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May 2020

May 16, 2020

Another Illustration of Our War with Science?

Some of you may not have heard the news that the Laie, Hawaii,...

May 05, 2020

A Note of Appreciation

Last week, we officially closed out the weirdest BYU semester with which I've...

May 02, 2020

“Book of Moses Insights” and Arab Voices

Newly published on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: "Book of Moses...

April 2020

April 30, 2020

“The Temple on Mount Zion”

Call for Papers: 2020 “Temple on Mount Zion” Conference The biennial Temple on...

March 2020

March 24, 2020

ʿAjā’ib al-makhlūqāt wa gharā’ib al-mawjūdāt

We live, as nobody has ever pointed out before, in a remarkable age....

March 16, 2020

Responding to the Coronavirus

"President Nelson Gives a Message of Hope at This Troubled Time" ***...

March 12, 2020

BYU responds to the coronavirus

I have to admit that I'm not surprised, in view of the announcement...

March 05, 2020

On a current controversy involving BYU (2)

Continuing from the immediately previous blog entry: 6. The announcement of the...

March 05, 2020

On a current controversy involving BYU (1)

Several have urged me to comment on the Honor Code revisions at Brigham...

March 03, 2020

A landmark in the history of medicine

Many years ago now, with Gerrit Bos, who is now Professor Emeritus of...

February 2020

February 23, 2020

An inheritance for all the peoples of the world

When the first volume of the new Islamic Translation Series was published in...

January 2020

January 19, 2020

An early-1978 encounter on the street in Jerusalem

Curiously, one of the experiences that I remember clearly from my stay in...

January 18, 2020

A bit more on Yours Truly, vintage 1978, in East Jerusalem

In my immediately prior post ("A Prolegomenon to My First Sojourn in the...

January 18, 2020

A Prolegomenon to My First Sojourn in the Middle East

I posted a light item yesterday ("A couple of songs from my first...

January 17, 2020

A couple of songs from my first residence in the Middle East

Since my teens, I've enjoyed and been interested in folk music. And one...

January 10, 2020

Contradicting an attempt at revisionist history

Several years ago, out of the blue, a certain person claimed, online, that...

January 05, 2020

15 January 2020: Mark the Date!

The 29 December 2019 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show is now available...

December 2019

December 19, 2019

Save the Dates! (1-2 May 2020)

This would have been a Hamblin/Peterson column -- Bill read through it and...

December 14, 2019

Memories of interreligious “trialogue” (III)

Continued from “Memories of interreligious “trialogue” (II)”: I enjoyed the 1993 Jewish

November 2019

November 12, 2019

“”Two science societies removed BYU job postings over the school’s Honor Code ban on ‘homosexual behavior'”

If I'm not mistaken, we were repeatedly reassured during the ultimate successful campaign...

November 06, 2019

“Muslims and Latter-day Saints can be leaders in building tolerance”

This article, by Dr. Mohammad Abdulkarim Al-Issa, the leader of the Mecca-based Muslim...

October 2019

October 31, 2019

“Stone Cold Sober”

"RootsTech Hosts International Conference in London: Thousands participate in groundbreaking event to discover and...

October 09, 2019

Once more, on Lord David Alton’s BYU plenary address

In a blog entry posted on Monday ("Lunch with the Turkish consul general"),...

August 2019

August 30, 2019

Looking Forward to Fall Term

It was a real loss to our Arabic faculty at BYU when my...

May 2019

May 02, 2019

Living in, while attempting to cure, a “culture of contempt”

Arthur C. Brooks, of the American Enterprise Institute, is a hero of mine....

April 2019

April 26, 2019

“Latter-day Saint Romney was never Christian enough for some Republicans. Somehow, Trump still is.”

Here's the background for this blog entry: "Romney on Mueller report: I...

April 24, 2019

Can anything good come out of Provo?

Here's some recent news from Brigham Young University that a few folks out...

April 18, 2019

A note on Middle East Studies at BYU

I'm happy to pass this note on from Professor Quinn Mecham, the Coordinator...

January 2019

January 27, 2019

The Throne Verse, and the Erasure of Muslim Contributions from Western History

Long ago, I wrote the article on Allah for the Encyclopedia of Islam...

January 25, 2019

A new era in Latter-day Saint scholarship on the New Testament

On Thursday, in the Deseret News, I used my regular column to call...