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Why Did You Choose Me?, Joseph Grenny
Why Did You Choose Me?, Joseph Grenny
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
By seeing the example of a county prosecutor, I learned that we are never more like the Savior than when we willingly and vulnerably enter the self-created pain of another person’s life.
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On Being A Tool, Daniel C. Peterson
On Being A Tool, Daniel C. Peterson
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
Members, missionaries, and apologists must never lose sight of the fact that the gospel isn’t merely about abstractions and theoretical principles. It’s also, and most importantly, about people, about people with their own life stories, fears, hopes, and questions. Thus, if we want to be optimally effective, we must listen to people, understand them, and craft our message to reach them individually, where they are. The Interpreter Foundation is committed to helping with this task, but it cannot replace personalized instruction and caring.
Shulem, One Of The King’S Principal Waiters, John Gee
Shulem, One Of The King’S Principal Waiters, John Gee
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
Shulem is mentioned once in the Book of Abraham. All we are told about him is his name and title. Using onomastics, the study of names, and the study of titles, we can find out more about Shulem than would at first appear. The form of Shulem's name is attested only at two times: the time period of Abraham and the time period of the Joseph Smith papyri. (Shulem thus constitutes a Book of Abraham bullseye.) If Joseph Smith had gotten the name from his environment, the name would have been Shillem.
Latter-Day Saint Youths’ Construction Of Sacred Texts, Eric D. Rackley
Latter-Day Saint Youths’ Construction Of Sacred Texts, Eric D. Rackley
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
The texts that religious youth negotiate are often deeply embedded in their sociocultural practices, which can have profound influences on their religious literacy development, construction and manifestation of religious identities, and the development of their faith. Yet, although 85% of American youth claim a specific religious tradition, literacy research has not explored how these youth construct their views of sacred texts. In this two-year qualitative study of the literacy practices of nine Latter-day Saint youth, interviews and observations were used to explore what texts these youth considered sacred and how their views of these texts were informed by their religiocultural …
“My People Are Willing”: The Mention Of Aminadab In The Narrative Context Of Helaman 5-6, Matthew L. Bowen
“My People Are Willing”: The Mention Of Aminadab In The Narrative Context Of Helaman 5-6, Matthew L. Bowen
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
Aminadab, a Nephite by birth who later dissented to the Lamanites, played a crucial role in the mass conversion of three hundred Lamanites (and eventually many others). At the end of the pericope in which these events are recorded, Mormon states: “And thus we see that the Lord began to pour out his Spirit upon the Lamanites, because of their easiness and willingness to believe in his words” (Helaman 6:36), whereas he “began to withdraw” his Spirit from the Nephites “because of the wickedness and the hardness of their hearts” (Helaman 6:35). The name Aminadab is a Semitic/Hebrew name meaning …
Conversations With Mormon Historians, Craig L. Foster
Conversations With Mormon Historians, Craig L. Foster
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
Conversations with Mormon Historians is a compilation of interviews with sixteen Latter-day Saint scholars. The book reveals why they went into their chosen professions, their rise to prominence as historians, and their thoughts regarding important topics such as the Prophet Joseph Smith and the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Reflecting On The “Marks Of Jesus”, Daniel C. Peterson
Reflecting On The “Marks Of Jesus”, Daniel C. Peterson
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
Loss, pain, and suffering are too often, it seems, co-sojourners through our lives. To one degree or another, we all become familiar with these elements of a life lived in an imperfect world. It is inevitable — and virtually universal — that such companions foster questions about the meaning of life and whether there is a God who is the author, director, and finisher of that meaning. For those who conclude that God is real and has part in our lives, suffering can have or acquire eternal significance, enhanced by the personal realization that God, too, suffers and has suffered. …
Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dream Map: Part 2 Of 2, Jeff Lindsay
Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dream Map: Part 2 Of 2, Jeff Lindsay
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
The Arabian Peninsula has provided a significant body of evidence related to the plausibility of Nephi’s account of the ancient journey made by Lehi’s family across Arabia. Relatively few critics have seriously considered the evidence, generally nitpicking at details and insisting that the evidences are insignificant. Recently more meaningful responses have been offered by well educated writers showing familiarity with the Arabian evidences and the Book of Mormon. They argue that Nephi’s account is not historical and any apparent evidence in its favor can be attributed to weak LDS apologetics coupled with Joseph’s use of modern sources such as a …
Dating Joseph Smith’S First Nauvoo Sealings, Brian C. Hales
Dating Joseph Smith’S First Nauvoo Sealings, Brian C. Hales
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
In the October 2015 issue of The Journal of Mormon History, Gary Bergera presents a richly illustrated article, “Memory as Evidence: Dating Joseph Smith’s Plural Marriages to Louisa Beaman, Zina Jacobs, and Presendia Buell” (95–131). It focuses on a page from the “Historian’s Private Journal,” which Bergera dates to “specifically September or thereabouts” of 1866 (99). Wilford Woodruff’s handwriting on that page describes Joseph Smith’s plural marriage sealings and dates his marriage to Louisa Beaman to “May 1840,” to Zina Huntington on “October 27, 1840,” to Presendia Huntington on “December 11, 1840,” and also to Rhoda Richards on “June 12, …
“Idle And Slothful Strange Stories”: Book Of Mormon Origins And The Historical Record, Neal Rappleye
“Idle And Slothful Strange Stories”: Book Of Mormon Origins And The Historical Record, Neal Rappleye
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
From the very beginning, Joseph’s story about the origins of the Book of Mormon seemed wild and unbelievable. Today, however, Joseph’s account enjoys a high degree of corroboration from (1) eyewitness accounts confirming Joseph’s possession of actual metal plates and other artifacts, with some even corroborating the involvement of an angel in providing access to the record; (2) eyewitness reports on the process of producing the text; and (3) evidence from the original manuscript. This evidence is reviewed here, and the implications it has for the Book of Mormon’s origin are considered.
Now That We Have The Words Of Joseph Smith, How Shall We Begin To Understand Them? Illustrations Of Selected Challenges Within The 21 May 1843 Discourse On 2 Peter 1, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
Now That We Have The Words Of Joseph Smith, How Shall We Begin To Understand Them? Illustrations Of Selected Challenges Within The 21 May 1843 Discourse On 2 Peter 1, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
In this article, I explore some of the opportunities and challenges that lie before us as we try to reach a better understanding of the prophetic corpus that has come to us from Joseph Smith. I turn my attention to a specific instance of these opportunities and challenges: the 21 May 1843 discourse on the doctrine of election, which Joseph Smith discussed in conjunction with the “more sure word of prophecy” mentioned in 2 Peter 1:19.
The Ammonites Were Not Pacifists, Duane Boyce
The Ammonites Were Not Pacifists, Duane Boyce
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
Although it is common to believe that the Ammonites were pacifists, the report of their story demonstrates that this is a mistake. Appreciating the Ammonites’ non-pacifism helps us think more clearly about them, and it also explains several features of the text. These are textual elements that surprise us if we assume that the Ammonites were pacifists, but that make perfect sense once we understand that they were not. Moreover, in addition to telling us that the Ammonites were not pacifists, the text also gives us the actual reason the Ammonites came to eschew all conflict — and we learn …
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Beauty Way More Than Skin Deep, Brant A. Gardner
Beauty Way More Than Skin Deep, Brant A. Gardner
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
All of the volumes in the Joseph Smith Papers series are beautifully presented, with important photographic and excellent typographic versions of the texts. This volume continues by providing this treatment for the Printer’s Manuscript of the Book of Mormon.
Beyond Agency As Idolatry, Ralph C. Hancock
Beyond Agency As Idolatry, Ralph C. Hancock
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
Adam Miller has already established himself as the most venturesome and original of LDS thinkers exploring our complex inheritance of Mormon beliefs with the tools of contemporary academic philosophy. Richard Bushman, certainly the most highly honored living scholar of Mormonism, in a foreword to an earlier collection of Miller’s essays, Rube Goldberg Theology, praised the author as today’s “most original and provocative Latter-day Saint theologian.” This originality and provocation are all the more impressive given Miller’s institutional prominence in the LDS academic establishment as, practically, the leading philosopher/theologian of BYU’s Maxwell Institute, where he is a series co-editor as well …
Mormonism, Materialism, And Politics: Six Things We Must Understand In Order To Survive As Latter-Day Saints, Rick Anderson
Mormonism, Materialism, And Politics: Six Things We Must Understand In Order To Survive As Latter-Day Saints, Rick Anderson
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
We are called as Latter-day Saints to be a force for good in the world in every way possible, which necessarily includes active and positive engagement with political and social issues. At the same time, it is essential to our spiritual survival that we never allow ourselves to forget the radical difference between the philosophies of men — no matter how superficially harmonious some of these may seem with particular principles of the gospel or with some aspects of traditional Mormon culture — and the teachings of the prophets. In a world that constantly entices us with messages designed to …
“There’S The Boy I Can Trust”: Dennison Lott Harris’ First-Person Account Of The Conspiracy Of Nauvoo And Events Surrounding Joseph Smith’S “Last Charge” To The Twelve Apostles, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
“There’S The Boy I Can Trust”: Dennison Lott Harris’ First-Person Account Of The Conspiracy Of Nauvoo And Events Surrounding Joseph Smith’S “Last Charge” To The Twelve Apostles, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
A well-known account from early Church history describes how, in the spring of 1844, two young men, Dennison Lott Harris and Robert Scott, helped protect Joseph Smith from dissidents plotting against his life. Almost completely unknown, however, is Dennison’s account of his subsequent role as a firsthand witness to events that appear to have taken place on the morning of 26 March 1844, just prior to the meeting in which Joseph Smith gave his “Last Charge” to the Quorum of the Twelve and “roll[ed] the kingdom off [his] shoulders” onto theirs in the presence of the Council of Fifty. This …
Remembering And Honoring Māori Latter-Day Saints, Louis Midgley
Remembering And Honoring Māori Latter-Day Saints, Louis Midgley
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
Dr. Robert (Rob) Joseph’s essay on Māori matakite (seers) is described and assessed, along with the contents of a book, edited by Dr. Selwyn Kātene, consisting of essays on twelve nineteenth-century Māori Latter-day Saint “leaders.” All these essays are indications that Māori scholars are setting out and defending the Māori Latter-day Saint narrative. These essays also make available to future generations the stories of some of the Māori who subsequently helped set in place a Māori community of Latterday Saints in Aotearoa (now the official Māori name for all of New Zealand rather than merely the name for the North …
A Brighter Future For Mormon Theology: Adam S. Miller’S Future Mormon, Jeff Lindsay
A Brighter Future For Mormon Theology: Adam S. Miller’S Future Mormon, Jeff Lindsay
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
Adam S. Miller’s Future Mormon, his collection of “Essays in Mormon Theology,” is one of the most intriguing reads I’ve encountered in LDS studies. It is a book intended to make students of Mormonism, especially those within the Church, challenge lazy assumptions in our theological thinking and rethink our approach to help us build a stronger faith. Some of Miller’s work here will be readily grasped and appreciated by LDS students, while other parts may be more radical or opaque. From my perspective, the gems should make the book a valued addition to any LDS library, in spite of my …
Three Degrees Of Gospel Understanding, Daniel C. Peterson
Three Degrees Of Gospel Understanding, Daniel C. Peterson
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
Few fireside talks outlive the week in which they are given. But Professor Stanley Kimball’s remarks, offered one evening long ago in southern California, have stayed with me for nearly three and a half decades. In my view, they offer a key to surviving challenges or even what have come to be called “faith crises” — and, indeed, a key not only to surviving them but to thriving spiritually by having overcome them.
Were We Foreordained To The Priesthood, Or Was The Standard Of Worthiness Foreordained? Alma 13 Reconsidered, A. Keith Thompson
Were We Foreordained To The Priesthood, Or Was The Standard Of Worthiness Foreordained? Alma 13 Reconsidered, A. Keith Thompson
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
Alma 13:3–4 is often interpreted as Book of Mormon confirmation of the doctrine that all those who are ordained to the Priesthood on the earth were foreordained to receive that Priesthood in the pre-existence as a result of their exceeding faith and good works. That interpretation is inconsistent with the 1978 revelation on Priesthood. A contextual reading of the account of Alma2’s ministry to the people of Ammonihah also suggests that Alma2 was not telling the men of Ammonihah that they (or anyone else) had been foreordained to receive the Priesthood. Rather, Alma2 was teaching that what we now call …
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
Revelation comes in various forms, some of them spectacular and some of them extremely subtle. The scriptures and the history of the Restoration offer numerous examples across the entire spectrum. Whatever its form, however, divine revelation remains divine revelation, and it is the avowed mission of the Interpreter Foundation to thoughtfully ponder such revelation, to try to explicate its meaning, and to illustrate its richness. In turn, such examination can itself provide an opportunity for personal revelation—both for the examiners and, we hope, for those who read or hear the results of their work.
Reading A Pentecostal Reads The Book Of Mormon, Stephen O. Smoot
Reading A Pentecostal Reads The Book Of Mormon, Stephen O. Smoot
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
In recent years the Book of Mormon has enjoyed increased attention from the scholarly world.1 This is entirely welcomed by the Latter-day Saints, especially when such attention comes from a place of fairness and open-mindedness. A praiseworthy example of how non-Mormon academics can fruitfully engage the Book of Mormon is John Cristopher Thomas’s new volume A Pentecostal Reads the Book of Mormon: A Literary and Theological Introduction.2 Thomas is well-equipped to approach the Book of Mormon on a literary and theological angle. He is, after all, an erudite biblical scholar whose work on New Testament text and theology has appeared …
Reclaiming Jacob, Duane Boyce
Reclaiming Jacob, Duane Boyce
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
A chapter of Adam Miller’s Future Mormon concerns Jacob’s encounter with Sherem in Jacob 7. While novel, Miller’s treatment of Jacob and Sherem appears inadequate. He overlooks features of the text that seem to subvert his unconventional conclusions about them. This essay identifies a number of such matters, falling in four major categories, and shares thoughts on the need for perspective when discussing Jacob’s conduct — or the conduct of any prophet, for that matter. It also highlights the jeopardy we face of being the second group to fall for Sherem’s lies.
The Parable Of The Benevolent Father And Son, Matthew R. Linford
The Parable Of The Benevolent Father And Son, Matthew R. Linford
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
A discussion is presented on the Parable of the Prodigal Son, including the departure of the young man into a faraway land, his return, and the welcome he received from his father. To better understand the cultural significance of this story, a Middle Eastern scholar (Kenneth Bailey) is referenced. The prodigal son breaks his father’s heart when he leaves home, but at the same time his older brother fails in his duty to his family. The father in the parable represents Christ, who is seen to take upon himself the shame of his returning boy and later of his older …
Reading 1 Nephi With Wisdom, Taylor Halverson
Reading 1 Nephi With Wisdom, Taylor Halverson
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
Nephi is the prototypical wise son of the Wisdom tradition. As Proverbs advocates that a wise man cherishes the word of God, so Nephi cherishes the words of the wise. Nephi’s record begins with a declaration of his upbringing in the Wisdom tradition and his authenticity and reliability as a wise son and scribe (1 Nephi 1:1–3). His is a record of the learning of the Jews — a record of wisdom. If the Wisdom tradition is a foundation for Nephi’s scribal capabilities and outlook, perhaps the principles and literary skills represented by the scribal Wisdom tradition constitute the “learning …
The Small Voice, David C. Peterson
The Small Voice, David C. Peterson
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
Revelation comes in various forms, some of them spectacular and some of them extremely subtle. The scriptures and the history of the Restoration offer numerous examples across the entire spectrum. Whatever its form, however, divine revelation remains divine revelation, and it is the avowed mission of the Interpreter Foundation to thoughtfully ponder such revelation, to try to explicate its meaning, and to illustrate its richness. In turn, such examination can itself provide an opportunity for personal revelation—both for the examiners and, we hope, for those who read or hear the results of their work.