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September 2020

September 26, 2020

Did David Whitmer heft the golden plates?

Ronald E. Romig, Eighth Witness: The Biography of John Whitmer (Independence, MO: John...

September 25, 2020

Hiram Page and His Seer Stone

For whatever it's worth, I'm scheduled to participate in Sunday night's Interpreter...

September 19, 2020

Were the Whitmers marginal social outcasts and weirdos?

One of the questions that must inescapably be answered with regard to the...

September 12, 2020

Orson Pratt, reacting to the death of Martin Harris

It seems that I'll be doing a fireside on Monday evening, 14 September...

September 04, 2020

Must one know the precise GPS coordinates of the final Jaredite and Lehite battles in order to be a good Latter-day Saint?

I have no real interest in Mr. Jonathan Neville. I have no real...

August 2020

August 29, 2020

An exceptionally stupid argument against the Restoration

In my experience, theistic anti-Mormonism is largely (though not entirely) a conservative Protestant...

August 19, 2020

On “The Witnesses: Variety and Complexity”

Last night (Tuesday, 18 August 2020), I gave a little class or fireside...

August 09, 2020

Answers to questions that were submitted after my presentation at FairMormon last Friday

I pre-recorded my remarks to the 2020 FairMormon conference. On Friday afternoon, when...

August 01, 2020

“Witnesses”: A Brief Progress Report

This evening (Saturday evening) we participated in the showing of our Witnesses dramatic...

July 2020

July 28, 2020

Prophets, as it were, without honor in their own country

Many years ago, at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Society in...

July 19, 2020

A witness to many remarkable things

We're familiar, of course, with Oliver Cowdery as one of the official Three...

June 2020

June 29, 2020

“Spelling in the Manuscripts and Editions”

Below is a four-page statement that Royal Skousen has shared with me regarding the...

June 28, 2020

“He was the most wrought-upon man I ever saw”

Driving up here today, we paused to visit (and to take the sacrament)...

June 21, 2020

“She Said that they Were fastened with Rings”

A new item -- as always where at all possible, made available at...

June 20, 2020

A miraculous harrowing

Here are a couple of additional passages that I've extracted for my notes...

May 2020

May 26, 2020

Gathering the scriptural passages about the experience of the Book of Mormon Witnesses

I'm working toward the writing of a kind of brief introduction to the...

May 04, 2020

Trying to Get It Right

As happens multiple times per week, a new item has appeared on the...

May 02, 2020

BYU Education Week this August

A week or two ago, I signed a contract to speak at BYU...

April 2020

April 26, 2020

The Whitmer Family Prior to the Book of Mormon (B)

Here are a few more of my notes from Ronald E. Romig, Eighth...

April 25, 2020

The Whitmer Family Prior to the Book of Mormon (A)

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was probably organized in the...

April 15, 2020

“I . . . stood in the presence of John”

We're familiar, of course, with Oliver Cowdery as one of the official Three...

April 01, 2020

Oliver Cowdery to Samuel W. Richards

A preliminary partial draft of one of my manuscripts-in-progress: In 1848, the...

March 2020

March 03, 2020

A testimonial from William E. McLellin

William E. McLellin was chosen as one of the Twelve Apostles in 1835,...

November 2019

November 10, 2019

Running with the golden plates

I spoke at a small "cottage meeting" on Saturday night, along with the...

October 2019

October 07, 2019

Personal Perspectives and Historical Reconstructions

Thanks to the inquiry of a reader, I now realize that I didn't...

April 2019

April 22, 2019

Some additional information on the “Witnesses” film effort

A few days ago, I blogged a brief progress report regarding a major...

April 02, 2018

Oliver Cowdery, Book of Mormon horses, and interfaith relations

In October of 1848, a decade after he had been excommunicated from the...

March 2018

March 24, 2018

Snippets from the testimony of David Whitmer (Part 2)

David Whitmer was the last surviving witness to the Book of Mormon, living...

March 21, 2018

Snippets from the testimony of David Whitmer (Part 1)

David Whitmer, the last surviving witness to the Book of Mormon, lived until...

February 2018

February 16, 2018

Oliver Cowdery and Other Mormon-Related Matters

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