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April 2020

April 12, 2020

Truly, he is risen!

Χριστός ἀνέστη! Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη! In Greek, which is the original...

April 11, 2020

Thoughts for Holy Saturday

I published this column in the Deseret News on Thursday, 21 April 2011....

April 10, 2020

Ignorant gullibility?

This was my 2019 Easter column for the Deseret News: Some dismiss...

April 10, 2020

Three who yearned for Easter

For Easter 2017, I published this column in the Deseret News: A...

April 10, 2020

A Great Cloud of Witnesses

I published this Easter 2016 column in the Deseret News: Since the...

April 10, 2020

“Cunningly devised fables”?

I published this column in the Deseret News at Easter season in 2013....

April 10, 2020

“Christ and the Work of Suffering”

The Interpreter Foundation's 2020 Easter message, written by Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye, has just appeared:...

April 09, 2020

“Easter’s answer to the ‘terrible question’”

My latest column for the Deseret News: "Easter’s answer to the ‘terrible...

April 08, 2020

“Passover with Dennis Prager”

I hope that he and "Prager University" won't mind my stealing the image...

April 05, 2020

“Celebrating a Very Special Holy Week”

The item below, from Bob and Gloria Rees, was passed on to me...

April 04, 2020

Entering Holy Week

The late Bill Hamblin and I -- how it still surprises and grieves...

March 2020

March 28, 2020

“Risen”

Back in early 2016, I saw the then-new film Risen. My wife never did...

December 2019

December 18, 2019

Christmas and Easter

I published this article at Christmastime back in 2016. As it happens, had...

April 2019

April 23, 2019

The Mystery of Iniquity

I confess to being mystified as to just what the goal or intent...

April 18, 2019

“Can modern people believe in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ?”

Here is my 2019 Easter column for the Deseret News: "Can modern...

April 18, 2019

Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, C.S. Lewis, and the hope of Easter

I published this article in the Deseret News on 13 April 2017: ...

April 16, 2019

An Easter sermon from more than sixteen centuries ago

St. John Chrysostom (ca. AD 349-407), archbishop of Constantinople, delivered this Eastern sermon...

April 15, 2019

Easter greetings from the Congo, an Easter hymn from an atheist, and a message from modern apostles

On the website of the Intepreter Foundation: "The Kinshasa DR Congo Temple:...

April 14, 2019

Once more, John Updike’s “Seven Stanzas at Easter”

It’s that time again. It's time to post one of my favorite poems,...

April 14, 2019

Palm Sunday, Easter, and Holy Week (in Between)

William Hamblin and I published the following column in Salt Lake City's Deseret...

January 2019

January 23, 2019

Easter is still some distance off, but here’s an Easter-related movie suggestion.

Back in early 2016, I saw the then-new film Risen. My wife never did...

November 2018

November 28, 2018

“This most tremendous tale of all”

We're again approaching the wonderful season of Christmas. Here in Australia, people are...

April 2018

April 01, 2018

Χριστός ἀνέστη!

Χριστός ἀνέστη! In Greece and throughout much of the Orthodox Christian world,...

March 2018

March 30, 2018

Some offerings for Easter

It being Friday, Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture has published yet another...