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November 2022

November 26, 2022

To Be a Witness

A newly available video is up online from the Interpreter Foundation: "Witnesses...

November 24, 2022

Two final thoughts on Thanksgiving

I wrote these two columns in 2016 and 2017: It’s not insignificant...

November 24, 2022

For Thanksgiving Day

Happy Thanksgiving! I hesitated just a bit before deciding to call your...

November 23, 2022

A bit more on attempts to weaponize the atrocity in Colorado Springs

I reported yesterday on the efforts of a small handful of zealous critics...

November 22, 2022

The Colorado Springs Shooter and the Church

First, though, I need to announce three new items that have gone up...

November 21, 2022

The Church, the Senate, and Same-Sex Marriage

As many of you are no doubt aware, about a week ago the...

November 13, 2022

“It was necessary that I should go.”

But, first: Yesterday evening, at 7 PM Utah time, another new episode of...

October 2022

October 22, 2022

Reunions Earthly and Heavenly

Newly available at no charge, online: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon...

October 22, 2022

“‘The Chosen’ Under Fire for Apparent Reference to The Book of Mormon.”

Here's a quaint little story that caught my attention: "‘The Chosen’ Under Fire...

October 21, 2022

“A Man’s Got to Know His Limitations” (Harry Callahan, 1973)

Two new articles went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation. ...

October 20, 2022

“The Gospel is one of forgiveness”

Here's a thought-provoking article by Terryl Givens and Nathaniel Givens: "Secularism as scapegoat:...

October 18, 2022

Yes to Apologetics

Three new items have gone up today on the website of the Interpreter...

October 16, 2022

“Life Together”

From time to time, when I worship with my home congregation (something of...

October 13, 2022

Stephen King and James Joyce, on behalf of the Book of Mormon

I imagine that very few of the readers here are unfamiliar with Murphy's...

October 12, 2022

“Royal and Temple Themes Common to the Psalms and the Dead Sea Scrolls”

Two new links appeared today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: ...

October 10, 2022

Cardinal Dolan and his church

First of all, I want to apologize to all of those who, on...

October 09, 2022

Virtual Fireside Tonight on “Freemasonry and the Origins of Latter-day Saint Temple Ordinances”

Here's a note from Dr. Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, who serves on the board...

October 08, 2022

“Did Lucy Harris Support the Book of Mormon?”

Yet another of the products of our overall "Witnesses" film project went up...

October 06, 2022

Should religious colleges and universities be permitted to continue having codes for student and faculty behavior?

Will religious universities continue to be permitted to set their own behavioral standards...

October 03, 2022

On Brigham Young and Violence (1)

As I've mentioned here before, I've lately been re-reading Eugene England, Brother Brigham...

October 02, 2022

Breathtaking Audacity

I think that it was Elder Quentin L. Cook of the Quorum of...

September 2022

September 30, 2022

“Understanding How the Scriptures Came to Be”

Three new articles appeared today, Friday, in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint...

September 27, 2022

“If I were placed on a cannibal island”

Two new items have gone up today on the website of the Interpreter...

September 16, 2022

Who is most blessed?

It being Friday, another new article (this one a book review), has gone...

September 12, 2022

An invitation to attend and to pray

I would like to call your attention to an event -- a special...

September 11, 2022

“That’s me!”

A couple of days ago, I finished reading William J. Peters (with Michael...

September 09, 2022

A Transcendent Light

I don't know how much longer this can or will go on, but...

September 09, 2022

On Two Women in the Old Testament, and regarding Heavenly Mother

"Hannah’s Adversity and Peninnah’s Redemption," written by Loren Blake Spendlove Abstract: Most biblical students...

September 07, 2022

Coming up on 5 November 2022

In the first portion of this episode of the fabled Interpreter Radio Show,...

September 05, 2022

An infallible formula for never lapsing into inactivity in the Church

The inexplicably weird English of the headline continues throughout the article. Still, I...