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January 2025

January 28, 2025

Archaeologically recovering some lectures from Hugh Nibley

Here is another resource that you might find of value for your study and

January 25, 2025

A Life Lived in Crescendo

Following our participation in an endowment session at the Provo City Center Temple this...

January 24, 2025

“Upon Thy Belly Shalt Thou Go”

Two new articles went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation. The...

January 23, 2025

As political a blog entry as you’ll see here

For the past several years, I've refrained from posting entries here on political issues....

January 22, 2025

Free Viewing of Witnesses Films

This announcement came out this evening from the Interpreter Foundation: Just in time for...

January 20, 2025

Did Solomon Spalding write the original Book of Mormon?

An important part of the Interpreter Foundation's effort to support the early portion of...

January 19, 2025

“Undaunted” is now available for streaming at no charge!

I'm very pleased to announce here that the Interpreter Foundation has chosen to make...

January 15, 2025

“Appreciating Brother Brigham”

I delivered relatively brief remarks at the August 2024 FAIR conference under the title...

January 14, 2025

“Always only one generation away from extinction”

A dominant (and gleefully received) narrative among some critics of the Church of Jesus...

January 13, 2025

Latter-day Saints in the West and the Problem of Evil

It turns out that weather conditions in Utah and Nevada, where a great many...

January 12, 2025

Reports from those who’ve seen it

The other day, I saw myself characterized over at the Peterson Obsession Board as...

January 11, 2025

Disaster in Los Angeles and, Again, “American Primeval”

I'd be safe and warmIf I was in L.A. California dreamin'On such a winter's...

January 06, 2025

Houston, You Have an Opportunity

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will shortly be assaulted yet again...

January 01, 2025

Welcome to 2025!

First of all, I want to wish everybody who reads this a happy new...

December 2024

December 25, 2024

“At Bethlehem I had my birth.”

First of all, Merry Christmas to all! I hope that you've had a joyous...

December 22, 2024

For 23 December 2024

Tomorrow -- Monday, 23 December 2024 -- will be the 219th anniversary of the...

December 19, 2024

“We all have work; let no one shirk.”

For me, one of the most important principles in writing about the religious beliefs...

December 14, 2024

This will probably do little or no good.

For the better part of the past week, several places in social media have...

December 13, 2024

“Finding Nephi’s Ore”

Last night, at the Islamic Center of Southern California, I participated in a dinner...

December 10, 2024

Muslim prayer in a Latter-day Saint meetinghouse?

I don't know the source of the photograph above, so I can neither give...

December 08, 2024

Christmas and Human Deification

The news out of Syria is stunning. The fall of Damascus and the collapse of...

December 06, 2024

Still! Still! Still!

Two new articles went up today (Friday) on the website of the Interpreter Foundation....

December 05, 2024

Light the World!

In my opinion, Giving Machines definitely represent one of the most brilliant ideas that...

December 03, 2024

Numbers are pesky things

Unfortunately, today's blog entry needs to be largely devoted to the proverbial notion that...

November 2024

November 29, 2024

“A Book of Mormon Mystery”?

A new article appeared this afternoon in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith...

November 23, 2024

Things that really matter

FAIR is a largely volunteer organization, and sometimes real life gets in the way...

November 21, 2024

Bonhoeffer, the Movie

I liked this article in the Deseret News that was written by the invaluable...

November 16, 2024

Latter-day Saints and immigration

World news? Insignificant. And who cares about the outcome of tonight's BYU football game?...

November 15, 2024

Going, Going, Go . . . ing

In view of the Interpreter Foundation's ever-declining productivity, its long-prophesied, eagerly anticipated, and rapidly...

November 14, 2024

EModE in the BofM?

Surely the long-predicted demise of the Interpreter Foundation must be very near at hand....