I experienced déjà vu this fine morning while reading the Proprietor's Easter-centered essay published today in
Interpreter, "Christ is Risen! Truly, He is Risen!" (The essay will be posted online
here later today.) As far as I can tell, the essay is essentially a repeat of an April 2023 blog post titled "
A Testimony: Χριστὸς Ἀνέστη! Ἀληθῶς Ἀνέστη!" In turn, the blog post seems to be a "fairly accurate text" of a ward sacrament meeting talk delivered by the Proprietor a year ago.
I would guess that the Proprietor was a last-minute fill-in for the individual who was originally invited to contribute the special
annual Easter essay to
Interpreter. In any case, I am reminded of Bond James Bond's 2013 prophecy: "By Jan. 1, 2014 Interpreter will be dead just like Mormon Scholars Testify. Either totally dead or down to token 'blog' style postings and re-postings of old/reworked articles (already happening)." I am also reminded of Ecclesiastes 1:9, which reads: "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun" (NIV).