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January 2023

January 18, 2023

An entry on some critics

I mentioned the other day that I had responded to an online article...

October 2022

October 06, 2022

Should religious colleges and universities be permitted to continue having codes for student and faculty behavior?

Will religious universities continue to be permitted to set their own behavioral standards...

May 2022

May 11, 2022

A double standard in the age of the #Me Too movement?

*** The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is being held...

February 2022

February 24, 2022

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

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

January 2022

January 27, 2022

Profound. And Big.

*** Several years ago, I read the superb book by Fiona Givens...

November 2021

November 14, 2021

“Remember Pearl Harbor!”

*** I would like to call your attention to a new website...

October 2021

October 20, 2021

A significant statement regarding the Church and Islam

*** First, though, Kyler Rasmussen's latest installment in his series of Bayesian...

September 2021

September 08, 2021

Choosing the Kingdom First

*** I return to a subject that I raised in my immediately...

September 08, 2021

“Elder Holland: What They Heard is Not What He Said”

*** You may perhaps be aware of the controversy that has recently...

August 2021

August 29, 2021

“Becoming Men and Women of Understanding”

*** Considerable attention has been focused over the past few days on...

August 28, 2021

Master of Fates, Captain of Souls

*** I really like the 2009 Clint Eastwood film Invictus, which I...

August 24, 2021

“For the Salvation of Zion”

*** Some new items were published earlier today (Tuesday) on the website...

August 24, 2021

Discipleship and the Academic Disciplines

*** I was very pleased to read the remarks delivered by Elder...

August 21, 2021

“Are Afghan refugees fleeing the Taliban regime headed to Utah?”

*** The New Colossus Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,...

July 2021

July 23, 2021

“If Ye Keep My Commandments Ye Shall Prosper in the Land”

*** A new article, written by Taylor Halverson, appeared just a few...

July 04, 2021

Through Star Valley and Beyond

*** Driving down from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, today, we took roads that...

May 2021

May 07, 2021

Addendum 6: Founding the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative at BYU (Part 2)

*** First, though, don't miss this newly published item on the website...

April 2021

April 19, 2021

Growing Up as Hugh Nibley

*** To the probable astonishment of hundreds of millions of people worldwide,...

April 18, 2021

Edward Idris Cardinal Cassidy (5 July 1924 – 10 April 2021), a “Prince of the Church”

*** Someone who was once acquainted with me -- but who, quite...

April 06, 2021

“Father Lehi’s faithful descendants” live “in Latin America”

*** Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 16 “If Ye Are Not...

January 2021

January 20, 2021

On the General Authorities’ Endorsement of Global Communism

At least by the time I was in graduate school, evangelical Protestant anti-Mormonism...

December 2020

December 21, 2020

Some possible reading for Christmas week

I've assembled links below to various Christmas-related columns that I've written over the...

December 20, 2020

A Revelation in the Operating Room

But first, a new item appeared yesterday on the website of the Interpreter...

December 19, 2020

Revision 8.8 More opposition to the BYU Jerusalem Center

Don't miss this important (and relevant) monument from the history of Israeli popular...

December 13, 2020

Revision 8.7 “The Orson Hyde Memorial Garden and BYU’s Jerusalem Center”

The idea of an Orson Hyde monument continued to be discussed as time...

October 2020

October 24, 2020

Revision 8.1 “Apostles Rededicate the Holy Land”

Note: For at least a while, based upon discussion with folks at Patheos,...

October 23, 2020

Revision 6.18 “The United Nations Plan,” plus a bibliography on Latter-day Saints and Islam

There were serious clashes between Arabs and Jewish settlers throughout the 1920s and...

October 22, 2020

Revision 6.17 “The Balfour Declaration”

Despite numerous dissenting voices, the political Zionist movement began to gain momentum during...

October 21, 2020

On “sustainable societies” and hateful politics, with a note on sex

I was extremely pleased to see this: From national CBS News: "Republican...

October 20, 2020

Revision 6.15 “The Rise of Zionism” (A)

Meanwhile, as Arabs and Muslims faltered and desperately sought a reason why, a...