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July 2026

July 02, 2026

“The Physicality of the Small Plates”

Newly posted on the Interpreter Foundation's webpage: The Interpreter Insights Podcast -- July 2,...

March 2026

March 15, 2026

Tangible divine intervention?

Shortly after its publication, I read and marked up Richard Lyman Bushman, Joseph Smith's...

January 2026

January 16, 2026

One set of plates? Or TWO?

It's Friday! So, as has happened on many hundreds of Fridays before, there is...

January 14, 2026

On Church finances, Martin Harris, and Book of Mormon plates

This went up today on the long-dead and, thus, never-changing website of the Interpreter...

January 06, 2026

Heavenly and Earthly

First of all, I hope that everybody out there had a wonderful National Capitol...

November 2025

November 05, 2025

How to Explain the Book of Mormon?

Up to the Heber Valley again today and back down again. Sometimes life gets...

July 2025

July 18, 2025

“The Plates of Gardner”

This new review-essay appeared today in the never-changing Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint...

June 2025

June 20, 2025

A Combinatorial Approach to the Golden Plates, etc.

The Interpreter Foundation's bizarre obsession with Brigham Young -- it's all Brigham, all the...

June 18, 2025

Out of Liberty

Here's a little interview with me (not quite forty-two minutes long) on Keystone that...

June 14, 2025

“Records, Writing, and Language”

This new piece went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: "Interpreting...

April 2025

April 24, 2025

Beginning a Day, a Night, Another Night, and a Day

On Saturday, 5 April, my friend Don Bradley lost his son Donnie suddenly, in...

February 2025

February 22, 2025

“Ancient Metal Plates?”

Along with her sister, my wife and I drove the famous "Road to Hana"...

July 2024

July 01, 2024

Behind the Scenes

You might enjoy this seven-minute video: "Behind The Scenes | The Witnesses of the...

May 2024

May 07, 2024

They just keep on saying these things!

A new self-published book advocating a novel theory for the origin of the Book...

February 2024

February 07, 2024

Of Martin Harris and “Spiritual Eyes”

Just in case anybody is out there who (a) might be interested and (b)...

February 05, 2024

Richard Bushman on witnesses to the Book of Mormon

Here are some notes about certain of the witnesses to the Book of Mormon...

February 01, 2024

The Book of Mormon and then-prevailing notions of scripture

Conference Talks: The Symbolism of the Cupped Hand in Ancient Egypt and Israel: Iconography,...

January 2024

January 28, 2024

Writing history is easy if you toss out the facts.

Somehow, I failed to call attention here to this little essay, even though it...

November 2023

November 20, 2023

“Both of the earth and of heaven”

I'm finally finding a few stolen moments in which to begin reading Richard...

September 2023

September 18, 2023

“Joseph Smith’s Gold Plates and “The Annotated Book of Mormon”

I acquired two new books at the end of last week, and I'm...

September 04, 2023

They just keep coming, brainlessly but without pause

This article of mine -- inspired by the heartbreaking recent events in the...

September 03, 2023

The Book of Mormon plates and playing Whac-a-Mole with critics

An interview that I recently did with Hank Smith and John Bytheway on...

April 2023

April 20, 2023

A note on Latter-day Saint attitudes toward other religious faiths

First, though, a thought about earthquakes and divine providence. I submitted this column...

October 2022

October 21, 2022

“A Man’s Got to Know His Limitations” (Harry Callahan, 1973)

Two new articles went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation. ...

February 2022

February 20, 2022

Science, Eyewitness Testimony, and God

*** Marking a milestone in the history of the Interpreter Foundation, we...

January 2022

January 25, 2022

Coming on Friday, 4 March 2022

*** I'm pleased to announce that Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of...

January 19, 2022

Vincible Ignorance

*** In case you haven't heard, Deseret Book and Excel Entertainment have...

December 2021

December 14, 2021

“What is My Witness?”: A New Video from Deseret Book and Excel Entertainment on the Interpreter Foundation Website

*** The Interpreter Foundation has now posted a video of an event...

October 2021

October 06, 2021

What is my witness?

*** I would like to announce an event to be held in...

June 2021

June 10, 2021

Joseph, the stone, and the hat: Why they all matter

*** As you can see from the illustration above, the Interpreter Foundation's...