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October 2025

October 05, 2025

Bringing conference (and a notable week) to a close

The story that we told in the Interpreter Foundation's 2024 dramatic film Six Days...

October 03, 2025

Resources and a Review

A new review essay went up earlier today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day...

October 02, 2025

Why I care about being recognized as Christian

Today, Thursday, is the Interpreter Foundation's traditional day for sharing materials online that have...

September 2025

September 29, 2025

Entering into Conference Week

For whatever little it's worth, I published a piece in Meridian Magazine about President...

September 28, 2025

A sad day for Latter-day Saints

This has been a sorrowful day for members of the Church of Jesus Christ...

September 09, 2025

For his 101st, recalling a minor incident with Pres. Nelson

President Russell M. Nelson entered his 102nd year of mortality today. Remarkable. Here are...

September 05, 2025

Voices for dignity, respect, truth, happiness, and Jesus

If all goes according to current expectation, he will celebrate his 101st birthday next...

September 15, 2024

Tonight’s the Night

Along with Russell Richins, the producer for the Interpreter Foundation's films Robert Cundick: A...

August 2024

August 11, 2024

A gift for the man who really needs nothing

We are rapidly closing in on the hundredth anniversary of President Russell M. Nelson's...

December 2023

December 02, 2023

A modern prophet on bigotry and misogyny

The other day, I set up an online Facebook fundraiser for the Interpreter...

October 2023

October 05, 2023

A Brief Visit To The Factory Where The Myths Are Manufactured

The teaching of the Book of Mormon on resurrection is clear and specific....

April 2023

April 27, 2023

Fortifying the Mountain of the Lord

Here are links to three items that have recently been posted on the...

April 14, 2023

Joseph Mormon Harris?

I spent about 5.5 hours today -- minus a ten-minute break! -- recording...

January 2023

January 15, 2023

Five Years On

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

January 06, 2023

““We Don’t Know, So We Might as Well”: A Flimsy Philosophy for Same-Sex Sealings”

Today's new article in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship...

January 01, 2023

“Rejoice, the Lord is King!”

Today, 1 January 2023, is a Sunday -- and that fact seems wholly...

October 2022

October 02, 2022

Breathtaking Audacity

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

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 09, 2022

A Transcendent Light

I don't know how much longer this can or will go on, but...

February 2022

February 16, 2022

Our only hope for full flowering

*** I continue to be struck by a quotation from then-Elder Russell...

August 2021

August 17, 2021

Fundamentals Six and Seven: A Refresher

*** To repeat: "The First Presidency Urges Latter-day Saints to Wear...

August 13, 2021

“Joseph Smith as a Book of Mormon Storyteller”

*** A new article -- this one by Brian C. Hales --...

August 13, 2021

“Follow the Prophet!”

Starting tomorrow, Friday (13 August): And here's another new item...

May 2021

May 01, 2021

An old temple in Manti and, now, a new one in Ephraim, and other matters

*** This is very, very good news: "President Nelson announces plans...

April 2021

April 19, 2021

Growing Up as Hugh Nibley

*** To the probable astonishment of hundreds of millions of people worldwide,...

March 2021

March 29, 2021

“A free fall death spiral”

In yesterday's video message for Palm Sunday, President Russell M. Nelson alluded to...

March 28, 2021

Palm Sunday and Holy Week, 2021

*** We're entering into the week of Easter or, as it's often...

January 2021

January 24, 2021

“Cosmic Conundrum”

Okay. If I havn't been clear enough yet, let me make it unmistakably...

January 20, 2021

On the General Authorities’ Endorsement of Global Communism

At least by the time I was in graduate school, evangelical Protestant anti-Mormonism...

January 19, 2021

Get your shot when you can!

If you're an anti-vaxxer in general or someone who just refuses to receive...