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April 2026

April 04, 2026

For Holy Saturday

  Freshly posted on the famously somnolent website of the Interpreter Foundation is this new...

April 03, 2026

“Easter and Doctrine and Covenants 138”

  I wish you a happy and blessed Good Friday. I wrote an article for...

April 02, 2026

Suitable for Easter Week

  I'm still bemused by the antics of a small but vocal gaggle of critics...

April 01, 2026

“Well, I’ve been afraid of changin'”

  This article, which went up earlier today, is not a new journal article.  It's...

March 2026

March 31, 2026

Is the Church collapsing? And two questions on the Qur’an

  On the never-changing website of the Interpreter Foundation, Jonn Claybaugh has published yet another...

March 30, 2026

Do Latter-day Saints really abhor the cross of Jesus?

  This article appeared last week in the "Newsroom" of the Church of Jesus Christ...

March 29, 2026

For Palm Sunday

  Today was/is Palm Sunday, commemorating the day on which, according to accounts given in...

March 28, 2026

“Nephi and Isaiah on the Nations”

  Newly up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:  Conversations with Interpreter:  "Matthew Bowen...

March 26, 2026

Will we welcome a shameful blot on the State of Utah?

  So far as I'm aware, I've met Brent Ward, but just once.  It was...

March 25, 2026

“Abraham the Astronomer”

  Newly posted today on the completely stagnant website of the Interpreter Foundation -- which,...

March 24, 2026

Partially responding to a challenge

  Responding to my rejection (here and elsewhere) of anti-Islamic bigotry, a reader who is...

March 23, 2026

In which I pose a question to any readers that I might have

  I'm pleased to report that a copy of Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Matthew L. Bowen,...

March 21, 2026

Some easily demonstrated falsehoods

  New today on the barely-still-breathing website of the Interpreter Foundation:  Conversations with Interpreter: Jeff...

March 20, 2026

“A Fresh Investigation of Latter-day Saint Theology”

  A new review article has appeared on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: "A...

March 18, 2026

Unruly Sunbeams

  It's spiritually beneficial to see the Grand Canyon from time to time.  I just...

March 16, 2026

“Memories light the corners of my mind”

  Growing up in greater Los Angeles, I became a Dodger fan.  And I had...

March 15, 2026

Tangible divine intervention?

  Shortly after its publication, I read and marked up Richard Lyman Bushman, Joseph Smith's...

March 13, 2026

Gratitude for Religious Liberty

  There is much to be dissatisfied with, and much to be cynical about, in...

March 10, 2026

Like a fiddler on the roof

  Becoming Brigham, Episode 7—"Young Brigham Young," Part Two is now up online: Camrey continues...

March 07, 2026

Studying the Pearl of Great Price, and Evolution

  Newly up on the completely unchanging website of the Interpreter Foundation:  Conversations with Interpreter...

March 05, 2026

Swimming against strong currents

  The Interpreter Foundation, which went dormant years ago according to prophecy, continues moving by...

March 04, 2026

A plea for rhetorical self-restraint, against triumphalism

  I published a piece today in Meridian Magazine under the title of "The Tragedy...

February 2026

February 28, 2026

“Where Will We Turn for Peace?”

  You can now watch a thirty-second trailer for Episode 6 of our ongoing Becoming...

February 27, 2026

A note on “the Gospel Vision of the Arts”

  A new article has appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and...

February 26, 2026

Once more on Elder Gilbert and BYU (and Notre Dame)

  I've been seeing complaints in a few circles that our treatment of certain topics...

February 25, 2026

Politics, Commandments, Opposition, and Abrahamic Tests

  Materials from our "chapter reprint series" are now appearing each week on Wednesdays rather...

February 24, 2026

Brigham Young, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels

  The second part of our discussion with Matt Grow, the Managing Director of the...

February 22, 2026

Some things for the Sabbath

  Have you marked your calendar for this upcoming Interpreter Foundation conference?  We would love...

February 19, 2026

A couple of brief constitutional meditations

  Have you visited becomingbrigham.com yet?  Four episodes of our new series of mini-documentaries have...

February 18, 2026

Ramadan Kareem!

  First of all, I want to wish a Ramadan Kareem to any Muslim readers...

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