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2024-04-14T17:22:30-06:00

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When Joseph Smith is attacked

Last updated on: April 14, 2024 at 5:22 pm By Dan Peterson

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On several occasions over the past few years, in various venues — see here, for example — I’ve published a list of four books that I recommend as a kind of “basic packet” or “starter kit” for people struggling with their testimonies, and I’ve explained that I think it important to preemptively strengthen faith as well as to defensively fend off attacks, criticisms, or doubts. Let me explain a little bit of what I have in mind: Suppose that,... Read more

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2024-04-13T21:47:25-06:00

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On Hearing the Lord’s Voice in a World of Noise and Clamor

Last updated on: April 13, 2024 at 9:47 pm By Dan Peterson

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This entry was newly posted today on the blog of the Interpreter Foundation: “Hearing the Voice of the Lord in the Mind: Additional Testimonies” (Part Seven of a Series Compiled by Dennis B. Horne): See the Introductory blog (#1) for explanation about this series on hearing the voice of the Lord in the mind. The below are additional accounts shared by those who have experienced this spiritual gift and have thereby been able to bless and enlighten others. Most... Read more

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2024-04-12T14:51:45-06:00

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“God was manifest in the flesh”

Last updated on: April 12, 2024 at 2:51 pm By Dan Peterson

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Two new articles went up today on the moribund and perpetually static website of the Interpreter Foundation: ““Our Great God Has in Goodness Sent These”: Notes on the Goodness of God, the Didactic Good of Nephi’s Small Plates, and Anti-Nephi-Lehi’s Renaming,” written by Matthew L. Bowen and Pedro Olavarria Abstract: Anti-Nephi-Lehi’s speech (Alma 24:7–16) reveals multiple allusions to significant texts in Nephi’s small plates record. Thus, when he declares “I thank my God, my beloved people, that our great... Read more

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2024-04-14T12:12:19-06:00

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The Sacrifice of Adam and Eve

Last updated on: April 14, 2024 at 12:12 pm By Dan Peterson

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This just went up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: “Hugh Nibley Observed: Nibley and the Environment,” written and presented by Terry Ball: “I am honored to participate in this lecture series remembering the studies, life, and legacy of Professor Hugh Nibley. I did not have the privilege of personally knowing Professor Nibley. He retired before I joined the faculty at BYU, but I do happen to have two stories to contribute to the corpus of Nibley lore—both... Read more

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2024-04-10T13:16:49-06:00

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More on race and slavery among the early Utah pioneers

Last updated on: April 10, 2024 at 1:16 pm By Dan Peterson

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I want to share a few more passages that I marked during my recent reading of Amy Tanner Thiriot, Slavery in Zion: A Documentary and Genealogical History of Black Lives and Black Servitude in Utah Territory, 1847-1862 (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2022). It seems that the Saints in Utah were, by and large, unsympathetic to slavery The presence of the enslaved in the Latter-day Saint settlements had caused discussion and dissent, but only fragments of the... Read more

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2024-04-09T18:57:05-06:00

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Coincidence? Lies? What?

Last updated on: April 9, 2024 at 6:57 pm By Dan Peterson

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Some while ago, I read William J. Peters, At Heaven’s Door: What Shared Journeys to the Afterlife Teach About Dying Well and Living Better (New York and London: Simon and Schuster, 2022), written with Michael Kinsella. A practicing grief and bereavement therapist, William Peters holds degrees from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education and the University of California at Berkeley. He is the founder of the Shared Crossing Project and director of its Research Initiative. Michael Kinsella earned a Ph.D.... Read more

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2024-04-09T15:41:58-06:00

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Brigham Young and “Slavery in Zion”

Last updated on: April 9, 2024 at 3:41 pm By Dan Peterson

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For one of the monthly reading groups to which we belong, we read Amy Tanner Thiriot, Slavery in Zion: A Documentary and Genealogical History of Black Lives and Black Servitude in Utah Territory, 1847-1862 (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2022). Her biography on the back cover of the book identifies Sister Thiriot as “an independent historian and adjunct university instructor in the BYU-Idaho Family History Research program.” Our discussion was on Sunday night. The book is not... Read more

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2024-04-07T16:20:33-06:00

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Initial thoughts at the end of Conference

Last updated on: April 7, 2024 at 4:20 pm By Dan Peterson

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Like many of you, I expect, I was powerfully struck by the remarks of President Jeffrey R. Holland in the Saturday morning session of the just completed General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. And, given my own peculiar personal interests, I found this passage from it of particular note: Another experience began 48 hours after my wife’s burial [in late July 2023]. At that time, I was rushed to the hospital in an acute... Read more

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2024-04-06T12:48:11-06:00

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On not looking beyond the mark

Last updated on: April 6, 2024 at 12:48 pm By Dan Peterson

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I expect that I am not the only person today who was impressed by the powerful and remarkable testimony of President Jeffrey R. Holland. I’m so very grateful that he is still with us. There was also a passage in President Henry B. Eyring’s remarks in the morning session that really hit me. I’ll have something more to say about it later. Some like to complain about what they see (or claim to see) as the shallowness of the... Read more

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2024-04-05T17:37:39-06:00

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Apostleship and Stewardship

Last updated on: April 5, 2024 at 5:37 pm By Dan Peterson

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An article written by . . . well, written by me has just appeared in Meridian Magazine: “An Important Lesson in Getting the Most Out of Conference.” So far, the general consensus — based on a survey of me and my very kind and longsuffering wife — is that it may not be altogether the worst thing ever written on the topic. (If you disagree, please keep your disagreement to yourself. I’m rather fragile these days, what with Barbie... Read more

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