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August 2026

August 19, 2026

In my best fourteenth-century English

My lecture today for the 2026 iteration of BYU Education Week focused on "Figures...

August 17, 2026

Racial Harmony After the Priesthood Ban

A thought occurred to me while recently reading Elder Ahmad S. Corbitt's essay ("The...

November 2023

November 29, 2023

My one encounter, such as it was, with Henry Kissinger

For a while this afternoon, one of the world's densest concentrations of sheer...

November 27, 2022

A story, briefly heard when I was still in my teens, that has stayed with me ever since

Slightly more than four years ago, I posted two back-to-back blog entries about...

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...

September 14, 2022

Queen Elizabeth II and the Mysterium Tremendum

All the way back in 2016, I posted the following here on this...

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 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...

January 2022

January 09, 2022

“The spiritual power and influence of this gospel”

*** During a relatively recent conversation, the question of modern revelation came...

June 2021

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...

May 2021

May 10, 2021

“Matthew Black and Mircea Eliade Meet Hugh Nibley”

*** This interesting reminiscence was just published in Interpreter: A Journal of...

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,...

March 2021

March 25, 2021

Some Personal Reflections on Joan of Arc

*** This short but inspiring piece was published today on the website...

December 2020

December 20, 2020

A Revelation in the Operating Room

But first, a new item appeared yesterday on the website of the Interpreter...

September 2020

September 26, 2020

“God is a mathematician of a very high order”

Carlo Rovelli, in his Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum...

September 25, 2020

Hiram Page and His Seer Stone

For whatever it's worth, I'm scheduled to participate in Sunday night's Interpreter...

September 05, 2020

Shared Revelations

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

August 2020

August 28, 2020

“Some Notes on Jacob 4:14, Revelation, Canon, Covenant, and Law”

It's Friday and, accordingly, a new article has appeared in Interpreter: A Journal...

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...

August 15, 2020

Revision 3.13 “So, was he or wasn’t he?”

So, the impatient reader is asking by now, just what are we to...

August 14, 2020

Revision 3.12 “Latter-day Saints in the Middle”

In an entry that I posted here a few days ago, I commented...

August 13, 2020

Revision 3.11 “What Are We to Make of Muhammad?” (An Introductory Comment)

Evaluations of Muhammad have varied wildly. Skeptical Western writers for years regarded him...

August 07, 2020

“The End from the Beginning”

Today marks the 420th consecutive Friday on which we've published at least one...

July 2020

July 31, 2020

“Visions, Mushrooms, Fungi, Cacti, and Toads: Joseph Smith’s Reported Use of Entheogens”

A new article by Brian Hales has appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of...

May 2020

May 17, 2020

Of Limhi and Seer Stones

From John W. Welch, et al., eds. Knowing Why: 137 Evidences That the...

May 13, 2020

A Lost Book by Luke?

I cannot resist (and am not inclined to resist) the temptation to quote...

May 12, 2020

J. B. Phillips on Luke as historian

I've long been a fan of J. B. Phillips (1906-1982) and his translation...

March 2020

March 15, 2020

William E. McLellin and the Qur’an’s “Challenge Verses”

I offer, for your unlikely but possible interest, a passage from Michael Bonner,...