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February 2023

February 13, 2023

Are you an unlovable Christian nationalist like me?

There have been a couple of polls in the news over the past...

February 10, 2023

Two Very Distinct Prophets

Happy weekend! Two new articles appeared today on the website of the Interpreter...

February 09, 2023

Earthquake in Turkey and Syria: How to Help

I already suggested here yesterday that Latter-day Saints should consider contributing to the...

February 08, 2023

Into and out of Honolulu

First, though, I offer links to three items that were recently posted on...

February 08, 2023

“Aloha ‘Oe”

We really enjoyed attending sacrament meeting on both of our Sundays here. We...

February 04, 2023

“There was no veil.”

Conditions for posting online haven't been ideal in my case over the past...

January 2023

January 29, 2023

A very fresh look at familiar biblical passages

We inadvertently attended a Tongan ward in Lahaina this morning and were thoroughly...

January 25, 2023

Arguing for the Resurrection of Jesus

Conference Talks: "Why Evolution and LDS Thought are Fully Compatible," given in late...

January 24, 2023

Slandering the Lord’s anointed

First, though: The Interpreter Foundation continues to pour out materials that, we hope,...

January 18, 2023

An entry on some critics

I mentioned the other day that I had responded to an online article...

January 16, 2023

“Signature in the Cell”

When I was a young'un -- long, long ago, in a galaxy far...

January 15, 2023

Five Years On

Elder Russell M. Nelson was set apart as the seventeenth president of the...

January 13, 2023

“An Important New Study of Freemasonry and the Latter-day Saints”

A new article -- this one a review essay -- went up earlier...

January 11, 2023

“Answering New Atheism and Seeking a Sure Knowledge of God”

Up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: "Conference Talks: Answering New...

January 10, 2023

Doing for Jews what has already been done to/for Latter-day Saints?

To the considerable irritation of at least a few extremely irritable critics, the...

January 09, 2023

England, anybody?

With a group of friends (mostly neighbors and former neighbors), we are putting...

January 06, 2023

““We Don’t Know, So We Might as Well”: A Flimsy Philosophy for Same-Sex Sealings”

Today's new article in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship...

January 05, 2023

Meditations and Reflections

I first read the Meditations of the Stoic Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD...

January 04, 2023

“I made a mistake in growing weary of the Gospel.”

New material on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Conference Talks: "From...

January 01, 2023

“Rejoice, the Lord is King!”

Today, 1 January 2023, is a Sunday -- and that fact seems wholly...

December 2022

December 30, 2022

Stained Swords, False Prophecy, and Accurate History

The Interpreter Foundation has published its last articles for 2022; absolutely no more...

December 27, 2022

Religiosity, Depression, and Life Expectancy

But, first, these three new items went up today on the website of...

December 22, 2022

Noting tomorrow’s anniversary of the birth of Joseph Smith

Perhaps, had he not been born so close to the super-holiday of Christmas,...

December 16, 2022

“Reflections on the Importance of Scientific and Theological Humility”

Last night, my wife and I attended the first evening of the annual...

December 13, 2022

“More protective than any pill, than any therapy, than any program.”

But, first, here are three items that went up today on the website...

December 12, 2022

Big News

If you haven't yet watched this eighteen-minute video from the Church of Jesus...

December 11, 2022

I’ll never forget Kate What’s-Her-Name

We held our quarterly Interpreter Foundation Board meeting this morning. It was very...

December 01, 2022

New, from the Interpreter Foundation!

I'm pleased to announce two new items that have appeared on the website...

November 2022

November 30, 2022

Some Ways to Light the World

Four new links have appeared on the website of the Interpreter Foundation over...

November 27, 2022

A story, briefly heard when I was still in my teens, that has stayed with me ever since

Slightly more than four years ago, I posted two back-to-back blog entries about...