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January 2021

January 02, 2021

Revision 8.10. “The BYU Jerusalem Center” (conclusion), plus diplomatic breakthroughs in the Middle East

For some time thereafter, no matter how careful we were, some new and...

December 2020

December 31, 2020

You can help to make an already superb BYU program even better.

Please permit me to introduce my longtime friend and colleague Dilworth B. Parkinson,...

December 26, 2020

Revision 8.9 Students occupy the BYU Jerusalem Center (plus a Christmas wrap-up)

But first . . . "Essay #35: Moses 1 in Its Ancient...

December 21, 2020

“A Prophet Like Moses,” and “The Journey of the Magi”

Two items were published on the website of the Interpreter Foundation today. ...

December 19, 2020

Revision 8.8 More opposition to the BYU Jerusalem Center

Don't miss this important (and relevant) monument from the history of Israeli popular...

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...

December 06, 2020

Revision 8.6 “Near Eastern Missions and a Branch in Jerusalem”

President Booth's sudden death did not end missionary work in the Near East....

November 2020

November 30, 2020

Lifetime Honors Come to Two Former Colleagues

I deem this announcement, which just came to my attention, to be worthy...

November 11, 2020

Ziauddin Yousafzai

I received this note from my former dean in the BYU College of...

October 2020

October 30, 2020

An 1865 Vision of a Gathering Place for the Saints in Hawai’i

Drawing on R. Lanier Britsch, Moramona: The Mormons in Hawai'i, 2d ed., updated,...

October 22, 2020

“A Latter-day Saint Defense of the Unborn”

But, first, the latest installment of my bi-weekly column for the Deseret News...

October 02, 2020

Me, the coronavirus, and my fiendish attempt to take away the freedoms of BYU students, staff, and faculty

I've been contacted by two or three people who are incensed at my...

September 2020

September 20, 2020

The Book of Moses conference proceedings are already up (preliminarily, anyway)

I hope that you were able to catch all or most of the...

September 16, 2020

“The Design Inference” (Part 3)

Continued: According to William Dembski, while both contingency and complexity are required...

September 14, 2020

Life on Venus? Intelligent Life on Earth?

Now this is interesting: "Phosphine gas found in Venus’ atmosphere may be...

September 07, 2020

Regarding the Young/Dumb at BYU, and Watermelons

If you are one of these selfish and irresponsible idiots, please stop it. ...

August 2020

August 31, 2020

Attacking Other Faiths

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

August 12, 2020

“And for this testimony I expect to give an account in the day of judgment.”

A few days ago, I recorded a lecture for BYU Education Week 2020...

August 04, 2020

What I was up to today for FairMormon 2020 and BYU Education Week 2020

The 2020 FairMormon conference begins on Wednesday, 5 August 2020 -- as I...

July 2020

July 08, 2020

My most recent acts of villainy

Some new accusations have recently been made against me online. I don't want...

July 07, 2020

“BYU Vocal Point pays tribute in CNN performance to COVID-19 victims”

On national television: "BYU Vocal Point pays tribute in CNN performance to COVID-19...

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...

July 05, 2020

Getting to Know Elder Boyd K. Packer

Not long after I had joined the faculty at Brigham Young University, I...

July 02, 2020

The apparent reason for my disinvitation from that Australian school many years ago

In case you don't already have sufficient reason to suspect that the current...

July 02, 2020

“Rick Anderson named university librarian at BYU”

Brigham Young University has just announced the naming of a new university librarian. ...

June 2020

June 30, 2020

A remembrance of things past

I've been on the campus of Brigham Young University only once, I believe,...

June 29, 2020

“What the critics say is irrelevant, and you need not heed them.”

It was in June 2012 -- eight years ago -- while I was...

June 19, 2020

My sorry career as a religious bigot

I have an anonymous critic -- I call him my Malevolent Stalker --...

June 14, 2020

“It really is easier to keep the commandments 100 percent of the time than it is 98 percent of the time.”

From a devotional address given by the late Clayton Christensen at Brigham Young...

May 2020

May 20, 2020

BYU and the Church’s Avarice

Indignant critics of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints found renewed...