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September 2025

September 01, 2025

Desire, Experience, and the Divine

This column of mine, which I originally published in the Deseret News for 4...

August 2025

August 19, 2025

Intimations of the divine, from science and from intuition?

I marked a number of passages during my recent reading of Believe: Why Everyone...

August 01, 2025

Of Spheres, Spirals, Spindles, and the Divine

A new article has appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and...

February 2025

February 13, 2025

Bidding Adieu to My Native State

Important: The form on the Witnesses Initiative website was inadvertently created in such a...

February 11, 2025

Believe!

There's a new book to which I'm looking forward. Here are a couple of...

August 2024

August 05, 2024

Are reason and faith diametrically opposed?

While in California a couple of weeks ago, I picked up a copy of...

July 2024

July 14, 2024

A great opportunity is on the way

Now here's something to think about, taken from the Jerusalem Post: "Expert claims NASA...

June 2024

June 01, 2024

From Rome’s Temple Square

These new articles went up yesterday on the Interpreter Foundation website. My apologies for...

May 2024

May 06, 2024

“How to Know a Person”

For the 28 April 2024 episode of the Interpreter Radio Show, the hosts were...

April 2024

April 14, 2024

When Joseph Smith is attacked

On several occasions over the past few years, in various venues -- see here,...

March 2024

March 24, 2024

“Are religious people happier?”

I think that, this time around, I'll lead off with something from the Christopher...

November 2023

November 26, 2023

Of quasars and Jesus

In case you haven't seen or read it yet: "The First Presidency’s 2023...

October 2023

October 04, 2023

A few thoughts about faith, reason, and science

"I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding...

August 2023

August 24, 2023

A Note on Reason and our Faith in Science

One of the things that I like most about the place that we...

July 2023

July 26, 2023

Does faith in God require rational arguments?

Newly posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation "Conference Talks: The Future...

July 19, 2023

Belief under conditions of uncertainty

Earlier today, one of the commenters on this blog -- I hope that...

May 2023

May 20, 2023

Preliminary notes on faith

I think that I failed to mention this item when it appeared on...

May 12, 2023

The Book of Abraham, the Resurrection of Jesus, and Faith

Two new review-articles appeared earlier today (Friday) in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day...

May 07, 2023

Are there arguments and evidence for theism? Should there be?

“In all areas except religion,” Richard Dawkins claimed in a blogged panel discussion...

April 2023

April 29, 2023

Atheism before the firing squad?

The estimable Jeff Lindsay has penned an enthusiastic book recommendation: "Relational Faith: An...

January 2023

January 24, 2023

Slandering the Lord’s anointed

First, though: The Interpreter Foundation continues to pour out materials that, we hope,...

January 19, 2023

“A Moslem fought an infidel one day”

These three pieces have gone up quite recently on the website of the...

January 13, 2023

“An Important New Study of Freemasonry and the Latter-day Saints”

A new article -- this one a review essay -- went up earlier...

January 05, 2023

Meditations and Reflections

I first read the Meditations of the Stoic Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD...

December 2022

December 21, 2022

“It’s like a teeter-totter.”

A new link has been posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Conference...

December 19, 2022

“Unintended Corruption” and Other Quirks in Current Physics

Herewith, I share some more notes that have been inspired by and/or are...

December 16, 2022

“Reflections on the Importance of Scientific and Theological Humility”

Last night, my wife and I attended the first evening of the annual...

December 15, 2022

Are logic and mathematics purely rational? (2)

Yesterday, I posted a brief preliminary note inspired by and drawing upon Michael...

December 14, 2022

Are logic and mathematics purely rational? (1)

The following went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: ...

December 13, 2022

“More protective than any pill, than any therapy, than any program.”

But, first, here are three items that went up today on the website...