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June 2024

June 20, 2024

Last comments from Europe, for a while

Well, the FAIR LDS conferences in Europe ended a week ago (though two or...

January 2024

January 03, 2024

Every Member A Missionary: Here’s Some Important Help

For Christmas, a neighbor gave us a new book by her brother. The book...

February 2023

February 28, 2023

Remembering “missionary bootcamp”

I had an enjoyable time this afternoon interviewing Tom Alexander on camera for...

August 2022

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. ...

May 2022

May 11, 2022

A double standard in the age of the #Me Too movement?

*** The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is being held...

September 2021

September 04, 2021

From “Storming the Nation”

I read Derek R. Sainsbury's Storming the Nation: The Unknown Contributions of Joseph...

August 2021

August 20, 2021

“Better Kingdom-Building through Triage”

*** A new article, written by an author whose name is a...

May 2021

May 09, 2021

Lahaina, on the Island of Maui: An Unlikely Holy City

*** You may perhaps have missed this: "Apple iTunes Features the...

March 2021

March 01, 2021

“Māori Seers and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand”

*** New today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:...

February 2021

February 26, 2021

Mostly African Thoughts, But Some Heavenly Ones, Too

My wife and I attended a screening of Heart of Africa 2: Companions...

February 25, 2021

Companion Films

In which I lay out a basic and relatively brief argument regarding the...

December 2020

December 13, 2020

Revision 8.7 “The Orson Hyde Memorial Garden and BYU’s Jerusalem Center”

The idea of an Orson Hyde monument continued to be discussed as time...

November 2020

November 02, 2020

A vision through the veil, on Maui

We had an enjoyable time last night with our monthly reading group (via...

October 2020

October 28, 2020

Of Smallpox, Epidemics, Hawaii (or Hawai’i), Latter-day Saints, and the Sandwich

My wife and I have belonged for many years now to a regular...

April 2020

April 25, 2020

A mid-mission jaunt from Switzerland to northern Germany

I've been asked by a friend who is a reader of and a...

December 2019

December 17, 2019

On the Church’s impending death

The Church exaggerates its growth. Most converts drop out. It is in sharp...

September 2019

September 01, 2019

It was a good run (for me, anyway)

In case you missed it: "Noel B. Reynolds, The Language of the...

May 2019

May 29, 2019

Traditions, True and False

Some of you will recall the disturbing allegations of sexual abuse, even rape,...

April 2019

April 06, 2019

The Kingdom is rolling forth, but it needs to regain speed.

While I'm delighted at his call to serve as a General Authority Seventy,...

March 2019

March 17, 2019

New Testament Notes 120-123

Matthew 12:43-45 Compare Luke 11:24-26 One of the things that this passage...

March 10, 2019

New Testament Notes 96-99

Matthew 9:27-34; Matthew 12:22-24; Matthew 20:29-34 Mark 3:22; Mark 10:46-52 Luke 11:14-15; Luke...

March 10, 2019

Thoughts on some worldly benefits of missionary service

Tad Walch, of the Deseret News, has written a number of thoughtful and...

March 19, 2018

LDS Missons and “Eunuchs for the Kingdom”

I'm reading Terry Eagleton, Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate...

February 2018

February 04, 2018

Nephite Isaiah

Some further gleanings from John W . Welch, et al., eds., Knowing Why: 137 Evidences That the...