This past Tuesday, as we were doing the final preparations to publish this week’s articles, I learned that the author of one of those articles, Diane Wirth, had entered hospice care and was not doing well. One of Diane’s sons asked that I send him a copy...
read moreJoin the director of Six Days in August alongside talented cast members sharing their unique insights and experiences on Wednesday, September 25 at the SCERA Center for the Arts in Orem. This gathering will include behind-the-scenes conversations offering an intimate...
read moreThe 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...
read moreReaders of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship are typically unaware of how much behind-the-scenes work goes into publishing quality academic articles and reviews week after week. Most of that work is done by volunteers who give selflessly...
read moreWe at the Interpreter Foundation were saddened to learn on the morning of Tuesday, 20 August 2024, of the death of our dear friend and associate George Mitton. As his obituary illustrates, he and his remarkable wife, Ewan Harbrecht Mitton, had led very full lives and...
read moreThe Interpreter Foundation is pleased to announce that Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship, Volume 61 (2024) is now available in paperback and digital formats for ordering and downloading....
read moreOn Saturday, August 10, 2024, Royal Skousen and Stanford Carmack spoke at a celebration for the completion of the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project. A video, an audio recording, and the slides used for those talks are available below. Royal Skousen’s...
read moreThe Interpreter Foundation is pleased to announce that Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship, Volumes 53 (2022), 54 (2023) and 55 (2023) are now available in paperback and digital formats for ordering and downloading....
read moreIn honor of the 195th anniversary of the Three and Eight Witnesses viewing the plates this month, Scripture Central is releasing a documentary on the witnesses of the Book of Mormon. Episode 5 of A Marvelous Work will be released on June 14 on the Book of Mormon...
read moreDear family and friends, We wanted to make you aware of a celebratory event being held for my father George L. Mitton on Friday, May 10th from 7:00 pm. It will be held in the second floor meeting area of his apartment building: Legacy Village Provo4146 North...
read moreSix years ago, four authors (Robert Beckstead, Bryce Blankenagel, Cody Noconi, and Michael Winkelman) hypothesized that the visionary experiences of Joseph Smith and early Latter-day Saints resulted from ingesting (secretly or surreptitiously) toad secretions, magic...
read moreI was profoundly saddened to learn just this morning of the death of Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye. I first met her a number of years ago at a small discussion-retreat in a cabin above Salt Lake City. I puzzled throughout much of that day over who this diminutive, bald,...
read moreThe Interpreter Foundation is pleased to announce that Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship, Volumes 53 (2022), 54 (2023) and 55 (2023) are now available in paperback and digital formats for ordering and downloading....
read moreJust in time for the “Come Follow Me” lessons on the Book of Mormon, we are pleased to announce that Ancient Names in the Book of Mormon: Toward a Deeper Understanding of a Witness of Christ by Matthew L. Bowen will be available from Eborn Books for a short time in...
read moreJust in time for the “Come Follow Me” lessons on the last book of the New Testament, we are pleased to announce that The Bright and Morning Star: Finding and Following Jesus Through the Book of Revelation by Breck England is now available. This new study views...
read moreOn the evening of Saturday, 5 August 2023, slightly more than a hundred officers, volunteers, invited donors, and friends gathered at a chapel in the south of Orem, Utah, to celebrate the eleventh birthday of the Interpreter Foundation. Bruce Webster, one of the...
read moreWe are pleased to announce that Steadfast in Defense of Faith: Essays in Honor of Daniel C. Peterson is now available for purchase. This volume of scholarly essays in honor of Daniel C. Peterson, Professor Emeritus of Islamic Studies and Arabic at Brigham Young...
read moreDan Peterson was honored yesterday during the FAIR Conference with a Lifetime Achievement, Defender of the Faith award by FAIR’s President, Scott Gordon, and by the announcement of the publication of a book of essays in his honor. The announcement reads: We are...
read moreThe Interpreter Foundation is pleased to announce that Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship, Volumes 53 (2022), 54 (2023) and 55 (2023) are now available in paperback and digital formats for ordering and downloading....
read moreProfessor Richard Benjamin Crosby and Isaac James Richards are currently soliciting contributions for an anthology of speeches from Latter-day Saint history. Any scholar with a sufficient background in the humanities is welcome to submit; we invite contributions from...
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