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July 2026

July 26, 2026

Reflections on People Who Leave the Church

In this video from the Interpreter Foundation, Kyler Rasmussen briefly reviews Jeff Strong's still...

June 2026

June 18, 2026

Religiosity and Retention

Just a reminder that I'll be speaking in American Fork, Utah, tomorrow (Friday) night...

June 06, 2026

Why Some Leave the Church and How We Should Respond

I've not yet read -- nor, truth be told, have I so much as...

June 25, 2025

Why bother with a Restoration?

Yesterday on social media, I noticed an attack by a former Latter-day Saint on...

January 2025

January 14, 2025

“Always only one generation away from extinction”

A dominant (and gleefully received) narrative among some critics of the Church of Jesus...

July 2024

July 30, 2024

The Great Apostasy, the Mountain Meadows Massacre, etc.

The reviews of Six Days in August continue to roll in from The Usual...

April 2023

April 27, 2023

This is not a way in which I, at least, want to help fulfill prophecy

I've begun to read Sean McDowell and Jonathan Morrow, Is God Just a...

October 2022

October 13, 2022

Stephen King and James Joyce, on behalf of the Book of Mormon

I imagine that very few of the readers here are unfamiliar with Murphy's...

September 2022

September 05, 2022

An infallible formula for never lapsing into inactivity in the Church

The inexplicably weird English of the headline continues throughout the article. Still, I...

May 2022

May 03, 2022

“Why do the Utah Jazz, in the Mormon capital, play ‘Hava Nagila’ after wins?”

*** As mentioned in an article from the Times of Israel, this...

January 2022

January 27, 2022

Profound. And Big.

*** Several years ago, I read the superb book by Fiona Givens...

October 2021

October 10, 2021

Religion and Mental Health

*** I'm hoping that my travel commitments will slow down in 2022,...

August 2021

August 11, 2021

“On a Disagreeable God”

*** Another installment of Kyler Rasmussen's investigation has gone up on the...

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 20, 2020

A ten-minute video on “Evidences of the Book of Abraham: Historicity”

The official magazine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for...

July 2020

July 14, 2020

“Human Wrecks”

Come, Follow Me — Study and Teaching Helps: Lesson 29, July 20-26: Alma 36-38...

July 06, 2020

“Saving Faith: How Families Protect, Sustain, and Encourage Faith”

"It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble," Will Rogers...

February 2020

February 27, 2020

“Who Is Leaving the Church?” (Part Three)

Today's installment of my bi-weekly column in the Deseret News: "How Mary’s...

February 26, 2020

“Who Is Leaving the Church?” (Part Two)

Continued from a previous post. I here offer some further notes from...

February 22, 2020

“Who Is Leaving the Church?” (Part One)

Here are some notes from Stephen Cranney, ""Who Is Leaving the Church? Demographic...

November 2019

November 07, 2019

“Buried before they died”

"Title of Liberty Raised in Three-Country Tour of Central America: Latter-day Saints participate in...

April 2019

April 17, 2019

“Infected with doubt”

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

April 16, 2019

New Testament Notes 214-217

Luke 14:1-6 The question that Jesus poses to the Pharisees isn't, strictly...

March 2019

March 17, 2019

New Testament Notes 120-123

Matthew 12:43-45 Compare Luke 11:24-26 One of the things that this passage...

March 07, 2019

Thinking of “The Inner Ring”

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

February 2019

February 10, 2019

On that article about “Mental Distress and Disaffection from the Church”

Over the past few weeks, I've watched with fascination -- though, unfortunately, not...

January 2019

January 18, 2019

“Barriers to Belief”

New, in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: "Barriers...

November 2018

November 22, 2018

In praise of excommunication

Well, the click-bait headline worked. Gotcha. First of all, let me make...

March 2018

March 31, 2018

Thinking about Easter and idolatry on a General Conference Saturday

If you can find about 45 minutes -- of course, you can watch...

March 29, 2018

Some notes from a politically conservative Latter-day Saint Islamicist

An interesting article: "Mormons want to save the planet — it’s part...