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June 2021

June 13, 2021

“Smallest Wingless”

*** I published this column in the Deseret News very nearly seven...

April 2021

April 27, 2021

Farewell, for Now, to a Friend

*** Our longtime neighbor and friend Henry Yeates died early this morning. ...

April 07, 2021

A film about pre-mortal life and near-death experiences

*** First, though: My inaugural installment of what is intended to...

January 2021

January 13, 2021

“A far more beautiful, more perfect place”

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926-2004) was a Swiss-American physician and psychiatrist and the author of,...

November 2020

November 16, 2020

Forgiveness, grace, and cosmic justice

One reason for hoping that there is a life after death, a better...

October 2020

October 18, 2020

“A more beautiful message cannot be conceived. “

From Thomas Dubay, The Evidential Power of Beauty: Science and Theology Meet (San Francisco:...

October 10, 2020

“You are never, ever alone.”

Here's a passage from the text of one of the lectures contained in...

October 10, 2020

“Dr. Ross, I could dance again.”

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926-2004), the famous Swiss-American physician and psychiatrist, the author of (among...

September 2020

September 24, 2020

Atheism as Wonderfully Good News . . .

I confess that I've never understood the exultation and evangelical zeal that some...

September 20, 2020

On weighing evidence regarding near-death experiences

What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And...

September 19, 2020

“Someone is standing here dressed in white clothes. I will not go with you!”

Some short notes from J. Steve Miller, Near-Death Experiences As Evidences for the...

September 13, 2020

“I became aware of the most powerful, radiant, brilliant white light.”

In their book Glimpses Beyond Death's Door: Gospel Insights into Near-Death Experiences (Orem:...

August 2020

August 30, 2020

Must one first believe in the supernatural in order to regard near-death experiences as real?

This 2.5-minute-long video vividly introduces an astonishing fact: "The Mind-Blowing Mathematics...

July 2020

July 25, 2020

“Death is nothing more than a doorway, something you walk through.”

The birth of contemporary interest in near-death experiences is often credited to Raymond...

July 20, 2020

A note on Joseph Smith, death, and out-of-body experiences

Back in 2018, I shared the platform for a moderately small meeting at...

July 09, 2020

A case for the resurrection of Christ (1)

In Acts 17:31, Luke writes of God the Father that he hath...

July 04, 2020

On some proposed psychological explanations for near-death experiences

Notes based upon Pim van Lommel, Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death...

June 2020

June 13, 2020

She would have been six years old today

Six years ago today, on 13 June 2014, our first grandchild was born...

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 25, 2020

A column in “Scientific American” on near-death experiences

"Scientists Are All Abuzz over This Rare Prehistoric Bug Fossil Found in Utah"...

May 24, 2020

“Once you have died you will know it anyway.”

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926-2004), the famous Swiss-American physician, psychiatrist, and author of, among many...

May 21, 2020

What can afford us a basis for hope?

Two lengthy contiguous passages excerpted for future reference from Wolfhart Pannenberg, Jesus --...

May 17, 2020

Near-Death Experiences among Muslims?

Two articles worth noting: Michael Nahm and Joachim Nicolay, "Essential Features of...

May 17, 2020

Victor Hugo on Immortality?

We have been using a bit of our extra at-home Sabbath time to...

May 09, 2020

Two Reports from Paradise?

It's time, perhaps, for some additional notes drawn from a couple of the...

May 03, 2020

On temporary disembodiment

I'm something of a fan of the Claremont philosopher Stephen T. Davis, who...

April 2020

April 26, 2020

“He found himself standing next to his own body.”

I share here a few brief notes that I've extracted from Marlene Bateman...

April 19, 2020

The same sociality, but with much better music

Some notes taken from Brent L. Top, What’s On the Other Side: What the...

April 19, 2020

Fifteen years ago

My mother died slightly more than fifteen years ago this month, just one...

April 18, 2020

Steve Davis on Mind and Brain

Stephen T. Davis is currently Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at...