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December 2025

December 26, 2025

An appeal at year’s end

A new article went up today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith...

April 2023

April 29, 2023

Atheism before the firing squad?

The estimable Jeff Lindsay has penned an enthusiastic book recommendation: "Relational Faith: An...

April 11, 2023

“Six Days in August” reaches an early milestone

I've had a number of people ask whether I could share a link...

March 2023

March 08, 2023

You should probably sit down for this

But, first, these items are (relatively) newly up on the website of the...

December 2022

December 09, 2022

“The Words of Gad the Seer”

A new article went up today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint...

December 17, 2021

Memories at Arlington

*** Two new pieces, both of them book reviews, went up today...

November 2021

November 03, 2021

Testing the Sincerity of the Witnesses Oliver Cowdery and Peter Whitmer Jr.

*** Did you miss these articles when they appeared the first time?...

October 2021

October 08, 2021

“Be Ye Therefore Loyal, Even as Your Father Which is in Heaven is Loyal”

*** A new article -- this one by Taylor Halverson -- went...

September 2021

September 10, 2021

Surf New Hampshire!

*** A new article, by Jeff Lindsay, went up earlier today in...

August 2021

August 17, 2021

Light from the West and the Ancient East

*** New, from Jonn Claybaugh, on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:...

August 10, 2021

Proper Nouns in the Book of Mormon, and etc.

*** This new article, just posted on the website of the Interpreter...

July 2021

July 12, 2021

“The Interpreter Foundation and an Apostolic Charge”

*** The Interpreter Foundation's film Witnesses is, I presume, in its waning...

July 05, 2021

“Early Christian Temples and Baptism for the Dead”

*** This "new" reprint article by David M. Calabro appeared just a...

July 02, 2021

“If Ye Believe on His Name”

*** A new article by the prolific BYU-Hawaii scholar Matthew L. Bowen...

June 2021

June 21, 2021

Two very significant anniversaries are rapidly approaching

*** Witnesses had quite strong numbers at the box office over the...

June 18, 2021

“De Profundis”

*** A little piece by yours truly went up today in Interpreter:...

June 06, 2021

“They Shall Not Grow Old”

*** Yesterday, during the opening weekend of the Interpreter Foundation's Witnesses...

May 2021

May 14, 2021

Close Readings of the Book of Mormon and Other Scriptural Texts

Two new items went up today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint...

April 2021

April 23, 2021

“Vast Prairies and Trackless Wilds of Snow: A Good Test of Sincerity”

This wretched essay by the infamous Daniel Peterson went up earlier today in...

April 16, 2021

Wordplay, “Intertextuality,” Archaisms, and Other Book of Mormon Subtleties

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

March 2021

March 26, 2021

A Case for Ancient Roots in the Book of Moses

*** The new article that went up today in Interpreter: A Journal...

March 06, 2021

“You heard that hundreds of years ago, in the pre-existence!”

*** I spent part of this morning and this afternoon involved in the...

December 2020

December 02, 2020

“Barren Women, the Christmas Story, and the Promise of Seed in Both Time and Eternity”

Have you watched the Church's Christmas film The Christ Child, yet? Somehow, I...

November 2020

November 20, 2020

“Count Your Many Mormons” #GiveThanks

I have an unannounced program or schedule for my entries on this blog. ...

August 2020

August 23, 2020

A kind of Interpreter Foundation “annual report”

What follows is the letter that I sent out, toward the end of...

December 2019

December 19, 2019

Save the Dates! (1-2 May 2020)

This would have been a Hamblin/Peterson column -- Bill read through it and...