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November 2024

November 05, 2024

The Long Farewell

I'm afraid that I've fallen behind in chronicling the death-throes of the Interpreter Foundation,...

July 2024

July 05, 2024

“Are There Ten Commandments for Latter-day Zion?”

These items went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation. They represent,...

July 12, 2022

“Unto what shall I liken these kingdoms, that ye may understand?”

I find myself deeply moved and profoundly impressed by the images from the...

July 11, 2022

“I . . . created them for mine own purpose”

I have a little more information about the talk that I'll be giving...

May 2022

May 05, 2022

Revelation, Divine and Human

*** We bade farewell to our tour group this evening. It always...

November 2021

November 10, 2021

“Gold Mountain”

*** First of all, Kyler Rasmusssen presses on with his Bayesian reflections...

November 03, 2021

On Imperfect Prophets and a Great President

*** A new installment of Kyler Rasmussen's Bayesian reflections has just gone...

October 2021

October 29, 2021

“Mine House is a House of Zion and not a House of Babylon!”

*** Today, a new article by Loren Blake Spendlove has appeared in Interpreter:...

October 13, 2021

“Quiet Revivalism: New Light on the Burned-Over District”

*** The big Deseret Book and Excel Entertainment event for the Witnesses...

June 2021

June 11, 2021

“Their Imperfect Best”

*** Have you seen Witnesses yet? Are you going to watch it...

June 08, 2021

In which I channel my inner Antaeus

*** First, go out and see Witnesses if you haven't already. And...

June 01, 2021

Would you like to join us for the Wednesday night premiere of “Witnesses”?

*** The Interpreter Foundation's Witnesses film premieres tomorrow night -- Wednesday, 2...

May 2021

May 10, 2021

“Matthew Black and Mircea Eliade Meet Hugh Nibley”

*** This interesting reminiscence was just published in Interpreter: A Journal of...

December 2020

December 23, 2020

Two Hundred and Fifteen Years Ago, Today

Perhaps, had he not been born so close to the superholiday of Christmas,...

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 06, 2020

Was the Book of Mormon the product of Joseph Smith’s own thinking?

A new article -- this one by the notoriously vicious and always angry...

September 2020

September 07, 2020

Revision 4.20 “Some Similarities between the Qur’an and Latter-day Saint Scripture” (Part 3)

There are some parallels that are still closer. "Those that cry lies to...

August 2020

August 21, 2020

Revision 4.3 “The Qur’an and the Doctrine and Covenants”

But there is a deeper theological reason for the claim that the Qur'an...

August 06, 2020

Revision 3.4 “Continuing with Muhammad at Mecca”

For this belief [in a physical resurrection] and others, the doubters made fun...

March 2020

March 15, 2020

William E. McLellin and the Qur’an’s “Challenge Verses”

I offer, for your unlikely but possible interest, a passage from Michael Bonner,...

October 2019

October 02, 2019

Sympathy for Atheism

On Tuesday, I published a blog entry entitled "Peterson's Rule," which included a...

September 2019

September 04, 2019

An early seventh-century Arabian William McLellin?

For my class on the Qur’an in English, I'm rereading M. A. S....

January 2019

January 20, 2019

Thoughts on the passing scene

First off: "January 20–21, 2019 Total Lunar Eclipse (Blood Moon)" You might...