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January 2026

January 11, 2026

Some thoughts on the character of Joseph Smith

The jumping-off point for our Elders Quorum meeting today, taught by our former bishop,...

November 2025

November 06, 2025

Denying the Seemingly Undeniable

I'm absolutely delighted at this news, and am not altogether surprised by it: "Elder...

July 2022

July 07, 2022

The cautionary tale of Boris Johnson, with a brief reference to parasitic brain worms

*** We boarded a small propeller-driven plane this morning for the short...

January 2022

January 20, 2022

My list of four basic books to strengthen faith

*** I've posted this list several times before. It seems appropriate to...

November 2020

November 24, 2020

New from Interpreter #GiveThanks

Here are some recent materials on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: ...

November 23, 2020

Mormonism, the Trinity, Joseph Smith, Plagiarism, and Adam Clarke #GiveThanks

An article of mine of which I'm personally quite fond (and which I...

October 2020

October 13, 2020

The benefits of practiced religion and ancient South American immigrants to Polynesia

Dr. Lynn Johnson kindly alerted me to this 2014 article from Frontiers in...

September 2020

September 19, 2020

Were the Whitmers marginal social outcasts and weirdos?

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

July 2020

July 03, 2020

“Every Saint who knew him loved him”

Some further notes from Hyrum L. Andrus and Helen Mae Andrus, Personal Glimpses...

June 2020

June 29, 2020

“You simply couldn’t help but like him”

Three testimonials that I marked during my reading of Hyrum L. Andrus and...

June 28, 2020

“He was the most wrought-upon man I ever saw”

Driving up here today, we paused to visit (and to take the sacrament)...

June 22, 2020

One point clearly made by the resurrection of Jesus

Notes from a book that I picked up in England several years ago:...

June 01, 2020

Lorenzo Snow meets Joseph Smith for the first time

The intelligent, college-educated Lorenzo Snow (1814-1901) -- higher learning was a rarity in...

May 2020

May 01, 2020

On the manufacture of fake history

Earlier this evening, I was listening to a recorded interview with the Evangelical...

March 2020

March 12, 2020

On “Self-Control”

We're just back from the Eccles Theater in Salt Lake City, where we...

August 2018

August 20, 2018

Some items on the character of Joseph Smith

From an uncompleted manuscript: The second president of the Church, Joseph Smith’s...

April 2018

April 17, 2018

A note on early Mormon polygamy

Discovery of Joseph Smith's involvement in plural marriage has tried the faith of...

April 04, 2018

Martin Harris, the Careful Investigator

Here are a few short quotations from Martin Harris, taken from a somewhat...

March 2018

March 29, 2018

Three testimonies from men who knew him well

Three personal reminiscinces from people who knew Joseph Smith very well, drawn from...

March 20, 2018

“His character was irreproachable”

John S. Reid was a respected farmer in early nineteenth century rural New...

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