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July 2026

July 21, 2026

It’s Free!

For those who've been paying attention to our Becoming Brigham series of mini-documentary videos...

February 2026

February 03, 2026

An interesting criticism of “Becoming Brigham”

We posted our second episode in the Becoming Brigham series yesterday (see "Becoming Brigham,...

February 27, 2025

Were Hiram Page, Oliver Cowdery, and David Whitmer sincere?

This essay went up today for the first time online, on the website of...

January 2025

January 07, 2025

A curious story from the (real) life of Mark Twain

This notice went out on the Witnesses Film Facebook Page earlier today: Hey, all...

October 2024

October 13, 2024

Today would be a wonderful day for it

It's the Sabbath, so I won't be hounding you to go see Six Days...

January 2024

January 06, 2024

But why?

Here is something from more than twelve years ago that you might find helpful...

August 2023

August 14, 2023

William Shakespeare on the Book of Mormon Witnesses

My wife and I will be heading in a couple of hours down...

March 2023

March 15, 2023

On the Conversion of Sidney Rigdon

On the way over here, I began reading Richard S. Van Wagoner, Sidney...

December 2022

December 02, 2022

“Generational Curses and Inheritance in the Book of Abraham”

"“Being of that Lineage”: Generational Curses and Inheritance in the Book of Abraham,"...

October 2022

October 21, 2022

“A Man’s Got to Know His Limitations” (Harry Callahan, 1973)

Two new articles went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation. ...

September 2022

September 12, 2022

An invitation to attend and to pray

I would like to call your attention to an event -- a special...

May 2022

May 14, 2022

Joseph Smith and Religious Freedom

*** Just up! Undaunted Witnesses Episode 4: Joseph Smith: Man, Prophet—or...

January 2022

January 26, 2022

“Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon”

*** How, you may ask, is the Interpreter Foundation's forthcoming two-part 2.5-hour...

January 25, 2022

Coming on Friday, 4 March 2022

*** I'm pleased to announce that Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of...

December 2021

December 14, 2021

“What is My Witness?”: A New Video from Deseret Book and Excel Entertainment on the Interpreter Foundation Website

*** The Interpreter Foundation has now posted a video of an event...

November 2021

November 03, 2021

Testing the Sincerity of the Witnesses Oliver Cowdery and Peter Whitmer Jr.

*** Did you miss these articles when they appeared the first time?...

September 2021

September 02, 2021

Moving Forward. Excelsior!

*** We've now moved on to the second phase for the Witnesses...

August 2021

August 31, 2021

“Witnesses” finishes in theaters this week; the window of opportunity is closing, too

*** It seems that this coming Thursday will be the last day...

July 2021

July 11, 2021

“It was awesome.”

*** This note, which, of course, gives me far too much personal...

July 09, 2021

“Interpreting the Book of Mormon through the Eyes of Someone in Hell”

*** Like all movies, the Interpreter Foundation's Witnesses film will eventually come...

July 07, 2021

Idaho Falls, Logan, Panguitch, and Northern Virginia

*** I'm pleased to note that the Interpreter Foundation's dramatic film Witnesses will...

June 2021

June 24, 2021

“Do We Have Non-Biblical Evidence that Jesus Existed?”

*** First, though, some Witnesses news: Some will be interested know...

June 22, 2021

Attention, people in or near Orlando, Florida!

*** First of all, although Witnesses is evidently being shown in the Orlando, Florida,...

June 21, 2021

Two very significant anniversaries are rapidly approaching

*** Witnesses had quite strong numbers at the box office over the...

June 20, 2021

What remains to do in the “Witnesses” project?

*** Well, the Interpreter Foundation's Witnesses film is now out there in...

June 18, 2021

Mesa, Queen Creek, and Superstition Springs. And Logan.

*** We're in Logan for the wedding of one of my brother's...

June 16, 2021

Idaho Falls and Boston and Santa Clarita and a Bit of Amusement

*** I'm told that, at least earlier today, the Witnesses film website was...

June 15, 2021

“No Comparison Between Latter-day Saint Race and Sex Teachings”

*** I admire what "Hypatia" has to say in this recently published...

June 13, 2021

The witnesses of the Book of Mormon and the problems of eyewitness testimony

*** Curiously, this is from Illinois News Live: "A new movie about...

June 12, 2021

Mesa, Arizona, and Santa Clarita, California, and Wisconsin, and the Past

*** I'm happy to see such events as the one shown in...