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March 2023

March 22, 2023

Down on the Coastal Plain

An article of mine appeared in Meridian Magazine a few hours ago: "Understanding...

March 02, 2023

“The Chosen”

I continue with my reading of Andrew Loke, Investigating the Resurrection of Jesus...

April 2022

April 10, 2022

Entering into Easter Week

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

June 2021

June 01, 2021

Would you like to join us for the Wednesday night premiere of “Witnesses”?

*** The Interpreter Foundation's Witnesses film premieres tomorrow night -- Wednesday, 2...

April 2021

April 23, 2021

“Vast Prairies and Trackless Wilds of Snow: A Good Test of Sincerity”

This wretched essay by the infamous Daniel Peterson went up earlier today in...

March 2021

March 02, 2021

A Note on Evidence (Part Two)

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

October 2020

October 26, 2020

The theology of C. S. Lewis and the witness of the Whitmer family

John C. Whitmer was the son of Jacob Whitmer, one of the Eight...

October 18, 2020

“I cheerfully certify”

Below are two passages that I've extracted from Ronald E. Romig, Eighth Witness:...

September 2020

September 19, 2020

Were the Whitmers marginal social outcasts and weirdos?

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

July 2020

July 30, 2020

What happened to the early apostles?

Shortly before our departure for Colorado, a good friend -- formerly our branch...

July 16, 2020

“Bad men on paper”

New on the website of the Interpreter Foundation, from Hales Swift: "Prayer...

July 07, 2020

From the Eight Witnesses

Some passages about the experience of the Eight Witnesses to the Book of...

June 2020

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 30, 2020

A few reactions to Acts 5

I continue to be impressed by the change between the behavior of the...

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 16, 2020

“To this we are witnesses”: A note on Acts 3

Regarding Acts 3, I simply want to point to three stunning verses from...

May 04, 2020

Acts 2, with an axe to grind

The principal action of Acts 2 occurs on Pentecost, as Acts 2:1 explains:...

May 02, 2020

“There is this God, and this God actually helps to make sense of things.”

I've often had occasion here and elsewhere to mention the prolific Alister McGrath,...

May 01, 2020

Some reflections on Peter’s deliverance from prison

There is an amusing story in Acts 12. I suppose, of course, that...

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 02, 2020

Blackening Martin Harris’s Reputation, Post-1830

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

April 01, 2020

Oliver Cowdery to Samuel W. Richards

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

May 2019

May 02, 2019

A note on a modern airport and a very ancient history

Just published in the Deseret News: "The mysterious 40-day ministry of Jesus...

March 2019

March 31, 2019

New Testament Notes 159-160

Matthew 16:21-23 Mark 8:31-33 Luke 9:22 1. It's easy to...

March 06, 2019

New Testament Notes 86-89

Matthew 8:14-17 Mark 1:29-34 Luke 4:38-41; 7:11-17 Among the four gospels, only...

February 2019

February 14, 2019

New Testament Notes 36-40

Matthew 8:14-15 Mark 1:23-31 Luke 4:38-39 The references in all three of...

February 14, 2019

New Testament Notes 34-35

Matthew 4:18-22 Mark 1:16-20 In these accounts, Jesus calls Galilean fishermen --...