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July 2022

July 17, 2022

“Plural Marriage — Part 1” and a Disappointment

    A new entry in our series of short video "reels" went up on...

May 2021

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...

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:...

November 2020

November 28, 2020

Revision 8.5.”David O. McKay, Hugh J. Cannon, and Joseph Wilford Booth”

    Carrying on from my last installment, Revision 8.4 A Latter-day Saint Presence in Palestine...

October 2020

October 23, 2020

Revision 6.18 “The United Nations Plan,” plus a bibliography on Latter-day Saints and Islam

    There were serious clashes between Arabs and Jewish settlers throughout the 1920s and...

October 19, 2020

Revision 6.14 “Denial”

    But, sadly, this understandable desire to get the attention of the West is...

October 18, 2020

Revision 6.10a “The West achieves dominance” (addendum)

    It's commonly believed among Muslims that the Qur’an cannot be translated.  Not that...

October 17, 2020

Revision 6.13 “Occidentosis”

    Needless to say, Marxism could not deliver on its promises, nor give dissatisfied...

October 16, 2020

Revision 6.12 “A quack-medicine cure appears”

    The refusal of the British and of the French to leave their colo­nies...

October 15, 2020

Revision 6.11 “The mission civilatrise”

    However, in the interest of historical accuracy I must say that the Islamic...

September 2020

September 13, 2020

Once Again, a Note on Traditional Arabic Names

    I think that I need to explain traditional Arabic names to the readers...

April 2020

April 14, 2020

“Kingship, Coronation, and Covenant in Mosiah 1-6”

    Here are some notes based upon John W. Welch, et al., eds.  Knowing...

April 14, 2020

Once More, on the Temple in Dubai

    I liked Charles Kurzman’s book The Missing Martyrs: Why There Are So Few Muslim...

April 13, 2020

Back to Designing a Temple for Dubai

    I've experienced just a bit of pushback since suggesting, a few days ago,...

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