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June 2025

June 15, 2025

Is our reasoning ability overdeveloped? A biological error?

Some readers here may recall that, in fits and starts, I've been working very...

August 2024

August 05, 2024

Are reason and faith diametrically opposed?

While in California a couple of weeks ago, I picked up a copy of...

October 2023

October 04, 2023

A few thoughts about faith, reason, and science

"I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding...

September 2023

September 14, 2023

Actual Photographs of Early Latter-day Saint History, and Other Treats

As I say, the game is afoot. Today marked the fourth day of...

August 2023

August 24, 2023

A Note on Reason and our Faith in Science

One of the things that I like most about the place that we...

May 2023

May 20, 2023

Preliminary notes on faith

I think that I failed to mention this item when it appeared on...

January 2023

January 19, 2023

“A Moslem fought an infidel one day”

These three pieces have gone up quite recently on the website of the...

January 13, 2023

“An Important New Study of Freemasonry and the Latter-day Saints”

A new article -- this one a review essay -- went up earlier...

January 05, 2023

Meditations and Reflections

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

December 2022

December 19, 2022

“Unintended Corruption” and Other Quirks in Current Physics

Herewith, I share some more notes that have been inspired by and/or are...

December 16, 2022

“Reflections on the Importance of Scientific and Theological Humility”

Last night, my wife and I attended the first evening of the annual...

December 15, 2022

Are logic and mathematics purely rational? (2)

Yesterday, I posted a brief preliminary note inspired by and drawing upon Michael...

December 14, 2022

Are logic and mathematics purely rational? (1)

The following went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: ...

December 07, 2022

Science, Religion, Agency, and Flowers

Newly posted today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Conference Talks:...

November 2022

November 30, 2022

Some Ways to Light the World

Four new links have appeared on the website of the Interpreter Foundation over...

October 2022

October 17, 2022

An idea for a conference on science and religion: Any interest out there?

First, though: I failed to note here that an article of mine was...

July 2022

July 12, 2022

“Unto what shall I liken these kingdoms, that ye may understand?”

I find myself deeply moved and profoundly impressed by the images from the...

July 11, 2022

“I . . . created them for mine own purpose”

I have a little more information about the talk that I'll be giving...

May 2022

May 20, 2022

Scientific thinking and religion? Compatible?

*** My blog enjoys the attention and ministrations of a resident devotee...

March 2022

March 27, 2022

“Reflections on the God Debate”

*** I'll be on the Interpreter Radio Show later this evening. I'm looking...

March 20, 2022

“Big Tech is coming for conservative Christians”

*** I've just agreed to participate on the Interpreter Radio Show a...

March 19, 2022

Thomas Judd’s Store and Other Matters

*** I recently sat down for a "Come, Follow Me" podcast with...

March 17, 2022

Thoughts on Genesis, Science, and Faith

*** Some time ago, I read an interesting book entitled The Lost...

February 2022

February 24, 2022

It’s been, astoundingly, nearly thirty years . . .

*** Back in the first half of 1993, I led a small...

February 05, 2022

Progress, Science, and Religion

*** If you would like to watch the two-hour video of a...

February 04, 2022

Supportive, but Not Conclusive

*** Two new items from the astoundingly prolific Jeffrey Mark Bradshaw went...

February 01, 2022

“A common sense interpretation of the facts”

*** Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me Old Testament Lesson 7 “To Be...

January 2022

January 29, 2022

Two Cemeteries, Ice Age and Modern

*** We drove to Hancock Park today to meet with friends that...

November 2021

November 07, 2021

Some Thoughts on Science and Faith

*** I feel like sharing some quotations that I've previously gathered from...

July 2021

July 02, 2021

“If Ye Believe on His Name”

*** A new article by the prolific BYU-Hawaii scholar Matthew L. Bowen...