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July 2021

July 01, 2021

My first day without employment

*** Brigham Young University's College of Humanities can scarcely conceal its giddy...

June 2021

June 16, 2021

Idaho Falls and Boston and Santa Clarita and a Bit of Amusement

*** I'm told that, at least earlier today, the Witnesses film website was...

June 12, 2021

Mesa, Arizona, and Santa Clarita, California, and Wisconsin, and the Past

*** I'm happy to see such events as the one shown in...

May 2021

May 26, 2021

Is America on “a one-way trip to secularism”? Is Europe?

*** You may perhaps have missed this article by Steve Densley, which...

May 16, 2021

“Religion, Spirituality, and Health”

*** I offer here a potpourri of appalling horrors from the essentially...

May 09, 2021

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

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

March 2021

March 27, 2021

Notes Regarding China’s War Against Its Religious Citizens

*** Here's a new posting on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:...

March 25, 2021

“A 2,700-Year-Old Biblical Document Long Said to Be a Forgery Gains New Respect”

But, first, I failed to mention two items that went up yesterday on...

February 2021

February 27, 2021

“Hebrew Literary Features of Moses 1,” etc.

My wife and I will be back at the LDS Film Festival this...

February 23, 2021

Film-Making and -Screening in the Plague Year

*** On Facebook: "Heartfelt thanks from Caleb Josiah Spivak aka Oliver Cowdery for...

December 2020

December 22, 2020

Ghost Stories, Richard Dawkins, Christmas, and Other Related Matters

I call to your attention two new items that have been posted on...

December 21, 2020

“A Prophet Like Moses,” and “The Journey of the Magi”

Two items were published on the website of the Interpreter Foundation today. ...

December 18, 2020

“Joseph Smith’s Translation Projects under a Microscope”

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

October 2020

October 13, 2020

“How to be a Good Apologist,” Revisited

Tarik LaCour has responded to me over at his blog, The Mad Dog...

October 11, 2020

“How to be a Good Apologist”

Nearly three years ago now, the astoundingly prolific and productive Irish Latter-day Saint...

September 2020

September 09, 2020

Is religion a failed attempt at scientific explanation?

Here's a passage from Alister McGrath, The Passionate Intellect: Christian Faith and the...

August 2020

August 28, 2020

The Book of Moses and a School for Souls

I've been slow in calling attention to the latest installment of my bi-weekly...

May 2020

May 29, 2020

On the late Christopher Hitchens

Curtis White, who identifies himself as an atheist, had some very interesting things...

May 24, 2020

Scientism versus Scientism’s Caricature of Christian Theism

A note from the British Marxist literary critic Terry Eagleton's 2008 Terry Lectures...

May 08, 2020

“A Democratic Salvation”

A newly published article in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and...

February 2020

February 12, 2020

“God and mr. hitchens,” again

I've been asked by a reader to substantiate my lack of admiration for...

November 2019

November 06, 2019

“#LightTheWorld Giving Machines Expand to 10 Locations During Christmas Season”

We're just back from a fine production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of...

April 2019

April 03, 2019

Christopher Hitchens gets it wrong, yet again.

I'm frequently assured by his disciples that the late Christopher Hitchens was a...

November 2018

November 28, 2018

Religion poisons everything?

During the 25 November 2018 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show, Steve Densley...