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March 2018

March 02, 2018

Wondering about my legacy . . .

Yesterday was the first Thursday in roughly eight years that the Deseret News...

February 2018

February 28, 2018

One of the most beautiful places in the world, and among the most sacred

With four friends, my wife and I had an excellent breakfast this morning...

February 28, 2018

Was Joseph reading from a manuscript when he dictated the Book of Mormon?

Part -- only part -- of an argument (regarding the Book of Mormon)...

February 26, 2018

Is Mormonism Dying?

Reading this article in the National Catholic Register by one Anna Abbott,...

February 25, 2018

“Aloha ‘Oe”

We attended services this morning at the Laie Fourth Ward, directly adjacent to...

February 23, 2018

On the limits of archaeology and the limits of conspiracy theories

The indispensable Robert Boylan of Ireland offers a couple of items regarding the...

February 23, 2018

A bit more on those weird Mormon middle initials

A few days ago, I posted an item that, among other things, poked...

February 22, 2018

“I was mearly instructid in reading writing and the ground rules of Arithmetic”

Notes, some of them quite old and in need of updating, toward a...

February 21, 2018

LD$, Inc.

Sharon Eubank, whom I know and very much respect, has sounded an important...

February 20, 2018

Was Joseph Smith one of the most sophisticated writers in history?

Rough notes from a book in progress: Orson Pratt, who knew Joseph...

February 20, 2018

Mitt Romney, Multiple Worlds, Middle Initials, and Me

Every once in a while, I read a complaint by some critic of...

February 19, 2018

Supernatural, but demonic?

There are two broad ways of viewing the Book of Mormon: One holds...

February 18, 2018

Sidney Rigdon and the Book of Mormon

I offer, below, some notes about suggestions that Joseph Smith had help in...

February 17, 2018

“There is no truth but what belongs to the Gospel.”

The eminent geneticist Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., who directed the Human Genome Project,...

February 16, 2018

Oliver Cowdery and Other Mormon-Related Matters

From one of my myriad incomplete manuscripts: Oliver Cowdery was bedridden for...

February 16, 2018

The Book of Mormon and botanical science

Moving a bit further forward in John W . Welch, et al., eds., Knowing Why: 137 Evidences That...

February 15, 2018

Jerusalem (aka Salem?), Shilom, Shalom, and Other Matters

Continuing with my reading of John W . Welch, et al., eds., Knowing Why: 137 Evidences That...

February 15, 2018

Polygamy, Plates, Psalms, and Testimony

I continue on with my notes from and/or inspired by John W . Welch, et al., eds., Knowing...

February 12, 2018

“The fulness of the gospel”? Really?

Another little note from John W . Welch, et al., eds., Knowing Why: 137 Evidences That the...

February 12, 2018

“White and Delightsome”?

Further notes from John W . Welch, et al., eds., Knowing Why: 137 Evidences That the Book...

February 10, 2018

Sealed books, witnesses, and complacency

It's a big book, and so I'm working very methodically through John W . Welch, et al.,...

February 10, 2018

Volcanic Lightning and the Book of Mormon

I received the following important communication from a correspondent who frequently writes to...

February 08, 2018

The Book of Mormon, Witnesses, and Archaeology

From an unpublished manuscript with which I occasionally tinker: It is virtually...

February 07, 2018

Were there others in the Pre-Columbian New World beyond the Book of Mormon peoples?

It's a big book, so I'm going to be working through John W...

February 06, 2018

Making Sense of the Scriptures

It's going to take me a while to offer even the barest suggestion...

February 04, 2018

Nephite Isaiah

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

February 03, 2018

Isaiah in the Book of Mormon and Interpreter on the Radio

Moving forward with my notes from John W . Welch, et al., eds., Knowing Why: 137...

February 02, 2018

A Maya Megalopolis

I'm a bit late with the announcement, but -- huge surprise! -- it's...

February 01, 2018

Reasons to Believe

It seems that Stephen Smoot and I have been thinking along parallel lines...

February 01, 2018

Contrasting Mormonism and Islam (Part Seven)

Continuing with my introduction to Islam for Latter-day Saints: This focus upon...