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Louis C. Midgley | The Interpreter FoundationHonoring Hugh Nibley — AgainReview of Hugh Nibley Observed, edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Shirley Ricks, and Stephen Whitlock (Orem, UT: Interpreter Foundation, 2021). 820 pages. $45.00 (hardback), $35.00 (paperback). Abstract: Hugh Nibley Observed is the third assembly of essays honoring Nibley by his friends and admirers. It differs from the other two in many ways. It is packed with photographs, observations […]
The post Honoring Hugh Nibley — Again first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.2021-05-0700 minLouis C. Midgley | The Interpreter FoundationThe Māori Latter-day Saint Historical Narrative: Additions and Amendments[Page 199]Abstract: Selwyn Kātene has again assembled twelve essays written by the descendants of famous Māori Latter-day Saints. This volume flows from a revival of interest in the ground and content of the faith of early Māori Saints that began in the late 1990s. In various ways the essays in this volume add to and amend what […]
The post The Māori Latter-day Saint Historical Narrative: Additions and Amendments first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.2019-05-1700 min
Scientificast, la scienza come non l'hai mai sentitaLa morte si fa scienzaIn questi giorni ricordiamo il cinquecentesimo anniversario della morte di Leonardo da Vinci, il venticinquesimo di Ayrton Senna e il trentesimo di Sergio Leone... che non è molto scientifico, ma ha comunque segnato il nostro modo di parlare, con i suoi film.Andrea e Giuliano commentano la notizia della misura della doppia cattura elettronica da parte dell'isotopo 124 dello xenon, misurata ai Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso da parte dell'esperimento XENON1T. Si tratta della misura della più lunga vita media mai osservata, ventimila miliardi di volte l'età dell'Universo!Parliamo di pneumatici con il nostro ingegnere di pista. Scopriamo insieme i segreti di...2019-05-061h 07
The Staying Young Show 2.0 - Entertaining | Educational | Health & Wellness#1094: Show- Time Management with Lauren MidgleyShow Topic: Time Management with Lauren Midgley Co-Hosts: Judy Gaman, Mark Anderson, Walter Gaman Guest: Lauren Midgley (In Studio) Segment 1: Today we are talking about something we could all work on--time management. There just aren’t enough hours in the day. How does time management affect your health? Stress levels Productivity Personal stories of time management DOC SHOCK Are you looking to increase your athletic performance? New research out of Saint Louis University (SLU) in Missouri found that eating a Mediterranean diet can increase endurance performance in just four da...2019-03-2700 min
The Staying Young Show 2.0 - Entertaining | Educational | Health & Wellness#1094: Show- Time Management with Lauren MidgleyShow Topic: Time Management with Lauren Midgley Co-Hosts: Judy Gaman, Mark Anderson, Walter Gaman Guest: Lauren Midgley (In Studio) Segment 1: Today we are talking about something we could all work on--time management. There just aren’t enough hours in the day. How does time management affect your health? Stress levels Productivity Personal stories of time management DOC SHOCK Are you looking to increase your athletic performance? New research out of Saint Louis University (SLU) in Missouri found that eating a Mediterranean diet can increase endurance performance in just four days! Participants were six percent faster while running on a treadmill for three miles. The Mediterranean diet consists of plant-based foods...2019-03-2753 minLouis C. Midgley | The Interpreter FoundationMarjorie Newton’s Account of the Faith of the Māori Saints: A Critical Appraisal[Page 179]Abstract: Marjorie Newton’s Mormon and Maori is a version of her 1998 thesis in which she rejects key elements of the Māori Latter-day Saint historical narrative. This contrasts with her earlier, faith-affirming Tiki and Temple. In Mormon and Maori Newton targets what she sees as Māori/missionary mythology. She has written for different audiences; one […]
The post Marjorie Newton’s Account of the Faith of the Māori Saints: A Critical Appraisal first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.2018-11-0900 minLouis C. Midgley | The Interpreter FoundationMarjorie Newton on “The Mormons in Australia” — A Retrospective ReviewA Review of Marjorie Newton, Southern Cross Saints: The Mormons in Australia, foreword by Lawrence Foster (xiii-xv). (Laie, HI: Institute for Polynesian Studies, 1991). xxvi+283 pp., with a glossary of Latter-day Saint Terms (257–59), Bibliography (261–71), Index (273–83). Softcover (out of print, but copies are still available).
Abstract: This is a survey of Marjorie Newton’s account of Latter-day Saints in Australia which identifies the roots of her agenda — that is, what she was striving to accomplish in her first book in 1991 (and the other related essays) which she published before turning her attention to a criticism of the faith of Māori Latt...2017-10-2700 minLouis C. Midgley | The Interpreter FoundationRemembering and Honoring Māori Latter-day SaintsReview of Robert Joseph, “Intercultural Exchange, Matakite Māori and the Mormon Church,” in Mana Māori and Christianity, ed. by Hugh Morrison, Lachy Paterson, Brett Knowles and Murray Rae (Wellington, New Zealand: Huia Publishers, 2012), pp. 43–72; and of Selwyn Kātene, ed, Turning the Hearts of the Children: Early Māori Leaders in the Mormon Church (Wellington, New Zealand: Steele Roberts Publishers, 2014). 231 pp. Glossary (pp. 220–22), Index (pp. 223–31). N.Z.
Abstract: 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...2016-08-1900 minLouis C. Midgley | The Interpreter FoundationCareless Accounts and Tawdry NoveltiesReview of Lofte Payne. Joseph Smith the Make-Believe Martyr: Why the Book of Mormon Is America’s Best Fiction. Victoria, BC, Canada: Trafford Publishing, 2006. xxi + 331 pp., with appendix and index.
Abstract: The faith of Latter-day Saints is rooted in Joseph Smith’s recovery of the Book of Mormon, which presents itself as an authentic ancient text and divine special revelation. Book length efforts to explain away these two grounding historical claims began in 1834, and have never ceased. They are often the works of disgruntled former Saints. In 1988 Lofts Try self-published an amusing, truly bizarre, seemingly countercult sectarian acco...2015-07-1000 minLouis C. Midgley | The Interpreter FoundationThe Māori Stairway to HeavenA review of Jason Hartley. Ngā Mahi: The Things We Need to Do; The Pathway of the Stars. n.p.: Xlibris, 2013. 264 pp., no index.
Jason Hartley’s book manifests a passion for alleviating the problem of Māori surging into the prisons of Aotearoa/New Zealand by restoring their old, traditional religious ethos and the social control that hinges on the recovery of the old belief that they are potentially noble children of God. In setting out his own disappointing discovery of the roots of both a growing problem and what he believes is the solution, he desc...2014-09-1900 minLouis C. Midgley | The Interpreter FoundationA Plea for Narrative Theology: Living In and By StoriesThe following are reflections on some of the complicated history, including the abuses, of what is commonly known as theology. The Saints do not “do theology.” Even when we are tempted, we do not reduce the contents or grounds of faith to something conforming to traditional theology. Instead, we tell stories of how and why we came to faith, which are then linked to a network of other stories found in our scriptures, and to a master narrative. We live in and by stories and not by either dogmatic or philosophically grounded systematic theology. Instead, we tend to engage in s...2014-02-2100 minLouis C. Midgley | The Interpreter FoundationMāori Latter-day Saint Faith: Some Preliminary RemarksReview of Marjorie Newton, Tiki and Temple: The Mormon Mission in New Zealand, 1854–1958 (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2012), xv + 328 pp. (including a glossary of Māori words, three appendices, bibliography, two maps, twenty-nine illustrations and a photography register, and index). $29.95 (paperback).
The post Māori Latter-day Saint Faith: Some Preliminary Remarks first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.2013-12-1300 minLouis C. Midgley | The Interpreter FoundationProtestant Ecclesiastical Anarchy and Dogmatic DiversityReview of Mark A. Noll. Protestantism: A Very Short Introduction, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. xvi + 161 pp., with bibliography of further reading, glossary, index. $11.95 (paperback).
The post Protestant Ecclesiastical Anarchy and Dogmatic Diversity first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.2013-07-1900 minLouis C. Midgley | The Interpreter FoundationMultiple Reformations and a Deeply Divided HouseReview of Diarmaid MacCulloch. The Reformation. New York: Viking Penguin, 2004. xxvii + 832 pp. with appendix of texts and index. $35.95 (hardcover). $22.00 (paperback).
The post Multiple Reformations and a Deeply Divided House first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.2013-07-1900 minLouis C. Midgley | The Interpreter FoundationConfronting Five-Point CalvinismReview of Roger E. Olson. Against Calvinism. Foreword by Michael Horton, author of For Calvinism. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011. 207 pp., no index. $16.99 (paperback).
The post Confronting Five-Point Calvinism first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.2013-03-2200 minLouis C. Midgley | The Interpreter FoundationEvangelical Controversy: A Deeply Fragmented MovementAbstract: Four Views on the Spectrum of Evangelicalism should be helpful to Latter-day Saints (and others) seeking to understand some of the theological controversies lurking behind contemporary fundamentalist/evangelical religiosity. Four theologians spread along a spectrum speak for different competing factions of conservative Protestants: Kevin Bauder for what turns out to be his own somewhat moderate version of Protestant fundamentalism; Al Mohler for conservative/confessional evangelicalism; John Stackhouse for generic evangelicalism; and Roger Olson for postconservative evangelicalism. Each author introduces his own position and then is critiqued in turn by the others, after which there is a rejoinder. In addition...2013-01-0400 min
Daniel C. Peterson | The Interpreter FoundationThe Role of Apologetics in Mormon StudiesThe following essay was presented on 3 August 2012 as “Of ‘Mormon Studies’ and Apologetics” at the conclusion of the annual conference of the Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research (FAIR) in Sandy, Utah. It represents the first public announcement and appearance of Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture, which had been founded only slightly more than a week earlier, on 26 July. In my view, that rapid launch was the near-miraculous product of selfless collaboration and devotion to a cause on the part of several people—notable among them David E. Bokovoy, Alison V. P. Coutts, William J. Hamblin, Bryce M. Haymond, Loui...2012-12-141h 18Louis C. Midgley | The Interpreter FoundationDefending the King and His KingdomSome vocal cultural Mormons, busy asking themselves “why stay,” claim that it is not at all probable that there is a God, or that there even was a Jesus of Nazareth. They also ridicule the Atonement. In the language of our scriptures they are antichrists—that is, they deny that there was or is a Christ. Being thus against the King and His Kingdom, their trumpet does not give a clear sound; they are clearly against the one whom they made a solemn covenant to defend and sustain. Instead of seeking diligently to become genuine Holy Ones or Saints, they w...2012-11-3000 minLouis C. Midgley | The Interpreter FoundationChristian Faith in Contemporary ChinaReview of Lian Xi. Redeemed by Fire: The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China. New Haven: Yale University, 2010. 352 pp., with glossary, bibliography and index. $45.00 (hardcover).
The post Christian Faith in Contemporary China first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.2012-10-1900 minLouis C. Midgley | The Interpreter FoundationBook Review: Latter-day Scripture: Studies in the Book of Mormon, by Robert M. PriceThis is a book review of Latter-day Scripture: Studies in the Book of Mormon, by Robert M. Price. Review by Louis C. Midgley.
The post Book Review: Latter-day Scripture: Studies in the Book of Mormon, by Robert M. Price first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.2012-09-0700 minLouis C. Midgley | The Interpreter FoundationAtheist Piety: A Religion of Dogmatic DubietyThe “Special Feature” of this mass-market secular humanist magazine consists of an introduction to “America’s Peculiar Piety” followed by a miscellany of brief, nonscholarly essays critical of The Church of Jesus Christ. The questions posed in the introduction to this flagship atheist magazine go unaddressed in the essays. Some of the essays are personal exit stories by former Latter-day Saints. One is an effort by Robert M. Price to explain away the Book of Mormon without confronting its contents. This is done by ignoring the details of Joseph Smith’s career in order to picture him as the equivalent o...2012-09-0700 min