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December 2022

December 11, 2022

I’ll never forget Kate What’s-Her-Name

We held our quarterly Interpreter Foundation Board meeting this morning. It was very...

December 06, 2022

Things Done and Things to Do

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

November 2022

November 30, 2022

Some Ways to Light the World

Four new links have appeared on the website of the Interpreter Foundation over...

November 26, 2022

To Be a Witness

A newly available video is up online from the Interpreter Foundation: "Witnesses...

November 20, 2022

Dead Horse Point

A new, short video -- accessible to you at no charge -- went...

October 2022

October 25, 2022

Dishonesty (or incompetence) on public display

Gotcha! I'll bet that, judging by the title, you expected this to be...

October 19, 2022

A crucial influence at a pivotal time

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

October 12, 2022

“Royal and Temple Themes Common to the Psalms and the Dead Sea Scrolls”

Two new links appeared today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: ...

October 08, 2022

The Halifax Explosion

Halifax, Nova Scotia, is sadly well acquainted with tragedy. In a blog entry...

October 06, 2022

Should religious colleges and universities be permitted to continue having codes for student and faculty behavior?

Will religious universities continue to be permitted to set their own behavioral standards...

September 2022

September 27, 2022

“If I were placed on a cannibal island”

Two new items have gone up today on the website of the Interpreter...

September 17, 2022

On booking the clown show

I had an enjoyable time last night participating in a panel at Brigham...

September 09, 2022

On Two Women in the Old Testament, and regarding Heavenly Mother

"Hannah’s Adversity and Peninnah’s Redemption," written by Loren Blake Spendlove Abstract: Most biblical students...

September 07, 2022

Coming up on 5 November 2022

In the first portion of this episode of the fabled Interpreter Radio Show,...

August 2022

August 13, 2022

Ranking books to rankle believers?

August 12, 2022

“A Comet, Christ’s Birth, and Josephus’s Lunar Eclipse”

"A Comet, Christ’s Birth, and Josephus’s Lunar Eclipse," written by Charles Dike Abstract: A...

August 04, 2022

Two great opportunities to learn more about temples

Please mark your calendars for the 2022 Temple on Mount Zion Conference, which...

July 2022

July 22, 2022

“Abridging the Records of the Zoramite Mission: Mormon as Historian”

I've had only intermittent internet access over the past few days -- thus...

July 17, 2022

“Plural Marriage — Part 1” and a Disappointment

A new entry in our series of short video "reels" went up on...

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...

July 03, 2022

Notes on the Church in Recent Popular Entertainment

On his Facebook page, the inimitable Jim Bennett posted a nice short summary...

May 2022

May 13, 2022

“Can You Suppose That the Lord Will Spare You?”

*** Two new articles appeared today at noon in Interpreter: A Journal...

March 2022

March 27, 2022

“Reflections on the God Debate”

*** I'll be on the Interpreter Radio Show later this evening. I'm looking...

March 09, 2022

Thomas Müntzer — strange, sinister, and curiously akin

*** An article of mine has appeared in Meridian Magazine. Perhaps a...

March 02, 2022

A scientist at MIT against scientism

*** I had a good time this evening delivering a private lecture...

February 2022

February 25, 2022

“Overwriting Ether: Moroni’s Transfiguration of Jaredite Scripture”

*** A new article has appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of...

February 24, 2022

It’s been, astoundingly, nearly thirty years . . .

*** Back in the first half of 1993, I led a small...

February 21, 2022

Of Victims and Psychics

*** The invaluable Jeff Lindsay has posted an interesting item on his...

February 20, 2022

Science, Eyewitness Testimony, and God

*** Marking a milestone in the history of the Interpreter Foundation, we...

February 13, 2022

The Scriptures Are Indeed Real

*** Kerry Muhlestein and Lamar Newmayer have a podcast that they've entitled...