruff, wrote the following in connection with the overall Six Days... Read more

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2024-10-16T17:16:06-06:00

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Misrepresenting the Lone Mountain Nevada Temple, Etc.

Last updated on: October 16, 2024 at 5:16 pm By Dan Peterson

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Russ Richins, the producer for Six Days in August, and I traveled up to Ogden yesterday to record an interview with Sen. John D. Johnson for PoliticIt. I’m not sure whether PoliticIt has ever done a non-political podcast before, but ours was definitely not political. It was — surprise! — about Six Days in August. I can already sense your breathless anticipation; I’ll let you know when it’s out. Incidentally, Six Days in August received a B+ from What... Read more

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2024-10-15T11:59:47-06:00

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Reducing the Witnesses’ Testimony

Last updated on: October 15, 2024 at 11:59 am By Dan Peterson

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If I’m not mistaken, at least some of the movie theaters in my area offer discount ticket prices on Tuesdays. If that’s true, today — Tuesday — would be a remarkably good day to go see Six Days in August, or to go to see it a second time, or to watch it a third time, or to treat your children to it (you can buy tickets for them, or for friends or cousins, at a distance), or to... Read more

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The Magician's Elephant

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2024-10-14T23:37:19-06:00

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Making the List

Last updated on: October 14, 2024 at 11:37 pm By Dan Peterson

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A very good review by Maurine Proctor in Meridian Magazine: “Six Days in August: Brigham Young as You’ve Never Seen Him Before”: Bottom line, she writes, “Put this movie on your must-see list.” I frankly admit that I was disheartened by a conversation after church yesterday. I was talking with a friend who knows about, and has already seen, Six Days in August. Another person came up and wanted to know what we were talking about. I said that... Read more

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2024-10-13T14:46:47-06:00

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Today would be a wonderful day for it

Last updated on: October 13, 2024 at 2:46 pm By Dan Peterson

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It’s the Sabbath, so I won’t be hounding you to go see Six Days in August today. In fact, I hope that you don’t go today. Go twice tomorrow, instead. Go every day next week. Take friends. Take family. Buy tickets for your children and grandchildren who live far away from you. Now, having encouraged you not to attend a showing of Six Days in August on the Sabbath . . . Since our 2021 film Witnesses is temporarily... Read more

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2024-10-12T16:28:03-06:00

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Please share your honest opinion, whatever it may be

Last updated on: October 12, 2024 at 4:28 pm By Dan Peterson

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I’m happy to report that, because of the impressively high demand for it, free access to the 2021 Interpreter Foundation dramatic film Witnesses will continue until 18 October 2024. It’s a perfect movie for an evening before a Sabbath, or a Sabbath day, or a family night on Monday evening, or any other night of the week on which you don’t happen to be watching Six Days in August. It’s perfect for gatherings of neighbors, ward members, business colleagues,... Read more

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2024-10-11T13:11:00-06:00

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“It Helps to Have a Village”

Last updated on: October 11, 2024 at 1:11 pm By Dan Peterson

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I wax somewhat autobiographical — indeed, a little bit sentimental and perhaps even somewhat maudlin — in my introduction to the latest volume of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship, which has just gone up online: “It Helps to Have a Village” Abstract: In preparing the next generation, it really is helpful when parents don’t stand alone and they have the help of others outside the family. This is one of the reasons why the seemingly... Read more

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