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October 2026

October 10, 2026

Notes on Women, Priesthood, and General Conference

A few days ago, I saw a comment from a critic of the Church...

August 2026

August 17, 2026

Racial Harmony After the Priesthood Ban

A thought occurred to me while recently reading Elder Ahmad S. Corbitt's essay ("The...

May 2026

May 28, 2026

Touching the third rail: Apologizing for the priesthood ban?

I hope that I've made it clear enough and mentioned often enough that I...

April 2026

April 15, 2026

Feeling small? Just wait!

Newly up on the never-changing website of the Interpreter Foundation: "'That Lineage': Rival Priesthood...

March 2026

March 12, 2026

“Encroaching Sharia law in US: ‘Serious issue.'”

I must have been sleepwalking through recent American history: "Speaker Mike Johnson warns of...

March 08, 2025

“The Good Samaritan”

I have a number of linguistic pet peeves. Not all of them are related...

September 2024

September 01, 2024

Our Last Day at the Festival

I've fallen a bit behind, so it's high time to catch up: These two...

July 2024

July 18, 2024

“Let the woman learn in silence, with all subjection.”

I'm falling behind in calling these new short Interpreter Foundation videos to your attention,...

July 12, 2024

“Who Holds the Keys?”

A thoroughly vicious and rage-fueled new article has appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of...

June 2024

June 07, 2024

Christopher Hitchens and the Great Composers

Two new items appeared today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: "“Armed with...

December 2023

December 06, 2023

Nibo labi bii? Betelehemu ilu ara

What am I grateful for today? I'm grateful that I have grandchildren, and that...

November 2023

November 06, 2023

Brigham Young, and the Church’s emergence in Africa

My wife and I met yesterday with Mark Goodman and Russell Richins, who...

September 2023

September 15, 2023

A Baptismal Witness of the Covenant

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

March 2023

March 17, 2023

More Wordplay on the Name “Joseph” in the Book of Mormon?

"“That They Might Come Again unto the Remnant of the House of Jacob”:...

December 2022

December 11, 2022

I’ll never forget Kate What’s-Her-Name

We held our quarterly Interpreter Foundation Board meeting this morning. It was very...

May 2022

May 19, 2022

Entitled Cogitations

*** For some reason, I got to thinking along the following lines...

January 2022

January 09, 2022

“The spiritual power and influence of this gospel”

*** During a relatively recent conversation, the question of modern revelation came...

October 2021

October 05, 2021

Isaiah, the Book of Abraham, and the Restoration of the Priesthood

*** New on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Come, Follow...

August 2021

August 15, 2021

Never Static

*** Here, for your Sabbath reading pleasure, are five links to articles...

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...

March 2021

March 15, 2021

“Women and the Priesthood in the Contemporary Church” (and Other Interesting Stuff)

As many of you are undoubtedly aware, the Interpreter Foundation will almost certainly...

November 2020

November 14, 2020

The reliability of eyewitness testimony and the Book of Mormon

From time to time, when I'm commenting about the witnesses to the Book...

November 13, 2020

Of Eyewitnesses, the Resurrection, and the Gold Plates

Here are some notes on the earliest Christian disciples and the raising of...

September 2020

September 05, 2020

Shared Revelations

Earlier this evening, we had the largest screening to date of the Interpreter...

July 2020

July 19, 2020

A witness to many remarkable things

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

July 15, 2020

Simple deception?

I've made no secret of the fact that I regard Richard Lloyd Anderson's...

June 2020

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)...

April 2020

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...

April 06, 2019

New Testament Notes 177-181

Luke 10:1-12 Compare Matthew 9:37-38; 10:7-16; John 4:35 1. Since my...