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May 2026

May 27, 2026

On “moral images”

This article went up earlier today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Reprint:...

April 2026

April 17, 2026

From the sublime to the monstrous

A new article, written by Janet Ewell, went up today on the ne'er-changing website...

January 2024

January 20, 2024

Is morality “findable”?

We held our quarterly Interpreter Foundation board meeting today -- technically, it's our annual...

January 08, 2024

Exclusivism, brokenness, and good health

As I say, I re-read C. S. Lewis's book Mere Christianity on the flight...

April 2023

April 15, 2023

If there is no God, is everything permitted?

These new entries went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation,...

May 2022

May 13, 2022

“Witnesses” streaming, and Vikings killing, assaulting, and pillaging

*** It's an appropriate time, I think, for a status report on...

May 05, 2022

“About Those ‘Dangerous’ Mormons”

*** Under the Banner of Heaven continues to enjoy its fifteen minutes...

January 2022

January 13, 2022

Good. And Evil.

*** I think that -- understandably, given the many years and the...

January 13, 2022

“Are Apostates Reliable?”

*** Many years ago, I helped to host the Italian Catholic attorney...

December 2021

December 31, 2021

“If God Does Not Exist, Is Everything Permitted?”

*** A new essay appeared at noon today, Utah time, in Interpreter:...

November 2020

November 18, 2020

Of moral relativism and ethical nihilism

Many who deny an objective or divine foundation to morality nonetheless assume that...

November 09, 2020

More on a Moral Argument for the Existence of God

Still drawing on Douglas Groothuis, Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith (Downers...

November 04, 2020

A moral argument for the existence of God

Please note that "The Temple on Mount Zion," the Fifth Interpreter Matthew B. Brown...

October 2020

October 15, 2020

“Altogether universal”

A passage that I extracted from Douglas Groothuis, Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for...

August 2020

August 29, 2020

Revision 4.11 “More on the Ethical Values of the Qur’an”

The sins that are likely to characterize the wealthy in a commercial society...

August 28, 2020

Revision 4.10 “On the Moral Teachings of the Qur’an”

It is on the basis of his or her faith and good works,...

June 2020

June 28, 2020

“Science has taken on the role of mankind’s deliverer.”

“Humans think they are free, conscious beings, when in truth they are deluded...

June 10, 2020

A hint from evil to God?

I here offer a thought that I wanted to jot down for potential...

June 02, 2020

Non-scientific matters that we know with certainty

I listened to a talk last night by the evangelical philosopher J. P....

June 01, 2020

Scientific reductionism and common sense

The late Cornell University historian of science William Provine (1942-2015) was not only...

May 2020

May 27, 2020

What’s at stake?

For they reasoned unsoundly, saying to themselves, “Short and sorrowful is our life,...

May 06, 2020

On condemning Napoleon

In my immediately preceding blog entry ("Napoleon, en route to Egypt"), I indicated...

April 2020

April 19, 2020

Try to imagine a totally different morality

In his classic 1952 book Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis discusses God and...

April 07, 2020

“There is no ultimate meaning for humans.”

A couple of quotations extracted from Michael Augros, The Immortal in You: How...

December 2019

December 05, 2019

Is science the only arbiter of truth?

Now this is joyous news! Ho ho ho! "Two of the biggest...

October 2019

October 13, 2019

The Starry Heaven Above and the Moral Law Within

I published the column below in the Deseret News back in 2012: ...

April 2019

April 02, 2019

“To this day, there is no alternative to it.”

This evening, I came across a passage from Jürgen Habermas (b. 1929), the...

March 2019

March 03, 2019

An historical appreciation of Christianity

From Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (Toronto: Random House...

February 2019

February 25, 2019

“Even older and deeper than ethics”

I’ll be returning a bit over the next few days to Jordan B....

March 2018

March 05, 2018

Beyond man-as-he-happens-to-be

A little monthly reading group to which we've belonged for . . ....