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June 2024

June 08, 2024

Two simple stories

The in-person turnout for the FAIR conference in Rome a week ago was, frankly,...

June 02, 2024

We did have a nice celebration

This time, I think that I'll lead off with a few items that I've...

June 01, 2024

From Rome’s Temple Square

These new articles went up yesterday on the Interpreter Foundation website. My apologies for...

May 2024

May 31, 2024

The Scarlet and the Black and the Temple

I love Rome. And, perhaps rather curiously, it is the Christian heritage of “the...

January 2023

January 05, 2023

Meditations and Reflections

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

January 04, 2023

“I made a mistake in growing weary of the Gospel.”

New material on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Conference Talks: "From...

January 03, 2023

Benedictus est

His death has received (to me) surprisingly little coverage, probably because he was...

December 2022

December 31, 2022

The Passing of a Pope, and of a Year

He's been out of view for quite a while now, but this is...

October 2022

October 02, 2022

Breathtaking Audacity

I think that it was Elder Quentin L. Cook of the Quorum of...

July 2022

July 22, 2022

“Abridging the Records of the Zoramite Mission: Mormon as Historian”

I've had only intermittent internet access over the past few days -- thus...

July 21, 2022

Do we finally have a photograph of him?

The John Whitmer Historical Association -- an independent organization that is more or...

January 2022

January 01, 2022

A very satisfying defeat

*** It was a heart-breaker. The University of Utah lost in the...

April 2021

April 27, 2021

Farewell, for Now, to a Friend

*** Our longtime neighbor and friend Henry Yeates died early this morning. ...

April 18, 2021

Edward Idris Cardinal Cassidy (5 July 1924 – 10 April 2021), a “Prince of the Church”

*** Someone who was once acquainted with me -- but who, quite...

February 2021

February 09, 2021

The End of a Personal Era

I've been writing regular newspaper columns for the Deseret News for roughly eleven...

November 2020

November 19, 2020

“Did Nero really fiddle while Rome burned?”

The latest installment of my bi-weekly column for the Deseret News has...

October 2020

October 05, 2020

Revision 6.1 “Decline and Response, ‘Party Kings’ and Crusaders”

My manuscript now begins to treat what I call, following Marshall G. S....

September 2020

September 11, 2020

“The Waters of Mormon, Baptism, the Love of God, and the Bitter Fountain”

I was really busy yesterday, so I didn't have time to post a...

July 2020

July 17, 2020

Revision 1.15 “Jerusalem, Byzantines, and Persians”

Some Jews were martyred, some hid in caves and deserts in order to...

July 10, 2020

Revision 1.8. “Masada and Its Sequel”

The last Jewish stronghold was the spectacular mountain fortress-palace of Masada, 1300 feet...

July 09, 2020

Revision 1.7. “The First Jewish Revolt”

The death of Herod the Great marked the end of the last period...

July 08, 2020

Revision 1.6 “Herod the Great”

In 63 B.C., Judea became a client-state of the new superpower, Rome. Thus,...

March 2019

March 15, 2019

Temples, psalms, prophets, and Catholics

It's Friday. You didn't see this coming? Seriously? There's a new article from...

March 11, 2019

An iconic and historic photograph

At the April 2008 General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of...

March 10, 2019

Thoughts on some worldly benefits of missionary service

Tad Walch, of the Deseret News, has written a number of thoughtful and...

March 09, 2019

“The great and abominable church of the Devil”?

Jim Toronto, a friend and colleague at Brigham Young University, called me just a...

March 09, 2019

A prophet and a pope, and all of the living apostles

"Prophet Meets Pope Francis at the Vatican" I'm delighted at this. Despite...