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July 2026

July 22, 2026

“Lot — Likened Unto Noah”

Posted today on the essentially comatose website of the Interpreter Foundation: Reprint: "Lot --...

July 15, 2026

“This is the morning”

This item went up today on the moribund website of the Interpreter Foundation: Reprint:...

April 2026

April 08, 2026

“To boldly go where no man has gone before”

I think that it's time to celebrate what the Artemis II mission has already...

April 01, 2026

“Well, I’ve been afraid of changin'”

This article, which went up earlier today, is not a new journal article. It's...

March 2026

March 25, 2026

“Abraham the Astronomer”

Newly posted today on the completely stagnant website of the Interpreter Foundation -- which,...

March 23, 2026

In which I pose a question to any readers that I might have

I'm pleased to report that a copy of Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Matthew L. Bowen,...

March 21, 2026

Some easily demonstrated falsehoods

New today on the barely-still-breathing website of the Interpreter Foundation: Conversations with Interpreter: Jeff...

March 11, 2026

Where was Abraham’s “Ur of the Chaldees”?

I'm not endorsing Dr. Zuhdi Jasser's campaign to represent Arizona in Congress. (See here.)...

February 2026

February 25, 2026

Politics, Commandments, Opposition, and Abrahamic Tests

Materials from our "chapter reprint series" are now appearing each week on Wednesdays rather...

February 12, 2026

“Why Brigham Young Makes Us Uncomfortable,” and Other Stuff

The podcast Let's Get Real with Stephen Jones and Scripture Central has just posted...

August 2025

August 07, 2025

A report from the floor

The Interpreter Foundation's Thursday chapter reprint has appeared: Seek Ye Words of Wisdom: "All...

May 2025

May 10, 2025

Who is the most important character in the Bible?

Although I can't honestly recommend the presentation that began at 1:35 PM this afternoon,...

May 04, 2025

Book of Mormon anachronisms?

I'm obviously very late with calling attention to them -- see below for the...

February 2024

February 02, 2024

For Groundhog Day

"Temple Themes in the Book of Abraham," written by Stephen O. Smoot Abstract: The...

October 2023

October 24, 2023

“Abraham the Seer”

No day that begins with a visit to the pyramid plateau just outside...

April 2023

April 10, 2023

Hot Off the Press!

I'm very pleased to have just received in the mail a hard copy...

February 2022

February 13, 2022

The Scriptures Are Indeed Real

*** Kerry Muhlestein and Lamar Newmayer have a podcast that they've entitled...

February 12, 2022

Abraham, Lot, Sarah, Hagar, Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, and Peterson

*** More than a few of you are almost certainly familiar with...

January 2022

January 08, 2022

A Nobel laureate’s late return to faith

*** Several times each year, some atheist or other triumphantly flings in...

December 2021

December 01, 2021

Egyptological

*** Another of Kyler Rasmussen's Bayesian essays has appeared on the website...

September 2021

September 24, 2021

“Framing the Book of Abraham”

*** New, today, in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and...

August 2021

August 17, 2021

Light from the West and the Ancient East

*** New, from Jonn Claybaugh, on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:...

July 2021

July 09, 2021

“Interpreting the Book of Mormon through the Eyes of Someone in Hell”

*** Like all movies, the Interpreter Foundation's Witnesses film will eventually come...

June 2021

June 28, 2021

A rich feast for eyes, hearts, and minds

In all likelihood, today marks the 192nd anniversary of the experience of Oliver...

May 2021

May 28, 2021

“The Life-Giving ‘Water’ of the Restoration”

*** Two new articles -- by, respectively, David R. Seely and Duane...

April 2021

April 12, 2021

A Triptych on Fasting, Latter-day Saints, Muslims, Anti-COVID Vaccinations, Dan Vogel, and the Book of Abraham

*** First, I want to pass along these items from Sam LeFevre,...

April 03, 2021

“But I tell you, I saw it!”

*** New today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Book of...

January 2021

January 29, 2021

“Fantasy and Reality in the Translation of the Book of Abraham”

I'm pleased to announce that yet another new article -- this one by...

November 2020

November 13, 2020

Of Eyewitnesses, the Resurrection, and the Gold Plates

Here are some notes on the earliest Christian disciples and the raising of...

September 2020

September 05, 2020

Revision 4.18 “Some Similarities between the Qur’an and Latter-day Saint Scripture” (Part 1)

Some readers will already have noticed a number of similarities between the Qur'an...