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July 2025

July 09, 2025

Heartland or Mesoamerica?

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

May 2025

May 14, 2025

Of Heavenly Councils and Heavenly Books

New, on the blog of the Interpreter Foundation, where nothing ever changes: "The Heartland...

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 17, 2023

More Wordplay on the Name “Joseph” in the Book of Mormon?

"“That They Might Come Again unto the Remnant of the House of Jacob”:...

March 14, 2023

We’re unexpectedly back in the land of unending Shalom

My wife and I hadn't expected to be in Israel again this month. ...

March 11, 2023

The Book of Mormon, Mesoamerica, and Me

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

March 09, 2023

“Joseph Smith and the Architecture of Genesis”

More than a few of you, I think, will find this enjoyable: Conference...

March 06, 2023

Hijacking the Book of Mormon for the Satanic Cause of Anti-Semitism

I don't monitor blogs or websites connected with the so-called "Heartlander" movement. In...

March 04, 2023

Conspiracy Fantasies and Anti-Semitism in the Heartland?

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

August 2022

August 11, 2022

Bluffing a Beatenberger

The Interpreter Foundation continues to be a fountain of productivity, thanks to generous...

July 2022

July 09, 2022

“Who were the Danites?”

The Interpreter Foundation's Witnesses film project continues to produce. Having completed its theatrical...

December 2021

December 22, 2021

“The Light of Christmas”

*** Interpreter Radio Show — November 28, 2021 The 28 November 2021...

December 20, 2021

In which a vocal “Heartlander” compares me to Satan

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

October 2021

October 08, 2021

Misrepresenting an apostle

*** An interesting claim appeared on Wednesday, 6 October, in a post...

August 2021

August 05, 2021

Day Two, at FAIR 2021

*** Interpreter Radio Show — July 18, 2021 The 18 July 2021...

June 2021

June 19, 2021

In which I’m outed as an anti-Mormon who is guilty of priestcraft!

*** While we were up in Logan yesterday, my wife and I...

May 2021

May 27, 2021

A note from one of the principal conspirators

*** I'm amused to report that the first "review" of the Interpreter...

May 09, 2021

Lahaina, on the Island of Maui: An Unlikely Holy City

*** You may perhaps have missed this: "Apple iTunes Features the...

April 2021

April 09, 2021

The Book of Mormon and the Temple

*** Two new items appeared today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day...

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...

March 2021

March 29, 2021

“Temple Symbolism in the Story of Noah”

Yet another article went online today -- accessible at no charge to all...

March 11, 2021

In which I nobly attempt to reassure certain critics of the Church

Here is an item that was posted earlier today on the website of...