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May 2026

May 16, 2026

A monument to the transience of power (and of life)

I had a number of pressing items to take care of today, so I...

April 2026

April 21, 2026

“Protecting the Symbols of Christ’s Church”

The lawsuit that has been filed against John Dehlin's Mormon Stories podcast by the...

March 2025

March 23, 2025

Wisdom begins with wonder

We spent much of Saturday out on the ocean, traveling from Port Allen, in...

April 2024

April 26, 2024

Race and the Church, Reprised

New today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: "Review of...

April 10, 2024

More on race and slavery among the early Utah pioneers

I want to share a few more passages that I marked during my recent...

April 08, 2024

Brigham Young and “Slavery in Zion”

For one of the monthly reading groups to which we belong, we read Amy...

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...

February 2023

February 17, 2023

Adieu!

Two new articles went up today at noon (Utah time) on the website...

January 2023

January 18, 2023

An entry on some critics

I mentioned the other day that I had responded to an online article...

January 16, 2023

“Signature in the Cell”

When I was a young'un -- long, long ago, in a galaxy far...

January 05, 2023

Meditations and Reflections

I first read the Meditations of the Stoic Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD...

September 2022

September 17, 2022

On booking the clown show

I had an enjoyable time last night participating in a panel at Brigham...

September 10, 2022

“Who Felt or Saw the Plates?”

Something new has just been posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:...

September 09, 2022

On Two Women in the Old Testament, and regarding Heavenly Mother

"Hannah’s Adversity and Peninnah’s Redemption," written by Loren Blake Spendlove Abstract: Most biblical students...

September 07, 2022

Coming up on 5 November 2022

In the first portion of this episode of the fabled Interpreter Radio Show,...

September 01, 2022

Into Thin Air?

I don't know what to say about these new takes on the alleged...

August 2022

August 31, 2022

Controversies Past and Present

I should call your attention to the 2022 annual meeting of IANDS --...

July 2022

July 07, 2022

The cautionary tale of Boris Johnson, with a brief reference to parasitic brain worms

*** We boarded a small propeller-driven plane this morning for the short...

January 2022

January 15, 2022

Brigham Young, critic of racism

*** In his important book Religion of a Different Color, Paul Reeve...

December 2021

December 10, 2021

“Demythizing the Lamanites’ “Skin of Blackness.””

*** It's Friday, so -- what a surprise! -- a new article...

October 2021

October 25, 2021

“Moses 6–7 and the Book of Giants: Remarkable Witnesses of Enoch’s Ministry”

*** Posted earlier today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: ...

October 17, 2021

Some More on Spirituality, Religiosity, and Health

*** I continue to go through the articles that Dr. Lynn Johnson...

April 2021

April 28, 2021

Difficult Issues, Polarization, and the Latter-day Saints

*** It's very possible, unfortunately, that you won't be able to access...

February 2021

February 05, 2021

“The Inclusive, Anti-Discrimination Message of the Book of Mormon”

A (massive) new article, this one by David M. Belnap, has just been...

September 2020

September 25, 2020

“Reckoning with the Mortally Inevitable”

Newly posted today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation, the introduction (by...

July 2020

July 04, 2020

Some all-too-hasty thoughts for American Independence Day 2020

The Fourth of July holiday isn't about quasi-military parades and fireworks, spectacular and...

July 04, 2020

“Please Keep the Name ‘Redskins'”

With his permission, I again share a thought-provoking Facebook entry posted by a...

June 2020

June 19, 2020

“A Native American Perspective on Juneteenth”

A neighbor, good friend, and valued Interpreter Foundation volunteer sent me the extremely...

June 13, 2020

“British anti-racism protestors call for destruction of Giza Pyramids”

I am entirely in favor of meting out severe punishment to policemen who...

June 08, 2020

President Nelson, the NAACP, Senator Romney, and some observations on the passing scene

This is an older item, but one element of it has been on...