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March 2019

March 07, 2019

“‘You Are My People’: Inactive Gay Mormon Shares Powerful Insights After Attending Church for the First Time in Years”

The latest installment of my biweekly "Defending the Faith" column appeared today in...

March 06, 2019

“In an era of declining faith, Mormon membership is holding steady.”

Ireland's Robert Boylan has called our attention to two commentaries on recently-issued Gospel...

March 02, 2019

The Book of Mormon, the Gathering of the Jews, and Other Matters

The latest installment of the joint bi-weekly Hamblin/Peterson column has appeared in the...

March 01, 2019

“A Case for the Book of Mormon”

It's Friday, so there's a new article in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day...

February 2019

February 28, 2019

Just in case you haven’t bought them yet

The hardcover is now available for purchasing from Amazon.com and AmazonSmile, for $24.95. A review by Julie...

February 19, 2019

Is the Church lying to us through its art?

I doubt that there's any room left in your bulging Christopher Hitchens Memorial...

February 18, 2019

“Can Mormon transhumanists revitalize the Latter-day Saints?”

"Is the Book of Mormon Like Any Other Nineteenth Century Book?" ***...

February 17, 2019

Brief paragraphs on Jesus in Islam and the Restoration

I've been asked to draw up two very brief summary passages describing, respectively,...

February 16, 2019

Another remembrance of things past

I don't recall, off hand, whether I mentioned yesterday that the latest installment...

February 13, 2019

You mean, there’s, like, opposition? Disagreement?

"Are 2 church fires in St. George connected?" *** From a...

February 12, 2019

New light on the question of bees and the Book of Mormon

"And they did also carry with them deseret, which, by interpretation, is a...

February 11, 2019

A note on veganism and vegetarianism (2)

Continuing from the prior post: An interesting and, to my mind, important...

February 11, 2019

A note on veganism and vegetarianism (1)

Over the past several years, I've enjoyed a few dinner table conversations at...

February 10, 2019

On that article about “Mental Distress and Disaffection from the Church”

Over the past few weeks, I've watched with fascination -- though, unfortunately, not...

January 2019

January 26, 2019

Women and Apologetics (2)

Continuing with some thoughts on the subject: Frankly, men tend to dominate...

January 26, 2019

Women and Apologetics (1)

On Friday night, my wife and I attended a performance at Brigham Young...

January 23, 2019

Homosexuality, the Latter-day Saints, and Suicide in India

This item from the NCAA, about a major meeting recently held at Brigham...

January 19, 2019

“Heretics and Other Insiders”

A very significant little item by Jeff Lindsay, writing from Shanghai: "Further Notes on...

January 18, 2019

In defense of patriarchs

Masculinity is under ideologically-motivated attack in some quarters. You may perhaps have...

January 18, 2019

Seeing something, rather than merely learning about it

One of the classes that I'm teaching this term is Middle East Studies...

January 18, 2019

“Barriers to Belief”

New, in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: "Barriers...

January 17, 2019

“Utah researcher: theory of religious influences in Utah LGBT suicides may be overblown”

Suicide furnishes an issue that more than a few critics of the Church...

January 15, 2019

CNN: “Move over, Vatican — there’s a new church in town!”

The 13 January 2019 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show featured Martin Tanner, John...

November 2018

November 22, 2018

In praise of excommunication

Well, the click-bait headline worked. Gotcha. First of all, let me make...

November 22, 2018

Compulsory tithing?

A few days ago, after I had posted an item about plans to...

September 2018

September 23, 2018

Islam and Mormonism: Some Similarities and Differences (Third Part)

Continuing with some notes on the topic: Differences Islam and Mormonism...

September 23, 2018

Big Questions (A)

A reader of this blog sent me a heartfelt question, or complex of...

September 22, 2018

Islam and Mormonism: Some Similarities and Differences (Second Part)

Apparently I already posted this little collection of notes sometime last year. But...

September 22, 2018

“The Benefits of Belief”

Last night, my wife and I enjoyed an elders quorum dinner, with a...

September 21, 2018

Islam and Mormonism: Some Similarities and Differences (First Part)

Some notes that I threw together a number of years ago. I...