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October 2025

October 23, 2025

“Unmasking Halloween: Its Origins and Meaning”

I published a seasonally appropriate article today in Meridian Magazine that some readers might...

July 2024

July 16, 2024

A reflection on the near-assassination of Donald J. Trump

In the western tradition of historiography or historical writing, there has often been a...

April 2024

April 14, 2024

When Joseph Smith is attacked

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

September 2023

September 10, 2023

An outline of Egyptian history

From the Christopher Hitchens Memorial "How Religion Poisons Everything" File™: "Church Leaders Express...

March 2023

March 12, 2023

“Blessed are the peacemakers”

“Blessed are the peacemakers," Jesus declares in Matthew 5:9," for they shall be...

November 2022

November 14, 2022

Notes from Royal Skousen’s recent lecture on “Textual Criticism and the Book of Mormon”

Video and audio recordings of the presentations that were given at the Interpreter...

July 2022

July 29, 2022

Two Palestinian Christians, and a visit with one of the most interesting of Latter-day Saint historians

We're just back from attending a performance, with friends, of Singing in the...

May 2022

May 09, 2022

The Earliest Text of the Book of Mormon

*** But briefly, first, please have a look at this article from...

April 2022

April 21, 2022

Church History and the Most Beautiful Place on the Planet

*** Interpreter Radio Show — March 27, 2022 In this archived episode...

April 06, 2022

An important event in the history of the Book of Mormon

*** I received an email earlier this morning from my friend Royal...

December 2021

December 06, 2021

A Loss and a Gap

*** I was saddened, just now, to learn of the death of...

June 2021

June 24, 2021

“Do We Have Non-Biblical Evidence that Jesus Existed?”

*** First, though, some Witnesses news: Some will be interested know...

April 2021

April 08, 2021

“What Was Hugh Nibley Thinking About When He Landed His Jeep on the Beach on D-Day?”

*** This new little article, by Jeffrey Mark Bradshaw, appeared today on...

December 2020

December 30, 2020

On Witnesses to Extraordinary Events

For some curious reason, I've been thinking quite a bit recently about the...

October 2020

October 01, 2020

Some background on Hallowe’en

We've just entered the month of October -- the month of Halloween, during...

September 2020

September 08, 2020

Can the study of history yield genuine knowledge?

There are those -- some of them read my blog -- who appear...

August 2020

August 03, 2020

Question: “Is Decrypting the Genetic Legacy of America’s Indigenous Populations Key to the Historicity of the Book of Mormon?”

Up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation, by Ugo A. Perego...

July 2020

July 25, 2020

“Sacred Time, Sacred Space, & Sacred Meaning”

I'm. pleased to announce the appearance of a new book from the Interpreter...

July 10, 2020

Sensationalism and Missing Words

Two new pieces appeared today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith...

May 2020

May 01, 2020

On the manufacture of fake history

Earlier this evening, I was listening to a recorded interview with the Evangelical...

April 2020

April 11, 2020

Revisiting an agnostic’s argument for the existence of Jesus

A reader of this blog has chosen to spend at least a portion...

January 2020

January 26, 2020

“Ask thy father, and he will shew thee”

"Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy...

January 03, 2020

Progress in science and religion

I published the article below in the Deseret News on 15 June 2017:...

December 2019

December 21, 2019

“One of Us”

I published this column in the Deseret News just before Christmas 2014: ...

December 12, 2019

Is genuine knowledge possible outside of science?

There are those -- some of them read my blog -- who appear...

September 2019

September 13, 2019

The mosquito in history

I will, alas, almost certainly never read the book. Life is short. But...

August 2015

August 05, 2015

Notes on Mormonism in the Near Term

Editors’ Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on the Future of Faith in America:...