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January 2023

January 15, 2023

Five Years On

Elder Russell M. Nelson was set apart as the seventeenth president of the...

December 2022

December 05, 2022

On Justifying Racism from the Book of Abraham, plus Some Thoughts on the Constitution

A new article has appeared on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: ...

December 02, 2022

“Generational Curses and Inheritance in the Book of Abraham”

"“Being of that Lineage”: Generational Curses and Inheritance in the Book of Abraham,"...

November 2022

November 21, 2022

The Church, the Senate, and Same-Sex Marriage

As many of you are no doubt aware, about a week ago the...

August 2022

August 30, 2022

Thinking, from Dover back to Amsterdam

These three items went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:...

May 2022

May 19, 2022

Entitled Cogitations

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

May 08, 2022

An important part of my approach to other faiths and worldviews

*** Well over three decades ago now, I spent a summer in...

January 2022

January 18, 2022

Sunday Church

*** I recycle here, with a small handful of slight modifications, some...

December 2021

December 27, 2021

“Are religious people happier, healthier?”

*** I have, to this point, made no comment here (or anywhere...

October 2021

October 28, 2021

Old Testament type stuff, Egyptians and Greeks living together, mass hysteria!

*** Newly posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Interpreter...

October 23, 2021

“No hands, no feet on earth but yours”

*** Here are a couple of interesting items that were kindly shared...

October 13, 2021

“Quiet Revivalism: New Light on the Burned-Over District”

*** The big Deseret Book and Excel Entertainment event for the Witnesses...

September 2021

September 19, 2021

A Landmark in the History of American Religious Liberty

*** On Friday, the last day that I was in Newport, Rhode...

May 2021

May 26, 2021

Is America on “a one-way trip to secularism”? Is Europe?

*** You may perhaps have missed this article by Steve Densley, which...

October 2020

October 13, 2020

The benefits of practiced religion and ancient South American immigrants to Polynesia

Dr. Lynn Johnson kindly alerted me to this 2014 article from Frontiers in...

October 04, 2020

“Even if we cannot prove them with absolute certainty”

Yet another passage from Alister McGrath's "Twilight of Atheism" talk as it appears,...

September 2020

September 09, 2020

Is religion a failed attempt at scientific explanation?

Here's a passage from Alister McGrath, The Passionate Intellect: Christian Faith and the...

September 06, 2020

A friend’s statement of faith

My friend Martin Tanner and I substituted tonight on the Interpreter Radio Show...

August 2020

August 31, 2020

Attacking Other Faiths

The 2020-2021 BYU academic year has begun. My own classes will begin tomorrow...

August 30, 2020

Revision 4.12 “The Treatment of Women”

In terms of their prospects for going to either heaven or hell, there...

July 2020

July 02, 2020

“What can I do, as one person, to make this world a better place?”

I've spent a fair amount of time here sharing notes excerpted from Paul...

June 2020

June 24, 2020

Some Physical, Social, and Psychological Benefits of Religious Involvement

I offer three more items from Paul McFate, 52 Good Reasons to Go...

June 19, 2020

My sorry career as a religious bigot

I have an anonymous critic -- I call him my Malevolent Stalker --...

May 2020

May 20, 2020

Arabs and religious fanaticism

While I have the book out and while it's sitting to the left...

May 19, 2020

Do Arabs hate America?

James Zogby, born to a Lebanese Catholic immigrant father, earned a doctorate in...

May 18, 2020

The fire-breathing Arab

Some additional extracts from James Zogby, Arab Voices: What They Are Saying to Us,...

April 2020

April 19, 2020

“The Spacious Firmament on high”

The Sabbath seems -- especially during a period when we're not getting out...

February 2020

February 20, 2020

The religious transformation of Latin America

The numbers need updating, of course, as do some other elements of the...

February 13, 2020

“How can any intelligent person possibly believe in that?

I published the little item below in the Provo Daily Herald way back...