Sic Et Non

  A few days ago, Mark Goodman (the writer and director of Six Days in August) and I recorded a roughly twenty-minute interview with Martin Tanner up at KSL NewsRadio in Salt Lake City.  Our interview will air tomorrow (Sunday) on his regular KSL program, Religion Today.  But it’s already available in podcast form:  “Six […]

  Although I’m not identified as its author, I wrote this article that has now appeared on the KSL.com website:  “‘Six Days in August’ movie about Brigham Young will inspire and captivate audience.”  (I did not write the headline.) And — surprise! — a new article has just appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day […]

  You’ll simply need to deal with it:  I’m intending to remind you every day until they’ve actually taken place of the “sneak peek” early screenings of Six Days in August that will occur this coming Monday evening in Cinemark theaters located in Salt Lake City, American Fork, Draper, Farmington, Midvale/Sandy, Ogden, Orem, Provo, and […]

  For a very limited time — up until 10 October 2024 — its creators are offering you the opportunity to view the 2021 Interpreter film Witnesses at no cost.  If you go to the official website of Six Days in August and wait for just a few seconds, a button will appear that will […]

  I really enjoyed this article by my friend Robert Starling, who is a multi-decade veteran of the film and television industry and who co-founded the organization called Associated Latter-day Media Artists, or ALMA:  “The (Lord’s Media) Empire Strikes Back – with the light saber of truth.”  If, like me, you’re interested in the image […]

  I’ve already offered summaries of most of the presentations at Saturday’s Interpreter Foundation conference here and here.  I’ll finish with such summarizing in this post. The fourth speaker during the afternoon portion of the conference was Professor Stephen D. Ricks, a longtime friend and both a former department colleague of mine and a former […]

  Yesterday, I provided a few notes on the two morning sessions of the Seventh Interpreter Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference, Temple on Mount Zion 2024, which focused on the theme “Seership, Craftsmanship, and Fellowship.”  Today, I’ll continue with that effort.  (We’ll see how far I get.) Those who returned sufficiently early from lunch were […]

  Today, I attended the Seventh Interpreter Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference.  The overall theme of these conferences, as befits Matt Brown’s interests, is “The Temple on Mount Zion.”  The theme of this particular 2024 iteration of the conference was “Seership, Craftsmanship, and Fellowship.” The conference was not live-streamed, but it was recorded, and I […]

  I’m pleased to announce that a second (and final) set of “sneak peek” early screenings for the new Interpreter Foundation film Six Days in August will occur on Monday, 7 October — which is the day after General Conference — in the same nine Cinemark theaters that offered last night’s showings: Salt Lake City, […]

  Tonight is the night!  For the very first time, the new Interpreter Foundation film Six Days in August will be publicly screened in theaters.  Although the formal public opening in theaters won’t take place until Thursday, 10 October, advance showings of the film will occur tonight at 7 PM in nine Cinemark theaters along […]

  Well, I always knew that it would happen someday.  I knew that I was bound to make a mistake.  And I did.  It happened this morning, when John Donovan Wilson (who plays Brigham Young in Six Days in August) and I were being interviewed earlier today by Tim Hughes and Amanda Dickson during their […]

  Yes, I’m reminding you yet again of the Six Days in August event that will be held tomorrow (Wednesday) night in the SCERA Center for the Arts, which is located in Orem:  “Unveiling History: Six Days in August Fireside.” And I’m calling your attention once more to the “sneak peek” early screenings of Six […]

  The game is afoot!  This is the week that things really begin to get underway for the new Interpreter Foundation film Six Days in August: There will be special early screenings of the film at 7 PM on Thursday — that is, this very week — in nine Carmike theaters along the Wasatch Front in […]

  Well, the click-bait headline worked, didn’t it?  Gotcha!  But here are a couple of brief items before we get to that: Have you seen Six Days in August Official Trailer #2?  Take a look.  Apparently it’s more popular with women than with men, whereas Official Trailer #1 is evidently preferred by men more than […]

  My wife and I attended Scripture Central’s annual “Moroni Day” dinner and program last night in the Hyatt Regency in Salt Lake City.  We enjoyed it (not least for the conversations with friends there both before and afterwards), and we were impressed — as we were intended to be! — by the scope of […]

  If you’re located along the Wasatch Front, don’t miss the opportunity of seeing Six Days in August this coming Thursday night.  There will be special early screenings in American Fork, Draper, Farmington, Jordan Landing, Ogden, Orem, Salt Lake City, and Sandy:  Six Days in August – Early Access.  Quite frankly, we’re offering these advance […]

  Here’s some really good news:  A number of Cinemark theaters — in, I believe, Orem, Provo, American Fork, Draper, Midvale, Farmington, West Jordan, and Salt Lake City — will be running sneak previews of Six Days in August on the evening of Thursday, 26 September.   That’s next week.  Tickets for these special screenings […]

  I’ve just undertaken a project to slog gradually through Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales in the original Middle English.  I’ve always intended to do it and, finally, I’ve made a start.  I was really struck by a passage in the Prologue describing a rather worldly frere or friar that, I would guess, was modeled on […]

  I want to remind you, yet again, of the Orem, Utah, fireside that is approaching in little more than a week now and of the Interpreter Foundation conference that will follow on the weekend thereafter, on the campus of Brigham Young University: “Unveiling History: Six Days in August Fireside” (Wednesday, 25 September 2024). Incidentally, […]

  It appears that the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, once one of the two flagship periodicals of the old Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS) and of its successor, the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, is going the way of all flesh: The organizational changes at the Institute provide […]