Six 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...
read moreOn Saturday, 17 September 2022, we held a special tenth-birthday party for the Interpreter Foundation at the Riverside Country Club in Provo. Invited guests included Foundation volunteers and major donors. Unfortunately, limitations of space and budget precluded us...
read moreHave you ever had questions like the following, while preparing a talk or article or when just curious: [Question] Are there General Conference talks mentioning “many mansions”?[Answer] There have been 79 General Conference talks that include this specific...
read moreFor various reasons — some probably having to do with the emotions and sentiments of the holiday season and others no doubt connected with American tax policy and the Internal Revenue Service — a disproportionate percentage of annual charitable donations are made...
read moreThe Interpreter Foundation is pleased to announce that Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship, Volume 51 (2022) and Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship, Volume 52 (2022) are now available in paperback and digital formats for ordering and downloading....
read moreRoyal Skousen will be doing a presentation on the current status of the Book of Mormon critical text project at Utah Valley University [UVU] on Saturday, November 12, 2022, from 7 to 9 p.m. The location is the Sorenson Center Center Stage. The entire campus is open...
read moreWe are excited to announce our next Interpreter Foundation Study Tour. Based on the results of our travel survey and since we will be studying the New Testament next year in Sunday School, we have decided that our next tour will be to Turkey!...
read moreI would like to call your attention to an event — a special showing of the film Witnesses, accompanied by questions and answers and discussion — that will be held on the campus of Brigham Young University in Provo this coming Friday evening, September 16. Admission is...
read moreWe’re pleased to announce that, on Saturday, 23 July 2022, the Interpreter Foundation’s theatrical film Witnesses received the 2021 Film Award from the Association for Mormon Letters (AML). The citation that accompanied the AML award praises Witnesses for its...
read moreI’ve been blessed to be surrounded for many years by interesting people, and Michael Lyon was among the most interesting of them all. Michael, who passed away on Wednesday, 29 June 2022, after a lengthy illness, may not have been widely known among the general...
read moreThe Interpreter Foundation is pleased to announce that Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship, Volume 50 (2022) is now available in paperback and digital formats for ordering and downloading....
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