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September 2026

September 17, 2026

Islam in America or Islam versus America?

From the barely-still-breathing Interpreter Foundation: "Reprint: the Bible Before and After: Interpretation and Translation...

September 12, 2026

A basic working chronology of Islamic-era Iran

For purposes of my own writing, I've slightly modified an available online chronology of...

September 05, 2026

Actual Data and Actual Crusades

Several years ago, I read John L. Esposito and Dalia Mogahed, Who Speaks for...

September 02, 2026

Three False Claims

This article went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation, where, as...

September 01, 2026

“A Portion of God’s Light”

I've discovered an ideal form of clickbait: Simply post something about shari‘a or Islamist...

August 2026

August 31, 2026

“What is sharia?”

Newly up this morning on the Meridian Magazine website, more of my habitual lies,...

August 29, 2026

Some thoughts on Islam and terrorist violence

Charles Kurzman, who is a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina...

August 22, 2026

“A cloud as small as a man’s hand is rising from the sea.”

Newly posted today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: "Conversations with Interpreter: Spencer...

March 2026

March 21, 2026

Some easily demonstrated falsehoods

New today on the barely-still-breathing website of the Interpreter Foundation: Conversations with Interpreter: Jeff...

March 19, 2026

At least you can SPRAY for COCKROACHES . . .

Newly posted on the completely stagnant and unchanging website of the Interpreter Foundation: "Approaching...

March 12, 2026

“Encroaching Sharia law in US: ‘Serious issue.'”

I must have been sleepwalking through recent American history: "Speaker Mike Johnson warns of...

March 09, 2026

A firmly scriptural “No” to Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN)

New York City’s Gracie Mansion, the official home of the city's mayor (currently Zohran...

December 2024

December 13, 2024

“Finding Nephi’s Ore”

Last night, at the Islamic Center of Southern California, I participated in a dinner...

December 10, 2024

Muslim prayer in a Latter-day Saint meetinghouse?

I don't know the source of the photograph above, so I can neither give...

January 2023

January 24, 2023

Slandering the Lord’s anointed

First, though: The Interpreter Foundation continues to pour out materials that, we hope,...

January 19, 2023

“A Moslem fought an infidel one day”

These three pieces have gone up quite recently on the website of the...

January 17, 2023

On an American university’s imposing one particular version of Islamic orthodoxy on its students and faculty

By now, you may perhaps have heard of this outrageous case from Hamline...

December 2022

December 31, 2022

The Passing of a Pope, and of a Year

He's been out of view for quite a while now, but this is...

December 30, 2022

Stained Swords, False Prophecy, and Accurate History

The Interpreter Foundation has published its last articles for 2022; absolutely no more...

November 2022

November 20, 2022

Humor in Heaven?

After our friend and her two young daughters left for home, my wife...

October 2022

October 25, 2022

Dishonesty (or incompetence) on public display

Gotcha! I'll bet that, judging by the title, you expected this to be...

October 02, 2022

Breathtaking Audacity

I think that it was Elder Quentin L. Cook of the Quorum of...

May 2022

May 05, 2022

Revelation, Divine and Human

*** We bade farewell to our tour group this evening. It always...

October 2021

October 15, 2021

“An Ishmael Buried Near Nahom”

*** Neal Rappleye published a potentially very significant article today in Interpreter:...

August 2021

August 21, 2021

“Are Afghan refugees fleeing the Taliban regime headed to Utah?”

*** The New Colossus Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,...

June 2021

June 22, 2021

Attention, people in or near Orlando, Florida!

*** First of all, although Witnesses is evidently being shown in the Orlando, Florida,...

May 2021

May 12, 2021

Interreligious Dialogue, Effective and Ineffective

Driving southbound on I-15 early this morning, I was pleased to see an...

May 07, 2021

Addendum 6: Founding the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative at BYU (Part 2)

*** First, though, don't miss this newly published item on the website...

April 2021

April 23, 2021

Addendum 5: Founding the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative at BYU (Part 1)

*** The news, when it first arrived early Friday afternoon, was uncertain. ...

April 15, 2021

Addendum 4: Some Notes on the Nature of Qur’anic Revelation

*** "The great religious leaders of the world such as Mohammed, Confucius,...