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February 2026

February 13, 2026

Evolutionary Biology and Divine Creation?

If you can endure nearly two hours and twenty minutes of, well, me, you...

March 2025

March 02, 2025

A Succession of Continuity

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

October 2024

October 17, 2024

The horror!

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

August 2024

August 28, 2024

Why this next film?

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

May 2024

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...

September 2023

September 23, 2023

Why we’re doing it

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

June 2023

June 25, 2023

“He brought heaven and earth together”

The latest iteration of the script for our next theatrical film, Six Days...

May 2023

May 11, 2023

Brigham Young in England

An article of mine appeared in Meridian Magazine last evening: "A Mind Built...

April 2023

April 10, 2023

Hot Off the Press!

I'm very pleased to have just received in the mail a hard copy...

February 2023

February 28, 2023

Remembering “missionary bootcamp”

I had an enjoyable time this afternoon interviewing Tom Alexander on camera for...

February 17, 2023

Adieu!

Two new articles went up today at noon (Utah time) on the website...

January 2023

January 20, 2023

“Proven quality and solidarity”

But, first, I call your attention to a couple of my typically mean-spirited...

January 18, 2023

An entry on some critics

I mentioned the other day that I had responded to an online article...

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 2022

August 27, 2022

Sacred and Anti-Sacred Sites

We landed at Liverpool this morning, where we were met by Peter Fagg,...

July 2022

July 30, 2022

Our new film project begins, while our earlier project continues to produce

The latest in the Interpreter Foundation's series of short-video features relating to the...

January 2022

January 27, 2022

Profound. And Big.

*** Several years ago, I read the superb book by Fiona Givens...

October 2021

October 08, 2021

Misrepresenting an apostle

*** An interesting claim appeared on Wednesday, 6 October, in a post...

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...

July 2021

July 23, 2021

“If Ye Keep My Commandments Ye Shall Prosper in the Land”

*** A new article, written by Taylor Halverson, appeared just a few...

April 2021

April 19, 2021

Growing Up as Hugh Nibley

*** To the probable astonishment of hundreds of millions of people worldwide,...

January 2021

January 24, 2021

“Cosmic Conundrum”

Okay. If I havn't been clear enough yet, let me make it unmistakably...

January 20, 2021

On the General Authorities’ Endorsement of Global Communism

At least by the time I was in graduate school, evangelical Protestant anti-Mormonism...

November 2020

November 01, 2020

Revision 8.2 “A further note on the rededication of Palestine”

I continue my account of a party sent in 1872 by President Brigham...

October 2020

October 24, 2020

Revision 8.1 “Apostles Rededicate the Holy Land”

Note: For at least a while, based upon discussion with folks at Patheos,...

October 17, 2020

“The Church supports the use of vaccinations”

This is pleasant news, of course: "Elder and Sister Gong Successfully Complete...

September 2020

September 12, 2020

Orson Pratt, reacting to the death of Martin Harris

It seems that I'll be doing a fireside on Monday evening, 14 September...

August 2020

August 16, 2020

A few ordained scientists

There are many who claim that science and religious belief are entirely incompatible....

June 2020

June 12, 2020

“I know that what I am talking about is true”

Dr. Suzanne Lundquist, now retired from the Department of English at Brigham Young...

February 2020

February 16, 2020

“Discipleship of Yesterday for Today”

I'm on the road, and I think that I neglected to call attention...