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July 2025

July 16, 2025

Dang it, we ran out of time

So near and yet so far. We didn't have enough minutes to do Yellowstone...

July 09, 2025

Heartland or Mesoamerica?

Newly posted today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: The Heartland Versus Mesoamerica...

May 2025

May 29, 2025

Some Notes on Mesoamerica and the Book of Mormon

Here are two further sets of notes from John W. Welch, ed., Reexploring the Book...

April 2023

April 25, 2023

Standing with Mike Parker

It hasn't been an especially pleasant week or two for Mike Parker, a...

April 13, 2023

“Time to Think”

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

April 04, 2023

Written from the eye of the storm

Since their arrival on Saturday night from the eastern United States, one of...

March 2023

March 31, 2023

“How Things Look from Here”

A new article went up today at noon in Interpreter: A Journal of...

March 16, 2023

Big News from a Small Country

The sadly necessary Neville-Neville Land blog posted a useful entry the other day...

March 11, 2023

The Book of Mormon, Mesoamerica, and Me

For an unpleasant few days recently, a zealous and pseudonymous advocate of the...

March 04, 2023

Conspiracy Fantasies and Anti-Semitism in the Heartland?

A friend sent the material below to me earlier today and, with that...

December 2021

December 20, 2021

In which a vocal “Heartlander” compares me to Satan

*** Some who accept the common political spectrum that puts Communists on...

December 14, 2021

John L. Sorenson (1924-2021)

*** I’ve been hoping to find a nice uninterrupted period for reflection...

October 2021

October 27, 2021

“The Evangelical Church is Breaking Apart”

*** Newly up today, from Kyler Rasmussen, on the website of the...

April 2021

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...

April 02, 2021

“Resurrection Month”

*** The new article that went up today in Interpreter: A Journal...

February 2021

February 18, 2021

“America’s culture of contempt”

I've written on two previous days here -- see "Love in a Time...

November 2020

November 25, 2020

Profound Thanks and Radical Orthodoxy

In a week during which we've been encouraged to #GiveThanks by the man...

September 2020

September 04, 2020

Must one know the precise GPS coordinates of the final Jaredite and Lehite battles in order to be a good Latter-day Saint?

I have no real interest in Mr. Jonathan Neville. I have no real...

July 2020

July 23, 2020

Goodness from the Heartland

Interpreter Radio Show — July 19, 2020 The 19 July 2020 broadcast of...

July 03, 2020

Commencing another look at the geology of the Book of Mormon

Over the next while, I intend to share notes from a very significant...

May 2020

May 16, 2020

Majoring in a Minor

I very seldom think about "Heartland" models of the geography of the Book...

March 2020

March 29, 2020

On the “east wind” in the Book of Mormon

Barring unforeseen mishap, I'll be on the Interpreter Radio Show tonight (Sunday night)...

January 2020

January 28, 2020

“The Near East”? “The Middle East”? “The Nile-to-Oxus Region”?

Every once in a while, I'm asked to explain the difference between the...

January 13, 2020

Tierra del Fuego and the Book of Mormon

Out to dinner tonight with several of our neighbors, and the over to...

January 10, 2020

“An Approach to Isaiah Studies”

A new book review has just been published in Interpreter: A Journal of...

January 01, 2020

“How Lovely was the Morning!”

Most of you will recall this brief announcement from the end of last...

October 2019

October 30, 2019

I, arrogant usurper of the prophets

Very much, I believe, rides on our answer to the question of whether...

July 2019

July 30, 2019

Of Ancient Pyramids in East St. Louis, the Heartland, and Educational Levels in Provo/Orem

I was recently sent the following link that I think some will find...

June 2019

June 10, 2019

Heartland Heartbreak and Unsleeping Malice

Stephen Smoot has concluded his series of essays in response to an important...

June 07, 2019

Oy Veh! Heartburn in the Heartland?

It hasn't, perhaps, been the best of times to be an advocate of...