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July 2020

July 04, 2020

“A faithful testimony”

Two excerpts from Susan Easton Black and Larry C. Porter, Martin Harris: Uncompromising Witness...

June 2020

June 25, 2020

“Strictly upright”

I share here some notes from Susan Easton Black and Larry C. Porter, Martin...

June 24, 2020

James J. Strang and His Witnesses, More or Less Revisited

I've long had a particular interest in the Witnesses to the Book of...

June 19, 2020

“Ever ready to share his conviction”

A very slight little essay (by me) has appeared today in Interpreter: A...

June 18, 2020

The Murder of Martin Harris

From Susan Easton Black and Larry C. Porter, Martin Harris: Uncompromising Witness of the...

June 17, 2020

“And you know that I know that it is true.”

From Susan Easton Black and Larry C. Porter, Martin Harris: Uncompromising Witness of the...

June 10, 2020

Resting (and Making a Movie) in the Plague Year

New materials from the Interpreter Foundation, available (as usual) online and at no...

June 08, 2020

Help Wanted (for Later This Month)

Here's a notice that I'm also going to have sent out to the...

May 2020

May 26, 2020

Gathering the scriptural passages about the experience of the Book of Mormon Witnesses

I'm working toward the writing of a kind of brief introduction to the...

May 11, 2020

David Whitmer’s June 1829 journey from Fayette to Harmony and back

Here are a few more of my notes from Ronald E. Romig, Eighth...

May 05, 2020

Still cautiously looking to October

There are a couple of newly posted items on the Interpreter Foundation's website...

March 2020

March 19, 2020

Of what value are the Book of Mormon witnesses?

I published this article on 18 October 2018 in the print edition of...

March 03, 2020

A testimonial from William E. McLellin

William E. McLellin was chosen as one of the Twelve Apostles in 1835,...

March 02, 2020

We aren’t dead yet.

Newly available on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: In God’s Image...

March 01, 2020

From the 19th Annual LDS Film Festival

We had a respectable though not huge audience for our panel discussion earlier...

February 2020

February 29, 2020

“A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest”

I've found myself thinking of the lyrics to an old Simon and Garfunkel...

February 27, 2020

New “Witnesses” trailer available!

I signed an agreement with Purdie Distribution last weekend on behalf of the...

February 24, 2020

A note about this coming Saturday

Although the Festival's website hasn't yet been amended to indicate it, a special...

January 2020

January 31, 2020

“Light Began Once More to Grow”

This little piece appeared today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith...

January 27, 2020

Martin Harris on the witness stand in Lyons, New York

A few more notes from Susan Easton Black and Larry C. Porter, Martin Harris: Uncompromising...

January 26, 2020

“All at once a light came down from above us”

I'm in the process of extracting notes from a reading of Susan Easton...

November 2019

November 10, 2019

Running with the golden plates

I spoke at a small "cottage meeting" on Saturday night, along with the...

November 02, 2019

“Did a “Magic World View” Influence the Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon?”

You are, I hope, aware of the lists of resources that the Interpreter...

November 01, 2019

“The Role and Purpose of Synagogues in the Days of Jesus and Paul”

Dr. Taylor Halverson is responsible for today's new article in Interpreter: A Journal...

October 2019

October 21, 2019

Now, you can read a transcript of “’Idle Tales’? The Witness of Women”

A transcript of the remarks that I delivered at the August 2019 FairMormon...

October 13, 2019

“Lights. Camera. Prayer.”

Given my own recent involvement in Latter-day Saint filmmaking, I found this New...

October 12, 2019

Interpreter and Me

I think that I'll call attention one more time to the fact that...

October 08, 2019

An Important Milestone

My wife and I attended a marvelous concert this evening by the remarkable...

October 07, 2019

Personal Perspectives and Historical Reconstructions

Thanks to the inquiry of a reader, I now realize that I didn't...

October 04, 2019

Friday, from the Interpreter Foundation

It's Friday, so -- I hope, to nobody's very great surprise by now...