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December 2025

December 27, 2025

Memories of President Jeffrey R. Holland

When I learned on Christmas Eve that President Jeffrey R. Holland had gone into...

January 2025

January 05, 2025

Two discoveries in biblical archaeology from 2024

Christianity Today has an interesting article up, written by Gordon Govier, under the title...

November 2024

November 11, 2024

“It is Well With My Soul”

We closed our sacrament meeting today with a song that will eventually appear in the...

September 2024

September 29, 2024

Temples, Ancient and Modern

Yesterday, I provided a few notes on the two morning sessions of the Seventh...

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...

March 2024

March 31, 2024

A Sunday walk back and forth along the road to Emmaus

We had our special Easter service today, and it was an excellent one. We...

November 2023

November 10, 2023

The Jerusalem that Lehi Left

Up new, today, on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: "“Encircled About Eternally...

May 2023

May 19, 2023

A note on the historical reliability of the New Testament gospels

I discovered late last night that a lengthy interview that I did a...

March 2023

March 27, 2023

“Temples of the Imagination”

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

March 21, 2023

“Why seek ye the living among the dead?”

My sister-in-law, my brother's widow, passed away very early this morning after a...

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. ...

March 03, 2023

Lehi and Ishmael in Antiquity

The Interpreter Foundation continues to flourish, much to the disgust of at...

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 05, 2023

Meditations and Reflections

I first read the Meditations of the Stoic Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD...

July 2022

July 25, 2022

“Archaeologists Reveal Oldest Inscription in Jerusalem: A Canaanite Curse”

I wonder if you noticed this item from a little while back: ...

July 20, 2022

Alcohol, Chocolate, Keeping Promises, and Seeing the Cosmos with the Eye of God

Three new items went up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation yesterday,...

July 05, 2022

“When change and tears are past, all safe and blessed we shall meet at last.”

I'm happy to share with you three new items on the website of...

February 2022

February 24, 2022

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

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

October 2021

October 06, 2021

What is my witness?

*** I would like to announce an event to be held in...

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...

January 2021

January 23, 2021

Revision 8.13 “A New Temple in Jerusalem?”

Another development that needs to be achieved, as most Latter- day Saints know,...

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...

January 02, 2021

Revision 8.10. “The BYU Jerusalem Center” (conclusion), plus diplomatic breakthroughs in the Middle East

For some time thereafter, no matter how careful we were, some new and...

December 2020

December 26, 2020

Revision 8.9 Students occupy the BYU Jerusalem Center (plus a Christmas wrap-up)

But first . . . "Essay #35: Moses 1 in Its Ancient...

December 19, 2020

Revision 8.8 More opposition to the BYU Jerusalem Center

Don't miss this important (and relevant) monument from the history of Israeli popular...

December 13, 2020

Revision 8.7 “The Orson Hyde Memorial Garden and BYU’s Jerusalem Center”

The idea of an Orson Hyde monument continued to be discussed as time...

December 06, 2020

Revision 8.6 “Near Eastern Missions and a Branch in Jerusalem”

President Booth's sudden death did not end missionary work in the Near East....

November 2020

November 15, 2020

Revision 8.4 A Latter-day Saint Presence in Palestine and the Near East?

The earliest Latter-day Saint missionaries to the Near East dreamed of a Church...

November 07, 2020

Revision 8.3 “On Early Apostles and Missionaries in the Holy Land and the Near East”

This was, however, not the last time that apostles of the Lord would...