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This just went up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: “The Temple: Ancient and Restored: ‘The Cosmic Mountain in Islamic Tradition,'” written by Daniel C. Peterson
Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article originally appeared in The Temple: Ancient and Restored, Proceedings of the Second Interpreter Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference “The Temple on Mount Zion,” 25 October 2014 (2016) edited by Stephen D. Ricks and Donald W. Parry. For more information, go to https://interpreterfoundation.org/books/the-temple-ancient-and-restored/.
And these new items have also recently appeared on the Interpreter Foundation website:
Conference Talks: “They Shall Be Joined unto Thee”: Levi, Levites, and the Importance of Joinings in Temple Architecture and Ritual: 2018 Temple on Mount Zion Conference, presented by Matthew Bowen
The fourth “Temple on Mount Zion” Conference was held on Saturday, 10 November 2018 in the Tanner Building at Brigham Young University, in Provo, Utah.
The presentations were filmed, and both video and audio recordings of each presentation are available. The videos are currently available both at and on the Interpreter Foundation YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/theinterpreterfoundation. A YouTube playlist is also available at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRMn4gyXMWLsWt34zVNC5FmTqBtFfcnxl. The audio recordings are available at https://interpreterfoundation.org/conferences/2018-temple-on-mount-zion-conference/2018-temple-on-mount-zion-conference-audio/.
Nibley Lectures: Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon Lesson 2: “I Will Go and Do” (1 Nephi 1-5)
During 1988, 1989, and 1990, Hugh Nibley taught Honors Book of Mormon classes for four semesters at Brigham Young University. The lectures were video-taped and audio cassettes and printed transcripts were made of the lectures. We believe these recordings will be interesting to listen to and valuable to your Come, Follow Me study program this year. Each week, we will include the lectures covering the Book of Mormon chapters being studied that week.
This week, we have lectures 6 through 11, covering 1 Nephi 1-5 and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
All 112 lectures are immediately available in PDF, audio, video, and electronic formats, as well as in paperback books that are available for purchase. Links for all of the available online sources can be found in the Complete Bibliography for Hugh Nibley at https://interpreterfoundation.org/bibliographies/hugh-w-nibley/lectures/.
The Book of Mormon in Context Lesson 2: “I Will Go and Do” (1 Nephi 1-5)
In the 17 December 2023 Come, Follow Me segment of the Interpreter Radio Show, our hosts Bruce Webster and Kris Frederickson discuss Book of Mormon lesson 2, “I Will Go and Do” on 1 Nephi 1-5. Their conversation was recorded, and has now been archived (after editing to remove commercial interruptions) and made available at no charge for your enjoyment. The other segments of the December 10 radio show can be accessed at https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-december-17-2023. (See below.)
Come, Follow Me — Study and Teaching Helps (2024): Lesson 2, January 8 — 14: 1 Nephi 1-5
As he has been faithfully and generously doing for years now, Jonn Claybaugh supplies a concise set of n notes for teachers and students of the “Come, Follow Me” curriculum of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Please, if there are any out there in my audience who know him, thank him for his efforts.
Interpreter Radio Show — December 17, 2023
For the 17 December 2023 episode of the Interpreter Radio Show, Bruce Webster and Kris Frederickson discussed Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon lesson 2, The Family: A Proclamation to the World, and an article by Cassandra Hedelius. Their conversation, edited to remove commercial breaks, is now available to you at no charge. The “New Testament in Context” portion of this show, for the Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon lesson 2, was also posted separately. (See above.)
The Interpreter Radio Show can be heard in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake on Sunday evenings from 7 to 9 PM (MDT), on K-TALK, AM 1640. But you can listen live from anywhere on the Internet at ktalkmedia.com.
A few days ago, I posted a link to an article arguing that Latter-day Saints no longer constitute a majority in the State of Utah. Here is an interesting response to that article, kindly brought to my attention by Cody Quirk: “Response to Mormons Are No Longer a Majority in Utah: Causes, Consequences, and Implications for the Sociology of Religion”
I’m wondering whether this arrest will lead to any break in the coverage that I receive over at the Peterson Obsession Board or any interruption in the stream of daily anonymous hate mail that I receive: “81-year-old man charged with a felony after reportedly stalking LDS church leader.” I’m not altogether sure that incarcerated criminals or institutionalized mental patients are always granted computer time and unsupervised internet access. Time will tell, in this case, whether this particular fellow is one of my, umm, correspondents or one of the paparazzi who have followed me with such obsessive devotion over the past two decades or so.
It is, I confess, very difficult to keep pace with the constantly and rapidly expanding Christopher Hitchens Memorial “How Religion Poisons Everything” File™. But I’m giving it my best effort. Here is a chilling quartet of recent abominations, followed by a varied compendium of additional horrors. Women who are pregnant and anybody suffering from cardiac issues should probably avoid looking at any of these:
“Volunteers Bring Light to Young People in Energy-poor, Remote Communities”
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