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September 2025

September 03, 2025

Hearing from Reeve and Rich themselves

We drove back from Depoe Bay over to the Portland Airport this morning to...

September 02, 2025

On the ineptitude of using Green Flake to criticize me

This went up yesterday on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: "The Interpreter Foundation...

August 2025

August 30, 2025

How high can it fly?

Honestly, I think that some critics of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...

August 29, 2025

Padre no me arrepiento

"Why God Placed Adam and Eve Under Paradoxical Injunctions: A View of the Garden...

August 28, 2025

Men and Women and Girls and Boys, etc.

Thursday is our day at the website of the Interpreter Foundation for posting reprints...

August 27, 2025

Shall we not go on in so great a cause?

A new article of mine has gone up in Meridian Magazine: "Brigham Young, Race,...

August 23, 2025

In which I once again object to certain rhetoric

On Wednesday last, I posted a blog entry ("On Dealing With “Scum” Who’ve Entered...

August 20, 2025

On dealing with “scum” who’ve entered our country illegally

For whatever it may be worth, a video recording of my presentation at the...

August 17, 2025

Is Utah a safe place or an unsafe one for girls and women?

The closing talk in our sacrament meeting today was devoted to the subject of...

August 16, 2025

Yet Again, Just One More Time, on That “Help Line”

The information that I've reproduced immediately below -- drawn from an official release from...

August 15, 2025

“Once more unto the breach, dear friends”

As today is Friday, a new article was published today in Interpreter: A Journal...

August 14, 2025

On Child Sexual Abuse and the Church’s “Help Line”

I want to call the attention of those who might be in the area...

August 13, 2025

Is Our Faith Rooted in “Fear”?

I just came across the claim online, from an obviously very angry former Latter-day...

August 12, 2025

Don’t give up hope, and don’t give up

The following three items went up today on the never-changing website of the Interpreter...

August 10, 2025

Taking Note of Polygamy Denialism

The Interpreter Foundation held its annual birthday party last night, for the invited volunteers,...

August 07, 2025

A report from the floor

The Interpreter Foundation's Thursday chapter reprint has appeared: Seek Ye Words of Wisdom: "All...

August 04, 2025

The Church, Immigration, and Civil Rights

One of the book-discussion groups to which my wife and I belong is the...

July 2025

July 31, 2025

News about John Henry Newman

Things are obviously becoming desperate at the nearly fossilized Interpreter Foundation. They've been obliged...

July 29, 2025

Delving into a little-known aspect of LDS Church history

I spent the morning in the boardroom of the Church History Museum in Salt...

July 23, 2025

Thoughts for Pioneer Day

24 July, for people who reside in Utah and for many members of the...

July 22, 2025

It’s rapidly approaching, and I’m not ready

I'm trying to find the time to get my remarks together for the upcoming...

July 20, 2025

An atheist in “The Twilight Zone”?

It's at times like this, when we're acutely aware of our powerlessness to do...

July 18, 2025

“The Plates of Gardner”

This new review-essay appeared today in the never-changing Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint...

July 15, 2025

A Tale of Two Temples

Come, Follow Me — D&C Study and Teaching Helps (2025): Doctrine and Covenants 81–83:...

July 14, 2025

Slowly deemphasizing, allegorizing, the Book of Mormon?

Every once in a while, I encounter the claim from some former member of...

July 13, 2025

High Thoughts, Shared Among Friends

This is the abstract that I sent in this morning for the 2025 FAIR...

July 10, 2025

This World or the Next? Why Not Both?

This item has just been posted on the fossilized and entirely static website of...

June 2025

June 30, 2025

Some notes on the Gold Plates

I want to share some passages that I marked a while back from Richard...

June 28, 2025

On hunting ghosts

Our (superb) guide on the recent Interpreter Foundation Church history tour, Peter Fagg --...

June 25, 2025

Why bother with a Restoration?

Yesterday on social media, I noticed an attack by a former Latter-day Saint on...