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July 2025

July 17, 2025

An Application of Ockham’s Razor to Apologetic Motivations

It's Thursday at the Interpreter Foundation, so here's a chapter reprint for you: Seek...

July 09, 2025

Heartland or Mesoamerica?

Newly posted today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: The Heartland Versus Mesoamerica...

July 03, 2025

Living the Good Life!

One of the reasons for the notorious fact that the Interpreter Foundation's website rarely...

June 2025

June 25, 2025

Why bother with a Restoration?

Yesterday on social media, I noticed an attack by a former Latter-day Saint on...

June 11, 2025

In Defense of My Friends

An important new entry in an important series of blog posts has just gone...

May 2025

May 29, 2025

Some Notes on Mesoamerica and the Book of Mormon

Here are two further sets of notes from John W. Welch, ed., Reexploring the Book...

May 07, 2025

Some movies, some movie-making, and Book of Mormon geography

We spent another solid day today filming for the Interpreter Foundation's forthcoming Becoming Brigham...

April 2025

April 24, 2025

Beginning a Day, a Night, Another Night, and a Day

On Saturday, 5 April, my friend Don Bradley lost his son Donnie suddenly, in...

November 2024

November 09, 2024

Approaching the Final Days of “Six Days in August”?

I doubt that many will be going to theaters along the Mormon Corridor this...

November 04, 2024

Enroute Home

The crowning and concluding -- and summarizing -- visit of our Interpreter Foundation educational...

September 2024

September 11, 2024

The Wonder of It All

We're surrounded in this remote area of southeastern Utah by magnificent vistas and fascinating...

September 01, 2024

Points that we want others to take away from the project

On 28 August 2024, I recorded a lecture in connection with the Interpreter Foundation's...

April 2023

April 13, 2023

“Time to Think”

My wife and I went out to dinner last night with a former...

March 2023

March 31, 2023

“How Things Look from Here”

A new article went up today at noon in Interpreter: A Journal of...

March 11, 2023

The Book of Mormon, Mesoamerica, and Me

For an unpleasant few days recently, a zealous and pseudonymous advocate of the...

December 2021

December 13, 2021

Ritual Complexes, the Book of Mormon, and the Book of Moses

Here are five articles from a previous number of Interpreter: A Journal of...

December 06, 2021

A Loss and a Gap

*** I was saddened, just now, to learn of the death of...

November 2021

November 12, 2021

Book of Mormon Language and Book of Mormon Historicity

*** Two new articles went up today in Interpreter: A Journal of...

September 2021

September 11, 2021

From Smugglers’ Notch

*** New today, on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Book...

August 2021

August 02, 2021

“Ritual Complexes in Mesoamerica and the Book of Mormon”

*** Earlier today, Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship...

April 2021

April 02, 2021

“Resurrection Month”

*** The new article that went up today in Interpreter: A Journal...

March 2021

March 29, 2021

“Temple Symbolism in the Story of Noah”

Yet another article went online today -- accessible at no charge to all...

August 2020

August 29, 2020

3 Nephi and Regional Earthquake Fault Zones

Here are some notes from "Identification of a Regional Earthquake Fault Zone," Chapter...

August 26, 2020

“Sturm und Drang” in 3 Nephi

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

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...

May 2020

May 17, 2020

Of Limhi and Seer Stones

From John W. Welch, et al., eds. Knowing Why: 137 Evidences That the...

April 2020

April 07, 2020

The “lakam-tuun” of Book of Mormon Omni 1:20

One of the tasks that I've set myself for my COVID-19 house arrest...

January 2020

January 13, 2020

Tierra del Fuego and the Book of Mormon

Out to dinner tonight with several of our neighbors, and the over to...

October 2019

October 20, 2019

National Geographic discovery of Mayan ruins wasn’t proof, but it was very interesting

I originally published this article in the Deseret News back on 8 February...

February 2019

February 14, 2019

“One continual round of murder and bloodshed”

I found this article fascinating on several levels: "Maya bones bring a...