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July 2024

July 22, 2024

An unexpected but pleasant sight at church today

We attended the middle of three English-language sacrament meetings today in the stake center...

April 2024

April 28, 2024

Where it all began

I was pleasantly surprised to run into the core Interpreter Foundation filmmaking team --...

February 2024

February 05, 2024

Richard Bushman on witnesses to the Book of Mormon

Here are some notes about certain of the witnesses to the Book of Mormon...

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,"...

May 2022

May 08, 2022

Number Three

*** I'm pleased to announce (although, owing to my schedule today, I'm...

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...

June 2021

June 23, 2021

Martin Harris’s Sacrifice

*** I suspect, given the many years and the considerable inflation intervening...

June 10, 2021

Joseph, the stone, and the hat: Why they all matter

*** As you can see from the illustration above, the Interpreter Foundation's...

June 09, 2021

“Joseph Lied”

*** Although it was never a sure thing, it now seems that...

June 01, 2021

Possible Free Popcorn on Wednesday Night!

*** This announcement is important enough and fun enough and (in a...

June 01, 2021

Would you like to join us for the Wednesday night premiere of “Witnesses”?

*** The Interpreter Foundation's Witnesses film premieres tomorrow night -- Wednesday, 2...

May 2021

May 27, 2021

A note from one of the principal conspirators

*** I'm amused to report that the first "review" of the Interpreter...

May 24, 2021

“The most complex puzzle for humans and also the simplest, most self-evident fact”

*** But first: From the distributor who is overseeing the rollout of...

May 05, 2021

Billboards, iTunes, and Bling

*** I'm pleased to report that, with no apparent connection to any...

May 05, 2021

Tickets to “Witnesses” Are Available Now for 34 Theaters in Several States

I want to remind you that the Interpreter Foundation's new feature film Witnesses...

April 2021

April 29, 2021

Tickets for “Witnesses” Are Now on Sale

*** Somewhat more than eight years ago, a plainly overconfident pseudonymous critic...

April 23, 2021

“Vast Prairies and Trackless Wilds of Snow: A Good Test of Sincerity”

This wretched essay by the infamous Daniel Peterson went up earlier today in...

April 15, 2021

A book coming. A conference coming. A movie coming. Oh my!

*** Well, the Interpreter Foundation continues to sputter along, barely surviving, producing...

March 2021

March 19, 2021

“Variety and Complexity in the Witnesses to the Book of Mormon”

*** Newly published as the latest article in Interpreter: A Journal of...

March 18, 2021

A Contemporary Report on the Death of David Whitmer

*** Up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: "Hearing...

March 04, 2021

What will we do with all the money?

The Interpreter Foundation's theatrical film, Witnesses, will have its formal opening in theaters...

January 2021

January 07, 2021

The Official “Witnesses” Poster and Trailer Are Now Available

The publicity campaign for the Interpreter Foundation's Witnesses dramatic film is now underway. ...

December 2020

December 24, 2020

“Three witnesses who were representative of the human race”

Roughly a year before his death, we recorded a two-day interview with Richard...

November 2020

November 06, 2020

Was the Book of Mormon the product of Joseph Smith’s own thinking?

A new article -- this one by the notoriously vicious and always angry...

October 2020

October 17, 2020

“Yes, as material as anything can be.”

New on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: "Book of Moses Essays...

October 10, 2020

“It was . . . intensely interesting”

Newly posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Book of Moses...

September 2020

September 27, 2020

“He was perfectly rational”

Simon Smith, a Latter-day Saint bishop in Utah , wrote an 1880 letter...

September 26, 2020

Did David Whitmer heft the golden plates?

Ronald E. Romig, Eighth Witness: The Biography of John Whitmer (Independence, MO: John...