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October 2021

October 23, 2021

“No hands, no feet on earth but yours”

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November 2020

November 05, 2020

Hagia Sophia, Tenochtitlan, the Incas’ Golden Temple, and Jerusalem’s Temple Mount

The latest installment of my bi-weekly column has appeared in the Deseret News,...

September 2020

September 30, 2020

Revision 5.17 “What the West Owes the East” (The Arts)

Arabic influence is clearly visible in the arts and crafts of the West....

September 28, 2020

Revision 5.16 “What the West Owes the East” (Literature)

Did Arabic literature have any impact upon the literature of the West? Few...

September 28, 2020

Revision 5.15 “What the West Owes the East” (Navigation, Optics, Chemistry, Astronomy, and Calendrics)

Few readers are surprised, probably, to learn that the name Sahara is Arabic...

September 27, 2020

Revision 5.14 “What the West Owes the East” (Medicine and Other Sciences)

In medicine, the Western debt to the Arabs is every bit as great...

September 26, 2020

Revision 5.13 “What the West Owes the East” (Mathematics)

Arab and other Muslims had very practical reasons for their interest in mathematics....

April 2020

April 11, 2020

Thoughts for Holy Saturday

I published this column in the Deseret News on Thursday, 21 April 2011....

November 2019

November 13, 2019

Some Arabic influence in the American Southwest

Having grown up in southern California; having attended high school across the street...

October 2019

October 16, 2019

“The oldest historic buildings along the Pacific shore of the United States”

I grew up not far from the San Gabriel Mission -- more properly,...

September 2019

September 25, 2019

Thinking about things Hispanic while far from the Hispanic world

I'm sitting here in a Helsinki airport lounge, quite tired, reflecting on various...

September 20, 2018

“Si Dios quiere”

During a meeting some years ago, one of the then-counselors in our stake...

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