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October 2019

October 17, 2019

“Extent, depth, and stunning grandeur”

First, a potpourri of interesting recent science-related links: "Utah’s Capitol Reef National...

October 16, 2019

Thinking about religion and science while in Arizona

In my capacity as a highly-paid apologist for the Church of Jesus Christ...

October 15, 2019

Russell M. Nelson, M.D., Ph.D.

I had a few spare seconds, and so I found an article...

October 13, 2019

Toward remembering Joseph Smith’s First Vision

I published the article below on 23 March 2017 in the Deseret News....

October 09, 2019

Siddhartha and the First Vision

President Russell M. Nelson has announced that 2020 will be a special bicentennial...

October 06, 2019

President Nelson, Muslims, and Humanitarian Service

Let me just say that I loved -- absolutely loved -- President Russell M. Nelson's...

October 05, 2019

Faithful women and the blessings of the life to come

I was struck by the beginning of President Dallin H. Oaks's remarks in...

October 05, 2019

Saints and Scientists

"Why just being in the habitable zone doesn’t make exoplanets livable: Debate over what...

October 04, 2019

Friday, from the Interpreter Foundation

It's Friday, so -- I hope, to nobody's very great surprise by now...

October 03, 2019

“If we study astronomy, we study the works of God.”

I thought that this was a stimulating read: "Bad Psychology: Why Climate...

September 2019

September 08, 2019

It matters. It really, really matters.

Some of you will be familiar with the name of Clark Goble, a...

September 05, 2019

Church history, then and now

The latest installment of my bi-weekly column for the Deseret News has appeared:...

September 04, 2019

“Doors of Death”

While I regret not being able to be back east with the Witnesses...

September 04, 2019

An early seventh-century Arabian William McLellin?

For my class on the Qur’an in English, I'm rereading M. A. S....

July 2019

July 29, 2019

Linking heaven and earth in Calgary

Taking our friends to the Calgary airport earlier today, we first stopped by...

July 28, 2019

A financial report from the Church, and a financial report about the Church

I'm pleased to say that, sitting here in the western portion of the...

July 05, 2019

A note on the anthropology of the Pacific

In the eighth issue of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship,...

July 05, 2019

“Compassion as the Heart of the Gospel”

A new article has just appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith...

April 2019

April 26, 2019

“Muslims and Mormons,” from Sweden

I had forgotten that this lecture was available online, and only came across...

April 23, 2019

Some resources for addressing tough topics, from the Interpreter Foundation

For a small presentation this evening on behalf of the Interpreter Foundation, the...

April 17, 2019

“Infected with doubt”

A significant passage from Jana Riess, The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing...

April 06, 2019

Science marches on

For years, I’ve reflected on scientific evidence that seemed to suggest that moderate...

April 03, 2019

Driven by guilt and the fear of Hell?

This is very important and quite concerning: “Moscow Snuffs Out Religious Liberty...

March 2019

March 19, 2019

New Testament Notes 128-129

Matthew 13:31-33 Mark 4:30-32 Compare Luke 13:18-21 The parable of the mustard...

March 19, 2019

Revelation, human or divine?

The other day, I called attention to a discouraging piece from Dr. Jeff...

March 18, 2019

Brigham Young opposed a then-fashionable scientific form of racism

In his important book Religion of a Different Color, Paul Reeve recounts an...

March 18, 2019

From Interpreter’s man in the Congo

There has, quite understandably, been a huge amount of coverage of the recent...

March 11, 2019

An iconic and historic photograph

At the April 2008 General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of...

March 09, 2019

“Ihr seid — wir sind — seine Zeugen”

I realize that the overwhelming majority of my readers (there are perhaps as...

March 09, 2019

A prophet and a pope, and all of the living apostles

"Prophet Meets Pope Francis at the Vatican" I'm delighted at this. Despite...