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September 2026

September 25, 2026

A case of twin near-death experiences?

A 54-second teaser for next week's installment in the Becoming Brigham series has gone...

September 23, 2026

Toward a “Post-Materialist Science”?

Have you watched "'Why Not Sidney Rigdon' -- Episode 35" yet? Hmmm? Inquiring minds...

August 2025

August 21, 2025

A great American thinker on dogmatic scientific orthodoxy

Posted today on the static, never-changing website of the Interpreter Foundation: "Seek Ye Words...

August 01, 2025

Of Spheres, Spirals, Spindles, and the Divine

A new article has appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and...

July 2025

July 24, 2025

“How the left ended up disbelieving the science”

First of all, happy Pioneer Day! Or, if nothing else, happy Twenty-Fourth of July!...

August 2024

August 13, 2024

Was science possible before the Protestant Reformation?

Some new slides from a pair of lectures have just gone up on the...

June 2024

June 01, 2024

From Rome’s Temple Square

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

January 2024

January 24, 2024

Don’t take it all for granted.

I've been reading a small collection of essays by the late Edward O. Wilson...

November 2023

November 26, 2023

Of quasars and Jesus

In case you haven't seen or read it yet: "The First Presidency’s 2023...

October 2023

October 04, 2023

A few thoughts about faith, reason, and science

"I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding...

August 2023

August 31, 2023

Genesis 1 versus Science?

In the fourth chapter of John H. Walton and D. Brent Sandy, The...

August 24, 2023

A Note on Reason and our Faith in Science

One of the things that I like most about the place that we...

July 2023

July 31, 2023

“If it isn’t science, it’s fiction”

I'm sitting on an open-air balcony looking across a golf course up at...

July 04, 2023

In which I attack science!

First of all, I wish a happy fourth of July to everybody out...

May 2023

May 17, 2023

Seeing is believing, right?

“One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek after;...

January 2023

January 25, 2023

Arguing for the Resurrection of Jesus

Conference Talks: "Why Evolution and LDS Thought are Fully Compatible," given in late...

January 19, 2023

“A Moslem fought an infidel one day”

These three pieces have gone up quite recently on the website of the...

December 2022

December 20, 2022

A non-Christian Christmas

"The New Testament in Context Lesson 1: “We Are Responsible for Our Own...

December 19, 2022

“Unintended Corruption” and Other Quirks in Current Physics

Herewith, I share some more notes that have been inspired by and/or are...

December 16, 2022

“Reflections on the Importance of Scientific and Theological Humility”

Last night, my wife and I attended the first evening of the annual...

December 15, 2022

Are logic and mathematics purely rational? (2)

Yesterday, I posted a brief preliminary note inspired by and drawing upon Michael...

December 14, 2022

Are logic and mathematics purely rational? (1)

The following went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: ...

December 07, 2022

Science, Religion, Agency, and Flowers

Newly posted today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Conference Talks:...

November 2022

November 30, 2022

Some Ways to Light the World

Four new links have appeared on the website of the Interpreter Foundation over...

October 2022

October 17, 2022

An idea for a conference on science and religion: Any interest out there?

First, though: I failed to note here that an article of mine was...

July 2022

July 20, 2022

Alcohol, Chocolate, Keeping Promises, and Seeing the Cosmos with the Eye of God

Three new items went up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation yesterday,...

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...

July 07, 2022

The cautionary tale of Boris Johnson, with a brief reference to parasitic brain worms

*** We boarded a small propeller-driven plane this morning for the short...

May 2022

May 20, 2022

Scientific thinking and religion? Compatible?

*** My blog enjoys the attention and ministrations of a resident devotee...