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December 2023

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 29, 2023

My one encounter, such as it was, with Henry Kissinger

For a while this afternoon, one of the world's densest concentrations of sheer...

June 2023

June 20, 2023

Tales of the Gloucester Crypt

Our focus today was on the city of Gloucester, and most particular on...

March 2023

March 20, 2023

Shema Yisrael!

We allowed our group a short day today, granting them time on their...

January 2023

January 15, 2023

Five Years On

Elder Russell M. Nelson was set apart as the seventeenth president of the...

September 2022

September 14, 2022

Queen Elizabeth II and the Mysterium Tremendum

All the way back in 2016, I posted the following here on this...

December 2021

December 17, 2021

Memories at Arlington

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

September 2021

September 24, 2021

“Framing the Book of Abraham”

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

August 2021

August 17, 2021

Light from the West and the Ancient East

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

July 2021

July 12, 2021

“The Interpreter Foundation and an Apostolic Charge”

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

June 2021

June 01, 2021

Would you like to join us for the Wednesday night premiere of “Witnesses”?

*** The Interpreter Foundation's Witnesses film premieres tomorrow night -- Wednesday, 2...

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 25, 2020

Profound Thanks and Radical Orthodoxy

In a week during which we've been encouraged to #GiveThanks by the man...

November 05, 2020

Hagia Sophia, Tenochtitlan, the Incas’ Golden Temple, and Jerusalem’s Temple Mount

The latest installment of my bi-weekly column has appeared in the Deseret News,...

October 2020

October 26, 2020

The theology of C. S. Lewis and the witness of the Whitmer family

John C. Whitmer was the son of Jacob Whitmer, one of the Eight...

October 18, 2020

“I cheerfully certify”

Below are two passages that I've extracted from Ronald E. Romig, Eighth Witness:...

September 2020

September 21, 2020

“Jesus’s Courtroom”

A new article for Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship...

September 19, 2020

Were the Whitmers marginal social outcasts and weirdos?

One of the questions that must inescapably be answered with regard to the...

September 02, 2020

An “Update” from Professor Muhlestein regarding work on the Book of Abraham

On the website of the Interpreter Foundation, an important "Update" has been posted. ...

August 2020

August 24, 2020

“Another Breakthrough for the Arabian Peninsula Evidence for the Book of Mormon”?

This just up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: "John W....

August 22, 2020

The “economic quark” and the “immanent quark”

Sir John Polkinghorne, now in his ninetieth year, is both a Knight of the...

August 09, 2020

A scientist/theologian reflects on science and theology

Among the very most valuable of thinkers on science and religion -- unlike...

August 07, 2020

“The End from the Beginning”

Today marks the 420th consecutive Friday on which we've published at least one...

July 2020

July 30, 2020

What happened to the early apostles?

Shortly before our departure for Colorado, a good friend -- formerly our branch...

July 16, 2020

“Bad men on paper”

New on the website of the Interpreter Foundation, from Hales Swift: "Prayer...

July 07, 2020

From the Eight Witnesses

Some passages about the experience of the Eight Witnesses to the Book of...

June 2020

June 28, 2020

A testimony from John Taylor

John Taylor (1808-1887), a British-born Methodist preacher, was baptized a member of the...

June 28, 2020

“He was the most wrought-upon man I ever saw”

Driving up here today, we paused to visit (and to take the sacrament)...

June 27, 2020

176 years ago, today

Today marks the 176th anniversary of the 27 June 1844 murder of Joseph...

June 01, 2020

Half full, or half empty? More similar, or more different?

I offer here a summary passage from Mark D. Roberts, Can We Trust...