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March 2026

March 07, 2026

Studying the Pearl of Great Price, and Evolution

Newly up on the completely unchanging website of the Interpreter Foundation: Conversations with Interpreter...

July 2024

July 24, 2024

Getting the word out

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

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...

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 31, 2020

Attacking Other Faiths

The 2020-2021 BYU academic year has begun. My own classes will begin tomorrow...

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: ...

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?...

April 2019

April 17, 2019

“Infected with doubt”

A significant passage from Jana Riess, The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing...

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...

August 2018

August 30, 2018

The Latter-day Saints and “Stalinist Art” Revisited (Part One?)

A few days ago, I posted some comments ("The Parthenon of the South...

February 2018

February 26, 2018

Is Mormonism Dying?

Reading this article in the National Catholic Register by one Anna Abbott,...

February 23, 2018

A bit more on those weird Mormon middle initials

A few days ago, I posted an item that, among other things, poked...

February 20, 2018

Mitt Romney, Multiple Worlds, Middle Initials, and Me

Every once in a while, I read a complaint by some critic of...