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August 2025

August 24, 2025

De mortuis nil nisi bonum

“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere...

August 18, 2025

A Note on the Miller-Urey Experiment

This is an interesting piece -- and, given that it comes from CNN, it's...

August 17, 2025

Is Utah a safe place or an unsafe one for girls and women?

The closing talk in our sacrament meeting today was devoted to the subject of...

August 08, 2025

An Invitation to “Physics Guy”

New in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Review of Edward...

July 2025

July 23, 2025

Thoughts for Pioneer Day

24 July, for people who reside in Utah and for many members of the...

July 12, 2025

Notes on the passing scene

Coming tomorrow: "5,000 episodes: The power and reach of ‘Music & the Spoken Word’: Messages...

July 07, 2025

A remarkable person, a remarkable life

My wife and I were delighted late last night to see this article in...

May 2025

May 06, 2025

More on the Latter-day Saints and Presidential Politics

Details regarding the approaching 2025 FAIR conference can be found here. I hope to...

April 2025

April 27, 2025

Of Goodness and Greatness

Wow. I flew over Bandar Abbas on the night that this happened: "Massive explosion...

April 18, 2025

Good Friday

Many years ago, not long after our launch, Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint...

April 14, 2025

Brazenly lying about a nineteenth-century Church leader

An avid anonymous participant over at the Peterson Obsession Board who calls himself something...

April 04, 2025

“The Covenant Path of the Ancient Temple”

I haven't checked on my retirement savings for a while, but I'm beginning to...

March 2025

March 28, 2025

“Reclaiming Jefferson’s University”

This Thursday Interpreter Foundation chapter reprint -- not to be confused, although some folks...

March 05, 2025

‘A spiritually ‘dark, dark city’”

I spent several hours today interviewing Dr. Ronald K. Esplin on camera regarding Brigham...

February 2025

February 17, 2025

Never to Be Forgotten

I continue my incessant whining about the hit Netflix miniseries American Primeval by calling...

February 15, 2025

Just a little more than two years to go!

You're probably aware of this: "The Prophet Announces Salt Lake Temple Open House Celebration...

January 2025

January 15, 2025

“Appreciating Brother Brigham”

I delivered relatively brief remarks at the August 2024 FAIR conference under the title...

January 13, 2025

Latter-day Saints in the West and the Problem of Evil

It turns out that weather conditions in Utah and Nevada, where a great many...

January 12, 2025

Reports from those who’ve seen it

The other day, I saw myself characterized over at the Peterson Obsession Board as...

December 2024

December 17, 2024

California, out I come, back from where I started from

I love California. I grew up there. I earned my doctorate there. I typically...

September 2024

September 21, 2024

Changes in the interior of the Salt Lake Temple

My wife and I attended Scripture Central's annual "Moroni Day" dinner and program last...

September 11, 2024

The Wonder of It All

We're surrounded in this remote area of southeastern Utah by magnificent vistas and fascinating...

August 2024

August 30, 2024

A Preliminary Response on Brigham Young’s Financial Dealings

One or two folks have shown up on my blog attacking Brigham Young as...

July 2024

July 24, 2024

It’s been an unusually good Pioneer Day!

Utahns and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will be...

July 11, 2024

A lying liar who lies!

This will seem to some to be a political post and, thus, a violation...

June 2024

June 29, 2024

Horizons

My adopted home state is taking a starring role in a new set of...

May 2024

May 22, 2024

Contra Calvinism 2

About nine days ago, I posted a blog entry that was entitled “Contra Calvinism...

May 08, 2024

“The Hello Girls”

As prophesied by critics, the long-dead website of the long-dead Interpreter Foundation continues to...

April 2024

April 10, 2024

More on race and slavery among the early Utah pioneers

I want to share a few more passages that I marked during my recent...

April 08, 2024

Brigham Young and “Slavery in Zion”

For one of the monthly reading groups to which we belong, we read Amy...