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January 2020

January 12, 2020

“When I found what I had said I was surprised”

The other night, I read Elder Bruce C. Hafen's review, in BYU Studies 54

January 07, 2020

“The history of human thought . . . from the point of view of temple worship”

On 12 October 2020, nearly a full century ago, Elder John A. Widtsoe...

December 2019

December 13, 2019

He tented among us.

This is a Christmas season column that I published in the Deseret News...

December 05, 2019

“New Video Explores the Historical Credibility of the Book of Abraham”

A fun note from our attendance at the Salt Lake Temple yesterday: When...

November 2019

November 19, 2019

“Why the Houston City mayor specifically asked Latter-day Saint missionaries to help with a service event”

First, here are a couple of new items on the website of the...

November 17, 2019

A bit of “biblical” history that you may never have encountered before

I continue here with a folkloric account, recorded in the eighth century AD, of...

November 16, 2019

How Solomon built his temple

From Ma‘mar ibn Rashid, The Expeditions: An Early Biography of Muhammad, translated by...

October 2019

October 23, 2019

Banned in Boston? No, suppressed in Salt Lake City.

During the decade or so that I've been writing regular columns for the...

October 20, 2019

Temples in Germany, Utah, and the Congo

"Latter-day Saint Apostle Rededicates Frankfurt Germany Temple: Four-year renovation is complete" There are...

October 07, 2019

Personal Perspectives and Historical Reconstructions

Thanks to the inquiry of a reader, I now realize that I didn't...

September 2019

September 04, 2019

“Doors of Death”

While I regret not being able to be back east with the Witnesses...

July 2019

July 29, 2019

Linking heaven and earth in Calgary

Taking our friends to the Calgary airport earlier today, we first stopped by...

July 29, 2019

Some Thoughts on the Temple

It's a bit late, perhaps, to post a link to this item in...

June 2019

June 10, 2019

Beyond the Heartland

A (final?) note from Stephen Smoot on the subject: "A Review of...

April 2019

April 16, 2019

Alleged Racism and the Newly-Dedicated Temple in Kinshasa

"Elder Renlund Dedicates Kinshasa Temple in a Historic Occasion for Latter-day Saints: A key...

April 01, 2019

Interesting things just around the corner in Poway, California

I'm looking forward to this. All events, I'm told, will...

March 2019

March 18, 2019

From Interpreter’s man in the Congo

There has, quite understandably, been a huge amount of coverage of the recent...

March 15, 2019

Temples, psalms, prophets, and Catholics

It's Friday. You didn't see this coming? Seriously? There's a new article from...

March 09, 2019

“Ihr seid — wir sind — seine Zeugen”

I realize that the overwhelming majority of my readers (there are perhaps as...

March 07, 2019

“‘You Are My People’: Inactive Gay Mormon Shares Powerful Insights After Attending Church for the First Time in Years”

The latest installment of my biweekly "Defending the Faith" column appeared today in...

February 2019

February 28, 2019

Just in case you haven’t bought them yet

The hardcover is now available for purchasing from Amazon.com and AmazonSmile, for $24.95. A review by Julie...

January 2019

January 30, 2019

New Testament Note 12

Luke 2:41-52 If the roads were dry and not too terribly congested...

January 28, 2019

New Testament Note 9

Luke 2:21-38 Regarding Luke 2:22, Kent Brown, in The Testimony of Luke,...

January 25, 2019

“Joy without lapse, unending bliss, infinite rapture and delight”

In my Middle East Studies (Arabic) 467R class, which is also listed as...

January 24, 2019

New Testament Note 5

Luke 1:57-80 There is a comic element to the scene here where...

January 22, 2019

New Testament Note 2

Luke 1:5-25 Out of all the things that could and should be said...

January 21, 2019

“Unspeakable words”

I mentioned the other day that among the classes that I’m teaching this...

January 16, 2019

Grant Hardy, Temples, and Arranged Marriages

New, via the website of the Interpreter Foundation, a fifty-minute audio interview by...

December 2018

December 02, 2018

Temple Attendance is a Christlike Gift

I published this column in the Deseret News on 8 December 2011: ...

August 2018

August 26, 2018

The Parthenon of the South Pacific?

Nearly a year ago, an article appeared in Time about New Zealand's then-new...