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March 2025

March 25, 2025

It’s been quite a day for the Hitchens File

By the way, in a bid to cement the status of this blog as...

March 24, 2025

The Beat Goes On

Newly posted today on the Interpreter Foundation website: Interpreter Radio Show — March 16,...

March 24, 2025

“Realer than Real”

Before leaving for church today, I read "Brigham Young Unfiltered: His Life, Conversion, and Faith...

March 20, 2025

Thoughts, even in Poʻipū

A new item has appeared in the Interpreter Foundation's regular Thursday reprint series --...

March 17, 2025

“Mormon Wife Designs Future Planet On Pinterest”

Newly posted on the blog of the Interpreter Foundation: "The Discernable Chronology of Mormon’s...

March 14, 2025

A reflection on our now owning the sites in Nauvoo

I'm several days late in calling attention to something that I recently published in...

March 13, 2025

“It is good for us to be here”

Our three core movie makers -- Russ Richins, James Jordan, and Mark Goodman --...

March 12, 2025

“A resting-place for the weary traveler”

Camrey Bagley Fox and I spent the first part of the day being filmed...

March 11, 2025

At Carthage Jail

We were up early and spent most of the first part of the day...

March 09, 2025

Taking Leave of Darwin?

The flight today from Salt Lake City to St. Louis took something on the...

March 08, 2025

“The Good Samaritan”

I have a number of linguistic pet peeves. Not all of them are related...

March 07, 2025

Jewish thoughts on the “heavenly lamb”

These two articles were posted today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith...

March 06, 2025

“The Book of Mormon as a Resurrected Book”

This can't go on forever: The offer of free streaming for the Interpreter Foundation's...

March 05, 2025

February 2025

February 25, 2025

Chalk up another one for the Word of Wisdom

The local whale-watching people are very concerned. Apparently there are still reports on the...

February 23, 2025

Maui’s Sacred Latter-day Saint History

I published the article below in the Deseret News for 18 February 2016. I...

February 20, 2025

“Did Jesus really claim to be divine?”

Here's my latest column for Meridian Magazine. I used it to report on a...

February 17, 2025

Never to Be Forgotten

I continue my incessant whining about the hit Netflix miniseries American Primeval by calling...

February 15, 2025

Just a little more than two years to go!

You're probably aware of this: "The Prophet Announces Salt Lake Temple Open House Celebration...

February 14, 2025

Should Good Friday be a legal holiday in Utah?

"Utah may join 12 states that recognize Good Friday as a legal holiday: ‘In my...

February 08, 2025

“Brigham Young and violence”

Some critics that I observe -- most of them specimens of the type of...

February 07, 2025

Federal Funding for Critics of the Church? Really???

Newly posted on the never-changing, essentially moribund website of the Interpreter Foundation, in Interpreter:...

February 05, 2025

Hurrah for Excommunication!

Well, the click-bait headline worked, as they typically do. Gotcha. First of all, let...

February 04, 2025

Why CAN’T Mormons Send Flowers?

Our 2021 theatrical film, Witnesses, was dedicated to the memory of "Richard Lloyd Anderson,...

January 2025

January 31, 2025

Who can be saved?

"Perspectives on the Soteriological Problem of Evil: Nuancing the “Universalist” Theologies of Henri de...

January 30, 2025

Once again, I must register a political protest

Our exit from Afghanistan was badly botched. And America's abandonment of those Afghans who...

January 29, 2025

Can you think of any other benefits that I should mention?

The Interpreter Foundation's full-length documentary Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon can now...