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July 2020

July 05, 2020

Getting to Know Elder Boyd K. Packer

Not long after I had joined the faculty at Brigham Young University, I...

July 03, 2020

“Every Saint who knew him loved him”

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

July 03, 2020

“Offering Americans Religious and Political Salvation”

The latest piece to appear in the pages of Interpreter: A Journal of...

July 02, 2020

August 1870, with Martin Harris

Here are a couple of passages from Susan Easton Black and Larry C....

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 29, 2020

“Spelling in the Manuscripts and Editions”

Below is a four-page statement that Royal Skousen has shared with me regarding the...

June 28, 2020

A testimony from John Taylor

John Taylor (1808-1887), a British-born Methodist preacher, was baptized a member of the...

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 27, 2020

176 years ago, today

Today marks the 176th anniversary of the 27 June 1844 murder of Joseph...

June 25, 2020

Philo-Semitism, Vicarious Baptisms, and Me: A Retrospective

I've now managed to locate the conversation (so to speak) about Holocaust victims...

June 24, 2020

Will ANYBODY be saved on his or her own merits, without the Atonement of Christ?

Quite a few years ago -- I wish that I could find the...

June 19, 2020

“Ever ready to share his conviction”

A very slight little essay (by me) has appeared today in Interpreter: A...

June 19, 2020

My sorry career as a religious bigot

I have an anonymous critic -- I call him my Malevolent Stalker --...

June 18, 2020

The Murder of Martin Harris

From Susan Easton Black and Larry C. Porter, Martin Harris: Uncompromising Witness of the...

June 17, 2020

“And you know that I know that it is true.”

From Susan Easton Black and Larry C. Porter, Martin Harris: Uncompromising Witness of the...

June 12, 2020

“Vaughn J. Featherstone’s Atlanta Temple Letter”

A new article -- this one by Christopher J. Blythe -- has just...

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 01, 2020

A note from the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

President Russell M. Nelson posted the following on his Facebook page today: ...

May 2020

May 29, 2020

“Lehi’s Dream and the Plan of Salvation,” plus Latter-day Saint sociability

A new article -- you're surprised, maybe? -- has appeared in Interpreter: A...

May 29, 2020

“Changes in Languages from Nephi to Now”

I was delighted to receive in the mail this afternoon a copy of...

May 28, 2020

Greedy LD$ Inc., Again

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

May 25, 2020

“Joseph Smith Performing a Miraculous Healing According to a Non-LDS Source”

Newly published in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship and,...

May 22, 2020

“Table Rules: A Response to Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon”

Quite unexpectedly and entirely out of the blue -- it being only the...

May 20, 2020

BYU and the Church’s Avarice

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

May 17, 2020

Of Limhi and Seer Stones

From John W. Welch, et al., eds. Knowing Why: 137 Evidences That the...

May 15, 2020

On reading Isaiah as Latter-day Saints

Today, Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship published a kind of...

May 14, 2020

Was Jesus “White”?

The First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sent...

May 14, 2020

1820, Again

In response to yesterday's blog post "SOMETHING happened in 1820 . . .,"...

May 13, 2020

SOMETHING happened in 1820 . . .

The hosts for the 10 May 2020 installment of the Interpreter Radio Show...