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September 2015

September 08, 2015
As noted earlier, Jerry Bradford is stepping down as director of the Maxwell Institute, and...
September 08, 2015
I maintain that numerous policies adopted by a wide range of BYU administrators over the...

July 2015

July 23, 2015
Jenkins objected to me interspersing comments with his text.  So here is his original, without...
July 23, 2015
Jenkins "responding" to my question here.  My comments in blue.  My original source =
July 23, 2015
Here's more from Jenkins.  I suspect he's trying to be funny.  My comments are in...
July 23, 2015
This just in from Jenkins.  My comments preceed in blue.  As I've said from the...
July 22, 2015
Alas, Jenkins' thinking on Nahom is hopelessly muddled. If NHM can not be accepted an authentic...
July 22, 2015
The following, at the bottom, is from Jenkins, missing my point as usual.  My comments are...
July 22, 2015
From Philip Jenkins--charming as usual.  My comments in blue. My question for Philip is: "If...
July 22, 2015
Philip Jenkins posted this on his blog, responding to my discussion of the impossibility of empirical...
July 22, 2015
Here's something new from Jenkins.  I'm providing two comments here in blue. 1- From the beginning...
July 22, 2015
My friend Stephen Smoot sent me the following, which I believe is germane to the...
July 17, 2015
In another classic example of moving the goal post after the touchdown has been made,...
July 17, 2015
Dan Peterson makes some important points about the debate I'm having with Jenkins.   Unfortunately,...
July 17, 2015
Below is Jenkins comments.  My response comes first in blue. ===== For the purposes of argumentation I...
July 17, 2015
 So there’s lots of wars described in the Book of Mormon in the 360s
July 17, 2015
Jenkins repeatedly asserts that I, and all other LDS authors on the historicity of the Book of...
July 13, 2015
Here are some recent comments from Philip Jenkins.  My responses are interspersed in blue. ====================...
July 10, 2015
The productive Neal Rappleye has written another excellent mini-essay on the methodological and interpretative issues related...
July 10, 2015
Prof. Jenkins has repeatedly claimed that the ancient Book of Mormon studies is not a...
July 08, 2015
Another possible avenue for evaluating the historicity of the Book of Mormon is proper name...
July 08, 2015
The Book of Mormon dramatically describes a cataclysmic war which results in the desertion of...
July 08, 2015
Over the holiday prof. Jenkins posted on his own blog what he sees as a...
July 08, 2015
I've been otherwise occupied over the holiday weekend, and haven't kept up on the blog....
July 08, 2015
My friend Neal Rappleye recently posted an important response to some of the things Jenkins...
July 04, 2015
NOTE:  My friend Mark Wright, a professional Maya scholar and linguist, just informed me that...
July 03, 2015
Prof. Jenkins insists that there should be "objective evidence" for the Book of Mormon.  So...
July 03, 2015
I have read your recent post on epistemology, which genuinely took me aback:   I...
July 03, 2015
Dr. Hamblin has specified his grounds rules for any debate over Book of Mormon historicity,...
July 03, 2015
In his #13, Jenkins writes: So if the great Book of Mormon civilization is there,...
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