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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.
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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.
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 Foundation
P.S. If you have questions, please contact Ed Snow at esnow23@gmail.com or 801-592-1750.
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LDS Perspectives on the Atonement?
Review of Deidre Nicole Green and Eric D. Huntsman, eds., Latter-day Saint Perspectives on Atonement (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2024). 344 pages, $35.00 (paperback). Abstract: Latter-day Saint Perspectives on Atonement promises to provide new perspectives...
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Interpreting Interpreter: Helaman’s Secret Service
This post is a summary of the article “Nameless: Mormon’s Dramatic Use of Omission in Helaman 2” by Nathan J. Arp in Volume 62 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship. All of the Interpreting Interpreter articles may be seen at...
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Nameless: Mormon’s Dramatic Use of Omission in Helaman 2
Abstract: There are many reasons why a narrator may choose to provide or withhold the names of various characters. This article hypothesizes that Mormon intentionally omitted the name of a key character from the book of Helaman related to the origin of the Gaddianton...
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Hugh Nibley Observed: Joseph or Jung?
“Nibley treats Mormon scripture primarily through parallels. While we need not pay any attention to those shallow critics of Nibley who merely shout “Parallelomania,” as if it were a magical incantation, and reject his whole methodology and corpus out of hand (drawing...
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Nibley Lectures: Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon Lesson 31
This week for Come, Follow Me lesson 31 covering Alma 36-38, we have lecture 56 from Hugh Nibley’s Book of Mormon classes at Brigham Young University, covering Alma 36–41. During 1988, 1989, and 1990, Hugh Nibley taught Honors Book of Mormon classes for four semesters...
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Interpreter Radio: The Book of Mormon in Context Lesson 31
In the July 7th Come, Follow Me segment of the Interpreter Radio Show, our hosts Martin Tanner, Hales Swift, and Brent Schmidt discuss Book of Mormon lesson 31, “Look to God and Live” covering Alma 36-38. You can listen to or download the Book of Mormon in...
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Study and Teaching Helps — 2024 Book of Mormon Lesson 31
Editor's Note: Four years ago, Jonn Claybaugh began writing the Study and Teaching Helps series of articles for Interpreter. We now have these wonderful and useful posts for all four years of Come, Follow Me lessons. Beginning this year we will be reposting these...
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Interpreter Radio Show — July 14, 2024
In the July 14, 2024 episode of The Interpreter Radio Show, our hosts are Terry Hutchinson, John Gee, Mark Johnson, and Kevin Christensen with special guest James VanDerKam. They discuss James’s new book, R. H. Charles: A Biography (The Bible and the...
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Interpreting Interpreter: A Christ-Gathered Remnant of Joseph
This post is a summary of the article ““I Shall Gather In”: The Name Joseph, Iterative Divine Action, and the Latter-day Harvest Ingathering of Israel as Themes in 3 Nephi” by Matthew L. Bowen in Volume 62 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and...
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“I Shall Gather In”: The Name Joseph, Iterative Divine Action, and the Latter-day Harvest Ingathering of Israel as Themes in 3 Nephi
Abstract: The identity of “the people of Nephi who were spared, and also those who had been called Lamanites, who had been spared” (3 Nephi 10:18) as “a remnant of the seed of Joseph” (3 Nephi 5:23; 10:17; compare Alma 46:23–27; Ether 13:6–10) or “a remnant of...
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Hugh Nibley Observed: “A Stranger in a Strange Land”: Hugh Nibley as an Egyptologist
“Because Egyptology is a rarified discipline that normally takes years of training, people may wonder just how good Hugh Nibley was at Egyptology. The simple answer is that he was quite good. The complicated answer is that he had his strengths and weaknesses, as all...
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Interpreter Radio Show — July 7, 2024
In the July 7, 2024 episode of The Interpreter Radio Show, our hosts are Martin Tanner, Hales Swift, and Brent Schmidt. They discuss Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon lesson 31 and the U. S. Constitution in prophecy. You can listen to or download the July 7th...
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