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October 2020

October 02, 2020

Revision 5.19 “What the West Owes the East” (A Word Sampler, Part 2, Including Excurses on Chess and the Book of Mormon)

Changing gears, it is worth noting that many terms connected with warfare have...

October 01, 2020

Revision 5.18 “What the West Owes the East” (A Word Sampler, Part 1)

Finally, I offer a grab bag of words on various subjects, to illustrate...

September 2020

September 30, 2020

Still Moving Forward with the “Witnesses” Project

My wife and I have just returned from a private showing of the...

September 27, 2020

“He was perfectly rational”

Simon Smith, a Latter-day Saint bishop in Utah , wrote an 1880 letter...

September 26, 2020

Did David Whitmer heft the golden plates?

Ronald E. Romig, Eighth Witness: The Biography of John Whitmer (Independence, MO: John...

September 23, 2020

Of seer stones and hearing angels sing

I offer here three quotations from Ronald E. Romig, Eighth Witness: The Biography...

September 22, 2020

B. H. Roberts and the Book of Mormon. Again???

Sigh. My late friend Bill Hamblin and I sometimes fantasized about starring...

September 19, 2020

Were the Whitmers marginal social outcasts and weirdos?

One of the questions that must inescapably be answered with regard to the...

September 15, 2020

“Taking a ‘Leap of Faith’ in [the late Senator Bob] Bennett’s book on the origins of the Book of Mormon”

I published this column in the Deseret News on 28 April 2016. Its...

September 13, 2020

At the very end

I return yet again to Susan Easton Black and Larry C. Porter, Martin Harris:...

September 12, 2020

Orson Pratt, reacting to the death of Martin Harris

It seems that I'll be doing a fireside on Monday evening, 14 September...

September 11, 2020

“The Waters of Mormon, Baptism, the Love of God, and the Bitter Fountain”

I was really busy yesterday, so I didn't have time to post a...

September 11, 2020

Late 1870, near Logan, Utah

Here are some reminiscences from William Pilkington, as given in Susan Easton Black...

September 09, 2020

Martin Harris, testifying in 1870

Here are some further reports about Martin Harris just before and following his...

September 08, 2020

When Political Opinion is the New Religion

This item is newly posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: ...

September 07, 2020

Revision 4.20 “Some Similarities between the Qur’an and Latter-day Saint Scripture” (Part 3)

There are some parallels that are still closer. "Those that cry lies to...

September 06, 2020

Revision 4.19 “Some Similarities between the Qur’an and Latter-day Saint Scripture” (Part 2)

The entire twelfth chapter of the Qur'an is devoted to a beautiful retelling...

September 04, 2020

Must one know the precise GPS coordinates of the final Jaredite and Lehite battles in order to be a good Latter-day Saint?

I have no real interest in Mr. Jonathan Neville. I have no real...

September 04, 2020

“Visions in a Seer Stone”?

Two new book reviews have just appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day...

August 2020

August 31, 2020

Ewan Harbrecht Mitton (1929-2020)

Many out there will recognize the name of George Mitton, who has been...

August 29, 2020

An exceptionally stupid argument against the Restoration

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

August 29, 2020

3 Nephi and Regional Earthquake Fault Zones

Here are some notes from "Identification of a Regional Earthquake Fault Zone," Chapter...

August 28, 2020

“Some Notes on Jacob 4:14, Revelation, Canon, Covenant, and Law”

It's Friday and, accordingly, a new article has appeared in Interpreter: A Journal...

August 27, 2020

David Whitmer’s testimony, in verse

In August 1883, David Whitmer, the last surviving Witness of the Book of...

August 26, 2020

Was Sidney Rigdon in on the creation of the Book of Mormon?

John Wickliffe Rigdon, a son of Sidney Rigdon, left a memoir of his...

August 26, 2020

“Sturm und Drang” in 3 Nephi

I continue with some notes from Jerry D. Grover, Jr., Geology of the...

August 24, 2020

“Another Breakthrough for the Arabian Peninsula Evidence for the Book of Mormon”?

This just up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: "John W....

August 23, 2020

What happened in September 1823? Why? Given COVID-19, will anything at all happen THIS September?

Just a reminder: The coronavirus pandemic has obviously been a nuisance (when it...

August 22, 2020

Book of Moses Insights, Radio Shows, and How You Can Help

The Interpreter Foundation is like a fountain or a spring. It produces steadily:...

August 21, 2020

Revision 4.3 “The Qur’an and the Doctrine and Covenants”

But there is a deeper theological reason for the claim that the Qur'an...