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March 2026

March 20, 2026

“A Fresh Investigation of Latter-day Saint Theology”

A new review article has appeared on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: "A...

March 10, 2026

Like a fiddler on the roof

Becoming Brigham, Episode 7—"Young Brigham Young," Part Two is now up online: Camrey continues...

December 2025

December 01, 2025

It’s the Christmas season!

The Daily Mail -- a daily British middle-market tabloid -- has often been criticized...

November 2025

November 22, 2025

As easy a way to do good as can be imagined

At Christmastime, which can sometimes become a mere orgy of consumerism and materialism, many...

November 19, 2025

Autumnal thoughts from Utard

Christmas is coming in just thirty-six days! Sure, we still have Thanksgiving Day before...

November 17, 2025

Will we ever enjoy universal respect? Don’t count on it.

Have you watched any of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives? I haven't. I...

October 2025

October 29, 2025

AOC on real work, and the real work of General Authorities

I know nothing about this story beyond what I've read in a Fox News...

August 2025

August 28, 2025

Men and Women and Girls and Boys, etc.

Thursday is our day at the website of the Interpreter Foundation for posting reprints...

July 2025

July 10, 2025

This World or the Next? Why Not Both?

This item has just been posted on the fossilized and entirely static website of...

April 2025

April 04, 2025

“The Covenant Path of the Ancient Temple”

I haven't checked on my retirement savings for a while, but I'm beginning to...

March 2025

March 25, 2025

It’s been quite a day for the Hitchens File

By the way, in a bid to cement the status of this blog as...

December 2024

December 05, 2024

Light the World!

In my opinion, Giving Machines definitely represent one of the most brilliant ideas that...

November 2024

November 23, 2024

Things that really matter

FAIR is a largely volunteer organization, and sometimes real life gets in the way...

November 12, 2024

“Shall We Not Go On in So Great a Cause?”

New, from the long-comatose and perpetually dying Interpreter Foundation: Take a Journey into Arabia...

June 2024

June 22, 2024

New Light on Ancient Seafaring

Although I no longer possess public political opinions or interests, I'm reliably informed that...

March 2024

March 23, 2024

“Shall we not go on in so great a cause?”

News from along the frontier of religious liberty: National Catholic Reporter: "Wisconsin Supreme Court...

November 2023

November 18, 2023

Giving Machines!

As you've probably noticed -- I've scarcely been subtle or coy about it!...

February 2022

February 17, 2022

An endless smörgåsbord, or a hurried sack lunch?

*** I'm continuing the theme of my blog entry from yesterday, "Our...

February 16, 2022

Our only hope for full flowering

*** I continue to be struck by a quotation from then-Elder Russell...

September 2021

September 24, 2021

“Framing the Book of Abraham”

*** New, today, in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and...

August 2021

August 28, 2021

Master of Fates, Captain of Souls

*** I really like the 2009 Clint Eastwood film Invictus, which I...

August 02, 2021

Après moi le déluge

*** In this space the other day, I mentioned the death of...

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 07, 2020

“Faith, Hope, and Charity: The ‘Three Principal Rounds’ of the Ladder of Heavenly Ascent”

A new article -- this one by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw -- has appeared in Interpreter:...

July 2020

July 01, 2020

“Church’s COVID-19 relief now the largest humanitarian aid project in its history”

Here is some new material for your enjoyment and edification that has recently...

May 2020

May 28, 2020

Greedy LD$ Inc., Again

I discussed the allegedly obscene greed of the leaders of the Church of...

April 2020

April 14, 2020

“First Presidency has approved humanitarian projects in 57 countries to battle COVID-19”

Some readers will want to add this to their Christopher Hitchens Memorial "How...

March 2020

March 06, 2020

20 March 2020

I recently received a note from Lucy Goodman, a former student in my...

February 2020

February 25, 2020

“Latter-day Saint Charities Blessed Millions of Lives in 2019”

“A man filled with the love of God, is not content with blessing...

February 06, 2020

Reprise: “Harry Reid, My Brother”

I've plainly angered and alienated a number of people over the past day...