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September 2026

September 03, 2026

From a small, specialized Interpreter Foundation gathering

My wife and I are up in Salt Lake City for the second biannual...

December 2024

December 17, 2024

California, out I come, back from where I started from

I love California. I grew up there. I earned my doctorate there. I typically...

October 2024

October 11, 2024

“It Helps to Have a Village”

I wax somewhat autobiographical -- indeed, a little bit sentimental and perhaps even somewhat...

February 2024

February 29, 2024

Christian California

I would like to call your attention to a few articles by Latter-day Saint...

September 2023

September 14, 2023

Birthday 110

My father was born 110 years ago today, in a largely Scandinavian area...

March 2023

March 11, 2023

The Book of Mormon, Mesoamerica, and Me

For an unpleasant few days recently, a zealous and pseudonymous advocate of the...

January 2023

January 22, 2023

An unpleasant reminder of home

The terrible mass shooting that occurred last night in Monterey Park, California, hit...

December 2022

December 27, 2022

Religiosity, Depression, and Life Expectancy

But, first, these three new items went up today on the website of...

December 06, 2022

Things Done and Things to Do

Three new items went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:...

October 2022

October 19, 2022

A crucial influence at a pivotal time

Astoundingly -- who could possibly have predicted such an event? -- something new...

September 2022

September 14, 2022

On His 109th Birthday

My father was born one hundred and nine (109) years ago today. He's...

August 2022

August 10, 2022

Thinking about the world’s religions

Jet lag is a real beast and, at the moment, I'm having to...

August 03, 2022

The passing of a legend who meant very much to me and my family

I'm sitting right now at the Experience Event Center in Provo, where the...

January 2022

January 29, 2022

Two Cemeteries, Ice Age and Modern

*** We drove to Hancock Park today to meet with friends that...

November 2021

November 10, 2021

“Gold Mountain”

*** First of all, Kyler Rasmusssen presses on with his Bayesian reflections...

October 2021

October 31, 2021

From the city by the Bay

*** We spent a few moments on the grounds of the Sacramento...

October 28, 2021

Old Testament type stuff, Egyptians and Greeks living together, mass hysteria!

*** Newly posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Interpreter...

October 07, 2021

“How I Made a Fortune with Dirty Water”

*** Today would have been my brother's -- strictly, my half-brother's --...

October 02, 2021

Back to My Beginnings

*** Just a reminder that the Interpreter Foundation's theatrical film Witnesses is...

July 2021

July 27, 2021

A Wrap-Up on Rapid City

*** [Yet again, owing to a recurring technical glitch on the part...

June 2021

June 16, 2021

Idaho Falls and Boston and Santa Clarita and a Bit of Amusement

*** I'm told that, at least earlier today, the Witnesses film website was...

June 12, 2021

Mesa, Arizona, and Santa Clarita, California, and Wisconsin, and the Past

*** I'm happy to see such events as the one shown in...

June 08, 2021

In which I channel my inner Antaeus

*** First, go out and see Witnesses if you haven't already. And...

October 2020

October 07, 2020

Personal

Today is my brother's birthday. We were close, although technically he was my...

September 2020

September 15, 2020

On my father’s birthday

Today is my Dad's birthday -- as I write, it's late (I've had...

August 2020

August 12, 2020

Back to Politics

The uniform silence out there surrounding the question of what I think about...

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 30, 2020

Considering retirement locations

As I contemplate the idea of retirement (from my job, though emphatically not...

June 08, 2020

“Emergency COVID-19 measures prevented more than 500 million infections, study finds”

An important new article appeared today on the website of the elite science...

June 07, 2020

A brief and perhaps somewhat too colorful autobiographical fragment

The Sabbath seems, especially when one is effectively under house arrest, an appropriate...