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May 2026

May 24, 2026

Frustrated Schadenfreude

  The seventeenth installment of the Becoming Brigham series runs not quite eighteen minutes.  Today,...

December 2023

December 23, 2023

Two Hundred and Eighteen Years Ago, Today

    Today is the 218th anniversary of the birth of the Prophet Joseph Smith,...

December 25, 2022

Notes on the Nativity, and a Christmas Carol’s Back Story

    "Opinion: The true power of Christmas in a world filled with violence and...

December 20, 2022

A non-Christian Christmas

    "The New Testament in Context Lesson 1: “We Are Responsible for Our Own...

August 2022

August 12, 2022

“A Comet, Christ’s Birth, and Josephus’s Lunar Eclipse”

    "A Comet, Christ’s Birth, and Josephus’s Lunar Eclipse," written by Charles Dike Abstract: A...

December 2021

December 25, 2021

Christmas or Easter?

    ***   I often consider the question in my mind of which holiday...

February 2021

February 26, 2021

“That Which You Have Translated, Which You Have Retained”

    I've been busy with cinematic matters today -- among other things, we made...

February 26, 2021

Mostly African Thoughts, But Some Heavenly Ones, Too

    My wife and I attended a screening of Heart of Africa 2: Companions...

January 2021

January 23, 2021

“Remembering Heaven”

    I've already mentioned that the Interpreter Foundation's theatrical film, Witnesses, will be featured at...

December 2020

December 25, 2020

“Christmas as Devotional”: Christ appeared in order to reconcile us

    First of all, I wish everyone out there a Merry Christmas!   ***...

December 23, 2020

Two Hundred and Fifteen Years Ago, Today

    Perhaps, had he not been born so close to the superholiday of Christmas,...

December 04, 2020

Mary and the Infant Jesus in the Qur’an (My Translation), Plus a Note on Reductionism

    My column for this week in the Deseret News:   "How the Annunciation...

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...

June 2020

June 08, 2020

“A Planet is Born”

    I enjoyed an article in the current issue of Scientific American about "circumstellar...

December 2019

December 23, 2019

When light begins to gain the upper hand

    Today marks the 214th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Smith.  I think...

December 20, 2019

Christmas Reflections from the Interpreter Foundation

    Urgent:  There was an error in the address given for Bill Hamblin's funeral...

December 18, 2019

Christmas and Easter

    I  published this article at Christmastime back in 2016.  As it happens, had...

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