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March 2026

March 24, 2026

See Trump for Who He Is

My dad has been deceased for a decade. He is still my favorite example of...

December 2025

December 10, 2025

False Revelation,1969

Home teaching was a Mormon expectation. Once a month, a member of the Melchizedek priesthood...

January 2022

January 26, 2022

On a Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Small and Simple Things   A decade ago, I was writing to LDS missionaries in...

May 2016

May 16, 2016

Salvador: The Truth Behind the Fiction, Part 4

...[B]ut the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but...

May 02, 2016

Salvador: The Truth Behind the Fiction

“At some point, God will ask you to sacrifice on his altar not only your...

May 10, 2013

I Think I’m In The Wrong Room

I prepared my conference paper with a particular audience in mind—the one I know: Mormons,...

April 2013

April 29, 2013

Letter to a Struggling RM

He could be anyone. I might have made him up. Or this might be the...

April 22, 2013

For My Friend, Who’s Going through the Temple for the First Time

Dear Ms. C: I received this in an email from a Congolese friend, Aime Mbuyi,...

April 11, 2013

Bruce Loves Margaret (and visa versa)

Our courtship is slightly famous.  Bruce gives his students copies of the essay he wrote...

March 2013

March 03, 2013

Official Declaration 2 PLUS

  It’s slightly old but very good news now.  The LDS Church has added to...

January 2013

January 20, 2013

Dr. King, President Lincoln, and Joseph Smith

On June 27th, 1844, Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith, Jr. was assassinated.  He was, at...

December 2012

December 27, 2012

Mike Crapo: The First Boy I Kissed

Mike doesn't remember it, I'm sure.  He was twelve years old.  I was eight.  I...

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