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June 2020

June 20, 2020

A miraculous harrowing

Here are a couple of additional passages that I've extracted for my notes...

June 03, 2020

The Latest from the Interpreter Foundation (Part One)

The Interpreter Foundation continues to make useful and interesting materials available in a...

June 01, 2020

Lorenzo Snow meets Joseph Smith for the first time

The intelligent, college-educated Lorenzo Snow (1814-1901) -- higher learning was a rarity in...

May 2020

May 29, 2020

Bad Book of Mormon Grammar?

Dr. Stanford Carmack will be our guest for the first hour of the...

May 26, 2020

Gathering the scriptural passages about the experience of the Book of Mormon Witnesses

I'm working toward the writing of a kind of brief introduction to 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 14, 2020

1820, Again

In response to yesterday's blog post "SOMETHING happened in 1820 . . .,"...

May 13, 2020

SOMETHING happened in 1820 . . .

The hosts for the 10 May 2020 installment of the Interpreter Radio Show...

May 09, 2020

Insights into the Book of Moses and other relevant topics

Three new items have appeared on the website of the Interpreter Foundation since...

May 05, 2020

Still cautiously looking to October

There are a couple of newly posted items on the Interpreter Foundation's website...

May 03, 2020

Emma, about Joseph

Hyrum L. Andrus and Helen Mae Andrus, Personal Glimpses of the Prophet Joseph Smith (American...

May 02, 2020

BYU Education Week this August

A week or two ago, I signed a contract to speak at BYU...

April 2020

April 26, 2020

The Whitmer Family Prior to the Book of Mormon (B)

Here are a few more of my notes from Ronald E. Romig, Eighth...

April 18, 2020

A Nephite Feast of Tabernacles

Notes from John W. Welch, et al., eds. Knowing Why: 137 Evidences That...

April 15, 2020

“I . . . stood in the presence of John”

We're familiar, of course, with Oliver Cowdery as one of the official Three...

April 10, 2020

A Great Cloud of Witnesses

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

April 06, 2020

Just a simple fraud?

Another passage from one of my rough-cut manuscripts: We’ll first look at...

April 01, 2020

Martin Harris and the Coronavirus

Up now on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: "Teachings and Testimony...

March 2020

March 27, 2020

“Pitfalls of the Ngram Viewer”

Stanford Carmack contributed this week's new article in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint...

March 26, 2020

One Hundred and Ninety Years Ago, Today

New, from Dr. Hales Swift and the Interpreter Foundation: "A Video Supplement...

March 25, 2020

Does this Thursday mark the 200th anniversary of Joseph Smith’s First Vision?

Several times previously here, I've mentioned an independently produced film that runs just slightly...

March 21, 2020

Some resources for a Sunday at home

Here are two new items on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: ...

March 15, 2020

William E. McLellin and the Qur’an’s “Challenge Verses”

I offer, for your unlikely but possible interest, a passage from Michael Bonner,...

February 2020

February 21, 2020

“First Visions and Last Sermons”

It being Friday, Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship has...

February 20, 2020

Still going!

The Interpreter Foundation continues to produce, and to make its products available at...

February 03, 2020

The gullible Martin Harris and his wife, Lucy

Martin Harris, one of the Three Witnesses to the Book of Mormon, is...

January 2020

January 31, 2020

“Light Began Once More to Grow”

This little piece appeared today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith...

January 29, 2020

“Brothers and Sisters, do you know who has been in your midst this night?”

Here are a few more notes from Susan Easton Black and Larry C. Porter, Martin...

January 18, 2020

Some very good links for some very good reading

On the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Come, Follow Me — Study and...

January 11, 2020

It’s a Book of Mormon year, so this is all appropriate

Here's something that you might find interesting and helpful. It's freshly up on...