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September 2020

September 05, 2020

Revision 4.18 “Some Similarities between the Qur’an and Latter-day Saint Scripture” (Part 1)

Some readers will already have noticed a number of similarities between the Qur'an...

September 04, 2020

“Visions in a Seer Stone”?

Two new book reviews have just appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day...

August 2020

August 31, 2020

Attacking Other Faiths

The 2020-2021 BYU academic year has begun. My own classes will begin tomorrow...

August 28, 2020

“Some Notes on Jacob 4:14, Revelation, Canon, Covenant, and Law”

It's Friday and, accordingly, a new article has appeared in Interpreter: A Journal...

August 28, 2020

On Latter-day Saint Rejection of Evolution

My attention was called some time back to a 2014 blog article titled...

August 27, 2020

David Whitmer’s testimony, in verse

In August 1883, David Whitmer, the last surviving Witness of the Book of...

August 27, 2020

No doubt: “There is grandeur in this view of life”

Arguments have raged for well over a century and a half about the...

August 26, 2020

“Sturm und Drang” in 3 Nephi

I continue with some notes from Jerry D. Grover, Jr., Geology of the...

August 14, 2020

Revision 3.12 “Latter-day Saints in the Middle”

In an entry that I posted here a few days ago, I commented...

August 13, 2020

Revision 3.11 “What Are We to Make of Muhammad?” (An Introductory Comment)

Evaluations of Muhammad have varied wildly. Skeptical Western writers for years regarded him...

August 10, 2020

“Everyone Else Makes Such Lonely Heavens,” Reprised

I wrote the little mini-essay below in response to a request connected with...

August 06, 2020

Revision 3.4 “Continuing with Muhammad at Mecca”

For this belief [in a physical resurrection] and others, the doubters made fun...

July 2020

July 27, 2020

“Nephite Daykeepers: Ritual Specialists in Mesoamerica and the Book of Mormon”

New on the website of the Interpreter Foundation, a piece by Mark Alan...

July 21, 2020

Revision 2.4.”The Earliest Arabs and Lehi’s Trail”

It was at Nahom, incidentally, that Lehi and his party abruptly turned due...

July 20, 2020

Revision 2.3 “Frankincense and Lehi’s Trail”

Frankincense is a fragrant gum resin consisting of small white chunks and beads...

July 19, 2020

A witness to many remarkable things

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

July 18, 2020

For the weekend

A new item on the website of the Interpreter Foundation by members of...

July 16, 2020

“Bad men on paper”

New on the website of the Interpreter Foundation, from Hales Swift: "Prayer...

July 15, 2020

Simple deception?

I've made no secret of the fact that I regard Richard Lloyd Anderson's...

July 08, 2020

My most recent acts of villainy

Some new accusations have recently been made against me online. I don't want...

July 03, 2020

“Offering Americans Religious and Political Salvation”

The latest piece to appear in the pages of Interpreter: A Journal of...

July 01, 2020

“Church’s COVID-19 relief now the largest humanitarian aid project in its history”

Here is some new material for your enjoyment and edification that has recently...

June 2020

June 28, 2020

A testimony from John Taylor

John Taylor (1808-1887), a British-born Methodist preacher, was baptized a member of the...

June 27, 2020

176 years ago, today

Today marks the 176th anniversary of the 27 June 1844 murder of Joseph...

June 19, 2020

My sorry career as a religious bigot

I have an anonymous critic -- I call him my Malevolent Stalker --...

June 08, 2020

President Nelson, the NAACP, Senator Romney, and some observations on the passing scene

This is an older item, but one element of it has been on...

June 07, 2020

A brief and perhaps somewhat too colorful autobiographical fragment

The Sabbath seems, especially when one is effectively under house arrest, an appropriate...

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...

June 01, 2020

A note from the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

President Russell M. Nelson posted the following on his Facebook page today: ...

May 2020

May 11, 2020

David Whitmer’s June 1829 journey from Fayette to Harmony and back

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