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October 2025

October 26, 2025

Some Thoughts on Mind and Brain (and Spirit?)

Last night, my wife and I met with friends for dinner and for discussion...

July 2025

July 28, 2025

What are the mechanics of consciousness and subjectivity?

My latest column for Meridian Magazine has appeared: "What Is FAIR? Inside the 2025...

April 2024

April 13, 2024

On Hearing the Lord’s Voice in a World of Noise and Clamor

This entry was newly posted today on the blog of the Interpreter Foundation: "Hearing...

December 2023

December 30, 2023

God knows and speaks to individuals

I would like to commend two recent blog entries by the redoubtable Jeff Lindsay...

August 2023

August 18, 2023

“Upon the Wings of His Spirit”

My wife and I left Cedar City fairly early this morning, Friday morning,...

April 2023

April 03, 2023

“Never Delay a Prompting”

It was, in my judgment, a wonderful General Conference; I thoroughly enjoyed it,...

January 2023

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...

December 2022

December 18, 2022

Behind the tinsel

I published this column in the Deseret News for Christmas 2016: Behind...

September 2022

September 02, 2022

An ancient idiom in 2 Nephi 4:33, as well as a demonic attack in Lancashire

It's Friday, so yet another new article has appeared in Interpreter: A Journal...

August 2021

August 10, 2021

Considering the Task of Latter-day Saint Intellectuals in the Church’s Third Century

*** Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 34: “A...

January 2021

January 15, 2021

“The Most that Evidence Can Do”

Latter-day Saints are often criticized for their conviction that faith is a gift...

July 2020

July 04, 2020

On some proposed psychological explanations for near-death experiences

Notes based upon Pim van Lommel, Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death...

June 2020

June 23, 2020

“A total wholeness”

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926-2004), the famous Swiss-American physician, psychiatrist, and author of, among many...

May 2020

May 19, 2020

Consciousness and Stewardship

I found this piece fascinating: Joel Frohlich, "Frames of consciousness: Can electrical impulses in...

May 03, 2020

On temporary disembodiment

I'm something of a fan of the Claremont philosopher Stephen T. Davis, who...

September 2019

September 14, 2019

“The Spirit of Elijah”

The most recent iteration of the bi-weekly column by William J. Hamblin and...

September 01, 2019

It was a good run (for me, anyway)

In case you missed it: "Noel B. Reynolds, The Language of the...

January 2019

January 15, 2019

Why I called him “it”

A while ago, in two or three responses to comments on my blog,...

September 2018

September 19, 2018

“Consciousness when a person has been pronounced brain-dead”

You would certainly be forgiven if you assumed from the title of this...

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