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September 2020

September 11, 2020

Revision 4.24 “Contrasting Islam and Latter-day Saint Teaching” (Part 4)

Islam insists on an absolute gulf, an unbridgeable chasm, between God and everything...

September 09, 2020

Revision 4.23 “Contrasting Islam and Latter-day Saint Teaching” (Part 3)

Islam is an absolutely rigorous, pure monotheism. "To God alone is true worship...

September 09, 2020

Revision 4.22 “Contrasting Islam and Latter-day Saint Teaching” (Part 2)

I have already hinted in this chapter at some of the differences between...

September 07, 2020

Revision 4.21 “Contrasting Islam and Latter-day Saint Teaching” (Part 1)

So far, I have emphasized the similarities between Islam and Christianity. Specifically, I...

September 06, 2020

Revision 4.19 “Some Similarities between the Qur’an and Latter-day Saint Scripture” (Part 2)

The entire twelfth chapter of the Qur'an is devoted to a beautiful retelling...

August 2020

August 17, 2020

Life in Community

If not entirely surprising, still quite important to note: "Study of more...

August 15, 2020

Frankly non- or at least post-biblical

I share a few thematically related passages from William E. Carroll, Creation and Science:...

July 2020

July 26, 2020

“A superbly structured universe where mind is an integral component”

The British paleontologist Simon Conway Morris (1951-) established his international reputation on the basis of...

July 17, 2020

Revision 1.15 “Jerusalem, Byzantines, and Persians”

Some Jews were martyred, some hid in caves and deserts in order to...

July 16, 2020

Revision 1.14 “Talmudic Judaism, Constantinian Christianity, and the ‘De-Judaizing’ of Palestine”

The Babylonian Talmud became, by a considerable distance, the more important of the...

July 12, 2020

Revision 1.10. “What survived from Second Temple Judaism”

The new gospel preached by Jesus and Paul and the other apostles was,...

July 12, 2020

“If the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it?”

18 And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called...

July 11, 2020

“Utah Area presidency urges Latter-day Saints in the state to wear masks in public”

This ought to settle the matter: "Church leaders ask Latter-day Saints in...

July 11, 2020

Revision 1.9 “Judaism survived, despite the odds”

Paul Johnson well summarizes the catastrophic changes in the fortunes of world Jewry:...

June 2020

June 22, 2020

“Atheism . . . turned out to be the most irrational of the choices.”

Sam LeFevre kindly brought the following interview with Francis Collins M.D., Ph.D., to...

June 10, 2020

Religious Minorities and Islam

Here's another passage that I marked in Graham E. Fuller, A World Without...

May 2020

May 27, 2020

Notes on racial and religious tolerance in early Islam

I want to complete some of the thoughts that I shared last night...

May 27, 2020

The early Arab conquests and forced conversions

I share a couple of passages from Graham E. Fuller, A World Without...

May 24, 2020

The Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper as Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus

I want to flesh out here an argument that I heard very briefly...

April 2020

April 24, 2020

Norwegian churches that survived the Black Death, and other matters

The latest installment of my Deseret News column discusses a few of my...

April 20, 2020

Natural Theology, Again

Over the next few weeks, I'll be reading gradually through Darwinism and the Divine:...

March 2020

March 27, 2020

We fall so very short of the ideal

I'm grateful to Matthew Wheeler for calling two items to my attention that...

February 2020

February 04, 2020

Christianity in Ethiopia

I published this article in the Provo Daily Herald back at the end...

November 2019

November 18, 2019

The religious faith of two Nobel laureate physicists

The fact that many highly successful scientists are also people of faith doesn't,...

November 16, 2019

Liberty University’s goal — amazingly — of becoming something like BYU

The 10 November 2019 edition of the Interpreter Radio Show featured Terry Hutchinson, John...

November 07, 2019

Theism and Atheism, Islam and Communism

I've been challenged repeatedly over the years by people attempting to equate Islam with Communism...

November 02, 2019

Do Muslims and Christians worship the same God?

Back in 2015, a controversy erupted at Wheaton College in Illinois, a very...

October 2019

October 08, 2019

Siddhartha, and a world of inflexible cause and effect

I've been re-reading the novella Siddhartha, by the German-born writer Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)....

April 2019

April 24, 2019

On the Christian hope of heaven

I share two thought-provoking passages on hope, from the great C. S. Lewis's...

April 14, 2019

Once more, John Updike’s “Seven Stanzas at Easter”

It’s that time again. It's time to post one of my favorite poems,...