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September 2022

September 02, 2022

An ancient idiom in 2 Nephi 4:33, as well as a demonic attack in Lancashire

It's Friday, so yet another new article has appeared in Interpreter: A Journal...

September 01, 2022

“What You Didn’t Hear About the LGBT Pamphlet at BYU”

Wow. This article, written by the forthright and courageous Cassandra Hedelius, is both...

September 01, 2022

Into Thin Air?

I don't know what to say about these new takes on the alleged...

August 2022

August 28, 2022

“Why the ‘Witnesses’ Project?”

Obviously feeling increasingly desperate, with this one the Interpreter Foundation has reached a...

August 27, 2022

Sacred and Anti-Sacred Sites

We landed at Liverpool this morning, where we were met by Peter Fagg,...

August 24, 2022

“Ten Ways the AP Abuse Article Misrepresented the Evidence,” and Other Matters

I failed to notice four new items that recently appeared on the...

August 20, 2022

“Should a member of the clergy report sex abuse of the penitent? A look inside the priest-penitent privilege”

This article, written by Tad Walch for the Deseret News, provides extremely important...

August 18, 2022

Serious issues are involved

I liked this Fox News interview with Senator Mitt Romney that aired a...

August 16, 2022

A curious missionary experience in northwestern Switzerland

I continue, briefly, with the theme of yesterday's entry, "Reminiscences of a beautiful...

August 15, 2022

Reminiscences of a beautiful but difficult mission area

Well, our stay in the Berner Oberland has finally come to an end. ...

August 12, 2022

“A Comet, Christ’s Birth, and Josephus’s Lunar Eclipse”

"A Comet, Christ’s Birth, and Josephus’s Lunar Eclipse," written by Charles Dike Abstract: A...

August 08, 2022

“It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.”

Well, my positive recent impressions of airlines and airports continue to accumulate: Last...

August 06, 2022

Proper Names and Foreign Words in the Book of Mormon, and, Oh Yes, Sexual Abuse in Arizona

We had a very productive meeting of the Interpreter Foundation board of trustees...

August 02, 2022

A Powerful and Very Private Spiritual Experience

Three new items went up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation today:...

July 2022

July 30, 2022

Our new film project begins, while our earlier project continues to produce

The latest in the Interpreter Foundation's series of short-video features relating to the...

July 29, 2022

Two Palestinian Christians, and a visit with one of the most interesting of Latter-day Saint historians

We're just back from attending a performance, with friends, of Singing in the...

July 24, 2022

On that possible image of Joseph Smith

You've probably already seen the news regarding the discovery of what may be...

July 23, 2022

“Witnesses” claims a prize

I'm pleased to report that, just a few minutes ago, the Interpreter Foundation's...

July 21, 2022

Do we finally have a photograph of him?

The John Whitmer Historical Association -- an independent organization that is more or...

July 19, 2022

A questionable extermination and an indisputable explosion

Here's a link to an article of mine that went up in Meridian...

July 18, 2022

A high point of our time in southern Alberta, Canada

One of the many highlights of our time here in southern Alberta has...

July 18, 2022

I hope that I did some good (or, at least, no harm)

I spoke tonight in Cardston, in fireside that was sponsored by the two...

July 16, 2022

Out under the sky in southern Alberta

I spoke outdoors this evening to a large group of young single adults...

July 15, 2022

“From the moment the light spoke to me, I felt really good”

I was scheduled pretty solidly today -- I gave a fireside here at...

July 12, 2022

“Unto what shall I liken these kingdoms, that ye may understand?”

I find myself deeply moved and profoundly impressed by the images from the...

July 11, 2022

“I . . . created them for mine own purpose”

I have a little more information about the talk that I'll be giving...

July 09, 2022

“Who were the Danites?”

The Interpreter Foundation's Witnesses film project continues to produce. Having completed its theatrical...

July 03, 2022

Notes on the Church in Recent Popular Entertainment

On his Facebook page, the inimitable Jim Bennett posted a nice short summary...

June 2022

June 27, 2022

“Is my faith ‘terrible for women’?”

Today marks the one hundred and seventy-eighth anniversary of the assassination of the...

June 22, 2022

Maybe it improved after this?

*** Although I had his kind permission to share this here already...