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October 2026

October 04, 2026

Across the English Channel

Another long day, though it was long for a different reason: Our Becoming Brigham...

May 2026

May 06, 2026

“Hadestown”

One of the principal motivations behind our Becoming Brigham series (becomingbrigham.com) is our sense...

February 2026

February 06, 2026

Kingship and anti-royalism in the Book of Mormon

Published today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: "“Inspired by...

January 2026

January 19, 2026

A couple of notes on the Hereafter

The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; the devout are taken...

November 2025

November 08, 2025

Some out-of-body experiences

I am, to put it mildly, no particular admirer of Zohran Mamdani, and I'm...

October 2025

October 20, 2025

A “most beautiful and wondrous and moving thing”

In case you missed it when it first appeared in Meridian Magazine, the Interpreter...

September 2025

September 24, 2025

A brief note on one way of thinking about life after death

A piece that I wrote for Meridian Magazine went up this morning; "DNA and...

August 2025

August 21, 2025

A great American thinker on dogmatic scientific orthodoxy

Posted today on the static, never-changing website of the Interpreter Foundation: "Seek Ye Words...

January 2025

January 18, 2025

Songs of the Heart

One of the great things about my father-in-law's funeral on Friday was the gathering...

December 2024

December 01, 2024

The following note went out to several Interpreter Foundation mailing lists yesterday: This coming...

June 2024

June 30, 2024

Some pleasant reading for a Sabbath evening

This is a great story: "BYU’s James Corrigan earns miraculous bid to Paris Olympics...

June 23, 2024

Some accounts of near-death experiences

This bit of footage, shot back in May at the foot of Torleif Knaphus's...

April 2024

April 23, 2024

“Wow! What a wipeout!”

As happens several times each week, something new has yet again been posted on...

April 20, 2024

What persists?

This passage from somewhere came across my radar screen earlier today, and I think...

April 09, 2024

Coincidence? Lies? What?

Some while ago, I read William J. Peters, At Heaven's Door: What Shared Journeys...

March 2024

March 30, 2024

Elegiac thoughts on why it matters so very, very much

I hope that people out there are not so confused as to be unable...

February 2024

February 22, 2024

Links between heaven and earth

A friend picked us up at our hotel early this evening and took us...

November 2023

November 25, 2023

Notes on Shared Death Experiences

While we were in Virginia recently, we not only took the time to...

November 05, 2023

“After Death”

Last night, my wife and I attended a screening in one of our...

April 2023

April 24, 2023

An untrustworthy NDE account?

Several years ago, I posted a quotation from George G. Ritchie, M.D., regarding...

April 10, 2023

Hot Off the Press!

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

April 07, 2023

Am I a stone, and not a sheep?

"The Goodness of the Cross and Good Friday: Lessons from Bavaria," written by...

April 02, 2023

On Being “Perfect” (Part One)

[Prefatory clarification: The title of this blog entry notwithstanding, it doesn't actually constitute...

March 2023

March 23, 2023

The moving finger writes and, having writ, moves on

As I post this from Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, it's...

March 23, 2023

An inadequate note to a niece and two nephews

I just sent the note below to a niece and two nephews, the...

March 21, 2023

“Why seek ye the living among the dead?”

My sister-in-law, my brother's widow, passed away very early this morning after a...

January 2023

January 09, 2023

“At that time I was no longer in my body.”

Many years ago, there was a period when my speaking engagements on behalf...

January 04, 2023

“I made a mistake in growing weary of the Gospel.”

New material on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Conference Talks: "From...

September 2022

September 15, 2022

“Evidence of the Afterlife”

Conference Talks: "The Ark and the Tent: Temple Symbolism in the Story of...

July 2022

July 10, 2022

“The colors and lights in heaven were simply sublime”

In the portion of my post from yesterday that talked about our visit...