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March 2026

March 01, 2026

Thoughts on the Passing Scene

Episode 6 of our new Becoming Brigham series will go public tomorrow (Monday). In...

June 2025

June 21, 2025

War

As I sit in the airport at Kansas City, waiting for a flight back...

September 2024

September 28, 2024

From the morning sessions of today’s superb conference

Today, I attended the Seventh Interpreter Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference. The overall theme...

July 2024

July 20, 2024

“A Christ-Gathered Remnant of Joseph”

Two new articles went up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation today, although...

January 2024

January 25, 2024

Can the great American de-churching be reversed?

Conference Talks: The Two Ways in Ancient Egyptian Religion and Israelite Temple Theology, presented...

December 2023

December 24, 2023

The continuing battle of darkness against the light

At the request of the Deseret News, I published the brief message that follows...

December 21, 2023

Christmas, the Israelite Tabernacle, and the Gospel of John

New on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: "The Temple: Ancient and Restored: How...

November 2023

November 02, 2023

Preparing to head off across the Atlantic

We will shortly board a jet airliner to return from our truncated trip...

May 2023

May 02, 2023

Two Holy Lands?

My wife and I took Lou Midgley out to lunch today. He is...

March 2023

March 27, 2023

“Temples of the Imagination”

In cooperation with Verdant Press and Eborn Books, the Interpreter Foundation has just...

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. ...

January 2023

January 12, 2023

“Written records of biblical King David discovered by researchers,” plus the “Drake Equation”

Scott Pierson has kindly called my attention to this article from today's Jerusalem...

January 10, 2023

Doing for Jews what has already been done to/for Latter-day Saints?

To the considerable irritation of at least a few extremely irritable critics, the...

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...

July 19, 2022

A questionable extermination and an indisputable explosion

Here's a link to an article of mine that went up in Meridian...

July 15, 2022

“This Great Mystery”

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

July 08, 2022

“Modern Near East Archaeology and the Brass Plates”

Just in case anybody's interested and in the area: I will be presenting...

April 2022

April 27, 2022

Newly arrived (and very jet-lagged) in Israel

*** I'm very happy to report that it is now possible for you...

February 2022

February 24, 2022

It’s been, astoundingly, nearly thirty years . . .

*** Back in the first half of 1993, I led a small...

November 2021

November 20, 2021

“Abraham’s Amen and Believing in Christ”

*** It's very easy, from this distance in time and place, not...

September 2021

September 01, 2021

Tabernacle, Cube, Gate, and Measuring Tools

*** New today (Tuesday) on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: ...

August 2021

August 15, 2021

Never Static

*** Here, for your Sabbath reading pleasure, are five links to articles...

July 2021

July 16, 2021

On the Book of Mormon and the Goodness of God

*** The newest article in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith...

May 2021

May 12, 2021

Interreligious Dialogue, Effective and Ineffective

Driving southbound on I-15 early this morning, I was pleased to see an...

April 2021

April 16, 2021

Some reminiscences about how in the world I got onto the BYU faculty

*** For what it's worth: I've just today agreed to participate in...

March 2021

March 01, 2021

“Māori Seers and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand”

*** New today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:...

February 2021

February 06, 2021

Revision 8.15. Looking Forward to a Glorious and Peaceful Future for the Middle East

But, first: Book of Moses Essays #41: Moses 1 in Its Ancient...

January 2021

January 30, 2021

Revision 8.14. “The Latter-day Saints and Modern Israel”

First, though: The executive board of the Interpreter Foundation met this morning, from...

January 16, 2021

Revision 8.12 Proselyting and a Davidic King of Israel

But the return of the Jews to Palestine is an astonishing thing, something...

January 09, 2021

Revision 8.11 Has Orson Hyde’s Prayer Been Fulfilled? The Jewish Gathering to Palestine

Between the previous installment (Revision 8.10) and this one, considerable material is required...