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August 2024

August 30, 2024

A Preliminary Response on Brigham Young’s Financial Dealings

One or two folks have shown up on my blog attacking Brigham Young as...

November 2023

November 22, 2023

Three for the Eve of Thanksgiving

Newly posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: "Conference Talks: From Temple...

December 2022

December 27, 2022

Religiosity, Depression, and Life Expectancy

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

September 2022

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...

May 2022

May 19, 2022

Entitled Cogitations

*** For some reason, I got to thinking along the following lines...

January 2022

January 18, 2022

Sunday Church

*** I recycle here, with a small handful of slight modifications, some...

June 2021

June 28, 2021

A rich feast for eyes, hearts, and minds

In all likelihood, today marks the 192nd anniversary of the experience of Oliver...

January 2021

January 20, 2021

On the General Authorities’ Endorsement of Global Communism

At least by the time I was in graduate school, evangelical Protestant anti-Mormonism...

October 2020

October 18, 2020

“I cheerfully certify”

Below are two passages that I've extracted from Ronald E. Romig, Eighth Witness:...

October 12, 2020

“Video: Bishopric invites their congregation back to church with a little Billy Joel flair”

I have to admit that this little item is really, really well done. ...

July 2020

July 22, 2020

Living longer and better through religious involvement? A summation

For several weeks, I spent quite a while here on this blog calling...

July 18, 2020

Once More, on Hagia Sophia

You may have noticed that Istanbul's magnificent Hagia Sophia has been on my...

July 16, 2020

A bit more about Hagia Sophia and those huge black disks suspended within it

Sam LeFevre, a valued commenter on this blog, responding to a curiously hybrid...

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

Very sad news from my home town of San Gabriel, California

Chris Miasnik kindly called my attention to a horribly painful story...

July 02, 2020

“What can I do, as one person, to make this world a better place?”

I've spent a fair amount of time here sharing notes excerpted from Paul...

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...

June 2020

June 30, 2020

Living longer, but committing fewer crimes

Well, I'm very close to posting my last notes from Paul McFate, 52...

June 29, 2020

Friendlier people and fewer school shootings?

I offer two more items from Paul McFate, 52 Good Reasons to Go...

June 24, 2020

Some Physical, Social, and Psychological Benefits of Religious Involvement

I offer three more items from Paul McFate, 52 Good Reasons to Go...

June 20, 2020

Toward a Better Life

I offer a few more items from Paul McFate, 52 Good Reasons to...

June 14, 2020

Religion and Health, with Notice of COVID-19

From the Deseret News: "Here’s what the science says about the links between...

June 09, 2020

Separation of “church and state” in Islamic history

Graham E. Fuller, A World Without Islam (New York, Boston, and London: Little,...

June 08, 2020

President Nelson, the NAACP, Senator Romney, and some observations on the passing scene

This is an older item, but one element of it has been on...

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...

June 07, 2020

A further note on Acts 6

An astute reader of this blog who goes under the moniker of dCyl...

May 2020

May 28, 2020

Greedy LD$ Inc., Again

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

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...

May 22, 2020

Some of the things that you might miss out on if you don’t go back to church when you can

It's time for another installment of notes from Paul McFate, 52 Good Reasons to...

May 20, 2020

BYU and the Church’s Avarice

Indignant critics of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints found renewed...