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October 2022

October 03, 2022

On Brigham Young and Violence (1)

As I've mentioned here before, I've lately been re-reading Eugene England, Brother Brigham...

April 2022

April 04, 2022

The Actual Voice of One Who Was There

*** As we begin to pivot from our overall "Witnesses" film project...

January 2022

January 22, 2022

Two Notes on Nauvoo History

*** For much of his lifetime, newspaper reports insinuated that Joseph Smith...

December 2021

December 22, 2021

“The Light of Christmas”

*** Interpreter Radio Show — November 28, 2021 The 28 November 2021...

October 2021

October 28, 2021

Old Testament type stuff, Egyptians and Greeks living together, mass hysteria!

*** Newly posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Interpreter...

September 2021

September 27, 2021

It Came from Beyond, and Folks Haven’t Always Appreciated That

*** Here are links to a few articles in a previous volume...

September 14, 2021

An Expatriate, a Pioneer, and the Pilgrims

*** Up this morning in Brattleboro, we first drove out to see...

September 04, 2021

From “Storming the Nation”

I read Derek R. Sainsbury's Storming the Nation: The Unknown Contributions of Joseph...

August 2021

August 26, 2021

The King, the Maiden, and the True Successor to Joseph Smith

*** This parable, from the Philosophical Fragments of Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), has...

June 2021

June 28, 2021

Remembering 27 June 1844

*** I had intended to write an extensive post on Sunday regarding...

May 2021

May 03, 2021

“The Divine Handclasp in the Hebrew Bible and in Near Eastern Iconography”

*** Another article has appeared, this one by David M. Calabro, in Interpreter:...

April 2021

April 26, 2021

Varieties of Religious and Irreligious Experience

*** Here's some striking news involving two very vocal atheists. Unusually, I...

October 2020

October 02, 2020

Joseph Smith, Adam Clarke, and Nauvoo

Two important reviews appeared today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith...

July 2020

July 10, 2020

Sensationalism and Missing Words

Two new pieces appeared today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith...

July 03, 2020

“Every Saint who knew him loved him”

Some further notes from Hyrum L. Andrus and Helen Mae Andrus, Personal Glimpses...

June 2020

June 28, 2020

A testimony from John Taylor

John Taylor (1808-1887), a British-born Methodist preacher, was baptized a member of the...

June 27, 2020

176 years ago, today

Today marks the 176th anniversary of the 27 June 1844 murder of Joseph...

June 18, 2020

The Murder of Martin Harris

From Susan Easton Black and Larry C. Porter, Martin Harris: Uncompromising Witness of the...

June 17, 2020

“And you know that I know that it is true.”

From Susan Easton Black and Larry C. Porter, Martin Harris: Uncompromising Witness of the...

December 2019

December 30, 2019

“Conversation in Nauvoo about the Corporeality of God”

The 22 December 2019 installment of the Interpreter Radio Show is now available...

September 2019

September 13, 2019

The mosquito in history

I will, alas, almost certainly never read the book. Life is short. But...

March 2019

March 31, 2019

8 August 1844, on the eastern shore of the Mississippi River

I published the column below in the Deseret News on 5 September 2013....