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Supporting The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through scholarship

Supporting The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through scholarship

Supporting The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through scholarship

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The Interpreter Foundation is a nonprofit educational organization focused on the scriptures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Book of Mormon, the Pearl of Great Price, the Bible, and the Doctrine and Covenants), early Latter-day Saint history, and related subjects.

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RECENT NEWS, POSTS & INTERPRETER ARTICLES

The 2024 Temple on Mount Zion Conference

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The seventh Interpreter Matthew B. Brown Memorial Temple on Mount Zion Conference will be held on Saturday, September 28, 2024 in room 251 of the Tanner Building, Brigham Young University. The conference will be held live with no streaming. Recordings of the presentations will be available at a later date. Expanded, fully footnoted versions of the presentations will be published in a book of proceedings, anticipated sometime in 2025.

For more information, including the program schedule, abstracts, and presenter biographies, go to https://interpreterfoundation.org/conferences/2024-temple-on-mount-zion-conference/.


The Completion of the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project

Video, an audio recording and slides from the Celebration on August 10, 2024

Go to https://interpreterfoundation.org/royal-skousen-presentation-on-the-innovative-and-revolutionary-book-of-mormon-critical-text-project/ to see Royal Skousen’s and Stanford Carmack’s presentations


Watch the New Witnesses Video Series!

We’re excited to announce a new short video series of clips taken from the inspiring film, Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon!

You can find these short, engaging clips on our YouTube channel here. By subscribing to our channel, and then liking, commenting, and sharing these videos, you’ll help us spread the word and ensure these important messages reach a wider audience. Let’s work together to ignite interest in the Book of Mormon witnesses and inspire others with the timeless truths of the Book of Mormon.Or follow us on one of our other social media channels and then like, share, and comment on the videos wherever you see them
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Dear Interpreter Foundation Supporters:

The same quality film-making team that produced Witnesses, Interpreter’s highly successful and award-winning movie about the coming forth of the Book of Mormon, is producing Six Days in August, a compelling movie about the succession crisis after Joseph Smith’s martyrdom. We seek your support to enable us to complete this movie and release it in theaters in October.Here’s why this project is so important and why we need your support:

Six Days in August will portray the dramatic but relatively little known story of that crucial succession decision in 1844. It will show how Brigham Young and the quorum that he led came to be recognized by a large majority of Latter-day Saints as the Lord’s chosen leadership for the Church after the death of Joseph Smith.This story is vitally important today. The members of the Quorum of the Twelve have led the Church, and senior apostles have presided over it, ever since those dramatic days in early August 1844. Attacks on the legitimacy of the Twelve’s assumption of leadership over the Church in 1844 are, whether deliberately or not, attacks on today’s apostolic authority.

We began filming in September 2023 at sites in Canada, upstate New York, and at the LDS Motion Picture Studios in Provo. We have recently finished filming our final scenes. Gifts from generous donors have paid for filming, but there are still considerable expenses to prepare Six Day in August as a finished project ready for theatrical release.Please consider making a tax-deductible gift to help us raise the $256,000 we need to fund post-production efforts, associated with cutting raw footage, assembling that footage, standardizing and enhancing the color of the footage, adding music, dubbing, and sound effects.We seek your support now to help us cross the finish line to bring this entertaining, informative, and inspiring story to hundreds of thousands of people.Here is an entertaining video clip that features scenes from the movie and interviews with its actors.

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For further background, please review the movie’s website at sixdaysinaugust.com on which you can also make an online donation.You can also make checks out payable to:

Six Days in August Productions
P.O. Box 970542
Orem, UT 84097

Thank you for supporting The Interpreter Foundation over the years and for your dedication to defending the Faith.Sincerely,Daniel C. Peterson
President, The Interpreter FoundationP.S. If you have questions, please contact Ed Snow at esnow23@gmail.com or 801-592-1750.

Interpreter Radio Show — September 8, 2024

Interpreter Radio Show — September 8, 2024

  In the September 8, 2024 episode of The Interpreter Radio Show, our hosts are Terry Hutchinson, Kevin Christensen, and Mark Johnson. They discuss Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon lesson 40, “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” and several other topics. You can listen...

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Interpreting Interpreter: Prophetic Aspirations

Interpreting Interpreter: Prophetic Aspirations

This post is a summary of the article “Aftermath of the Martyrdom: Aspirants to the Mantle of the Prophet Joseph Smith” by R. Jean Addams in Volume 62 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship. All of the Interpreting Interpreter articles may...

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Hugh Nibley Observed: Hugh Nibley and Me

Hugh Nibley Observed: Hugh Nibley and Me

“I was a semi-literate Idaho farm boy, something of a loner, when, in my mid-teens, I discovered Hugh Nibley’s late-1940s articles in The Improvement Era. Nibley had answers to questions I had about the Restoration in general and especially the Book of Mormon, a...

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Interpreter Radio Show — September 8, 2024

Interpreter Radio Show — September 1, 2024

  In the September 1, 2024 episode of The Interpreter Radio Show, our hosts are Terry Hutchinson, Brent Schmidt, and Hales Swift with special guest John Thompson. They discuss Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon lesson 39, John's recent article in Interpreter: A...

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Interpreting Interpreter: Prophetic Aspirations

Interpreting Interpreter: An Anti-Babel

This post is a summary of the article “The Man with No Name: The Story of the Brother of Jared as an Anti-Babel Polemic” by Walker Wright in Volume 62 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship. All of the Interpreting Interpreter articles may...

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