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August 2020

August 14, 2020

“Using the Science of Time to Understand God’s Nature and Our Own”

A new article appeared today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation. It...

August 07, 2020

“The End from the Beginning”

Today marks the 420th consecutive Friday on which we've published at least one...

August 07, 2020

Revision 3.5 “Paganism Condemned”

Another common theme beginning in the earliest chapters of the Qur'an is a...

August 03, 2020

“Heavy drinking drove hundreds of thousands of Americans to early graves”

Raymond Barfield, who holds both an M.D. and a doctorate in philosophy from...

August 01, 2020

Revision 2.15 “Arabia on the Eve of Islam”

This is a vitally important point to understand: The vast majority of...

July 2020

July 20, 2020

“The Lady at the Horizon: Egyptian Tree Goddess Iconography and Sacred Trees in Israelite Scripture and Temple Theology”

An intriguing article, written by John S. Thompson, was posted today on the...

June 2020

June 23, 2020

Four really challenging quotations

First, I share two quotations from two very vocal atheists. The first comes...

June 22, 2020

One point clearly made by the resurrection of Jesus

Notes from a book that I picked up in England several years ago:...

June 10, 2020

A hint from evil to God?

I here offer a thought that I wanted to jot down for potential...

June 01, 2020

Scientific reductionism and common sense

The late Cornell University historian of science William Provine (1942-2015) was not only...

May 2020

May 19, 2020

One implication of the resurrection of Jesus

Wolfhart Pannenberg (1928-2014) was one of the most prominent German Protestant theologians of...

May 04, 2020

“From the greatness and beauty of created things comes a corresponding perception of their Creator.”

Some further notes from Alister E. McGrath, Darwinism and the Divine: Evolutionary Thought and...

April 2020

April 30, 2020

Pagan Natural Theology

Here are some notes based upon Alister McGrath, Darwinism and the Divine: Evolutionary...

April 19, 2020

Try to imagine a totally different morality

In his classic 1952 book Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis discusses God and...

April 07, 2020

“There is no ultimate meaning for humans.”

A couple of quotations extracted from Michael Augros, The Immortal in You: How...

March 2020

March 24, 2020

If you take Pascal’s wager and it turns out to have been a good one

New, from the Interpreter Foundation: Come, Follow Me — Study and Teaching...

March 23, 2020

Introducing Pascal and his “wager”

The Interpreter Foundation continues to post interesting material for you, even in this...

March 22, 2020

“Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep”

Quite a number of years ago, I wrote the article on Allah for the Macmillan Encyclopedia...

January 2020

January 31, 2020

Dr. Collins and (the late) Dr. Salisbury

I originally published this column in the Provo Daily Herald back on 2...

December 2019

December 30, 2019

“Conversation in Nauvoo about the Corporeality of God”

The 22 December 2019 installment of the Interpreter Radio Show is now available...

December 23, 2019

On the Magi, and the Deity of Christ

A few days ago, early last week, I gave a brief interview to...

November 2019

November 15, 2019

Fine-Tuning and Dimensionless Physical Constants

I have some bad news and some good news. First, the bad: ...

November 12, 2019

A Kierkegaardian reaction to “Thoroughly Modern Millie”

We're just back from a strong performance of the musical Thoroughly Modern Millie...

November 11, 2019

On reconsidering the emotions of God

I published this article, on "Reconsidering the emotions of God" in the 30...

November 10, 2019

Werner Heisenberg on Religion

Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976), who earned his doctorate in physics at the University of...

November 10, 2019

You might as well pray to a rock

Bill Hamblin and I published the column below on 10 February 2013 in...

November 02, 2019

Do Muslims and Christians worship the same God?

Back in 2015, a controversy erupted at Wheaton College in Illinois, a very...

October 2019

October 13, 2019

The Starry Heaven Above and the Moral Law Within

I published the column below in the Deseret News back in 2012: ...

July 2019

July 05, 2019

“Compassion as the Heart of the Gospel”

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

April 2019

April 14, 2019

New Testament Notes 211-213

Luke 13:22-30 Compare Matthew 7:13-14, 8:10-12; 19:30; 22-23; 25:10-12, 41 I lean...