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January 2026

January 09, 2026

“Early Anti-Mormonism in Great Britain, 1837–1842”

This new article was published today in the Interpreter Foundation's journal: "Early Anti-Mormonism in...

September 2025

September 23, 2025

“You really ought to give Iowa a try” (from “The Music Man”)

At one point, the city of Nauvoo, Illinois, was well on its way to...

September 23, 2025

Is there seeming evidence against the Restoration? Sure!

My Monday was exceptionally long and very busy, and I had no time whatever,...

April 2025

April 03, 2025

Riding a stream of consciousness from Utah to Palestine

Many years ago, my good friend Lou Midgley and I drove up to the...

October 2024

October 20, 2024

Once More, Can There Be Any Valid Criticisms of the Church?

I saw this title (or something like it) on a Latter-day Saint-related message board....

July 2024

July 24, 2024

Getting the word out

The Interpreter Foundation has published yet another short video feature that has been drawn...

April 2024

April 14, 2024

When Joseph Smith is attacked

On several occasions over the past few years, in various venues -- see here,...

September 2022

September 27, 2022

“If I were placed on a cannibal island”

Two new items have gone up today on the website of the Interpreter...

July 2022

July 19, 2022

A questionable extermination and an indisputable explosion

Here's a link to an article of mine that went up in Meridian...

April 2022

April 05, 2022

An appeal from this blog’s author and proprietor

*** Until just a few weeks ago, I didn't know that my...

January 2022

January 24, 2022

Irrelevant arguments against arguments

*** Critics of the Church of the Church of Jesus Christ of...

December 2021

December 23, 2021

A mirthless joke, or merely yet another slander?

*** Today marks the anniversary of the birth of the Prophet Joseph...

June 2021

June 19, 2021

In which I’m outed as an anti-Mormon who is guilty of priestcraft!

*** While we were up in Logan yesterday, my wife and I...

March 2021

March 31, 2021

Looking toward Easter

*** You may not yet have seen these two new items on...

March 11, 2021

In which I nobly attempt to reassure certain critics of the Church

Here is an item that was posted earlier today on the website of...

December 2020

December 13, 2020

Revision 8.7 “The Orson Hyde Memorial Garden and BYU’s Jerusalem Center”

The idea of an Orson Hyde monument continued to be discussed as time...

October 2020

October 05, 2020

Of Elder D. Todd Christofferson and “Bitter Fruits”

One of the many unattractive traits of our current debased public discourse is...

August 2020

August 30, 2020

Revision 4.12 “The Treatment of Women”

In terms of their prospects for going to either heaven or hell, there...

August 29, 2020

An exceptionally stupid argument against the Restoration

In my experience, theistic anti-Mormonism is largely (though not entirely) a conservative Protestant...

July 2020

July 22, 2020

The Great Middle Initial Scandal

Two new items have appeared on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: ...

June 2020

June 08, 2020

“Understanding Ritual Hand Gestures of the Ancient World”

Here are two new items on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: ...

December 2019

December 03, 2019

A, B, C, and M(e)

My anonymous but indefatigable Malevolent Stalker has just posted a condemnatory analysis of...

September 2019

September 02, 2019

Once more on that “eagle” and those “lands of Allah”

An ex-Latter-day Saint critic, having read my blog entry from yesterday entitled "Well?...

March 2019

March 16, 2019

On the quality of the Book of Mormon

Here's a moving item from CNN: "In photos: World reacts to New...

March 16, 2019

New Testament Notes 117-119

Matthew 12:22-30 Mark 3:22-27 Compare 9:32-34; Luke 11:14-15, 17-23; John 7:20; 8:48; 8:52;...

March 07, 2019

Thinking of “The Inner Ring”

On a predominantly atheistic message board that is deeply hostile both to the...

March 05, 2019

“Utard,” the Homeland of “Mormondumb,” as Hell on Earth.

New, on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: I Can Defend My...

March 03, 2019

Looking toward the “Book of Mormon Musical”

On 20 January 2011, I published the column below in the Deseret News,...

February 2019

February 12, 2019

Maybe I should write that handbook on logical fallacies after all.

New, on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: "The Church in the...

November 2018

November 30, 2018

The Odd Couple (Part One)

I've previously mentioned my Malevolent Stalker, a curious fellow who, for roughly the...