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October 2025

October 18, 2025

Ancient Egyptian Cosmology Illustrated in Soil Core Samples

This is a remarkable story: "A prophet’s flash of inspiration 41 years ago started...

September 2025

September 09, 2025

For his 101st, recalling a minor incident with Pres. Nelson

President Russell M. Nelson entered his 102nd year of mortality today. Remarkable. Here are...

January 2025

January 26, 2025

On emptying Gaza out

The Hebrew "Northern Kingdom" -- often called Israel or, after its eventual capital, Samaria...

September 2024

September 28, 2024

From the morning sessions of today’s superb conference

Today, I attended the Seventh Interpreter Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference. The overall theme...

February 2024

February 22, 2024

Light, Fire, Gold, and Death

Two non-new articles have newly appeared on the website of the Interpreter Foundation. I...

January 2024

January 25, 2024

Can the great American de-churching be reversed?

Conference Talks: The Two Ways in Ancient Egyptian Religion and Israelite Temple Theology, presented...

January 15, 2024

Thebes of the Hundred Gates

We left our boat this morning and headed over the great temple complex of...

January 14, 2024

“Vanity of Vanities”

I want to call to your attention an upcoming fireside in the greater Houston,...

January 09, 2024

Marratan ukhra fi umm al-dunya

But what, you will naturally be asking yourself, is this clown doing back in...

December 2023

December 21, 2023

Christmas, the Israelite Tabernacle, and the Gospel of John

New on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: "The Temple: Ancient and Restored: How...

December 18, 2023

Christmas beyond Christendom

I published this article in Salt Lake City's Deseret News back on 19 December...

November 2023

November 02, 2023

Preparing to head off across the Atlantic

We will shortly board a jet airliner to return from our truncated trip...

October 2023

October 27, 2023

Of Transience and Things that Matter

Most of us were up very, very early this morning for hot-air balloon...

October 26, 2023

Kom Ombo, Edfu, and the Book of Abraham

We landed this morning beside the Greco-Roman era double temple of Kom Ombo,...

October 25, 2023

Of Arrogance and Ramses II

We were up at 3 AM this morning for the 3.5 hour drive...

October 24, 2023

“Abraham the Seer”

No day that begins with a visit to the pyramid plateau just outside...

October 22, 2023

From the Valley of the Nile

Our Interpreter Foundation tour of Türkiye ended yesterday, so we flew today from...

September 2023

September 10, 2023

An outline of Egyptian history

From the Christopher Hitchens Memorial "How Religion Poisons Everything" File™: "Church Leaders Express...

April 2023

April 19, 2023

Ice Cream Among the Health Foods

Mann tracht un Gott lacht is an old Yiddish proverb that means “Man...

April 13, 2023

“Time to Think”

My wife and I went out to dinner last night with a former...

December 2022

December 12, 2022

Big News

If you haven't yet watched this eighteen-minute video from the Church of Jesus...

November 2022

November 17, 2022

Whether you’re just back or still hoping to go

No recording was made of Royal Skousen's remarks at Utah Valley University last...

October 2022

October 02, 2022

Breathtaking Audacity

I think that it was Elder Quentin L. Cook of the Quorum of...

July 2022

July 19, 2022

A questionable extermination and an indisputable explosion

Here's a link to an article of mine that went up in Meridian...

May 2022

May 02, 2022

I’ve done at least two good things in my life. This was one of them.

*** I'm a bit delinquent on reporting this, since my schedule here...

February 2022

February 24, 2022

It’s been, astoundingly, nearly thirty years . . .

*** Back in the first half of 1993, I led a small...

December 2021

December 19, 2021

“Ask the Egyptologist” — A Virtual Fireside with John Gee

*** Back on 1 December, Scott Gordon sat down with Dr. John...

November 2021

November 29, 2021

Alexandria, Why?

*** A long drive today, to and from Alexandria. We took in...

November 28, 2021

Back to the Dawn of History

*** Today was the last day of our tour. (We have a...

November 27, 2021

The Valley of the Kings, Deir al-Bahri, and the Two Colossi

*** I've found it essentially impossible, over the past few days, to...