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September 2024

September 28, 2024

From the morning sessions of today’s superb conference

Today, I attended the Seventh Interpreter Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference. The overall theme...

September 16, 2024

The interesting hospitality rituals of great Homeric houses

It appears that the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, once one of the...

August 2024

August 25, 2024

Setting the Record Straight, Though Without Much Real Hope

In our priesthood meeting today, we considered the address given by Elder Ulisses Soares...

August 17, 2024

The Temple and the Principle of “Semper Reformanda”

A second article went up yesterday in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith...

August 16, 2024

Should we back down on building temples?

First, two stories that can be taken as pointing in two quite different directions:...

July 2024

July 24, 2024

Getting the word out

The Interpreter Foundation has published yet another short video feature that has been drawn...

July 03, 2024

On unkind feelings in an election year

I'm slowly and carefully reading through the talks that were given in April 2024...

June 2024

June 07, 2024

Christopher Hitchens and the Great Composers

Two new items appeared today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: "“Armed with...

June 02, 2024

We did have a nice celebration

This time, I think that I'll lead off with a few items that I've...

June 01, 2024

From Rome’s Temple Square

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

May 2024

May 31, 2024

The Scarlet and the Black and the Temple

I love Rome. And, perhaps rather curiously, it is the Christian heritage of “the...

May 21, 2024

“Among the most significant holy sites in the world”

I’ve just finished reading Keith A. Erekson and Matthew J. Grow, “Assuming Stewardship: Notes...

May 14, 2024

The Bells of Las Vegas

A new article of mine went up yesterday in Meridian Magazine. Enjoy it, if...

May 03, 2024

“Eldr Brigham Young standing in a strange land”

I published this article in Meridian Magazine on Wednesday, 1 May 2024. But I...

May 02, 2024

A (temporary) limit on the redemption of the dead?

We spent several hours in the Kirtland Temple again this morning, and then we...

May 01, 2024

This was the beginning of the blessing

We drove today from Rochester, New York, to Kirtland, Ohio, stopping off to gawk...

April 2024

April 21, 2024

Two Funeral Requests

In our sacrament meeting today, the ward choir performed "Be Still, My Soul." The...

April 19, 2024

Yes to Heavenly Reunions

"The Unwritten Debates in Moroni1’s Letter," written by Morgan Deane Abstract: Moroni1’s letter in...

April 07, 2024

Initial thoughts at the end of Conference

Like many of you, I expect, I was powerfully struck by the remarks of...

March 2024

March 22, 2024

“King Benjamin’s Sermon as a Type of Temple Endowment”

With friends, my wife and I attended the open house this morning of the...

March 19, 2024

Trust the Media!

[Ooops. This week isn't Holy Week! For some reason, I keep thinking that...

March 01, 2024

“Kingly Names, Kingly Ambitions”

"Proper Names and Political Claims: Semitic Echoes as Foundations for Claims to the Nephite...

February 2024

February 16, 2024

On Peter Jackson’s movie set

Two more items have appeared on the website of the Interpreter Foundation. They are:...

February 04, 2024

Puʻuhonua

I sometimes encounter the complaint from some atheists that they don't even desire immortality...

February 02, 2024

For Groundhog Day

"Temple Themes in the Book of Abraham," written by Stephen O. Smoot Abstract: The...

January 2024

January 25, 2024

Can the great American de-churching be reversed?

Conference Talks: The Two Ways in Ancient Egyptian Religion and Israelite Temple Theology, presented...

January 04, 2024

Cornucopia

This just went up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: "The Temple: Ancient...

December 2023

December 21, 2023

Christmas, the Israelite Tabernacle, and the Gospel of John

New on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: "The Temple: Ancient and Restored: How...

November 2023

November 30, 2023

Psalms 14 and 24, the First Vision, and the Temple

Today, the most concentrated amount of sheer cuteness in this region spent substantial...

November 24, 2023

Mormon, Zeniff, and Limhi

I hope that you and yours had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday (where applicable)....