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April 2026

April 30, 2026

“God’s Equation”

A new article of mine appeared early this morning in Meridian Magazine. Whether it...

December 2025

December 07, 2025

Evidence and argument in thinking about the existence of God

I've just begun looking at a book by Michel-Yves Bolloré and Olivier Bonnassies that...

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...

July 2025

July 08, 2025

Saying Farewell to a Longtime Friend? (I Hope Not)

I had a lengthy telephone conversation today with a long-time friend. I learned not...

February 2025

February 20, 2025

“Did Jesus really claim to be divine?”

Here's my latest column for Meridian Magazine. I used it to report on a...

February 16, 2025

“Earth’s crammed with heaven”

It's a cold and dreary day today in central Utah, but, for some reason,...

February 11, 2025

Believe!

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

May 2024

May 21, 2024

“Among the most significant holy sites in the world”

I’ve just finished reading Keith A. Erekson and Matthew J. Grow, “Assuming Stewardship: Notes...

May 11, 2024

An introduction to Pascal and his wager

The intrepid archaeologists over at FAIR Latter-day Saints recently uncovered a 2001 FAIR conference...

March 2024

March 12, 2024

Some Notes on “Fine-Tuning” and the Multiverse

The following is basically a close paraphrase or a gloss (for my note-taking purposes)...

January 2024

January 21, 2024

The Lord’s new temple in Orem

We participated in the first dedicatory service for the new Orem Utah Temple this...

November 2023

November 11, 2023

God, Fathers, and Families

Newly posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Preview Video of “Not...

April 2023

April 15, 2023

If there is no God, is everything permitted?

These new entries went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation,...

March 2023

March 07, 2023

A sentient puddle comes out in favor of cosmic “fine-tuning”

Recently, I've published four blog posts -- see my "An initial survey of...

March 05, 2023

“Blessed are the pure in heart”

"Blessed are the pure in heart," says Matthew 5:8 in the King James...

January 2023

January 20, 2023

“Proven quality and solidarity”

But, first, I call your attention to a couple of my typically mean-spirited...

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...

December 2022

December 22, 2022

Noting tomorrow’s anniversary of the birth of Joseph Smith

Perhaps, had he not been born so close to the super-holiday of Christmas,...

December 18, 2022

Behind the tinsel

I published this column in the Deseret News for Christmas 2016: Behind...

November 2022

November 20, 2022

Humor in Heaven?

After our friend and her two young daughters left for home, my wife...

September 2022

September 13, 2022

“A Fulfilled Prophecy of Joseph F. Smith,” and Other Matters

I've just published a new item in Meridian Magazine that some of you...

April 2022

April 04, 2022

The Actual Voice of One Who Was There

*** As we begin to pivot from our overall "Witnesses" film project...

March 2022

March 19, 2022

Thomas Judd’s Store and Other Matters

*** I recently sat down for a "Come, Follow Me" podcast with...

March 18, 2022

Some thoughts on “explanations”

*** Douglas Axe received superb training in engineering and molecular biology. After...

March 09, 2022

Thomas Müntzer — strange, sinister, and curiously akin

*** An article of mine has appeared in Meridian Magazine. Perhaps a...

February 2022

February 20, 2022

Picture yourself in a boat on a river. Somebody calls you. You answer quite slowly.

*** Back in 2005, I was invited to write a little mini-essay...

February 20, 2022

Science, Eyewitness Testimony, and God

*** Marking a milestone in the history of the Interpreter Foundation, we...

February 09, 2022

“Life is meaningless. Isn’t it beautiful?”

*** On the flight yesterday, I watched the three-part Hulu series McCartney...

February 01, 2022

“A common sense interpretation of the facts”

*** Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me Old Testament Lesson 7 “To Be...