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2024-06-03T14:08:40-06:00

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In the world’s smallest nation?

Last updated on: June 3, 2024 at 2:08 pm By Dan Peterson

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As the late great Ray Bradbury once wrote, something wicked this way comes. I have in mind Episode 5 Trailer | A Marvelous Work. You’ve been warned. Today was principally devoted to the spectacular Musei Vaticani, the Sistine Chapel, and Saint Peter’s Basilica. Magnificent. Probably my favorite of the very many wonderful aspects of Rome (apart now, of course, from Italy’s “Temple Square,” where we spent significant portions of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday). Our visit — led by a... Read more

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2024-06-02T10:19:56-06:00

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We did have a nice celebration

Last updated on: June 2, 2024 at 10:19 am By Dan Peterson

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This time, I think that I’ll lead off with a few items that I’ve retrieved from the Christopher Hitchens Memorial “How Religion Poisons Everything” File™. Sometimes, it’s just plain advisable to get the painful and the bitter out of the way first: “Helping Premature Babies Survive in South Africa: “This is faith in action — and the most beautiful kind of example of faith in action that I can imagine,” Elder Christofferson says” “The Church of Jesus Christ Makes... Read more

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2024-06-01T14:51:43-06:00

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From Rome’s Temple Square

Last updated on: June 1, 2024 at 2:51 pm By Dan Peterson

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These new articles went up yesterday on the Interpreter Foundation website. My apologies for being late in calling attention to them; the eight-hour time difference between Rome and home throws me off my routine in some ways: “The Seven Women Seeking the Bridegroom: Isaiah 4:1 as Transition Point in a Redemption Allegory,” written by Jared T. Marcum Abstract: Nephi laboriously copied many of the words of Isaiah in hopes that his readers would rejoice in Christ. While Isaiah 4:1... Read more

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2024-06-02T10:34:36-06:00

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The Scarlet and the Black and the Temple

Last updated on: June 2, 2024 at 10:34 am By Dan Peterson

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I love Rome. And, perhaps rather curiously, it is the Christian heritage of “the eternal city” that fascinates me even more than its fascinating classical history. Here are a trio of past columns that I wrote about Rome for the Deseret News: “Why was Peter in Rome?” (https://www.deseret.com/2014/6/12/20543095/why-was-peter-in-rome/) “There is much of Christian history, in stone, in St. Peter’s Basilica: St. Peter’s Basilica ranks among the greatest and most important monuments of Christian history” (https://www.deseret.com/faith/2020/2/13/21129701/daniel-peterson-there-is-much-of-christian-history-in-stone-in-st-peters-basilica-catholic-vatican/) “Papal conclaves offer not... Read more

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2024-05-30T14:28:50-06:00

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How beautiful are the waters of Muhazi Lake!

Last updated on: May 30, 2024 at 2:28 pm By Dan Peterson

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First of all, I share with you some images (and their captions) that have been sent to me by Jeff Bradshaw (under the fitting title of “Detective Work at Historic Sites”) from Rwanda, where he and others are gathering additional material for the Interpreter Foundation’s Not by Bread Alone film project (on which, see here or here). It is really important to preserve these stories before memories and locations are completely lost. I couldn’t help being reminded of Mosiah... Read more

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2024-05-29T10:29:26-06:00

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“Even some colors I’d never seen before”

Last updated on: May 29, 2024 at 10:29 am By Dan Peterson

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We walked this morning over to Ravenna’s octagonal “Arian Baptistry,” which was erected by the Ostrogothic King Theodoric the Great around the end of the fifth century AD or the beginning of the sixth century, roughly contemporary with the Basilica of Sant’ Apollinare Nuovo (which we visited yesterday). The mosaic illustrations on the interior of its dome are exquisite. Then we caught a bus out to the Basilica of Sant’Apollinare in Classe, near what’s left of the ancient Roman... Read more

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2024-05-28T11:00:38-06:00

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“God’s holy fire”

Last updated on: May 28, 2024 at 11:00 am By Dan Peterson

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I recently came across a story that I had heard before about the late Queen Elizabeth II. I heard it once when she was still alive, and then again during the period of mourning shortly after her death. I think that it’s really funny, so I’m sharing it here just in case somebody reading my blog hasn’t heard it. (I aim to serve.) A funny and true story about the Queen: Around 2005, the Queen and her Personal Protection... Read more

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2024-05-28T13:42:03-06:00

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A glorious outpost of Byzantium in the West

Last updated on: May 28, 2024 at 1:42 pm By Dan Peterson

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The other day, while we were driving about in Virginia, we had some very good views of a full or nearly full moon. And they reminded me of a poetic bit of science writing that I had recently re-encountered, from Dava Sobel, The Planets (New York and London: Penguin Books, 2006). Ms. Sobel begins by talking about the waxing and the waning of the moon First to come or go is high, round Mare Crisium (the Sea of Crises),... Read more

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2024-05-29T15:51:00-06:00

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“Six Days in August” has its gala European premiere!

Last updated on: May 29, 2024 at 3:51 pm By Dan Peterson

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Well, our new Interpreter Foundation theatrical film, Six Days in August, just had its first European screening. My wife and I watched it on my computer here in our hotel room. It’s the second time that we’ve seen the whole movie; we saw it the first time, in a slightly different (and very slightly longer) version, a couple of weeks ago. Six Days in August still needs to go through post-production work (e.g.. on sound, score, and color) to... Read more

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2024-05-26T00:02:10-06:00

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Some Saints you may still not have met

Last updated on: May 26, 2024 at 12:02 am By Dan Peterson

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I’m falling behind on the photographs that Jeff Bradshaw, one of the Interpreter Foundation’s vice presidents, has been sending to me. (He is over in Africa, working on the Interpreter Foundation’s Not by Bread Alone film project.) Here, for example, are some photos that arrived in my inbox fully a week ago under the title of “Warm fellowship and flaming testimonies in the heat of Parakou.” They are accompanied by Jeff’s comments: “A wonderful finish to a wonderful stay.... Read more

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