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April 2020

April 11, 2020

Revisiting an agnostic’s argument for the existence of Jesus

A reader of this blog has chosen to spend at least a portion...

April 10, 2020

Ignorant gullibility?

This was my 2019 Easter column for the Deseret News: Some dismiss...

April 10, 2020

Three who yearned for Easter

For Easter 2017, I published this column in the Deseret News: A...

April 10, 2020

A Great Cloud of Witnesses

I published this Easter 2016 column in the Deseret News: Since the...

April 10, 2020

“Cunningly devised fables”?

I published this column in the Deseret News at Easter season in 2013....

April 10, 2020

“Christ and the Work of Suffering”

The Interpreter Foundation's 2020 Easter message, written by Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye, has just appeared:...

April 09, 2020

“Easter’s answer to the ‘terrible question’”

My latest column for the Deseret News: "Easter’s answer to the ‘terrible...

April 08, 2020

“Passover with Dennis Prager”

I hope that he and "Prager University" won't mind my stealing the image...

March 2020

March 28, 2020

“Risen”

Back in early 2016, I saw the then-new film Risen. My wife never did...

March 17, 2020

Krakatoa, a Comparison, and a Concordance

Volcanoes have been on my mind of late. (Oddly, perhaps, when maybe I...

March 16, 2020

Geology and Third Nephi (18): Finis

Today, writing from deep within Fortress Peterson, I conclude my slow-motion promenade through Bart...

March 15, 2020

Geology and Third Nephi (17): “Thick Darkness” (Part Two)

Here are some of my final notes from Bart J. Kowallis, “In the Thirty...

March 14, 2020

Geology and Third Nephi (16): “Thick Darkness” (Part One)

And then behold, there was darkness upon the face of the land. And...

March 11, 2020

Geology and Third Nephi (15): “Broken and Scattered Rocks” (Part Two)

We still have a little bit more to do as I work my...

March 10, 2020

At the Holy Sepulcher

A poignant passage about Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulcher from the late Reverend Dr. Jerome...

March 09, 2020

Geology and Third Nephi (14): “Broken and Scattered Rocks” (Part One)

And behold, the rocks were rent in twain; they were broken up upon...

March 08, 2020

Geology and Third Nephi (13): “Whole Face of Land Changed” (Part Two)

Yup. Here's another set of notes drawn mostly from Bart J. Kowallis, “In the...

March 07, 2020

Geology and Third Nephi (12): “Whole Face of Land Changed” (Part One)

I'm plugging on, posting another set of notes drawn mostly -- today, entirely...

March 06, 2020

Geology and Third Nephi (11): Cities Burned, Buried, and Drowned (Part Three)

I'm still going, still posting notes principally drawn from an article that was...

March 06, 2020

“The Character and Knowledge of Mary, the Mother of Christ”

A new article has appeared -- surprise! -- in Interpreter: A Journal...

March 05, 2020

“Remain faithful to the end, and everything will be all right.”

Here is a file that has newly been posted on the website of...

March 04, 2020

Orson F. Whitney’s Dream-Vision of the Savior

Two new items went up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation today:...

March 04, 2020

Geology and Third Nephi (10): Cities Burned, Buried, and Drowned (Part Two)

I press forward with the notes that I’m primarily taking from an article...

March 02, 2020

Geology and Third Nephi (9): Cities Burned, Buried, and Drowned (Part One)

I continue with notes that I'm drawing largely from an article written by...

March 01, 2020

Geology and Third Nephi (8): An Interim Update

I've been sharing notes that I've largely drawn from an article written by...

February 2020

February 29, 2020

Geology and Third Nephi (7): “Shaking and Quaking”

I continue with notes that I've extracted mostly from an article written by...

February 28, 2020

Geology and Third Nephi (6): Storms and Tempests

I've begun to publish a short series of notes mostly extracted from an...

February 18, 2020

Geology and Third Nephi (5): Evidence from Ice Cores?

I've begun to publish a short series of notes extracted from an article...

February 18, 2020

Geology and Third Nephi (4): An Explosive Volcanic Eruption?

I continue with some notes from Bart J. Kowallis, “In the Thirty and Fourth...

February 15, 2020

Unrivalled silliness and conceit?

I've always wanted to visit Sedona, but somehow, prior to today, I...