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June 16, 2025

Can we know what he looked like?

The authors of the Bible, even across the centuries of its composition and the...

December 2024

December 22, 2024

For 23 December 2024

Tomorrow -- Monday, 23 December 2024 -- will be the 219th anniversary of the...

September 2024

September 15, 2024

Tonight’s the Night

Along with Russell Richins, the producer for the Interpreter Foundation's films Robert Cundick: A...

February 2023

February 10, 2023

Two Very Distinct Prophets

Happy weekend! Two new articles appeared today on the website of the Interpreter...

December 2022

December 27, 2022

Religiosity, Depression, and Life Expectancy

But, first, these three new items went up today on the website of...

December 13, 2022

“More protective than any pill, than any therapy, than any program.”

But, first, here are three items that went up today on the website...

December 09, 2022

“The Words of Gad the Seer”

A new article went up today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint...

October 2022

October 18, 2022

Yes to Apologetics

Three new items have gone up today on the website of the Interpreter...

September 2022

September 30, 2022

“Understanding How the Scriptures Came to Be”

Three new articles appeared today, Friday, in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint...

July 2022

July 20, 2022

Alcohol, Chocolate, Keeping Promises, and Seeing the Cosmos with the Eye of God

Three new items went up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation yesterday,...

May 2022

May 05, 2022

Revelation, Divine and Human

*** We bade farewell to our tour group this evening. It always...

April 2022

April 03, 2022

“So strange and unusual appearances”

*** I've been pleased to see short thirty-second ads running on KSL-Television...

September 2021

September 04, 2021

From “Storming the Nation”

I read Derek R. Sainsbury's Storming the Nation: The Unknown Contributions of Joseph...

August 2021

August 13, 2021

“Joseph Smith as a Book of Mormon Storyteller”

*** A new article -- this one by Brian C. Hales --...

August 13, 2021

“Follow the Prophet!”

Starting tomorrow, Friday (13 August): And here's another new item...

June 2021

June 28, 2021

Remembering 27 June 1844

*** I had intended to write an extensive post on Sunday regarding...

April 2021

April 15, 2021

Addendum 4: Some Notes on the Nature of Qur’anic Revelation

*** "The great religious leaders of the world such as Mohammed, Confucius,...

December 2020

December 23, 2020

Two Hundred and Fifteen Years Ago, Today

Perhaps, had he not been born so close to the superholiday of Christmas,...

December 21, 2020

“A Prophet Like Moses,” and “The Journey of the Magi”

Two items were published on the website of the Interpreter Foundation today. ...

November 2020

November 20, 2020

“Count Your Many Mormons” #GiveThanks

I have an unannounced program or schedule for my entries on this blog. ...

October 2020

October 21, 2020

Revision 6.16 “The Rise of Zionism” (B)

In 1882, young Jews calling themselves "Lovers of Zion" began actively to promote...

October 20, 2020

Revision 6.15 “The Rise of Zionism” (A)

Meanwhile, as Arabs and Muslims faltered and desperately sought a reason why, a...

October 19, 2020

“Tocqueville on New Prophets and the Tyranny of Public Opinion”

A new article has appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith...

September 2020

September 20, 2020

Revision 5.7 “Islamic Law” (F)

This is important because Islamic law covers a far wider range of actions...

September 19, 2020

Revision 5.6 “Islamic Law” (E)

Of course, there was always the danger that an irresponsible, ignorant, or incompetent...

September 18, 2020

Revision 5.5 “Islamic Law” (D)

Over the course of many years, students of the traditions about Muhammad and...

September 17, 2020

Revision 5.4 “Islamic Law” (C)

Actually, what I have been saying is an oversimplification. It was only gradually...

September 16, 2020

Revision 5.3 “Islamic Law” (B)

The opposite of sunna, first in pre-Islamic Arabia and ultimately within Islam itself,...

September 15, 2020

Revision 5.2 “Islamic Law” (A)

Making Arabic the language of administration in the empire was part of a...

September 05, 2020

Shared Revelations

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