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September 2022

September 09, 2022

A Transcendent Light

I don't know how much longer this can or will go on, but...

July 2022

July 10, 2022

“The colors and lights in heaven were simply sublime”

In the portion of my post from yesterday that talked about our visit...

June 2022

June 13, 2022

It’s been eight years now

*** I maintain a blog for many reasons. One of them...

May 2022

May 24, 2022

NDEs and “Fundamaterialists”

*** Besides watching a couple of films on the way over from...

March 2022

March 29, 2022

“Testimonials like this one helped convince him they were real”

*** Far and away the best prize that life has to offer...

February 2022

February 21, 2022

Of Victims and Psychics

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

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...

January 2022

January 30, 2022

Reflections on a Sunset in Maui

*** Earlier this evening, we watched the sun go down over the...

January 28, 2022

Honoring Joseph’s Theophany, and Covenant Theology for Latter-day Saints

*** A little article of mine -- the most recently published installment...

January 22, 2022

Two Notes on Nauvoo History

*** For much of his lifetime, newspaper reports insinuated that Joseph Smith...

December 2021

December 05, 2021

“One of the most singular instances of this type”

*** I share here one of the many striking accounts contained in...

October 2021

October 30, 2021

Happy Halloween! (“Ways of Remembering the Dead”)

*** Here in the United States of America and in more than...

October 15, 2021

“An Ishmael Buried Near Nahom”

*** Neal Rappleye published a potentially very significant article today in Interpreter:...

September 2021

September 30, 2021

The Elixir of Nostalgia

*** A few out there might find this article of interest: ...

September 28, 2021

“And that is dying”

*** I call your attention to a pair of newly posted items...

June 2021

June 16, 2021

From slightly less than seven years ago

*** I maintain a blog for many reasons. However, one of...

June 13, 2021

“Smallest Wingless”

*** I published this column in the Deseret News very nearly seven...

May 2021

May 25, 2021

Remembering Heaven, Again

*** I'm pleased to see that the documentary film Remembering Heaven -- in...

May 24, 2021

“The most complex puzzle for humans and also the simplest, most self-evident fact”

*** But first: From the distributor who is overseeing the rollout of...

May 19, 2021

Non-Attachment and the Doctrine of Sealing for All Eternity

*** As will, I'm sure, be immediately apparent to those who are...

May 04, 2021

Change and Decay in the Mid-Pacific

*** Happily, we were able to attend the funeral of our friend...

April 2021

April 27, 2021

Farewell, for Now, to a Friend

*** Our longtime neighbor and friend Henry Yeates died early this morning. ...

March 2021

March 23, 2021

For Kenneth, Nine Years On

Unbelievably, it was nine years ago today that I received the completely unexpected...

March 10, 2021

“I think life is basically worthless.”

Here are a trio of interesting items regarding the recent three-part Netflix documentary...

January 2021

January 23, 2021

“Remembering Heaven”

I've already mentioned that the Interpreter Foundation's theatrical film, Witnesses, will be featured at...

January 13, 2021

“A far more beautiful, more perfect place”

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926-2004) was a Swiss-American physician and psychiatrist and the author of,...

January 05, 2021

“If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less”

I decided, this morning, to watch again the Interpreter Foundation's first somewhat experimental...

December 2020

December 09, 2020

“Was a Rare Book on the Hindu Religion a Source for the Book of Ether?”

A new item, this one by the inimitable Jeff Lindsay, has appeared on...

November 2020

November 11, 2020

On Christ’s death and his empty tomb

Of late, it is has become fashionable in certain circles -- overwhelmingly not...