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July 2020

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 09, 2020

Volcanism in Mesoamerica

Among other things, Jerry D. Grover, Jr., Geology of the Book of Mormon (2014) supplies...

June 2020

June 22, 2020

One point clearly made by the resurrection of Jesus

Notes from a book that I picked up in England several years ago:...

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 12, 2020

“Vaughn J. Featherstone’s Atlanta Temple Letter”

A new article -- this one by Christopher J. Blythe -- has just...

June 12, 2020

“I know that what I am talking about is true”

Dr. Suzanne Lundquist, now retired from the Department of English at Brigham Young...

May 2020

May 31, 2020

Luke as Careful Historian

I've been posting some notes over the past few weeks from my evening...

May 30, 2020

A few reactions to Acts 5

I continue to be impressed by the change between the behavior of the...

May 25, 2020

“Joseph Smith Performing a Miraculous Healing According to a Non-LDS Source”

Newly published in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship and,...

May 24, 2020

The Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper as Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus

I want to flesh out here an argument that I heard very briefly...

May 21, 2020

What can afford us a basis for hope?

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

May 19, 2020

One implication of the resurrection of Jesus

Wolfhart Pannenberg (1928-2014) was one of the most prominent German Protestant theologians of...

May 15, 2020

On reading Isaiah as Latter-day Saints

Today, Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship published a kind of...

May 14, 2020

Was Jesus “White”?

The First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sent...

May 12, 2020

Has the volcano responsible for the destruction in 3 Nephi been located?

I turn, again, to sharing notes from Jeff Wynn and Louise Wynn, Everyone is a Believer:...

May 11, 2020

3 Nephi: Another Volcanological Perspective (2)

Once more, I share a couple of extracts for my notes from Jeff Wynn...

May 05, 2020

3 Nephi: Another Volcanological Perspective (1)

I return to Jeff Wynn and Louise Wynn, Everyone is a Believer: The Growing...

May 04, 2020

Trying to Get It Right

As happens multiple times per week, a new item has appeared on the...

May 04, 2020

Acts 2, with an axe to grind

The principal action of Acts 2 occurs on Pentecost, as Acts 2:1 explains:...

May 03, 2020

Some jottings on the first chapter of Acts

I offer here some thoughts that occurred to me as I read Acts...

May 01, 2020

Some reflections on Peter’s deliverance from prison

There is an amusing story in Acts 12. I suppose, of course, that...

April 2020

April 27, 2020

A simple argument for the historicity of Jesus as a miracle-worker

The article below went up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation earlier...

April 22, 2020

“Searching for Jesus”

Robert J. Hutchinson is a full-time writer who studied Hebrew while living...

April 13, 2020

Mount St. Helens and the Book of Mormon

I'll share a passage here from Jeff Wynn and Louise Wynn, Everyone is a...

April 12, 2020

“Make No Mistake”

As I do every year at this season, I share a poem by...

April 12, 2020

“The Four Proven or Minimal Facts Argument” for the Resurrection of Jesus

An apologetic that is sometimes used, particularly by Evangelical Protestants (such as William...

April 12, 2020

Truly, he is risen!

Χριστός ἀνέστη! Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη! In Greek, which is the original...

April 11, 2020

Extrabiblical References to Jesus?

Continuing with my temporary theme of the genuine historicity of Jesus, I reproduce...

April 11, 2020

Jesus mythicism, yet again

I published this article in the Deseret News on Christmas Day 2014. So,...

April 11, 2020

Thoughts for Holy Saturday

I published this column in the Deseret News on Thursday, 21 April 2011....