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December 2019

December 21, 2019

“One of Us”

I published this column in the Deseret News just before Christmas 2014: ...

November 2019

November 27, 2019

“The Lost 116 Pages: Reconstructing the Book of Mormon’s Missing Stories”

I would like to call your attention to a remarkable new book, which...

November 16, 2019

Southeast Asia, Mesoamerica, Manhattan, and Utah Valley

If you haven't watched this yet, please take a couple of minutes to...

November 15, 2019

Two new articles from the Interpreter Foundation

This article of mine appeared in the print edition of the Deseret News...

November 13, 2019

Dismissing Witness Testimony

For some reason, my little post on "Running with the golden plates" has...

November 10, 2019

Running with the golden plates

I spoke at a small "cottage meeting" on Saturday night, along with the...

November 06, 2019

On “Edward Stevenson’s Journal Entry about Martin Harris”

The Interpreter Foundation continues to grow because it continues to produce. I'm deeply...

November 04, 2019

Introducing “an indigent jeweller named Snite”

Way back in 1952, Hugh Nibley published this little gem . . . umm,...

November 03, 2019

Archaeology and the Book of Mormon?

Some of you are probably already famliar with a website, Mormon Scholars Testify,...

November 02, 2019

“Did a “Magic World View” Influence the Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon?”

You are, I hope, aware of the lists of resources that the Interpreter...

November 01, 2019

“Historicity: Does it matter?”

Responding in a friendly and positive way to some comments that I recently...

October 2019

October 30, 2019

I, arrogant usurper of the prophets

Very much, I believe, rides on our answer to the question of whether...

October 21, 2019

Now, you can read a transcript of “’Idle Tales’? The Witness of Women”

A transcript of the remarks that I delivered at the August 2019 FairMormon...

October 20, 2019

National Geographic discovery of Mayan ruins wasn’t proof, but it was very interesting

I originally published this article in the Deseret News back on 8 February...

October 19, 2019

Monday, 28 October 2019: “Recovering a Lost World: The LiDAR Revolution and Ancient Maya Warfare”

From Book of Mormon Central, regarding a lecture to be given on the...

October 17, 2019

“Heavenly Parents”

I subscribe to an e-newsletter written by the always interesting Deseret News reporter Tad...

October 08, 2019

An Important Milestone

My wife and I attended a marvelous concert this evening by the remarkable...

October 07, 2019

Personal Perspectives and Historical Reconstructions

Thanks to the inquiry of a reader, I now realize that I didn't...

October 04, 2019

Friday, from the Interpreter Foundation

It's Friday, so -- I hope, to nobody's very great surprise by now...

September 2019

September 28, 2019

“Dealing with the Dead”

If you're interested in contributing financially to the work of the Interpreter Foundation,...

September 27, 2019

“Lehi, Joseph, and the Kingdom of Israel”

I'm behind in announcing this because . . . well, because I was...

September 27, 2019

Lucy Harris v. Joseph Smith Jr.

My wife and I spent a large part of today up at the...

September 12, 2019

“The Record of the Jews and the Record of the Nephites are One.”

Interpreter Radio Show — 8 September 2019 The 8 September 2019 broadcast...

September 05, 2019

Church history, then and now

The latest installment of my bi-weekly column for the Deseret News has appeared:...

September 03, 2019

Were there Near Eastern languages in ancient America?

I published the column below in the Deseret News back on 1 June...

July 2019

July 30, 2019

Of Ancient Pyramids in East St. Louis, the Heartland, and Educational Levels in Provo/Orem

I was recently sent the following link that I think some will find...

July 12, 2019

Hugh Nibley and the Heartland

Mr. Jonathan Neville's aggressive advocacy of the "Heartland model" of Book of Mormon...

July 05, 2019

A note on the anthropology of the Pacific

In the eighth issue of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship,...

June 2019

June 10, 2019

Beyond the Heartland

A (final?) note from Stephen Smoot on the subject: "A Review of...

June 10, 2019

Heartland Heartbreak and Unsleeping Malice

Stephen Smoot has concluded his series of essays in response to an important...