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January 2020

January 04, 2020

Notes from “Timing the Translation of the Book of Mormon” (1)

John W. Welch, "Timing the Translation of the Book of Mormon: 'Days [and...

January 01, 2020

LDS Inc. (Part 20)

Surely, you're saying to yourself, this series will eventually find an end! And,...

January 01, 2020

“How Lovely was the Morning!”

Most of you will recall this brief announcement from the end of last...

January 01, 2020

Entering the Bicentennial Year

On this, the first day of the new year 2020, I woke up...

December 2019

December 31, 2019

A night for booze and for booze-related auto accidents?

For many, tonight will be a night of considerable imbibing, of drinking unusually...

December 30, 2019

LDS Inc. (Part 19)

The intensity surrounding this recent scandal du jour seems to have largely subsided....

December 24, 2019

LDS Inc. (Part 18)

In reading various responses to the controversy engendered by the Washington Post's would-be...

December 23, 2019

LDS Inc. (Part 17)

Some new pieces have come out in reaction to the Washington Post's recent...

December 23, 2019

When light begins to gain the upper hand

Today marks the 214th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Smith. I think...

November 2019

November 16, 2019

Southeast Asia, Mesoamerica, Manhattan, and Utah Valley

If you haven't watched this yet, please take a couple of minutes to...

November 16, 2019

Liberty University’s goal — amazingly — of becoming something like BYU

The 10 November 2019 edition of the Interpreter Radio Show featured Terry Hutchinson, John...

November 07, 2019

Why do Latter-day Saints tend to reject evolution?

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

October 2019

October 20, 2019

“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus” (A)

As I've already mentioned here, I was recently released from my latest stint...

October 18, 2019

Syria, the Kurds, and “Mormons to the Rescue?”

New York Times: "Mormons to the Rescue? The reddest faith in America is also...

October 17, 2019

“Heavenly Parents”

I subscribe to an e-newsletter written by the always interesting Deseret News reporter Tad...

October 15, 2019

On judgment and charity

Here's another column that I published in the Deseret News a number of...

September 2019

September 26, 2019

“Last Chance to Book ‘Ultimate Egypt’!”

I just now received a note from the folks at Cruise Lady, and...

July 2019

July 29, 2019

Some Thoughts on the Temple

It's a bit late, perhaps, to post a link to this item in...

June 2019

June 10, 2019

Beyond the Heartland

A (final?) note from Stephen Smoot on the subject: "A Review of...

May 2019

May 02, 2019

Living in, while attempting to cure, a “culture of contempt”

Arthur C. Brooks, of the American Enterprise Institute, is a hero of mine....

April 2019

April 26, 2019

“Muslims and Mormons,” from Sweden

I had forgotten that this lecture was available online, and only came across...

April 24, 2019

Sometimes, science is personal for me

Add this to your "weird science" file: When my wife...

March 2019

March 09, 2019

A prophet and a pope, and all of the living apostles

"Prophet Meets Pope Francis at the Vatican" I'm delighted at this. Despite...

January 2019

January 25, 2019

A new era in Latter-day Saint scholarship on the New Testament

On Thursday, in the Deseret News, I used my regular column to call...

January 17, 2019

“Utah researcher: theory of religious influences in Utah LGBT suicides may be overblown”

Suicide furnishes an issue that more than a few critics of the Church...

January 16, 2019

Grant Hardy, Temples, and Arranged Marriages

New, via the website of the Interpreter Foundation, a fifty-minute audio interview by...

September 2018

September 21, 2018

A note on Latter-day Saints and alcohol

Several people on the paternal side -- the non-Latter-day Saint side -- of...

August 2018

August 28, 2018

Why two different sets of witnesses?

From an as-yet incomplete manuscript: It is worthwhile examining the contrasting character...

August 15, 2018

“Lord, it is good for us to be here”

From time to time, when I worship with my home congregation or, as...