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September 2025

September 14, 2025

Some notes on the resurrection of Jesus

A new interview went up today that I commend to the notice of anybody...

August 2024

August 25, 2024

Setting the Record Straight, Though Without Much Real Hope

In our priesthood meeting today, we considered the address given by Elder Ulisses Soares...

May 2023

May 26, 2023

“In This Batter’d Caravanserai”

My introduction to volume 56 -- volume 56! -- of Interpreter: A Journal...

May 25, 2023

Are the New Testament Gospels Worthy of Trust?

This paper was presented by Nick Frederick on Saturday, 14 March 2015, at...

April 2023

April 29, 2023

Atheism before the firing squad?

The estimable Jeff Lindsay has penned an enthusiastic book recommendation: "Relational Faith: An...

April 28, 2023

The Book of Mormon and a Gospel View of War

Two new articles have appeared on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: "“In...

February 2023

February 26, 2023

“Blessed are the merciful”

“Blessed are the merciful," reads the King James Version of Matthew 5:7, "for...

February 19, 2023

Hungering and Thirsting after Righteousness

I should have said something earlier about the physical setting of the Matthew’s...

February 04, 2023

Introducing a Blog Focus for the Sabbath

I've long had it in mind to do a brief book on the...

January 2023

January 15, 2023

Five Years On

Elder Russell M. Nelson was set apart as the seventeenth president of the...

December 2022

December 25, 2022

Notes on the Nativity, and a Christmas Carol’s Back Story

"Opinion: The true power of Christmas in a world filled with violence and...

April 2022

April 10, 2022

Entering into Easter Week

*** Virtually all historians, of all religious opinions, agree that Jesus was...

December 2021

December 02, 2021

A Christmas gift recommendation and a book notice

*** As Christmas draws nigh, there's at least one holiday gift that...

September 2021

September 24, 2021

“Framing the Book of Abraham”

*** New, today, in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and...

July 2021

July 26, 2021

Faithful Scholarship, for Free

*** I'm a bit behind in my posting here -- travel and...

April 2021

April 25, 2021

Approaching the Beatitudes (Beatitudes 1)

*** I hope that you caught at least part of the superb...

April 02, 2021

“Resurrection Month”

*** The new article that went up today in Interpreter: A Journal...

March 2021

March 02, 2021

A Note on Evidence (Part Two)

Continued from "A Note on Evidence (Part One)": I've tried to explain...

September 2020

September 06, 2020

Revision 4.19 “Some Similarities between the Qur’an and Latter-day Saint Scripture” (Part 2)

The entire twelfth chapter of the Qur'an is devoted to a beautiful retelling...

August 2020

August 16, 2020

Can the major features of Jesus’ life be found in ancient non-biblical sources? (Part 2)

I share four sabbath-appropriate quotations, suitable as follow-ups to my previous post in...

August 15, 2020

Can the major features of Jesus’ life be found in ancient non-biblical sources? (Part 1)

Such sources as the writings of Josephus (ca. AD 37-100), the Mishnah, and...

July 2020

July 25, 2020

“Sacred Time, Sacred Space, & Sacred Meaning”

I'm. pleased to announce the appearance of a new book from the Interpreter...

July 09, 2020

A case for the resurrection of Christ (1)

In Acts 17:31, Luke writes of God the Father that he hath...

June 2020

June 07, 2020

A further note on Acts 6

An astute reader of this blog who goes under the moniker of dCyl...

June 01, 2020

Half full, or half empty? More similar, or more different?

I offer here a summary passage from Mark D. Roberts, Can We Trust...

April 2020

April 28, 2020

“Can We Trust the Gospels?”

"See the interior renderings of the Tooele Valley Utah Temple" *** ...

April 27, 2020

A simple argument for the historicity of Jesus as a miracle-worker

The article below went up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation earlier...

April 22, 2020

“Searching for Jesus”

Robert J. Hutchinson is a full-time writer who studied Hebrew while living...

April 12, 2020

Truly, he is risen!

Χριστός ἀνέστη! Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη! In Greek, which is the original...

April 10, 2020

“Cunningly devised fables”?

I published this column in the Deseret News at Easter season in 2013....