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September 2024

September 17, 2024

Prediction is difficult. Especially about the future.

I want to remind you, yet again, of the Orem, Utah, fireside that is...

August 2024

August 10, 2024

CES Letters

Newly published in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: "Nurture and...

April 2024

April 06, 2024

On not looking beyond the mark

I expect that I am not the only person today who was impressed by...

March 2024

March 10, 2024

One Investigator’s Story

For many years now, my most devoted atheist commenter here (never a Latter-day Saint)...

January 2024

January 07, 2024

One of the greatest of all logicians on life after death

First of all, I need to explain that, for the next ten days or...

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...

September 2023

September 26, 2023

No evidence? None at all? Really? This isn’t serious.

I've recently noticed an, umm, online "discussion" in which several former Latter-day Saints...

September 14, 2023

Actual Photographs of Early Latter-day Saint History, and Other Treats

As I say, the game is afoot. Today marked the fourth day of...

September 09, 2023

A very basic apologetic reading list

Kindly guided by one of the members of our host family, who is...

August 2023

August 04, 2023

The Last Day

A new article went up today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint...

May 2023

May 01, 2023

“The Temple: Pathway to Heaven”

At the conclusion of last night's Interpreter Radio Show, in which I joined...

April 2023

April 29, 2023

Atheism before the firing squad?

The estimable Jeff Lindsay has penned an enthusiastic book recommendation: "Relational Faith: An...

April 28, 2023

The Book of Mormon and a Gospel View of War

Two new articles have appeared on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: "“In...

April 27, 2023

This is not a way in which I, at least, want to help fulfill prophecy

I've begun to read Sean McDowell and Jonathan Morrow, Is God Just a...

April 22, 2023

A youthful experience before the bar of justice

I've already told this story here before, but I'm not feeling well and...

April 20, 2023

A note on Latter-day Saint attitudes toward other religious faiths

First, though, a thought about earthquakes and divine providence. I submitted this column...

April 19, 2023

Ice Cream Among the Health Foods

Mann tracht un Gott lacht is an old Yiddish proverb that means “Man...

April 16, 2023

On Being “Perfect” (Part Two)

This post, which focuses again on the famous passage in Matthew 5:48 (in...

April 02, 2023

On Being “Perfect” (Part One)

[Prefatory clarification: The title of this blog entry notwithstanding, it doesn't actually constitute...

March 2023

March 31, 2023

“How Things Look from Here”

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

March 30, 2023

“A very bright, keen, designing lot of fellows”?

I frequently read online comments, especially from former believers, claiming that the Church...

March 25, 2023

One of the Restoration’s Greatest Contributions

I'm back to reading Richard S. Van Wagoner, Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of...

March 23, 2023

The moving finger writes and, having writ, moves on

As I post this from Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, it's...

March 17, 2023

More Wordplay on the Name “Joseph” in the Book of Mormon?

"“That They Might Come Again unto the Remnant of the House of Jacob”:...

March 15, 2023

On the Conversion of Sidney Rigdon

On the way over here, I began reading Richard S. Van Wagoner, Sidney...

March 13, 2023

Backgrounding

I appreciate very much the attempts of the Church of Jesus Christ of...

March 11, 2023

The Book of Mormon, Mesoamerica, and Me

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

March 10, 2023

In the Land of the Long White Cloud

A new article, this one a review article, has been published in Interpreter:...

March 08, 2023

You should probably sit down for this

But, first, these items are (relatively) newly up on the website of the...

February 2023

February 28, 2023

Remembering “missionary bootcamp”

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