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March 2025

March 02, 2025

A Succession of Continuity

To my surprise, the dramatic film Witnesses is still available tonight for streaming at...

January 2025

January 14, 2025

“Always only one generation away from extinction”

A dominant (and gleefully received) narrative among some critics of the Church of Jesus...

October 2024

October 17, 2024

The horror!

Have you seen Six Days in August yet today? You've already lost the morning....

October 11, 2024

“It Helps to Have a Village”

I wax somewhat autobiographical -- indeed, a little bit sentimental and perhaps even somewhat...

October 10, 2024

Last Night’s Film Premiere

Yesterday began in a one-hour conversation with my friend Safi Kaskas, about faith and...

September 2024

September 13, 2024

“There are only two kinds of people in the end”

"Aftermath of the Martyrdom: Aspirants to the Mantle of the Prophet Joseph Smith," written...

September 07, 2024

Resources regarding the “Transfiguration” of Brigham Young

IMPORTANT: For those who are in Utah Valley, or who may or can be...

August 2024

August 28, 2024

Why this next film?

Mark Goodman, James Jordan, Russ Richins, and I had already been talking, while we...

April 2024

April 17, 2024

“Where did Enoch go after Genesis?”

The rear passenger-side door in our luxurious brand-new minivan -- just under 275,000 miles...

March 2024

March 16, 2024

Two Witnesses to a Pivotal Event

Recently, Adam Colvin provided me with copies of two documents from his family history....

November 2023

November 06, 2023

Brigham Young, and the Church’s emergence in Africa

My wife and I met yesterday with Mark Goodman and Russell Richins, who...

September 2023

September 23, 2023

Why we’re doing it

Last night, my wife and I were privileged to attend and to participate...

July 2023

July 20, 2023

Joseph, the Keys, and the Twelve

New just yesterday on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Conference Talks: In...

March 2023

March 28, 2023

Rev. Sidney Rigdon, Rev. Solomon Spalding, and the Book of Mormon

For many, many decades until relatively recently, it was assumed by virtually everybody...

March 25, 2023

One of the Restoration’s Greatest Contributions

I'm back to reading Richard S. Van Wagoner, Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of...

March 15, 2023

On the Conversion of Sidney Rigdon

On the way over here, I began reading Richard S. Van Wagoner, Sidney...

May 2022

May 29, 2022

Better, in fact, than he had ever felt before

*** Episode Six in the Interpreter Foundation's series of short video "reels"...

August 2021

August 26, 2021

The King, the Maiden, and the True Successor to Joseph Smith

*** This parable, from the Philosophical Fragments of Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), has...

June 2021

June 09, 2021

“Joseph Lied”

*** Although it was never a sure thing, it now seems that...

April 2021

April 15, 2021

A book coming. A conference coming. A movie coming. Oh my!

*** Well, the Interpreter Foundation continues to sputter along, barely surviving, producing...

December 2020

December 20, 2020

A Revelation in the Operating Room

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

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...

July 2020

July 15, 2020

Simple deception?

I've made no secret of the fact that I regard Richard Lloyd Anderson's...

April 2020

April 10, 2020

A Great Cloud of Witnesses

I published this Easter 2016 column in the Deseret News: Since the...

April 18, 2019

“Can modern people believe in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ?”

Here is my 2019 Easter column for the Deseret News: "Can modern...

March 2019

March 31, 2019

8 August 1844, on the eastern shore of the Mississippi River

I published the column below in the Deseret News on 5 September 2013....

February 2018

February 18, 2018

Sidney Rigdon and the Book of Mormon

I offer, below, some notes about suggestions that Joseph Smith had help in...