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August 2026

August 05, 2026

A report from the floor at FAIR 2026 (Wednesday evening)

I published a new article this morning in Meridian Magazine: "Who Gets to Decide...

November 2025

November 10, 2025

But, umm, the notion of a restoration isn’t uniquely LDS!

I was amused to notice a discussion at a predominantly atheistic anti-Mormon website of...

June 2025

June 25, 2025

Why bother with a Restoration?

Yesterday on social media, I noticed an attack by a former Latter-day Saint on...

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 30, 2024

The Great Apostasy, the Mountain Meadows Massacre, etc.

The reviews of Six Days in August continue to roll in from The Usual...

January 2024

January 27, 2024

“I am sure it will be so”

A reader of this blog by the name of Laralee Nelson shared a couple...

November 2022

November 24, 2022

Two final thoughts on Thanksgiving

I wrote these two columns in 2016 and 2017: It’s not insignificant...

November 24, 2022

For Thanksgiving Day

Happy Thanksgiving! I hesitated just a bit before deciding to call your...

January 2022

January 27, 2022

Profound. And Big.

*** Several years ago, I read the superb book by Fiona Givens...

December 2021

December 20, 2021

An example of the witness of ancient texts for modern scripture

*** A new "pre-print" has appeared on the website of the Interpreter...

October 2021

October 22, 2021

Light and Height in the Story of Joseph Smith, and a Bit of Economic History

*** Did you miss Jeffrey Mark Bradshaw's virtual fireside last Sunday, on...

June 2021

June 16, 2021

From slightly less than seven years ago

*** I maintain a blog for many reasons. However, one of...

June 13, 2021

“Smallest Wingless”

*** I published this column in the Deseret News very nearly seven...

June 11, 2021

“Their Imperfect Best”

*** Have you seen Witnesses yet? Are you going to watch it...

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...

January 2021

January 16, 2021

Revision 8.12 Proselyting and a Davidic King of Israel

But the return of the Jews to Palestine is an astonishing thing, something...

January 09, 2021

Revision 8.11 Has Orson Hyde’s Prayer Been Fulfilled? The Jewish Gathering to Palestine

Between the previous installment (Revision 8.10) and this one, considerable material is required...

January 01, 2021

“Two Essays on Sustaining and Enlarging the Doctrine”

First of all, Happy New Year! I hope that your 2021 will be...

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

Some possible reading for Christmas week

I've assembled links below to various Christmas-related columns that I've written over the...

December 01, 2020

Good reading, free, online

I received this note yesterday from Valerie Hudson Cassler -- see her 2010 testimony...

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 19, 2020

Were the Whitmers marginal social outcasts and weirdos?

One of the questions that must inescapably be answered with regard to the...

August 2020

August 26, 2020

Was Sidney Rigdon in on the creation of the Book of Mormon?

John Wickliffe Rigdon, a son of Sidney Rigdon, left a memoir of his...

August 23, 2020

A kind of Interpreter Foundation “annual report”

What follows is the letter that I sent out, toward the end of...

August 18, 2020

“Did Joseph Smith Rely on Adam Clarke’s Bible Commentary? Forthcoming Article Says “No.””

This heads-up appeared a short while ago on the website of the Interpreter...

July 2020

July 28, 2020

Prophets, as it were, without honor in their own country

Many years ago, at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Society in...

July 21, 2020

Revision 2.4.”The Earliest Arabs and Lehi’s Trail”

It was at Nahom, incidentally, that Lehi and his party abruptly turned due...

July 20, 2020

Revision 2.3 “Frankincense and Lehi’s Trail”

Frankincense is a fragrant gum resin consisting of small white chunks and beads...