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2016-12-31 2017 Is the Future
2016-12-31 "Padre no me arrepiento"
2016-12-31 Two Australian articles about Mormons
2016-12-30 "'Their Anger Did Increase Against Me': Nephi’s Autobiographical Permutation of a Biblical Wordplay on the Name Joseph"
2016-12-30 Thomas Sowell
2016-12-30 "Introduction to the Doctrine and Covenants and Church History"
2016-12-29 "The Vatican's In-House Astronomer"
2016-12-29 The Passing of a Utah Legend
2016-12-29 "The Book of Mormon at year's end"
2016-12-29 "Mideast Self-Reliance Isn’t a Problem—It’s Our Ticket Home"
2016-12-29 We lost some prominent scientists in 2016
2016-12-28 From the BBC: "How Mormons find love in India"
2016-12-28 How truth can be obscured
2016-12-27 The Blog in the Coming Year and D&C
2016-12-26 On the Sin of Weaponizing Testimonies
2016-12-26 "First Coming"
2016-12-25 "Why Christmas is radical"
2016-12-25 "Incomprehensible Word, Uncomprehending World: The Puzzle of Christmas"
2016-12-25 "Why it's not wrong to wish Muslims Merry Christmas"
2016-12-25 "O great mystery, and wonderful sacrament"
2016-12-25 "'He Did It': A Christmas Message"
2016-12-24 We cannot be too vigilant in guarding science against any even the faintest suggestion of possible faith!
2016-12-24 "My Incredible Mormon-Jewish Encounter in the Christmas Market"
2016-12-24 "Mormon effort to 'Light the World' during Christmas reaches 68 million video views and counting"
2016-12-24 "For first time in nearly 40 years, Hanukkah and Christmas Eve are on the same day"
2016-12-24 "O magnum mysterium!"
2016-12-24 Keeping Christ in Christmas
2016-12-24 Mormons Stormin' the Inauguration
2016-12-23 "To Be, Rather Than to Seem": Mr. Trump's Inauguration and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
2016-12-23 Democracy is a mess, but the alternatives are worse.
2016-12-23 "The Song I Cannot Sing"
2016-12-23 It's Joseph Smith's birthday today
2016-12-23 Piercingly Lovely
2016-12-22 The battle for Aleppo
2016-12-22 "Citizen-Scientists' Psychedelic Jupiter Art"
2016-12-22 Another thought on the Trump inauguration and the Tabernacle Choir
2016-12-22 Of Islam, Theism, Atheism, Communism, and Actual History
2016-12-22 The Spectator: "Happiness is Being a Mormon"
2016-12-22 "Mormon Tabernacle Choir to Sing at US Presidential Inauguration"
2016-12-22 "Christmas and the ultimate restoration of all things"
2016-12-22 "One year and counting: Scholarly website helping to 'increase understanding' of the Book of Mormon"
2016-12-22 On "instinct" or "intuition"
2016-12-22 "When Mormons first went to Harvard... "
2016-12-22 "What people talk about before dying"
2016-12-22 On not draining the swamp
2016-12-21 "A Brainless Slime That Shares Memories by Fusing"
2016-12-21 From the UK: "Hijab-wearing students activists SHOCK Christian university with Islamic protest"
2016-12-21 From a Nigerian outlet: "Watching this white choir sing a Yoruba Christmas carol will make your head swell seriously"
2016-12-21 About Trump. It was ALWAYS about Trump.
2016-12-21 Orson Scott Card: "Christmas is about a Baby"
2016-12-21 "Charles Dickens and the invention of Christmas"
2016-12-21 Is the term "Xmas" part of a war against Christianity?
2016-12-21 "Buddhism and violence"
2016-12-21 The Cyclical Nature of BYU’s Religious Education
2016-12-21 Santa Claus is Canaanite! Really.
2016-12-20 "Come unto Christ"
2016-12-20 Amusing ourselves to death?
2016-12-19 "Fred Karger is either cynical, conspiratorial or misinformed about LDS Church taxes."
2016-12-19 "Why can't Mormons send flowers?"
2016-12-19 Review of Mark Smith, Where the Gods Are: Spatial Dimensions of Anthropomorphism in the Biblical World
2016-12-19 "Is Islam a religion of peace?"
2016-12-19 Happy Christmas from Mitchell and Webb!
2016-12-19 "Why Darwin Needs ET"
2016-12-19 "'To Keep Them in the Right Way'"
2016-12-19 If you're a humor-impaired Trumpist, please spare yourself!
2016-12-19 Semitic and Egyptian influences in Amerindian languages?
2016-12-19 The way to real joy
2016-12-18 Brigham Young on Mormonism and science
2016-12-18 "About that claim of suicides by LDS teens with same-sex attraction"
2016-12-18 Videos of the 2016 Temple on Mount Zion Conference are now available!
2016-12-18 "SCROOGE! Grade school cancels performance of 'A Christmas Carol'"
2016-12-18 Do Mormons and Muslims worship the same God?
2016-12-18 "The Journey of the Magi"
2016-12-18 Mother and son bridge the void of faith transition...
2016-12-18 Mitt Romney the Loser
2016-12-17 Does a high youth suicide rate in Utah demonstrate that Mormonism is psychologically unhealthy?
2016-12-17 "If we made contact with aliens, how would religions react?"
2016-12-17 A favorite poem at Christmas
2016-12-17 Why is the "sex addiction" diagnosis harmful?
2016-12-17 "Never Trump Nevermore"
2016-12-17 Still don't know what to give for Christmas?
2016-12-17 "If You Don't 'Get' Religion, You Can't 'Get' America or the World"
2016-12-17 "Social-Justice Blog: Gender Is ‘More Like a Performance’"
2016-12-17 "Opportunity Lost"
2016-12-17 "Demoting Shakespeare"
2016-12-16 Jimmer Fredette in Shanghai
2016-12-16 "The Little-Known Story of the Islamic Christmas Tree"
2016-12-16 Prominent Egyptian editor: "Nothing justifies crimes perpetrated in name of Islam"
2016-12-16 "The Second Shepherds' Play"
2016-12-16 "'Lucy' Species May Have Been Polygynous"
2016-12-15 From the sublime to the ridiculous (to coin a phrase)
2016-12-15 "The Book of Mormon at Christmas"
2016-12-15 "University: Use ‘End of (Fiscal) Year’ Party Instead of ‘Holiday’ Party to Be ‘Inclusive’"
2016-12-15 Partings are unavoidable, but...
2016-12-14 The Daily Wire: "Report: Here Is The Single Reason Romney Lost Sec State..."
2016-12-14 The Forbes listing of the world's most powerful people
2016-12-14 Russia, Tillerson, "Never Trump," the Real World, and "Emoluments"
2016-12-14 "Fake News on Gay Science?"
2016-12-14 "Video of Margaret Barker’s Speech, 'Theosis & Divination,' Now Available"
2016-12-14 Christianity in the contemporary Middle East
2016-12-14 Brian Hales, Dan Vogel, and early Mormon polygamy
2016-12-14 Or, in other words, half empty and half full
2016-12-14 Op-ed by Neuroscientists stating "Fight the New Drug" Misrepresents Science
2016-12-14 "It's easy to mock Mitt Romney. We should praise him."
2016-12-14 Atheism, evil, and the foundations of morality
2016-12-13 Thoughts at the year's end
2016-12-13 LDS Newsroom: "2016 Year in Review"
2016-12-13 Jurassic Park, anybody?
2016-12-13 "This is the First Country in the World that Bans Islam and Demolishes All Mosques"
2016-12-13 Science has pretty well settled everything NOW, though.
2016-12-13 The Trump-Romney meeting caught on videotape
2016-12-13 "Mitt Romney Posts About Ordaining His Grandson to Priesthood, Sparks Unique Missionary Opportunity"
2016-12-13 Generation Snowflake
2016-12-13 A 3400-year-old Canaanite citadel discovered
2016-12-12 "We Can't Trust Forensic Science"
2016-12-12 Regarding "Early Modern English" in the Book of Mormon
2016-12-12 The conservative versus the ideologue
2016-12-11 "Time-Lapse Video: Christmas Lights Brighten Temple Square"
2016-12-11 The Christmas season near Temple Square
2016-12-10 "Cosmic Dust From the Origins of Our Solar System -- 'Found on Roof Tops of Europe'"
2016-12-10 "Biblical Archaeology: Factual Evidence to Support the Historicity of the Bible"
2016-12-10 "Church Presents Historic Freedmen’s Bureau Database to African American Museum"
2016-12-10 Did Russia help Mr. Trump acquire the White House?
2016-12-10 No mention of Joseph Smith at First Presidency "Smithmas" devotional?!?!?
2016-12-10 "Jesus the shepherd, and the shepherds"
2016-12-10 "By Faith All Things are Fulfilled"
2016-12-10 An evening with Irving Berlin
2016-12-09 "Improvisation and Extemporaneous Change in the Book of Mormon (Part 2: Structural Evidences of Earlier Ancient versus Later Modern Constructions)"
2016-12-09 If you're an active American Latter-day Saint
2016-12-09 Seeing subsidies for what they really are
2016-12-09 "Godspeed, John Glenn"
2016-12-09 The world's universities, ranked by the employability of their students
2016-12-09 "Rare find reveals previously unknown Roman ruler in Judea"
2016-12-08 "Through a Glass, Darkly"
2016-12-08 "History of modern man unravels as German scholar is exposed as fraud"
2016-12-08 "French Senate Bans Posting of Pro-Life Information Online"
2016-12-08 Our two greatest days
2016-12-08 Reflections on President-Elect Trump's recent economic gestures
2016-12-08 "Judge Joseph Smith and the Legal Status of Women"
2016-12-08 "Reflections on symbolism in the Atonement"
2016-12-07 "The Book of Mormon touted as fourth most influential work in American literature"
2016-12-07 "Mormon tabernacle near Pearl Harbor became a refuge for GIs after the attack"
2016-12-07 "Were Neanderthals Religious?"
2016-12-07 "Muslim NYPD officer threatened, told 'go back to your country'"
2016-12-07 "Trump Warns that Companies Shipping Jobs Overseas Will Be Slapped with Enormous Bribes"
2016-12-07 "How Long Did It Take to Translate the Book of Mormon?"
2016-12-07 What is faith?
2016-12-07 "Chris Christie’s Low Approval Rating Just Broke an All-Time Record"
2016-12-07 "What's the story behind Trump's Boeing tweet?"
2016-12-07 "The Church in a Changing World: Robert Griffiths Answers the Question, 'What if I'm Uncomfortable with the Church's Position on Social Issues?'"
2016-12-07 Anointing and "The Crown"
2016-12-06 "Never Has Man Believed in Me as Thou Hast"
2016-12-06 I pled guilty to domestic violence & now I'm facing a custody battle...
2016-12-06 "The work of the expounder has scarcely begun"
2016-12-06 The death of Book of Mormon antiquity research?
2016-12-06 "Faith leads Texas GOP elector to resign rather than cast Trump ballot"
2016-12-06 "'Twas the Night of Nicea"
2016-12-06 That hyper-Trumpist tenor anti-Mormon, again
2016-12-05 The Man that Should have Won Utah's Republican Vote
2016-12-05 A hardcore Trumpist -- unsurprisingly, he's a tenor -- speaks out on Romney and the Mormons
2016-12-05 History behind Historic AASECT Position
2016-12-05 "I Speak unto You As If Ye Were Present"
2016-12-05 "Don’t cancel Christmas on behalf of Muslims like me – I love it"
2016-12-05 Against secluding or withdrawing ourselves
2016-12-04 LDS women staying home from church out of horror at their fellow-Saints' support of Donald Trump?
2016-12-04 "Mormons with doubts shouldn't give up faith without 'intellectual and spiritual kicking and screaming'"
2016-12-04 He didn't come to show off
2016-12-04 Seasonal messages from the Interpreter Foundation
2016-12-03 "For a ‘Peaceful’ Group, Black Lives Matter Sure Does Love Cop Killers and Murderous Dictators"
2016-12-03 "Jesus and his earliest followers were cultists!"
2016-12-03 "Uto-Aztecan and Its Connection to Near Eastern Languages, Part 3: The Egyptian Infusion, Plus the Explanatory Power of Stubbs' Framework"
2016-12-03 Sic et Non on Donald Trump's recent moves
2016-12-03 "Here come three-parent children"
2016-12-03 "A specially constructed Universe"?
2016-12-03 "The Council of Fifty and Its Minutes: A Review"
2016-12-02 "Social media useful in preventing Islamophobia, raising awareness"
2016-12-02 "Improvisation and Extemporaneous Change in the Book of Mormon (Part 1: Evidence of an Imperfect, Authentic, Ancient Work of Scripture)"
2016-12-02 Me and Jerome Hines of the New York Metropolitan Opera
2016-12-02 Chaoskampf, the Garden of Eden, and the Mountains of Lebanon
2016-12-02 William F. Buckley, the First Presidency, and I
2016-12-02 I absolutely HATE Sonic drive-in commercials
2016-12-01 "Trump's Romney romance could be one big setup"
2016-12-01 "Light the world with his light"
2016-12-01 Harry Truman, Herbert Hoover, William F. Buckley, and me
2016-12-01 New/Forthcoming books of Interest
2016-11-30 Book Review: God Told Me to Hate You
2016-11-30 David Petraeus as Secretary of State?
2016-11-30 "Star-starved galaxies fill the cosmos"
2016-11-30 "Autobiographical Notes of My Testimony"
2016-11-29 "7 Reasons Mormons Love the Jews — Mostly"
2016-11-29 AASECT Position on Sex and Porn NOT being Addictive
2016-11-29 The United States Must Recognize Palestine
2016-11-29 How are we a "light" to the world?
2016-11-29 The four characteristics of a good judge
2016-11-29 A movie recommendation
2016-11-29 Black Mormon Pioneers Featured at BLACKPAST.ORG
2016-11-28 Rhymes with "Witch"
2016-11-28 "No, Conservatism Should Not Embrace Populism"
2016-11-28 "Church History/ Doctrine & Covenants Gospel Doctrine Resources"
2016-11-28 "Mormons and Science"
2016-11-28 How Polygamy Affects Society
2016-11-28 "Undeniable"
2016-11-28 The Qur’an on religious differences
2016-11-28 The Fundamental Optimism of Apocalypse
2016-11-28 The joyous beauty of atheistic naturalism
2016-11-27 Christmas greetings from the Qur’an
2016-11-27 "Questioning everything" should really mean "questioning everything."
2016-11-27 "Basic Methodological Problems with the Anti-Mormon Approach to the Geography and Archaeology of the Book of Mormon"
2016-11-27 Plutarch on life as the product of random purposelessness
2016-11-27 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 45-46: Ether
2016-11-27 "Marco Rubio Statement on the Death of Fidel Castro"
2016-11-27 BYU's law school ranks very well with regard to student debt
2016-11-27 Church History/ Doctrine & Covenants Gospel Doctrine Resources
2016-11-26 "'Pleased as man with men to dwell'"
2016-11-26 "Church Launches 'Light the World' Christmas Initiative"
2016-11-26 "Archaeologists Unearth Ancient City of Famous Biblical Scene"
2016-11-26 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 43-44: Mormon 1-9
2016-11-26 "The Small Voice"
2016-11-26 A quick response to the death of Fidel Castro
2016-11-26 "Two Majorcan saints with very different origins"
2016-11-26 "How to take pictures of exoplanets"
2016-11-26 Consequential
2016-11-25 Wisdom from the Qur’an
2016-11-25 As I write, there are just 27 shopping days (and 8 hours) until "Smithmas"
2016-11-25 "Picturing history: Exterior of the John Johnson Home, Hiram, Ohio"
2016-11-25 "Conservatives Should Embrace Principled Populism"
2016-11-25 "How Physics Falls Apart If the EMdrive Works"
2016-11-25 Death, the doorway
2016-11-25 Color me unimpressed
2016-11-24 Happy Thanksgiving to me!
2016-11-24 "Why Did Alma Bless And Thank God After Eating? Alma 8:22"
2016-11-24 "We have more cause for thanksgiving than any previous generation"
2016-11-24 "Why Jefferson Said 'No' to Thanksgiving"
2016-11-24 "How to Worship Our Heavenly Mother (Without Getting Excommunicated)"
2016-11-24 "4000-Year-Old 'Thinker' Sculpture Uncovered in Israel"
2016-11-24 "Chicago Muslims give thanks, 5,000 turkeys"
2016-11-24 "Blessing God after Eating One's Fill"
2016-11-24 "A priest and an imam sit down for a cup of tea" (and etc.)
2016-11-24 Although born in Boston, he grew up here in Richmond
2016-11-23 Dare to Dissent!
2016-11-23 My 2014 and 2015 columns for Thanksgiving Day
2016-11-23 Count Your Many Blessings
2016-11-23 In which I explain the (to some) inexplicable
2016-11-23 "The Dead Sea is drying out"
2016-11-23 "NASA Probe Snaps Stunning New Images of Dwarf Planet Ceres"
2016-11-22 "Hail Trump! Hail Our People! Hail Victory!”
2016-11-22 Remembering Jefferson Davis
2016-11-22 "Top Ancient Sites for Stargazing"
2016-11-22 Mormon Temple Recommends and LDS Sectarianism
2016-11-22 Studying Mormon history leads to the loss of faith?
2016-11-22 "Approaching 'Silence'"
2016-11-21 "Progressives’ Anti-Christian Bigotry Helped Make Trump President"
2016-11-21 "In biblical lands of Iraq, Christianity in peril after ISIS"
2016-11-21 "How Technology Helped Martin Luther Change Christianity"
2016-11-21 Operation Underground Railroad
2016-11-21 How to be happy
2016-11-21 "Op-ed: Should Mormons who voted for Trump get temple recommends?"
2016-11-21 "Lost cat crosses the Wasatch Mountains to get home"
2016-11-21 The meaning and power of the temple
2016-11-21 "Why do Christians revere Jerusalem?"
2016-11-21 "Vast 5,600-year-old religious centre discovered near Stonehenge"
2016-11-21 Which one are you? Which am I?
2016-11-20 "Mike Pence confirms that Mitt Romney is 'under active and serious consideration' to be Donald Trump's secretary of state"
2016-11-20 Franklin Roosevelt, the Churchills, and the Mormons
2016-11-20 "News from Antiquity"
2016-11-20 "New Study Ties Church Attendance to 'Conservative Theology'"
2016-11-20 Unexpected simplicity and beauty
2016-11-20 A Request
2016-11-20 Democracy and Its Discontents
2016-11-19 Two balanced articles on today's meeting between Trump and Romney
2016-11-19 The Book of Mormon and an indigent jeweler named Snite
2016-11-19 "Dusting Off the Chiasmus in Alma 36: The 'Loose' Parts May Have More Structure Than We Thought"
2016-11-19 "Islam is a 'malignant cancer': The hateful rhetoric of Trump’s new national security adviser"
2016-11-19 "Glenn Beck: The alt-right is truly terrifying"
2016-11-19 An apostle on science
2016-11-19 "Mitt Romney, Secretary of State?"
2016-11-19 You aren't just what you eat.
2016-11-18 "Bigger Than Nahom? The Surprising Link Between Semitic Languages and the Uto-Aztecan Language Family"
2016-11-18 "How the LDS Church's response to 'The Book of Mormon' musical is actually working"
2016-11-18 "'Arise from the Dust': Insights from Dust-Related Themes in the Book of Mormon (Part 3: Dusting Off a Famous Chiasmus, Alma 36)"
2016-11-18 ESPN, BYU women's gymnastics, and the "mannequin challenge"
2016-11-18 "How Sunlight Affects Your Mental Health"
2016-11-18 "In Twin Falls, Idaho, co-dependency of whites and immigrants faces a test"
2016-11-18 "Religious thinking as simply part of an outmoded phase in the consciousness of mankind"
2016-11-18 Mitt Romney as Trump's Secretary of State?
2016-11-18 "Catch Me If You Can"
2016-11-17 "Old Testament tabernacle rises in Fountain Valley"
2016-11-17 "Religious freedom vs. new state religion"
2016-11-17 "Light the World"
2016-11-17 "Megyn Kelly shut down a Trump supporter who said Japanese internment camps were precedent for a Muslim registry"
2016-11-17 "The many uses of 'apologetics'"
2016-11-17 Developing Sexual Well-being
2016-11-17 On anxieties
2016-11-16 "Christchurch [NZ] Mormons Mobilize to Support Communities Hit by Quake"
2016-11-16 The Tennessean: "How the irreverent 'The Book of Mormon' led to one Nashville man's conversion"
2016-11-16 John Hall and why we can't have nice, biblical things (part 2)
2016-11-16 "Syrian president Assad claims Trump could be a 'natural ally'"
2016-11-16 The Liahona Children's Foundation
2016-11-16 "Mormon 1-9. I Write that Ye Might Believe the Gospel of Jesus Christ"
2016-11-16 "It’s Official: Falling Carbon Emissions In US Have Little To Do With EPA Regulations"
2016-11-16 "Critics cringe at Trump strategist Bannon's ties to alt-right, rhetoric targeting Mormons"
2016-11-16 A blessing from Ireland
2016-11-15 "Part 2 of the Dust-Related Publication is Now at MormonInterpreter.com"
2016-11-15 A bit more on the controversial Steve Bannon, hero of the alt-right
2016-11-15 "I am Mormon and Transgender - I Need Your Love"
2016-11-15 "Donald Trump signifies he will end US support for Syrian rebels despite their pleas to him for help"
2016-11-15 Swamis, Priests, Monks, Rabbis Are Coming to UVU
2016-11-15 Reasons to be concerned about Mr. Trump's announced "chief strategist and senior counselor"
2016-11-15 Was Joseph Smith a criminal counterfeiter?
2016-11-14 "We Have Overcome the Plant-Animal Communication Barrier, MIT Professor Claims"
2016-11-14 Of power and persistence
2016-11-14 "‘We Couldn’t Believe Our Eyes’: A Lost World of Shipwrecks Is Found"
2016-11-14 "While Mormons nationally stuck with Trump, in Utah he lagged"
2016-11-14 "'Light the World' — Church announces 2016 Christmas initiative"
2016-11-14 "'I Won'"
2016-11-14 "The Case against Cats"
2016-11-14 On being two-faced
2016-11-13 "How Mormon Women Party in Shanghai: Liberating Girls in Africa with a 'Days for Girls' Service Project"
2016-11-13 "Ancient Papyrus Again Proves Israel's Biblical History"
2016-11-13 A prominent physicist's testimony
2016-11-13 "Why Did the Lamanites Sacrifice Women and Children to Idols?"
2016-11-13 God and moral truth
2016-11-12 "Satan, the pope, and Dungeons & Dragons: How Jack Chick's cartoons informed American fundamentalism"
2016-11-12 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 42: 4 Nephi
2016-11-12 "Life on Mars can only exist 'far beneath the surface', scientists say"
2016-11-12 "My View: What Mother Jones doesn't get about Mormon women"
2016-11-12 A gift idea for Christmas
2016-11-12 Are American Muslims "irrational" to be nervous about our president-elect?
2016-11-12 "Islam and the foundations of modern mathematics"
2016-11-12 The Trump Supporter Next Door
2016-11-12 Post-Election Support
2016-11-12 Mitt Romney should bow down to Donald Trump. So should many others.
2016-11-12 Choral Heaven
2016-11-11 "21 Reasons It Doesn’t Matter if The Church is True"
2016-11-11 Sunday night
2016-11-11 "Reading 1 Nephi with Wisdom"
2016-11-11 "Leaders and Managers"
2016-11-11 "'Arise from the Dust': Insights from Dust-Related Themes in the Book of Mormon (Part 2: Enthronement, Resurrection, and Other Ancient Motifs from the 'Voice from the Dust')"
2016-11-11 "Worried Utah Muslims on Trump’s win: We thought Mormons had our backs"
2016-11-11 "Leonard Cohen Dead at 82"
2016-11-11 "Researchers Rewrite History of Cahokia With New ‘Beaded Burial’ Findings"
2016-11-11 Of knowledge and wisdom
2016-11-11 "I’m a Muslim, a woman and an immigrant. I voted for Trump."
2016-11-10 "This 5,000-year-old rock could be one of the world's earliest maps"
2016-11-10 A prominent Utah Republican woman quits the Party; a profanity-laced Trumpist message hits UVU
2016-11-10 "For American Muslims: Shock, fear and resolve"
2016-11-10 "First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles Congratulate U.S. President-Elect"
2016-11-10 A scientist's statement of faith
2016-11-10 Dear God, Please keep America a Foreign Land
2016-11-10 Coming up next Wednesday
2016-11-10 "The challenge the New Testament makes to the world"
2016-11-10 "New Book of Mormon Insights at the 'Interpreter'"
2016-11-10 "This Month’s Supermoon Will Be the Biggest and Brightest of Its Kind Since 1948"
2016-11-10 "3 suspects in Kansas anti-Somali plot sought a 'bloodbath'"
2016-11-10 "The Tale of Election 2016, with Benedict Cumberbatch"
2016-11-09 "NY attorney general: Time to stand up for Latter-day Saints and the religious freedom of all Americans"
2016-11-09 Liberty without wisdom or virtue
2016-11-09 Utah: A Shining City on a Hill
2016-11-09 On McMullin, Trump, and the alleged hypocrisy of Mormon voters
2016-11-09 "What Now, Mr. President?"
2016-11-09 Margaret Barker, today at 4 PM
2016-11-09 Almost all of the results are in now
2016-11-08 Funny, but not all night
2016-11-08 "Was South America a refuge during the dino-killing mass extinction?"
2016-11-08 "Ancient Royal Boat Tomb Uncovered in Egypt"
2016-11-08 This is why we can't have nice, biblical things
2016-11-08 A little-known account of the Book of Mormon witnesses
2016-11-08 The Case for Hillary Clinton and a Mormon Stance on Abortion
2016-11-07 "Huge lake discovered 15 kilometres under a volcano"
2016-11-07 Thoughts for an ugly time in America
2016-11-07 Why I intend to vote for Evan McMullin tomorrow
2016-11-07 "World's Heaviest Earthworm Found, Then Killed"
2016-11-07 "Mass exodus from Mormonism? LDS stats paint a different picture"
2016-11-07 Artificial versus natural?
2016-11-06 "A Giant Solar Storm Briefly Lowered Earth's Magnetic Defenses"
2016-11-06 "Why Isn’t the Media Pouncing on Mormon Hatred Like It Has Jew Hatred?"
2016-11-06 Conference down, lecture and discussion to come
2016-11-06 "President Nelson Honored by Catholic Community Services"
2016-11-06 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 41: 3Ne 22-26
2016-11-06 Evangelical Protestants and the current presidential election
2016-11-06 "Your Kurdish Superhero of the Week"
2016-11-05 Why I'm Fasting for Hillary Clinton
2016-11-05 Why did they kill Jesus?
2016-11-05 Anniversary of Nov 5th Abusive Policy Leak
2016-11-05 Haaretz: "The Mormon-Jewish Presidential Ticket Trying to Snatch Utah From Trump"
2016-11-05 "The Sociopath"
2016-11-05 "A hijab-wearing Muslim is now one of the beautiful faces of CoverGirl"
2016-11-05 A note from the chairman of the Interpreter Foundation
2016-11-05 "Cancer mutation patterns differ in smokers, nonsmokers"
2016-11-04 "The Book of Mormon: Man-Made or God-Given?"
2016-11-04 New York Post: "Are Mormons the happiest people in America?"
2016-11-04 "True nobility"
2016-11-04 "Iraqis flee fighting with tales of horror"
2016-11-04 "Scientists See Signs of Learning in a Ball of Dough"
2016-11-04 "'Arise from the Dust': Insights from Dust-Related Themes in the Book of Mormon (Part 1: Tracks from the Book of Moses)"
2016-11-04 "Top Trump Adviser Roger Stone Hates Mormons"
2016-11-04 A friendly note to the Trump supporters out there
2016-11-04 Not a Christian Nation
2016-11-04 John Gee's forthcoming book on the Book of Abraham
2016-11-04 "No, You Don’t Have to Vote for Clinton or Trump"
2016-11-04 Hope for Sexual Assault Victims at BYU
2016-11-04 Saturday: 2016 Temple on Mount Zion Conference
2016-11-04 How tyranny and oppression might come to the United States
2016-11-03 "Senator Jeff Flake [R-AZ] Indicates He May Vote For Evan McMullin
2016-11-03 "5 Reasons to Vote Trump"
2016-11-03 "Joseph Smith's name 'had for good and evil among all nations'"
2016-11-02 "Ten Reasons Why You Should Support Evan McMullin"
2016-11-02 A Vague Post on Joseph Fielding Smith, Evolution, and Other Sides of His Story
2016-11-02 "Scientists Don’t Have to Choose between Faith and Reason"
2016-11-02 God as solution
2016-11-01 "Behind the 'Mormon mafia' feud: Evan McMullin’s anti-Trump candidacy splits Republicans along religious lines"
2016-11-01 "Where to see the world's biggest spiders"
2016-11-01 A forthcoming book on the Book of Abraham!
2016-11-01 How very lovely!
2016-11-01 Excommunication: Cruel and Unusual Punishment
2016-11-01 Finding good candidates
2016-10-31 Help Needed
2016-10-30 "CHRISTIAN to 'MORMON'-Christian (a near death conversion)"
2016-10-30 "DNA Detective Work with Ugo Perego"
2016-10-30 Science and religion
2016-10-30 Predestination
2016-10-30 Science and religion
2016-10-30 Predestination
2016-10-29 Kanye West in 2020!
2016-10-29 "A Halloween monster movie primer"
2016-10-29 "The Best Places to Trick-or-Treat in 2016"
2016-10-29 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 40: 3Ne 16, 20-30 (Rough post)
2016-10-29 Motivations in worship
2016-10-29 "What counts as science?"
2016-10-29 Commentary Magazine: "An Anti-Mormon Trumpist Backlash"
2016-10-29 "In Jerusalem, Mormon apostles and Jewish leaders like Joe Lieberman remember Orson Hyde prayer"
2016-10-29 On putting the Kingdom first
2016-10-29 "Patriarchs and the tradition of standing stones"
2016-10-29 Inc.: "When Someone Is Rude to You, Respond Like a Mormon"
2016-10-28 A threat to which few are paying much attention
2016-10-28 Amazing birds. Just amazing.
2016-10-28 News from Zimbabwe, in southern Africa: "Latter-day Saints in Empowerment Drive"
2016-10-28 "The Parable of the Benevolent Father and Son"
2016-10-28 Peter Drucker's "Mirror Test"
2016-10-28 "Teaching Bible Stories"- History vs. Fiction in the Improvement Era
2016-10-28 Want a laugh? "About Those 'Blacks for Trump' Signs"
2016-10-28 "The Bloody Truth About Vampires"
2016-10-27 "Exclusive: Christ's Burial Place Exposed for First Time in Centuries"
2016-10-27 From 2012: The Jewish radio talk show host Dennis Prager responds to an anti-Mormon
2016-10-27 I really miss him this election year.
2016-10-27 "Temples topic of several conferences, lectures in early November"
2016-10-27 "Lou Dobbs’ Rant About ‘Mormon Mafia’ [on Fox Business] Becomes Twitter’s Best New Hashtag"
2016-10-27 Some materials on Trump, McMullin, Mormons, and Utah
2016-10-27 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 39: 3Ne 17-19
2016-10-26 CNN: "Mormon and gay: Church says you can be both"
2016-10-26 "BYU adopts amnesty clause, other 'sweeping changes' to help sexual assault victims"
2016-10-26 "Lügenpresse"
2016-10-26 Hurray! It may or may not be fine if you are Mormon and Gay!
2016-10-26 Of beastliness
2016-10-26 The Church posts two new items related to homosexuality
2016-10-26 "Mormons Determined to Give White House to Clinton, and Supreme Court to Left"
2016-10-25 "Closing in on a Giant Ghost Planet"
2016-10-25 A Palestinian Mormon perspective on the gathering of Israel
2016-10-25 "Watch Donald Trump Heap Praise On Bill And Hillary Clinton (VIDEO)"
2016-10-25 On watching the polls
2016-10-24 An Election Unworthy of America
2016-10-24 "How Could Ye Have Departed from the Ways of the Lord?"
2016-10-24 Companions and other projects for the DR-Congo
2016-10-24 "Evan McMullin: the 'unknown Mormon' who could take Utah from Trump and Clinton"
2016-10-24 "This is My Gospel"
2016-10-24 "Washing Clay from the Eyes: How Enoch Became a Seer"
2016-10-24 Relief and joy
2016-10-23 Not a Democracy, Not a Dictatorship: My Big Fat Mormon Family
2016-10-23 Duty
2016-10-23 Quite a German day
2016-10-23 Sunday night, at the corner of 8th South and 8th East, in Orem, Utah
2016-10-23 "What it’s like to experience the 2016 election as both a conservative and a sex abuse survivor"
2016-10-22 The Spiritual Dilemma of the LDS Church's Overblown Wealth
2016-10-22 "Action Movie Kid"
2016-10-22 "Source: ISIS executes hundreds of Mosul area residents"
2016-10-22 "McMullin surge threatens to squeeze Trump's already narrow path to victory"
2016-10-22 "Did 40-year-old Viking experiment discover life on Mars?"
2016-10-21 "On the Dating of Moroni 8-9"
2016-10-21 Is 3 Nephi's account of massive destruction even remotely plausible?
2016-10-21 "Trump: The Game"
2016-10-21 On asking forgiveness
2016-10-21 Two worlds
2016-10-21 "What is scientism?"
2016-10-21 Los Angeles Times: "Donald Trump has a Mormon problem"
2016-10-20 "Why the Other Accounts of the First Vision Shouldn’t Challenge Your Faith"
2016-10-20 Provisional, almost complete program for 5 November temple conference at BYU
2016-10-20 "Utah is the Political Conscience of the Nation"
2016-10-20 "The inspired plans for the Kirtland Temple"
2016-10-20 From one who did
2016-10-19 CNN: "Mormons offended by Trump could upend two-party tradition"
2016-10-19 "Venus explodes with volcanoes in the present day"
2016-10-19 "'Hand of God moments' lead Philadelphia 76ers CEO to join LDS Church"
2016-10-19 "The Parallel Books of Nephi"
2016-10-19 "What Ammon's Story Can Teach Us about Blessing China"
2016-10-19 "Terror and a Generation of Nihilists: A Conversation with Olivier Roy"
2016-10-19 "As final debate looms, Utah emerges as conscience of Republican Party"
2016-10-19 Resolution for tomorrow
2016-10-19 "Question For Jeremy Runnells (CES Letter)"
2016-10-19 "Mindy Finn's Quest for the Vice Presidency"
2016-10-19 "Vivir Mi Vida"
2016-10-18 Review of The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Companion, ed. John Barton
2016-10-18 "NASA’s Bold Plan to Hunt for Fossils on Mars"
2016-10-18 Hidden chambers in the Great Pyramid?
2016-10-18 "A Man’s Generosity Inside A Denny’s Ended Up Changing A Mother’s Life"
2016-10-17 Trump Triggering PTSD in Sexual Assault Victims
2016-10-17 "Book of Mormon Wordprint Analysis"
2016-10-17 "Book of Mormon Wordprint Analysis"
2016-10-17 But what about the Supreme Court????
2016-10-17 Huffington Post: "Mormons’ Consciences Have Put White Evangelicals To Shame This Election"
2016-10-17 Where to Go? Destinations and Mormon Shame
2016-10-17 Fear and loathing in the age of Trump
2016-10-17 A brief but interesting preview of a forthcoming LDS book on the early chapters of Genesis
2016-10-17 The Church that some love to hate...
2016-10-17 Order and Symmetry at the Roots
2016-10-16 An update and book preview
2016-10-16 A thought from classical Sanskrit
2016-10-16 An embarrassing few minutes on CNN
2016-10-15 "Strange signals from 234 stars could be ET – or human error"
2016-10-15 Mormon women oppose Hillary Clinton because she doesn't speak in a "Primary Voice"
2016-10-15 Toward a double standard
2016-10-15 "Why was the New Testament written in Greek?"
2016-10-15 Unworthy of the citizens of a republic
2016-10-15 "Reform Jewish Leader Responds to Donald Trump's Remarks"
2016-10-14 "There Could Be Martian Life on Earth"
2016-10-14 Are you STILL not checking in regularly on Book of Mormon Central?
2016-10-14 "Reclaiming Jacob"
2016-10-14 On good work
2016-10-14 How Polygamy Harms Women: A Personal Response
2016-10-14 "First Presidency 2016 Letter Encouraging Political Participation, Voting in US"
2016-10-14 "'It's like living in a bubble': inside the lives of Mormon missionaries in Australia"
2016-10-14 "Disappearing the Jewish Connection to the Temple Mount"
2016-10-14 "The Universe May Contain 10 Times More Galaxies than We Thought"
2016-10-13 A former Miss Utah recounts her experience with the most woman-respecting man on Earth
2016-10-13 Why This is So Hard, and Still Worth Doing
2016-10-13 Interesting items on Donald Trump and religion
2016-10-13 "Decisions and revelation by study and also by faith"
2016-10-13 "He Did Expound All Things Unto Them"
2016-10-13 An exemplar for American youth
2016-10-13 "As a man thinketh, so is he" (loosely, Proverbs 23:7)
2016-10-12 "Be extraordinarily cautious about the newest alien claim"
2016-10-12 "2,200 years ago in Turkey, this disturbing rental agreement was inscribed in stone"
2016-10-12 "Then will I gather them in"
2016-10-12 "The Salt Lake Remonstrance: Mormons are out-Baptist-ing Baptists (in a good way)"
2016-10-12 "It's the Supreme Court, stupid!"
2016-10-12 Working Together to Prevent Suicide
2016-10-12 "Behold, my joy is full"
2016-10-12 A "hot mike" is ALWAYS possible
2016-10-11 "The Black Death"
2016-10-11 "CNN: When Did Mormons Become Stronger in the Teachings of Christ Than Christian Leaders?"
2016-10-11 No commandment that we cannot fulfill...
2016-10-10 "Are These New Dead Sea Scrolls the Real Thing?"
2016-10-10 You should really come along in June.
2016-10-10 Heading toward the iceberg
2016-10-10 Yearning for a little class and decency in candidates for the White House?
2016-10-10 Will Mormons be leaders in rebuilding the post-Trump Republican Party?
2016-10-10 "Designation, Demonstration, and Confirmation: Nephi and the Three-Stage Process of Gaining Power in Israel"
2016-10-09 On having friends
2016-10-09 Whoa! This can't BE!
2016-10-09 "3 questions and 3 myths about the Americas before Columbus arrived"
2016-10-09 "Nephi's Larger Chiasms: New Insights into His Intentional Craftsmanship"
2016-10-09 "Our Post-Christian Culture Often Replaces Faith with Nonsense"
2016-10-09 Political, and not really very suited for the Sabbath
2016-10-09 On the "veil"
2016-10-08 The Deseret News, today: "In our opinion: Donald Trump should resign his candidacy"
2016-10-08 The Backstory to Elder Eyring's Age of the Earth Comment and Creationism
2016-10-08 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 38: 3Nephi 12-15
2016-10-08 "A new Quran attempts to bridge divide between Christians and Muslims"
2016-10-08 "One by one, one by one"
2016-10-08 "Your Yawn Reveals the Size of Your Brain"
2016-10-08 Is there any hope, any way forward?
2016-10-08 The Trump campaign may finally have imploded
2016-10-08 On keeping bad company
2016-10-07 "Trump recorded having extremely lewd conversation about women in 2005"
2016-10-07 "Nephi's Use of Inverted Parallels"
2016-10-07 Small fireside tonight
2016-10-07 "Mesmerizing Interiors Of Iran’s Mosques Captured In Rare Photographs By Mohammad Domiri"
2016-10-07 "Pronouns and Pastors: Massachusetts Law Threatens Churches over Transgenderism"
2016-10-07 I've selected some interesting political reading to recommend to you
2016-10-07 A bit ahead of his time
2016-10-07 Orson Pratt home in St. George -- about to be demolished?
2016-10-06 "'Alien Megastructure' Star Keeps Getting Stranger"
2016-10-06 On following the beaten path
2016-10-06 "On taking the leap of faith"
2016-10-06 Temple conference, on November 5th!
2016-10-06 "Ancient gate-shrine discovered just outside Jerusalem supports Biblical story of temple desecration"
2016-10-06 "Pew Research Shares 6 Incredible Findings About Mormons Everyone Should Know"
2016-10-06 Cod with foreign accents may be at a disadvantage in finding mates
2016-10-06 On self-pity
2016-10-05 "Muharram 2016: 4 Key Facts About Islamic New Year As Muslim Celebration Begins"
2016-10-05 "Astronomy's 'Dark Horse' Lit Up by Hubble"
2016-10-05 One curious aspect of some critics' response to the leaked videos
2016-10-05 On being offended
2016-10-04 Mr. Trump, regarding women
2016-10-04 Salt Lake Tribune Op-ed: Accurate Sex Education for Teens
2016-10-04 New York Times: "Becoming a Salt Lake City convert"
2016-10-04 "Abraham, Human Sacrifice, and Conspiracy"
2016-10-03 "Robert F. Smith and the Preposterous Book of Mormon"
2016-10-03 "80% of data in Chinese clinical trials have been fabricated"
2016-10-03 The miracle of email (and the internet)
2016-10-03 "LDS Church responds to leaked videos of briefings for Mormon apostles"
2016-10-03 Announcement: Faith and Knowledge 2017
2016-10-03 God and nature
2016-10-02 "Old Things Are Done Away, and All Things Have Become New"
2016-10-02 "Frequent Church Attendance Highest in Utah, Lowest in Vermont"
2016-10-02 Of general conference and the recent presidential debate
2016-10-02 What is the nature of the universe?
2016-10-02 "Clean Water for 27 Villages in India"
2016-10-02 "Dramatic footage captures Syrian rescue worker breaking down in tears as he frees baby from rubble"
2016-10-02 How is BYU doing?
2016-10-02 For those who seek peace
2016-10-02 "Trump Tax Records Obtained by The Times Reveal He Could Have Avoided Paying Taxes for Nearly Two Decades"
2016-10-02 "Can an atheist lead a Protestant church? A battle over religion in Canada."
2016-10-01 "The 'opening' of the Qur’an"
2016-10-01 "Perpetual Education Fund's success led to massive expansion of LDS effort to lift the poor"
2016-10-01 "Internal Book of Mormon Evidence: The Lesson of Proto-Indo-European"
2016-10-01 Chicago Tribune: "A principled option for U.S. president: Endorsing Gary Johnson, Libertarian"
2016-10-01 An interesting fundamental description of religion
2016-10-01 Winding down in Kirtland
2016-09-30 "USA Today's Editorial Board: Trump is 'unfit for the presidency'"
2016-09-30 "'Creator of the First Day': The Glossing of Lord of Sabaoth in D&C 95:7"
2016-09-30 "Ancient Roman coins found in ruined Japanese castle"
2016-09-30 I'm Gay and this is My Church Too!
2016-09-30 Christian Science Monitor: "New temple highlights Mormon church growth, bucking national trend"
2016-09-30 "ISIS Soldiers 'Beheaded' And 'Cooked' By Anti-Islamic State Machete-Wielding Woman Jihadi Hunter In Iraq"
2016-09-30 From a nearly forgotten president
2016-09-30 "Regarding the Alleged Handwriting of Abraham"
2016-09-30 "Does archaeology have a reproducibility crisis?"
2016-09-29 A new test for identifying real prophets and apostles?
2016-09-29 "NASA says it may have spotted water plumes on Jupiter's moon"
2016-09-29 A Painful Analogy
2016-09-29 "Hyrum Smith is an impressive witness"
2016-09-29 Along the Chagrin
2016-09-29 About Geauga County
2016-09-29 Ancient Semitic languages in the New World?
2016-09-29 Sidney Rigdon's church finally runs out of steam
2016-09-28 Eavesdropping on the Big Bang
2016-09-28 Troubling Report is Disavowed - Yes, of course!
2016-09-28 Friendships
2016-09-28 Perfectionism is a Poser
2016-09-28 "Basic Beliefs" of Community of Christ
2016-09-28 "The weekend America's newspapers called Donald Trump a liar"
2016-09-28 "Man who led police to bombing suspect is an immigrant, too"
2016-09-27 "‘Phenomenal’ ancient Chinese skeleton discovery in London graveyard casts new light on Roman society"
2016-09-27 Review of Debra Scoggins Ballentine, The Conflict Myth and the Biblical Tradition (2015)
2016-09-27 10 Things Polygamy Gave Mormonism
2016-09-27 On last night's debate
2016-09-27 A report from Geauga County
2016-09-27 A challenging standard
2016-09-26 "Virtue" Reclaimed
2016-09-26 "How Old is the Bible?"
2016-09-26 "Prominent theologian says secularism, not religion, is set to decline"
2016-09-25 "Abraham and Idrimi"
2016-09-25 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 37: 3Ne 8-10
2016-09-25 "Whosoever Will Come, Him Will I Receive"
2016-09-25 "What happened when Christian writers watched an all-Muslim movie?"
2016-09-25 The inescapable choice
2016-09-25 Joseph Smith as a businessman at Kirtland
2016-09-25 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 36: 3 Nephi1-7
2016-09-25 A simple basic distinction between science, morality, and religion
2016-09-24 Toronto Star: "Mormon mommies have the best blogs"
2016-09-24 "The God of Truth"
2016-09-24 "Scanning software deciphers ancient biblical scroll"
2016-09-24 "Mitt Romney is an extraordinarily, remarkably, astonishingly generous man. A good man. Maybe even a great man."
2016-09-23 Mr. Cruz endorses Mr. Trump
2016-09-23 Inadvertent theists and atheists
2016-09-23 "Assessing the Joseph Smith Papyri: An Introduction to the Historiography of their Acquisitions, Translations, and Interpretations"
2016-09-23 Why are Ex-Mormons "So Angry"?
2016-09-23 "New Mormon church-owned skyscraper brings high hopes to Salt Lake City"
2016-09-23 "Muslim. Black. Women."
2016-09-23 "Christians aren't stupid, and atheists aren't evil"
2016-09-23 Honoring the potential in even apparently unpromising people
2016-09-23 Why Science is (Mostly) Powerless Against Young Earth Creationism: A Personal Narrative
2016-09-22 "How Faith-Based Groups Power the U.S. Economy"
2016-09-22 "Hanks and Eastwood Bring the Right Stuff to Sully's Tale"
2016-09-22 "Donald Trump Cannot Save Our Republic"
2016-09-22 A new ugliness in American political life
2016-09-22 "An ancient American book, dismissed as a fraud, proves to be genuine"
2016-09-22 "Have a curry leaf tree or a lime bush in your garden? Then you sure would have spotted the Common Mormon."
2016-09-22 "Why Do Tourists Visit Ancient Ruins Everywhere Except the United States?"
2016-09-22 Two Quotations on Humility
2016-09-21 "BYU Humanities Professor Commended by the Foreign Minister of Japan"
2016-09-21 "Refuge from the Storm"
2016-09-21 "Toward a 'Better, Richer Understanding' — Introducing Mormonism Inside and Out"
2016-09-21 Maybe we should retire the insulting term "birdbrain"?
2016-09-21 "Catholic Professor: The Book of Mormon Is a Miraculous Text"
2016-09-21 What is Love?
2016-09-21 Can Hillary Clinton, notorious founder of the "birther" movement, win Utah?
2016-09-20 "Spelling" as evidence for God
2016-09-20 "Citizens or Subjects"
2016-09-20 "Child Killing Center Soon in the Netherlands"
2016-09-20 "Delete It!"
2016-09-20 "How was there a night without darkness?"
2016-09-20 "It’s Time We Faced the Facts about the Muslim World"
2016-09-20 Has the Canadian government just seized control of religious groups there?
2016-09-20 Our child custody arrangement needs to change...
2016-09-20 Children Preparing a Video for the Star Valley Wyoming Temple Dedication
2016-09-20 A Critique on "The Great Porn Experiment"
2016-09-20 "A man who lives without 90% of his brain is challenging our concept of 'consciousness'"
2016-09-20 Why an ideologue can't lose
2016-09-19 "Archbishop blasts claim that ‘religious freedom’ is code for discrimination"
2016-09-19 Fighting back against the Mormon traitors!
2016-09-19 "Scared? Make women disrobe"
2016-09-19 "'R' Is for Red: Common Words Share Similar Sounds in Many Languages"
2016-09-19 "Will You Engage in the Wrestle?"
2016-09-19 Science as a means of worship
2016-09-18 What is goodness, according to the Qur’an?
2016-09-18 "Been Restored"
2016-09-18 Seeing "signs" in nature
2016-09-18 Fireside tonight
2016-09-18 "Philly to Mormons: Come, come, ye saints — with new LDS temple and apartment tower, all is well"
2016-09-18 "Presiding Bishop Visits Refugee Shelters in Berlin"
2016-09-18 Controlling your thoughts
2016-09-17 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 35: Helaman 13-16
2016-09-17 "Not Even Close: Faculty Gender Bias at the BYUs"
2016-09-17 A new website on "Religious Freedom"
2016-09-17 A Postscript to "On Hating BYU"
2016-09-17 "Rich history in roots of religious terms"
2016-09-17 I'm aroused... Now what?
2016-09-17 "Muslims surpass atheists as most unpopular group in U.S."
2016-09-17 Liquid water on Mars (and, thus, potential for life) later than previously thought?
2016-09-17 The three most important things in life.
2016-09-16 On hating BYU
2016-09-16 "Religion in US Worth $1.2 Trillion to Economy"
2016-09-16 "Pluto Has A Comet-Like Tail, X-Rays, NASA Discovers"
2016-09-16 The "New Hampshire Union Leader" breaks with a century of tradition
2016-09-16 "The Changing Forms of the Latter-day Saint Sacrament"
2016-09-16 Elder Holland at Windsor Castle: Mormon Migration Provides Insights to Help Modern Refugees
2016-09-16 "On the Morrow Come I Into the World"
2016-09-16 The importance of good manners
2016-09-16 "How will humans look 10,000-100,000 years from now?"
2016-09-16 Is Religious Feeling Manufactured?
2016-09-16 "It's now time for the NCAA to kick out BYU"
2016-09-16 Are Mormon Men Weak Minded?
2016-09-16 "2016’s Happiest States in America"
2016-09-16 "Repent and Return Unto the Lord"
2016-09-16 A thought from Dr. Johnson
2016-09-15 "Embattled Christians push for homeland in Middle East"
2016-09-15 "Mormon Heavenly Mother featured in Deseret Book bestseller"
2016-09-15 The Kaepernick "Conversation"
2016-09-15 "Online trolls are psychopaths and sadists, psychologists claim"
2016-09-15 "The LDS Church will never have the world's universal approval"
2016-09-15 "'Love Wins.' Charity Loses."
2016-09-15 "Coming Challenges to Religious Liberty: What’s on the Horizon?"
2016-09-15 He would have been 103 today.
2016-09-15 No Repentance Needed for Abuse Survivors!!
2016-09-15 On being obsessed with the supposed faults of others
2016-09-14 "Break the tradition of education by lectures and learn more by doing"
2016-09-14 "When did ‘modesty’ become a dirty word?"
2016-09-14 "Evidence Rebuts Chomsky's Theory of Language Learning"
2016-09-14 We favor diversity, of course. But only for those who don't diverge.
2016-09-14 Where can Mormons turn who can't vote for Mr. Trump?
2016-09-14 The Guam Daily Post: "Please Pray for David Sneddon"
2016-09-14 Moroni Day 2016 is rapidly approaching!
2016-09-14 The power of thinking
2016-09-14 Upcoming Presentations - Take Advantage
2016-09-13 On the clothing worn by some Muslim women
2016-09-13 אל קנה ארץ: Creator, Begetter, or Owner of the Earth?
2016-09-13 "Medical Expert Confirms Unborn Children Feel Excruciating Pain During Abortions"
2016-09-13 This really irritated some critics of Mormonism
2016-09-13 "Do Christians Belong in the Public World?"
2016-09-13 "4-year-old begins gender transition in Australia"
2016-09-13 "Anti-Gay, Anti-Catholic, Anti-Mormon Pastor Accuses Hillary Clinton Of 'Hate Speech'"
2016-09-13 When other helpers fail, and comforts flee
2016-09-13 Research as worship
2016-09-13 Elder Holland, speaking at Windsor Castle on refugees and violence against women
2016-09-12 "Surprising Mosaics Revealed in Ancient Synagogue in Israel"
2016-09-12 A prisoner in Pyongyang?
2016-09-12 Timing your kindnesses
2016-09-12 Electing America's first African president
2016-09-12 Politisches.
2016-09-12 Criticizing is easy.
2016-09-12 Messages Teens Pick Up when we Teach Shame-Based Sex Ed
2016-09-12 Brigham Young, Studying Evil, and Living in a Bubble
2016-09-12 A Nobel laureate's testimony
2016-09-11 "'Yeah, but' Discipleship"
2016-09-11 "Religious liberty," just a code word for hate and bigotry?
2016-09-11 Suggesting a way to NOT make enemies.
2016-09-11 Remember.
2016-09-11 A "fraudulent" ancient American text turns out to be authentic.
2016-09-11 A graphic novel about being an LDS missionary in Japan?
2016-09-11 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 34: Helaman 6-12
2016-09-11 A $1.25 million donation from the LDS Church for refugee resettlement
2016-09-11 "Fisherman for the Poor: Tongan Latter-day Saint spearfishes at night to feed those in need"
2016-09-10 "Exclusive: Barbra Streisand Sings 'Send in the Clowns' Trump Parody at Clinton Fundraiser & We've Got the Lyrics (and Video)!"
2016-09-10 What is our worst fault? Here's one answer to that question.
2016-09-10 "Trump's Washington Policy Staff Walk Out on Him"
2016-09-10 "Sept. 11 Marked Turning Point For Muslims In Increasingly Diverse America"
2016-09-10 This doesn't exactly support the "Heartland Model" of Book of Mormon geography.
2016-09-10 "Giant Triassic Predator, Named for Baby-Eating Monster, Discovered in New Mexico"
2016-09-10 Dissent will not be tolerated.
2016-09-09 "LDS Church launches 'Preventing Suicide' website during National Suicide Prevention Week"
2016-09-09 Books, Homes, and Al-Jahiz
2016-09-09 "Three Degrees of Gospel Understanding"
2016-09-09 "Flat-Earthers Have a Wild New Theory About Forests"
2016-09-09 "Of bread, bribes and fungus"
2016-09-09 "The Day an LDS Woman Saw Heaven and Decided to Stay on Earth"
2016-09-09 Another potentially very grave threat to religious liberty
2016-09-09 The tired question: Do people "choose" to be gay?
2016-09-09 "Extreme Vetting"
2016-09-09 The most accurate portrait of Joseph Smith ever?
2016-09-09 Atlantis Article... Are you kidding me?
2016-09-09 ThinkProgress: "Inside Donald Trump's 'Tremendous Problem' in Utah"
2016-09-09 Large hearts and small hearts
2016-09-08 Have you been following this story?
2016-09-08 We are so...
2016-09-08 "Understanding Islam"
2016-09-08 "World's top climate scientists told to 'cover up' the fact that the Earth's temperature hasn't risen for the last 15 years"
2016-09-08 If you want to know about Mormonism, ask a Mormon. Right?
2016-09-08 "Rejoicing in the communion of the Saints"
2016-09-08 What is a cynic?
2016-09-08 How We Know What We Know
2016-09-08 Toward a "Better, Richer Understanding" -- Introducing Mormonism Inside and Out
2016-09-08 "BYU professor works with University of Utah library to translate 1700-year-old obituary"
2016-09-08 Blind to the imperfections of others
2016-09-08 "Why It's So Hard to Find the Next Earth, Even If You're Looking Right at It"
2016-09-07 "City Creek and the Choices of Thrift"
2016-09-07 "The Critic's Chair"
2016-09-07 On fault-finding
2016-09-07 BOM Alma 61
2016-09-07 Beware of Sex Addiction Assessments
2016-09-07 Another note regarding the disdain shown in some quarters for Mormon humanitarian assistance
2016-09-07 "Barack Obama Just Nominated A Muslim To Be A Federal Judge. That’s A First."
2016-09-07 Looking toward our full flowering
2016-09-07 "Cosmonauts who vie to show their devotion"
2016-09-07 A final note on my recent visit to Norway
2016-09-06 Other Sheep I Have: Fear
2016-09-06 LDS Charities
2016-09-06 "Florida bans one-piece swimsuits"
2016-09-06 "How Could You Have Forgotten Your God?"
2016-09-06 The Atlantic: "Utah is 2016's Strangest Swing State"
2016-09-06 "Locked In": A Look at Life on American Indian Reservations
2016-09-06 Beware of Sex Addiction Treatment
2016-09-06 "The Meaning of 'Mormon': Responding to a Misinformed Critic"
2016-09-06 Uzzah's Mormon Wish List
2016-09-06 "Physicists Go Hunting for Consciousness"
2016-09-06 On the 2016 presidential election
2016-09-06 "A Sure Foundation"
2016-09-06 "LDS leaders visit flood victims in Louisiana"
2016-09-06 "Hillary Clinton Is Even More Dishonest than You Thought"
2016-09-05 "Middle Eastern Pathologies Chase after Those Who Run"
2016-09-05 "Promoting Infanticide in 'Newsweek'"
2016-09-05 "Baseball's Storyteller, Our Friend"
2016-09-05 "Just a Nice Old Man Who Tells Stories?"
2016-09-05 Measurement and Reality
2016-09-05 Three comments from Milton Friedman
2016-09-04 "Kenyan churches, mosques painted yellow to symbolize love"
2016-09-04 "Elizabeth Smart Shares How Teaching Chastity the Wrong Way at Church Has Harmful, Lasting Effects"
2016-09-04 "Close-ups of Jupiter's poles show unexpected weather"
2016-09-04 "Mormon Helping Hands Clean Out Flooded Homes in Louisiana" (Plus a Note on Africa)
2016-09-04 The urgent necessity of forgiveness
2016-09-04 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 33: Helaman 1-5 Notes and Questions
2016-09-04 Meridian Magazine: "Why I Can't Manage to Disbelieve"
2016-09-04 He'll bring his brilliant business practices to the White House and thrill America's youth!
2016-09-03 Review of Biblical Interpretation Beyond Historicity, ed. Ingrid Hjelm and Thomas L. Thompson
2016-09-03 Weird anti-Mormonism, in Turkey, Iowa, and Logan, Utah... and maybe in Venezuela
2016-09-03 Rather like geometry
2016-09-03 Interested in movies and pop culture?
2016-09-03 "Will Utah's conservative Mormons vote for Hillary Clinton?"
2016-09-03 "Written in their hearts"
2016-09-03 "10 movies to keep the summer vibes going"
2016-09-02 Driving religious believers out of the medical profession?
2016-09-02 "Louisiana Love displayed to over 6,000 Mormon Helping Hands"
2016-09-02 "'With the Tongue of Angels': Angelic Speech as a Form of Deification"
2016-09-02 Understanding the Other
2016-09-02 "As Predicted, Gay Activists Attack the Messengers, Ignore the Evidence"
2016-09-02 A threat of mass murder against an LDS congregation in Scotland
2016-09-02 "Utah Mormon David Sneddon missing since 2004 ‘in N. Korea acting as Kim Jong-Un’s personal tutor’"
2016-09-02 "Louisiana's Governor Praises Mormons: 'I Have No Doubt God Sent You Here'"
2016-09-02 Equality and Government Power
2016-09-01 "LDS Young Men Leader Drowns on Scouting Trip, Says Priesthood Blessing Helped Revive Him"
2016-09-01 "'I found my voice as a Mormon': Chedda Burger chef shares testimony of joining LDS Church"
2016-09-01 "Utah tops the nation in attending arts events"
2016-09-01 "A Celebration of Death"
2016-09-01 Five articles related to religious liberty
2016-09-01 "Islam in Western Cinema, Part 4 -- The Journey Through American Islam"
2016-09-01 "Are the New Testament documents reliable?"
2016-09-01 "These Might Be the Oldest Fossils Ever Discovered"
2016-09-01 "Balancing Freedom, Fairness, and Love in the Public Square"
2016-09-01 Learning from the "enemy"
2016-08-31 "Fifty Years Ago Today: The Last Beatles Concert"
2016-08-31 "Does Donald Trump Have a Path to 270?"
2016-08-31 Tolerance and Freedom
2016-08-31 "Religious Freedom Is Not an Indulgence Doled Out by the State"
2016-08-31 News coverage of the new Philadelphia Pennsylvania Temple
2016-08-31 Have we been grossly misled on questions of gayness and gender?
2016-08-31 God as sculptor
2016-08-31 "How Do We Know the Universe is 13.8 Billion Years Old?"
2016-08-31 BYU takes the honor for the nineteenth year in a row!
2016-08-31 The Dutch "Freedom Party" of Geert Wilders
2016-08-30 "ESPN analyst Desmond Howard’s call on BYU is most ‘foul’"
2016-08-30 Love and the Other
2016-08-30 "Trump Campaign CEO Cited Mormon Missionary Service To Slam Romney Sons"
2016-08-30 A Ward's Embrace to a Gay LDS Couple
2016-08-30 "Corvallis woman who taught at American University reacts to attack"
2016-08-30 "The contrast between the on-line Mormon world and the real Mormon world"
2016-08-30 "The Cosmos Might Be Mostly Devoid of Life"
2016-08-30 On loving and liking
2016-08-29 Another publication from BYU's Middle Eastern Texts Initiative
2016-08-29 "Rethinking Mormons and Porn"
2016-08-29 Holding on to those in Faith Crisis: A Sacrament Talk
2016-08-29 What is Sex Positivity?
2016-08-29 Have we now received a signal from an extraterrestrial civilization?
2016-08-29 "Has the 2016 election produced a political 'Mormon Moment'?"
2016-08-29 "That Big List of Challenges in Anti-Mormon Literature"
2016-08-29 God's love
2016-08-29 "Why America's 'Nones' Left Religion Behind"
2016-08-29 Useful data on the scope of LDS humanitarian efforts
2016-08-28 "Christianity Belongs in the Middle East"
2016-08-28 "Divorce rates double when people start watching porn"
2016-08-28 NBC News: "The Future of the Mormon Church? It's Latino."
2016-08-28 Revelatory
2016-08-27 "New article of faith for these Mormons: We believe Trump should never be president"
2016-08-27 "The Logic Tree of Life, or, Why I Can’t Manage to Disbelieve"
2016-08-27 "Most scientific findings are wrong or useless"
2016-08-27 "Forced unveiling of Muslim women"
2016-08-27 "Why 'Rogue One' will be more than just another Star Wars movie"
2016-08-27 Blake's "Jerusalem"
2016-08-26 "Under the Dark Spell of Trump, Jerry Falwell Jr. Is Damaging Public Christian Witness"
2016-08-26 "Aliens for neighbours? How the discovery of a new planet challenges Christians"
2016-08-26 "London activists, J.K. Rowling react to burkini ban in France"
2016-08-26 "Reading 'A Pentecostal Reads the Book of Mormon'"
2016-08-26 That list of influential Mormons, again
2016-08-26 "Response to attack on LDS Church's immigration stance"
2016-08-26 England
2016-08-25 "When Did Bill Nye 'the Science Guy' Become So Insufferable?"
2016-08-25 Slavery in the Eschatological Kingdom
2016-08-25 "Bellingham girl receives care package from Brigham Young University"
2016-08-25 Women running a "fatwa hotline" in the Gulf
2016-08-25 "Responding religiously to the challenge of human evil"
2016-08-25 "Newsmax's Fifty Most Influential Mormons in America"
2016-08-25 "'Love Wins,' and Charity Loses"
2016-08-25 Will consciousness remain a mystery to science?
2016-08-25 "Race and the Priesthood"
2016-08-24 Why do you still care? #2
2016-08-24 Fall term is about to begin at BYU
2016-08-24 On fairness in judging others
2016-08-23 "'Daughters of Christ': Finding Language to Talk about Women and Priesthood"
2016-08-23 "Weeping, Wailing, and Gnashing of Teeth? No Need to Grieve Over Another Case of Alleged Plagiarism in the Book of Mormon"
2016-08-23 "King Noah and Maya Kingship"
2016-08-23 "How Vikings Could Get Away with Murder"
2016-08-23 "Why the Public Should Mistrust Science"
2016-08-23 Have You Forgotten? Part 2 - The Danger of Standing Ovations
2016-08-23 Why do you still care? #1
2016-08-23 "Will the Mormon Church’s Support for Muslim Immigration Block Trump’s Victory?"
2016-08-22 "More Effective Apologetics"
2016-08-22 Another day in Norway
2016-08-22 Who Are the Real Mormons?
2016-08-22 Should I Stay or Should I Go?
2016-08-22 He clomb, he clumb, he climbed.
2016-08-21 "Who's afraid of religious liberty?"
2016-08-20 "What one Louisiana flood survivor had to say about Mormons"
2016-08-20 "Changes in Languages from Nephi to Now"
2016-08-20 "Why no one believed Einstein"
2016-08-20 Viking words of wisdom -- or folly
2016-08-20 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 32: Alma 53-63 "The War Chapters Part II"
2016-08-20 "Why doesn't the public trust science?"
2016-08-20 The Dead Sea is dying.
2016-08-20 New SquareTwo
2016-08-20 Giving women better titles in the Church?
2016-08-20 A genuinely inspiring moment from the Olympics
2016-08-20 "What a 'fatwa' is and is not"
2016-08-19 Friday night in Oslo
2016-08-19 Patrick Mason at the 2016 FairMormon Conference
2016-08-19 "Remembering and Honoring Maori Latter-day Saints"
2016-08-19 Thankfully, it's not ours to judge.
2016-08-19 "The Tragic Transgender Contagion"
2016-08-19 In which I emit a tiny squeak from my place under the bus
2016-08-19 Critical Scholarship and Faith at BYU, Brief Partial Summary and Thoughts
2016-08-19 "Who are the Kurds?"
2016-08-19 "What is the Earliest Evidence for Life on Earth?"
2016-08-19 Reflections on the riots in Milwaukee
2016-08-19 "Examining the Book of Mormon text: Scholars present findings"
2016-08-19 A leading Israeli newspaper notes the question of Utah, Mormon voters, and Trump
2016-08-19 A good kind of envy
2016-08-18 "This is a Woman's Church"
2016-08-18 Still in Oslo
2016-08-18 Moral Judgement and the Problem of Protecting the Church's 'Good Name'
2016-08-18 A superb talk from Elder Holland
2016-08-18 "Little boy in Aleppo a vivid reminder of war's horror"
2016-08-18 "The Observable Universe Just Got a Bit Smaller"
2016-08-18 Deseret News: "Donald Trump: Utah can help make America great again"
2016-08-18 "Air Force officer faces investigation over Bible on his desk"
2016-08-18 "Is the Book of Mormon a literal translation from the plates?"
2016-08-18 The Human Condition
2016-08-18 "Christian filmmaker claims his new documentary proves God exists"
2016-08-18 "The rise of Mussolini -- and what we can learn from it"
2016-08-17 Have You Forgotten? (Part 1)
2016-08-17 "The Book of Mormon as a Second Witness for Christ"
2016-08-17 "Trump is Conservatism's Dunkirk"
2016-08-17 "Joseph Smith's Seer Stones"
2016-08-17 "Scientists find ‘closest ever’ second Earth outside our solar system – but won’t say so"
2016-08-16 From a very great Norwegian writer
2016-08-16 Another day in Oslo
2016-08-16 Talking Points Memo: "Mormon Voters' Antipathy Toward Trump Has Roots In The Church's Own History"
2016-08-16 "I'm a spy for the Mormon Church"
2016-08-15 A day afoot in central Oslo
2016-08-15 "Mulek, Son of Zedekiah"
2016-08-15 "Northwest Nazarene professor shares views on God, loses academic freedom"
2016-08-15 It came from beyond the Planet Neptune
2016-08-15 Brian and Laura Hales speak in Sweden on early Mormon plural marriage
2016-08-15 "How can we give to the Lord?"
2016-08-15 "The Late War Against the Book of Mormon"
2016-08-15 "New Taiwan Website Marks 80th for Mormon Newsroom"
2016-08-14 "They Did Obey Every Word of Command with Exactness"
2016-08-14 What should we CALL that woman?
2016-08-14 God and thinking
2016-08-14 I'm apparently not here.
2016-08-13 Church members helping with the world's massive refugee problem
2016-08-13 "Firm in the Faith of Christ"
2016-08-13 Will I see you in Oslo on Sunday evening?
2016-08-13 Have you seen the Church's Young Single Adults building in Manchester, England?
2016-08-13 Despised Members
2016-08-13 What is a Mia Maid? Change Long Over Due
2016-08-13 Trump's Threat to Mormons
2016-08-12 "The Tyranny of Simple Explanations"
2016-08-12 "Olympians in Hijab and Bikini"
2016-08-12 An interesting interview on Utah, Mormons, Clinton, and Trump
2016-08-12 "Were We Foreordained to the Priesthood, or Was the Standard of Worthiness Foreordained? Alma 13 Reconsidered"
2016-08-12 Why Top Ranking Republicans Back Trump
2016-08-12 The Freiberg Germany Temple
2016-08-12 Please meet a very great man
2016-08-12 "Too good to check: Sean Hannity's tale of a Trump rescue"
2016-08-12 BOM Alma 60
2016-08-12 "Michael Phelps Spots Estranged Father Poseidon In Stands"
2016-08-12 Inspired by this year's presidential campaign, American Muslims have launched a massive voter registration drive.
2016-08-12 (With particular reference to Utah) "Hillary Clinton is No Champion of Religious Freedom"
2016-08-12 "Petroglyphs unearthed along Hawaii's Waianae coast"
2016-08-12 The triumph of socialism in Venezuela
2016-08-12 A stanza for our age?
2016-08-11 "Scholar discusses conflict between gospel and secular ideas about love and charity"
2016-08-11 BOM Alma 59
2016-08-11 "Muslims erect billboard with a tough message for the Islamic State"
2016-08-11 The Big Bang Can't Account for Lithium
2016-08-11 "Professor says he 'can't manage to disbelieve' in the Book of Mormon"
2016-08-11 On accepting the age in which we live
2016-08-11 "Congresswoman reveals what she believes people get wrong about faith and American politicians"
2016-08-11 Two apologies and a request
2016-08-11 "So, how are gay athletes, coaches and fans treated when their teams play at BYU?"
2016-08-11 "Paul and the riots in Ephesus through recent archaeological discoveries"
2016-08-11 Hillary Clinton's Op Ed in Deseret News
2016-08-11 Upcoming Mormon Matters Retreat!
2016-08-11 "Islam in Western Cinema, Part 1"
2016-08-11 "The Pay Gap Myth and Other Lies That Won't Die"
2016-08-10 Interesting coverage of the new temple in Philadelphia
2016-08-10 Atheism as a religion
2016-08-10 "Five myths about sharia"
2016-08-10 If you want to see a truly great presidential campaign ad
2016-08-10 "Plant and animal DNA suggests first Americans took the coastal route"
2016-08-10 Hillary Clinton makes a direct and obvious bid for the Utah Mormon vote
2016-08-10 The Virtue of "Justified Pride"
2016-08-10 Salt Lake City -- Rebel Base?
2016-08-10 Our Divided Community: American Mormonism, New Zealand Mormonism and the Question of War
2016-08-10 I wish I could vote for her.
2016-08-10 What comes first?
2016-08-10 Some Trumpists don't like Mormons very much.
2016-08-10 "Are Religious People More Moral Because They Fear God's Punishment?"
2016-08-09 "A Letter From G.O.P. National Security Officials Opposing Donald Trump"
2016-08-09 Ghost Writers in the Sky?
2016-08-09 Objectivity and Fairness
2016-08-09 "Trump's Mormon Problem"
2016-08-09 For any of you who might be in Oslo, Norway, this coming Sunday
2016-08-09 "LGBT groups: Admitting BYU would be 'inconsistent' with Big 12 values"
2016-08-09 From a great chemist who died just last week
2016-08-08 The presidential race gets just a little bit weirder still
2016-08-08 "Is Islam hostile to science?"
2016-08-08 "12,000-Year-Old Camp Found in Utah May Have Experts 'Adjusting Their Theories'"
2016-08-08 In which I issue a direct personal challenge to certain critics
2016-08-08 "Warfare and the Book of Mormon"
2016-08-08 At the root of our current distemper
2016-08-08 Hillary Is a Protest Vote
2016-08-07 Celebrating the Interpreter Foundation's fourth birthday
2016-08-07 "Woody Allen is wrong about the afterlife"
2016-08-07 A belated report on Friday afternoon at the FairMormon conference
2016-08-07 "Kepler's 'Alien Megastructure' Star Just Got Weirder"
2016-08-07 "America's Largest Outdoor Theatre Event Features 700 Lip Syncing Mormons"
2016-08-07 "An American Muslim Fencer Lunges Into U.S. Olympic History In Rio"
2016-08-07 Religion News Service: "A new Mormon temple rises in Ben Franklin's Philadelphia"
2016-08-07 Martin Luther on the home as a school
2016-08-07 "So yer goin' huntin' agin?"
2016-08-07 On voting for Mr. Trump because of the Supreme Court
2016-08-07 "The Soon-to-Be Biggest Thing in Football Has No Idea What He's In For: Inside 425-Pound Motekiai Langi's Path to BYU"
2016-08-06 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 31: Alma 43-48 aka "The War Chapters I
2016-08-06 A Syrian refugee teen at the Olympics
2016-08-06 "Astronomers list 20 planets most likely to harbor life"
2016-08-06 Progressive feminist Utah
2016-08-06 Venezuela and the glories of democratic socialism
2016-08-06 On having an open mind
2016-08-06 "Maya emblem glyphs and Book of Mormon place names"
2016-08-06 "Harvard Republican Club Issues Blistering Non-Endorsement Of Trump, Breaking 128-Year Streak"
2016-08-05 Friday morning at FairMormon
2016-08-05 "Mormonism, Materialism, and Politics: Six Things We Must Understand in Order to Survive as Latter-day Saints"
2016-08-05 "Muslims in the Military: The Few, the Proud, the Welcome"
2016-08-05 "Have archaeologists found King Arthur's birthplace?"
2016-08-05 "Why Mormons Don't Like Donald Trump"
2016-08-05 Four quotations on the historicity of the Bible
2016-08-05 "How Howard Stern gave us Donald Trump"
2016-08-05 "Gotta Love Millennials"
2016-08-05 "Penthouse goes after Utah governor, Mormon church on anti-porn resolution"
2016-08-04 Thursday afternoon at the 2016 FairMormon conference
2016-08-04 BOM Alma 58
2016-08-04 "Why Do Some Think Churches Contribute 'Nothing' to Solve Social Problems?"
2016-08-04 From the floor of the 2016 FairMormon conference (Thursday morning)
2016-08-04 "Water is a 'wizard of changes'"
2016-08-04 Next June on the Mediterranean?
2016-08-04 Watching Io's atmosphere collapse during a Jovian eclipse
2016-08-04 An observation on relativism
2016-08-03 "Warfare and the Book of Mormon: A Bibliography"
2016-08-03 An addendum regarding METI
2016-08-03 David O. McKay, Genesis, and Evolution: Part 2.
2016-08-03 "Australian Sex Survey Asks about Your Gender" -- and There Are 33 Answer Options
2016-08-03 "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow" (Well, anyway, "tomorrow and tomorrow")
2016-08-03 A gracious note from the new director of the Maxwell Institute
2016-08-03 "Senior GOP Officials Exploring Options If Trump Drops Out"
2016-08-03 How Can a Clear Thinking American Vote for This Man?
2016-08-03 The great fiction
2016-08-02 The First Vision--beyond words
2016-08-02 Senator Hatch, Withdraw Your "Total" Support of Trump
2016-08-02 He continues to dominate the news cycle.
2016-08-02 "A Mormon Convert's Clever Response to an Attack on Her Faith"
2016-08-02 "Much Ado About Nothing"
2016-08-02 "Jupiter's giant red storm makes its atmosphere hotter than molten lava"
2016-08-02 "A First (and Last) Look at the New Mormon Temple"
2016-08-02 Attacking the Muslim parents of a slain U.S. soldier
2016-08-02 Polished Stones
2016-08-01 "The mystery of why you can't remember being a baby"
2016-08-01 Faith in the Good
2016-08-01 "Creating a convincing, cumulative case for the Book of Mormon"
2016-08-01 A thought for the Sabbath from... H. G. Wells?
2016-07-31 "Book Recommendation on Book of Mormon historicity"
2016-07-31 The Book of Mormon Wars
2016-07-31 "Mormon Church pulls missionaries out of Turkey"
2016-07-31 The greatest verse in the Qur’an?
2016-07-31 "You are what you eat"?
2016-07-31 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 30: Alma 40-42, Three Generations of Repentance
2016-07-31 Are humans of the race of the Gods?
2016-07-31 BOM Alma 57
2016-07-31 What to expect
2016-07-30 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 29: Alma 36-39 Notes and Suggestions
2016-07-30 Three thoughts on Islam
2016-07-30 Against simplistic reasoning -- in science, history, politics, religious disputes, and so forth
2016-07-30 Mormons, Evangelicals, and Current American Politics
2016-07-30 Why Utahns, Mormons, and others should probably NOT cast a protest vote for Gary Johnson
2016-07-30 Joy mingled with occasional stabs of sadness
2016-07-30 BOM Alma 56
2016-07-30 "The Imperative for a Historical Book of Mormon"
2016-07-29 "The Most Important Movie to See Before You Vote"?
2016-07-29 "Does This New Bill Threaten California Religious Colleges' Freedom?"
2016-07-29 "What Really Caused the Voices in Joan of Arc's Head?"
2016-07-29 "Perhaps Close Can Count in More Than Horseshoes"
2016-07-29 "Islamic fundamentalists have a special loathing for Christianity: Now the persecution of Christians is coming to Europe"
2016-07-29 "'How Thankful We Should Be to Know the Truth': Zebedee Coltrin’s Witness of the Heavenly Origins of Temple Ordinances"
2016-07-29 "This Mormon engineer's utopian community is Vermont's nightmare"
2016-07-29 Sense and Sensibility and No Sea Monsters
2016-07-29 "Where Does a Patriot Turn in 2016?"
2016-07-28 BOM Alma 55
2016-07-28 "Refugee Outreach"
2016-07-28 "The 18th annual FairMormon conference is next week"
2016-07-28 "An Unmitigated Disaster"
2016-07-28 "6 surprising downsides of being extremely intelligent"
2016-07-28 "Is This the Dawn of a New Age of Unreason?"
2016-07-27 Why economics is so hard
2016-07-27 BOM Alma 54
2016-07-27 Companions (The Film Previously Known As...)
2016-07-27 "Following ISIS Attacks, Arab Journalists Call to Acknowledge Existence of Muslim Extremism; Reexamine Religious Texts"
2016-07-27 A cute little stunt from Planned Parenthood of Utah
2016-07-27 You might want to reconsider that vacation in Yellowstone.
2016-07-27 "Who is leaving the LDS Church?"
2016-07-27 A principle with wide application
2016-07-27 Squatty Potty Add Created by Mormons
2016-07-27 The Real Reason Harry Potter Helps Us Resist Donald's Hate.
2016-07-27 "Right back where I started from"
2016-07-27 BOM Alma 53
2016-07-26 "Science Meets Religion"
2016-07-26 "Being Muslim in America"
2016-07-26 "Answering one of the silliest arguments against the Book of Mormon Ever"
2016-07-26 Ideologues and the Open Mind
2016-07-26 "Why are doctors plagued by depression and suicide? A crisis comes into focus"
2016-07-26 "President Uchtdorf Presents Donation to UN Food Program"
2016-07-25 "You Have Come At Last"
2016-07-25 "The Great Plan of Happiness"
2016-07-25 On nastiness from a safe hiding place
2016-07-25 "Give Ear to My Words"
2016-07-25 Notes along the way
2016-07-24 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 28: Alma 32-34
2016-07-24 Happy Pioneer Day!
2016-07-24 "The Temple: Ancient and Restored"
2016-07-24 "The Greater Escape"
2016-07-23 "X marks the spot at the centre of the Milky Way"
2016-07-23 "It's Not My Party"
2016-07-23 A Note on Pioneer Day Talks, Sweetwater, and Tradition
2016-07-23 "Beyond Agency as Idolatry"
2016-07-23 "Swedish city has long religious history"
2016-07-23 "LDS Church President Thomas S. Monson subpoenaed for deposition in sex abuse lawsuits"
2016-07-22 "A Brighter Future for Mormon Theology: Adam S. Miller's 'Future Mormon'"
2016-07-22 America Is Great
2016-07-22 "Turkey and Erdogan: Here comes the (real) caliphate"
2016-07-22 I've finally agreed to a divorce.
2016-07-22 "Dark Matter Still a Mystery: Most Sensitive Search Yet Comes Up Empty"
2016-07-21 "BYU climbs from No. 15 to No. 5 in this year's 'Best Colleges in America' by Money Magazine"
2016-07-21 Boston Globe columnist: "I’m so sorry, Mitt Romney"
2016-07-21 "Two theological accounts of evil"
2016-07-21 Perhaps Ted Cruz's finest hour
2016-07-21 "How to enjoy the peace that passeth all understanding"
2016-07-21 Bloomberg Businessweek: "A Mormon Tycoon Wants to Build Joseph Smith’s Mega-Utopia in Vermont"
2016-07-20 "Republicans Accused of Plagiarizing Entire Convention Scenario from Book of Revelation"
2016-07-20 What we owe to our posterity
2016-07-20 Linda Hunter Adams, 1941-2016
2016-07-20 "There's a Suicide Epidemic in Utah — And One Neuroscientist Thinks He Knows Why"
2016-07-20 "Richard Bushman Reaffirms his Testimony of 'angels, plates, translations, revelations'"
2016-07-20 I'm voting for Trump.
2016-07-20 On integrity
2016-07-20 Seeking photographs
2016-07-20 "Are Mormons in their 20s and 30s leaving the LDS Church?"
2016-07-19 "Ann Cannon: Dear Donald Trump, a history lesson on the Mormon ‘Extermination Order’"
2016-07-19 "LDS Church rolls out 'Meet the Mormons' -- the sequel"
2016-07-19 How terrorism is taking a toll on international tourist trade
2016-07-19 Utahans at the Republican National Convention
2016-07-19 A few thoughts on Utah, Mormons, and theater
2016-07-19 The pioneer spirit is far from dead.
2016-07-19 "Miracles from Heaven"
2016-07-18 "Dave Barry missed the naked women, but finds dancing Republicans!"
2016-07-18 "Organisms might be quantum machines"
2016-07-18 "Why Was a Stone Used As an Aid in Translating the Book of Mormon?"
2016-07-18 "Mormon Filmmakers Focus New Lens on Anne Frank"
2016-07-18 A final summarizing note about BYU's recent conference on religious liberty
2016-07-18 "Fethullah Gulen: The Islamic scholar Turkey blames for the failed coup"
2016-07-18 Hoofbeats of the Apocalypse
2016-07-18 The secret of success?
2016-07-18 "Revelation is real even in a policy meeting in the LDS Church"
2016-07-18 Pray for (and with) the Saints in Turkey
2016-07-17 "A Mormon Scholar and His Students Changing the World for Good: Dr. Gene Cole at BYU"
2016-07-17 "The Word is in Christ unto Salvation"
2016-07-17 A Testimony Meeting Experiment
2016-07-17 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 27: Alma 30-31
2016-07-17 "What is the 'fine-tuning' of the universe, and how does it serve as a 'pointer to God'?"
2016-07-17 "All Things Denote There Is a God"
2016-07-17 Enlightenment and Darkness
2016-07-16 Richard Bushman and the fundamental claims of Mormonism
2016-07-16 Objectivity and Fairness
2016-07-16 Has the Mormon historian Richard Bushman renounced his faith?
2016-07-16 Real Dinosaurs of Utah Valley
2016-07-16 "Faith, Intellect, and Civic Virtue in Europe: An LDS Perspective"
2016-07-16 "A Lesson for Newt Gingrich: What Shariah Is (and Isn't)"
2016-07-16 Read It Now: "Editing Out the 'Bad Grammar' in the Book of Mormon"
2016-07-16 The urge to make sense of it all
2016-07-14 Trump and the Christian Right--Are Wrong
2016-07-13 New Testament Conference Announcement
2016-07-13 Real Religion Doesn't Know
2016-07-13 Some Remarks in Sweden on Mormonism and Islam
2016-07-11 Prejudice--thou Ugly!
2016-07-10 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 26: Alma 23-29
2016-07-04 Hell and Zion: A Review of "Undertale"
2016-07-03 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 25: Alma 17-22 (Draft)
2016-07-03 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 24: Alma 13-16
2016-07-02 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 23: Alma 8-12
2016-07-02 Tone Does Need to Change
2016-06-30 Race and Mormonism--2016 Edition (the less coy version)
2016-06-30 Crisis Facing our LGBTQ+ Members
2016-06-28 David O. McKay on Evolution and Reading Genesis
2016-06-28 Giving God Counsel?
2016-06-26 The Lose-Your-Self Jesus
2016-06-25 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 22: Alma 5-7
2016-06-23 Reconciliation: My Presidential Address to the Association for Mormon Letters, 2011
2016-06-23 Review: The Mormon Jesus
2016-06-22 More Important than the Resurrection: Christ in the World
2016-06-18 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 21- Mosiah 29, Alma 1-4
2016-06-18 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 20: Mosiah 25-27, Alma 36
2016-06-17 Stop Praying for us, and Acknowledge That You Helped Create Omar Mateen
2016-06-17 Calling Out a Spirit of Unwelcome
2016-06-13 Gordon B. Hinckley, Gun Control Advocate
2016-06-13 Trump's Thoroughly Modern Views on the Rule of Law
2016-06-10 Birthday Thoughts
2016-06-07 The Weak Shiver of an Uninspiring Democratic Process
2016-06-07 Abomination and Understanding, Works and Grace – October 1972 General Conference, Session 6 (Sunday Morning)
2016-06-06 Amurrica's Anti-Christian Prosperity Gospel
2016-06-05 Salvador: The Truth Behind the Fiction, Part 7
2016-06-05 Rainbow Mormon Initiative Launch
2016-06-04 Does Qur’an 9:11 prophesy that "the wrath of the eagle" will cleanse the lands of the Arabs?
2016-06-04 Normalizing Gun Violence on Campus
2016-06-03 Scripture, Context, and Genres: Scattered Reading
2016-05-31 A Warning against Wolves and Delusions among the Saints – October 1972 General Conference, Session 5 (Priesthood Session)
2016-05-26 Andrew Sullivan on God, Doubt, and Organized Religion
2016-05-25 Salvador: The Truth Behind the Fiction, Part 6
2016-05-25 Film Journal: The Land Before Time
2016-05-25 Should teen sexting be outlawed?
2016-05-24 Saints Securely Dwell – October 1972 General Conference, Session 4 (Saturday Afternoon)
2016-05-24 For Thus It Is Written
2016-05-23 Resilience: The Bobby Blair Story, Part 4
2016-05-23 Resilience: The Bobby Blair Story, Part 3
2016-05-22 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 19: Mosiah 18-24
2016-05-22 No, Elder Oaks, Trump’s No Santa Claus
2016-05-21 Resilience: The Bobby Blair Story, Part 2
2016-05-20 Religion's Placebo Effect(s)
2016-05-20 Salvador: The Truth Behind the Fiction, Part 5
2016-05-18 Separate Lines for Muslim Americans at Passport Control?
2016-05-17 Resilience - The Bobby Blair Story (Part 1)
2016-05-17 Salvador: The Truth Behind the Fiction, Part 4
2016-05-16 Conference videos now available for free viewing!
2016-05-16 Coming up this Thursday evening
2016-05-16 Edmund Wilson on reading
2016-05-16 Looking up from al-Maghtas
2016-05-15 The Qur‘an, on whether a finite book can contain all of the words of God
2016-05-15 Thinking of the "Family Proclamation"
2016-05-15 Mormons, Evangelicals, Tradition, and Sunday School
2016-05-15 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 18: Mosiah 12-17
2016-05-15 From Angst to Enlightenment: Reflections on Radiohead's A Moon Shaped Pool
2016-05-15 "The Underwater Archaeologist Who Surfaced Not One, but TWO Ancient Egyptian Cities"
2016-05-15 A world without God?
2016-05-15 "'Put Away Childish Things' -- Changing How the World Sees the Book of Mormon"
2016-05-14 "Libya's central bank hires safecrackers to break into its own safe"
2016-05-14 "A Thought on Book of Mormon Origins"
2016-05-14 DN: "The supposed war between religion and science and its casualties"
2016-05-14 "Mosiah 12-16: Martyr in Disguise"
2016-05-14 "Donald Trump and the 'John Miller' Tape: A Question of Character"
2016-05-14 "The development of early Christian sanctuaries, from temples to homes to basilicas"
2016-05-14 Two comments on transition and change
2016-05-14 DN: "An ancient pagan prophecy of Christ?"
2016-05-14 Funny (and sometimes thought-provoking) questions about science
2016-05-14 "A Pilgrim's Faith"
2016-05-13 From the Rejoicing-in-Iniquity Department
2016-05-13 "Dating Joseph Smith's First Nauvoo Sealings"
2016-05-13 Trans Win: Federal Government to Sue North Carolina
2016-05-13 DN: "Is Islam a religion of peace?"
2016-05-13 "Living in a world with many different religious views"
2016-05-13 On Morality and Materialism
2016-05-12 "Business the Trump Way"
2016-05-12 The Shape, Alas, of Things to Come
2016-05-12 Faith and Knowledge
2016-05-12 Wright and Gardner on "The Cultural Context of Nephite Apostasy"
2016-05-12 UK's "Daily Mail," on athletes who made significant sacrifices because of their faith
2016-05-11 DN: "Is religion merely outdated, failed science?"
2016-05-11 Donald Trump will bring his business acumen to the presidency!
2016-05-11 Why Filipinos have just elected a new "dictator"
2016-05-11 Science as a kind of religion?
2016-05-11 William Hamblin's "'I Have Revealed Your Name': The Hidden Temple in John 17"
2016-05-11 Are Mormons Christians?
2016-05-11 London's newly-elected Muslim mayor slams Donald Trump
2016-05-11 Of "Scientism" and Ideologues
2016-05-11 Inspired by this city
2016-05-11 "Recent scholarship and the search for the historical Jesus"
2016-05-11 On science as the only real path to knowledge
2016-05-10 A first visit to San Gimignano
2016-05-10 DN: "The failing churches of ancient Roman Asia"
2016-05-10 I've been asked what I think about this article
2016-05-10 "Mormons and Creedal Christians: Common Ground?"
2016-05-10 A note on scientism
2016-05-10 "The surprisingly modern story of a medieval Muslim"
2016-05-10 Salvador: The Truth behind the Fiction, Part 3
2016-05-10 Tough Love – October 1972 General Conference, Session 2 (Friday Afternoon)
2016-05-10 Science as an impetus to faith
2016-05-10 DN: "Going up to Jerusalem"
2016-05-10 LDS Charities
2016-05-10 The prophetic Eldridge Cleaver
2016-05-10 Mormonism Doesn't Have a Monopoly on Rape Culture: It's Just an Easy Target
2016-05-10 Critiques of Nahom and Lehi's journey
2016-05-09 A report, more or less, on what we're up to here
2016-05-09 "Why the Book of Mormon's Battle Numbers Don't Add Up (And Why That's Evidence for its Authenticity)"
2016-05-09 I won't march off the cliff with the Trumpists
2016-05-09 Stephen L. Richards on science, religion, questions, and General Authorities
2016-05-09 Don't Stay in the Boat: the Sea of Mormon Stories
2016-05-09 A tiny historical note about Tuscany
2016-05-09 "Who were the first apostles of Jesus?"
2016-05-09 Two thoughts from Peter Kreeft, of Boston College
2016-05-08 DN: "Archaeology and the boyhood of Jesus in Nazareth"
2016-05-08 How would Ptolemy have viewed Newton?
2016-05-08 "Mormons at the Forefront"
2016-05-08 Mothers' Day Tribute--Nancy Young Layton
2016-05-08 "Is 'Nauvoo' a genuinely Hebrew word?"
2016-05-08 A BYU choir's wonderful rendition of "Amazing Grace"
2016-05-08 God and the Astronomers
2016-05-08 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 17: Mosiah 7-11
2016-05-08 Obedience as Gratitude
2016-05-07 "Alma... Did Judge Righteous Judgments"
2016-05-07 "Share #HisDay"
2016-05-07 A Not-A-Mother's Thoughts For Mother's Day
2016-05-07 Will the Middle East become uninhabitable?
2016-05-07 London's newly-elected Muslim mayor
2016-05-07 "My Soul is Pained No More"
2016-05-06 A Mama Dragon's Support for Tyler Glenn
2016-05-06 "The division between Sunni and Shi‘ite Muslims"
2016-05-06 "On Being a Tool"
2016-05-06 Proof, Evidence, and Faith
2016-05-06 Salvador: The Truth behind the Fiction, Part 2
2016-05-06 Daniel C. Peterson for President!
2016-05-06 The last full day of our Israel tour
2016-05-06 Science vs. Religion (A Rather Different Take)
2016-05-06 "The evidence for Jesus is early and powerful"
2016-05-06 "When Jesus purged the temple at Jerusalem"
2016-05-06 "Catholics, LDS stand together on issues 'good for America,' archbishop says"
2016-05-05 A curiously lawful universe
2016-05-05 "Paul and his list of eyewitnesses"
2016-05-05 Sen. Robert Bennett
2016-05-05 Flowing from a scientific sense of wonder
2016-05-05 Is God tired?
2016-05-04 Scientific discoveries and religion
2016-05-04 "The Ancient Art of Misleading by Selective Citation"
2016-05-04 A new director for the Maxwell Institute
2016-05-04 In the Old City of Jerusalem
2016-05-04 "A 40-day gap in the New Testament"
2016-05-04 Drink deep!
2016-05-03 "A Dark Time in America"
2016-05-03 In the little town of Bethlehem, etc.
2016-05-03 "Why was Peter in Rome?"
2016-05-03 "Science Resurrects God"
2016-05-03 "In Defense of BYU's Honor Code"
2016-05-03 Presenting at KS City Oasis
2016-05-03 "Prisoners condemned to death"
2016-05-02 Salvador: The Truth Behind the Fiction
2016-05-02 Revelation and Character (Friday Morning Solemn Assembly, October 1972)
2016-05-02 Ascending the Mountain of the Lord
2016-05-02 "Ancient Book of Mormon Studies -- A Futile Undertaking?"
2016-05-02 Where is the Church's Accountability?
2016-05-02 "Who Will Debunk the Debunkers?"
2016-05-02 "Pleased as man with men to dwell"
2016-05-02 "Yerushalayim shel zahav"
2016-05-02 How can you stand by the evils of homosexuality?
2016-05-02 Can Jordan be an exemplar for the Arab world?
2016-05-01 A Sunday in Israel/Palestine
2016-05-01 Saturday in the Holy Land
2016-05-01 A book review of "A Reason for Faith"
2016-05-01 "Artist memorably captured moment before Savior's miracle"
2016-05-01 Faith, in science
2016-05-01 Evidence for atheism?
2016-05-01 Tyler Glenn and Jeffery Holland: The Power and the Limits of Anger
2016-04-30 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 16: Mosiah 4-6
2016-04-30 "What were Jaredite swords made of?"
2016-04-30 "Christ's resurrection was a witnessed fact, not a later fantasy"
2016-04-30 Modern Physics and Ancient Faith
2016-04-30 Are science and religion enemies?
2016-04-30 "Sepphoris -- the 'ornament of the Galilee'"
2016-04-30 The goal of the founder of modern Zionism
2016-04-29 "Conversations with Mormon Historians"
2016-04-29 "How These Mormon Women Became Some of the Best Cybersecurity Hackers in the U.S."
2016-04-29 From the coast to the shore
2016-04-29 "Shulem, One of the King's Principal Waiters"
2016-04-29 "An agnostic's argument that Jesus did exist"
2016-04-29 For some reason, this reminded me of some of my internet critics
2016-04-29 Crossing over Jordan, Part II
2016-04-28 On a Day When I Miss My Dad
2016-04-28 Crossing over Jordan
2016-04-28 "Taking a 'Leap of Faith' in Bennett's book on the origins of the Book of Mormon"
2016-04-28 "The divinity of Christ is absolute"
2016-04-28 On genius and hard work
2016-04-27 “That’s not how the Church Presents Itself”: An Irreverent Response
2016-04-27 "What is the strongest force in the universe?"
2016-04-27 Our last full day in Jordan (and it was quite full)
2016-04-27 "'Allah' is not pagan term -- it means 'God'"
2016-04-27 "The holy light of Easter in Jerusalem"
2016-04-27 Lawrence of Arabia, on dreaming
2016-04-26 "Why so many smart people aren't happy"
2016-04-26 Day Two in the Royal Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
2016-04-26 "Odd baby names show Mormons are unique... just like everybody else"
2016-04-25 "'Parallels' of prophets not parallel"
2016-04-25 A major cause of disbelief
2016-04-25 "Did asteroid impacts incubate Mars' ancient oceans?"
2016-04-25 National Public Radio: "What it's like to be a Muslim in Idaho"
2016-04-25 "Power of one: BYU grad hopes to help solve big problem in refugee camps"
2016-04-25 Today in Amman
2016-04-25 Did you ever play a game called "Marco Polo"? Here's another one.
2016-04-25 "Evidence of Jesus Christ's resurrection"
2016-04-25 "Letter to a CES Director" and Highlander Syndrome
2016-04-25 Rape Culture Alive and Well
2016-04-25 Four quotations from the late great King Hussein I of Jordan
2016-04-24 Back in the Middle East!
2016-04-24 "Rome's Trevi Fountain to turn red for new Christian martyrs"
2016-04-24 Max Planck, on matter and mind
2016-04-24 "Apostles became fearless preachers"
2016-04-24 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 15: Mosiah 1-3
2016-04-24 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 14: Enos, Jarom, Omni, Words of Mormon
2016-04-23 On Utah and a pornographic "health crisis"
2016-04-23 On banning Muslims from entering the United States
2016-04-23 What the resurrection of Christ signifies
2016-04-23 Explaining a bit about Islamic "shari‘a" law
2016-04-23 Salt Lake City to name street after slain San Francisco gay leader
2016-04-23 "Capernaum bears witness of Christ"
2016-04-23 "Why I'm a man of science -- and faith"
2016-04-23 "U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High"
2016-04-23 " Raunchy Prince was actually a conservative Christian who reportedly opposed gay marriage"
2016-04-23 The Columbus Dispatch: "Two-year missions help young Mormons find purpose"
2016-04-23 Yet another of the Lord's gifts to us
2016-04-23 BOM Alma 10
2016-04-23 "The LDS use of Isaiah 2:2-5"
2016-04-22 "As Islamism Marches West, Pluralist Muslims Must Stop Its Advance"
2016-04-22 "It's an Outrage! See? Look How Outraged I Am!"
2016-04-22 "Trans Bathroom Bills Prove Feminism Has Failed My Daughter"
2016-04-22 Former Senator Bob Bennett
2016-04-22 "'From the Sea East Even to the Sea West': Thoughts on a Proposed Book of Mormon Chiasm Describing Geography in Alma 22:27"
2016-04-22 Some amazingly close escapes
2016-04-22 "Alma -- Young Man, Hidden Prophet"
2016-04-22 On explaining the apparent fine-tuning of the universe
2016-04-22 "The smug style in American liberalism"
2016-04-22 A very insistent lemur
2016-04-22 "The Evolutionary Argument against Reality"
2016-04-22 On the Devil in Islam
2016-04-22 BOM Alma 9
2016-04-22 "Bamboozled by the CES Letter"
2016-04-22 What BYU's Honor Code Office Doesn't Understand About Trauma is Endangering Victims
2016-04-22 Three quotations from Confucius
2016-04-21 "Donald Trump Comes Out in Favor of Men in Women's Restrooms"
2016-04-21 "Caffeine: The Silent Killer of Success"
2016-04-21 "How should Muslim parents and teachers talk to children about Donald Trump?"
2016-04-21 Honoring a historic breakthrough in the study of Internet Anti-Mormonism
2016-04-21 "Professor David Holland, Associate Professor of North American Religious History"
2016-04-21 "Sharing the gospel in an 'argument' culture"
2016-04-21 A mark of spiritual darkness
2016-04-21 Announcing a new little (occasional) project regarding Islam here on this blog
2016-04-21 "I thought I was the only one" - No Longer!
2016-04-21 "Vikings may have first taken to seas to find women, slaves"
2016-04-21 "I am convinced Jeremy Runnells is the anti-Mormon equivalent of a science-denier like Ken Ham"
2016-04-21 "The Gift of Trump's Ramshackle Campaign"
2016-04-21 A thought on science and morality, by a scientist
2016-04-20 The New Yorker: "Mormon Transhumanism and the Immortality Upgrade"
2016-04-20 NY Times: "Why there's hope for the middle class, with help from China [and the Mormons]"
2016-04-20 Even after last night's Trumpist victory, there's still some slight hope for Republican conservatives
2016-04-20 "What We Should Learn from Jeremy Runnells: Some Thoughts on His Departure from the Church"
2016-04-20 Mr. Trump's remarkable devotion to charity
2016-04-20 BOM Alma 8
2016-04-20 On losing but maintaining one's principles
2016-04-20 LGBT Research Study Participants
2016-04-20 Illustrating the fierce determination of some critics of Mormonism
2016-04-20 "Mormon growth slows to its lowest level since 1937. Here's why that's great news."
2016-04-20 Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs
2016-04-20 Three quotations from John Henry Cardinal Newman
2016-04-19 The American Islamic Forum for Democracy
2016-04-19 BOM Alma 7
2016-04-19 "Roman villa unearthed 'by chance' in Wiltshire garden"
2016-04-19 "CES Reply: A Rock in a Hat"
2016-04-19 "The best lack all conviction"
2016-04-19 "CES Letter Author Jeremy Runnells to Face Disciplinary Action: The Non-Scandal"
2016-04-19 "Here's Why I'm a Proud Godzilla Supporter"
2016-04-19 A statement from BYU about sexual assault
2016-04-19 Tomorrow's New York Primary
2016-04-18 Robert Blair: Mormon Scholars Testify
2016-04-18 Redaction Analysis and the Doctrinal Mastery Core Document
2016-04-18 Faith and sunrise
2016-04-18 Spiritual Thoughts for Victims
2016-04-17 "Did Jesus teach in this ancient synagogue?"
2016-04-17 Should the Bible be banned from public libraries?
2016-04-17 "When a tiny church houses three religions"
2016-04-17 "Mosiah 4-6: Children of Christ"
2016-04-16 "The Israelite Temple and Early Christians"
2016-04-16 "How Islam Created Europe"
2016-04-16 BOM Alma 6
2016-04-16 Yellowstone's hot springs, and the virtue of viruses
2016-04-16 "Why Was Coriantumr's Record Engraved on a 'Large Stone'?"
2016-04-16 A note on faith and reason
2016-04-16 The Circle Game: Helping with an Unreliable Link
2016-04-16 Helping with a weak link to one of yesterday's "Interpreter" articles
2016-04-16 Trying, once again, to encourage papers from women
2016-04-16 "Not 'Getting' Religion: Boogeymen and Misunderstandings"
2016-04-16 "Peshmerga troops running on empty in fight against ISIS"
2016-04-16 Upcoming Events I'll be Presenting At
2016-04-15 "Mormonism and the Scientific Persistence of Circles: Aristotle, Spacetime, and One Eternal Round"
2016-04-15 "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Map, Part 2 of 2"
2016-04-15 BOM Alma 5
2016-04-15 "To Lincoln, the face of Mormonism was George Q. Cannon, whose journals are now online"
2016-04-15 The Conference Enigma: a little play
2016-04-15 BOM Alma 4
2016-04-15 News of BYU Rape Policies are Triggering Me....
2016-04-15 "Journal Released of 19th-Century Mormon Leader George Q. Cannon"
2016-04-14 If not for magnetism, you might be a simple bacterium right now
2016-04-14 A great approach to one's job, and to one's life
2016-04-14 BOM Alma 3
2016-04-14 "$100 million plan will send probes to the nearest star"
2016-04-14 "Out of small things"
2016-04-14 The citizen militias fighting ISIS in Iraq (one of them Christian)
2016-04-14 "Why Do LGBT Radicals Want to Cleanse the Counseling Profession of Christians?"
2016-04-14 "How highly religious people compare with other Americans"
2016-04-14 An interesting event in Utah this weekend
2016-04-14 In which I reveal myself to be an idiot
2016-04-14 On condemning others
2016-04-13 "Times" columnist: The future of American religious liberty will resemble the Mormon experience in the 19th century
2016-04-13 BOM Alma 2
2016-04-13 "Boundary Maintenance in Mormonism Addressed by Church Public Affairs Head"
2016-04-13 Two examples of Muslims generously helping Christians
2016-04-13 Review of R. Kratz, Historical and Biblical Israel: The History, Tradition, and Archives of Israel and Judah (2015)
2016-04-13 "Trump's Virtual Lynch Mob"
2016-04-13 "Remembering a time when Mormon missionaries helped refugees by aiding 'boat people'"
2016-04-13 "A Muslim and a Mormon walk into a bar"
2016-04-13 "What Makes a Person Creepy?"
2016-04-13 Friday through Sunday in the Phoenix area
2016-04-13 On mockery
2016-04-12 "Why are companies taking sides against religious liberty?"
2016-04-12 Why we will still have immigrants, even after the November election
2016-04-12 BOM Alma 1
2016-04-12 All of human history has been merely a prologue
2016-04-12 Is there a whole parallel universe out there? Has spirit matter (or the spirit world) been found?
2016-04-12 "Mental gymnastics, eisegesis, and biblical inerrancy"
2016-04-12 "New Evidence on When Bible Was Written: Ancient Shopping Lists"
2016-04-11 Contra Trump
2016-04-11 "Israeli doctors, spies rally to save 5-year-old Syrian girl"
2016-04-11 Creator and Creation: One Perspective
2016-04-11 BOM Mosiah 29
2016-04-11 Thinking of My Mother Today
2016-04-11 Ritual and Renewal in Zootopia
2016-04-11 Why polygamy will be the order of heaven
2016-04-11 Have Muslims ever contributed anything good to human civilization?
2016-04-11 "What is the Most Astounding Fact About the Universe?"
2016-04-11 "Mostly black Mormon choir lengthens its stride, its reach and its voice"
2016-04-11 Einstein's idea of God
2016-04-10 A false prophecy in the Doctrine and Covenants?
2016-04-10 BOM Mosiah 28
2016-04-10 "Are we living in a computer simulation?"
2016-04-10 An interesting thought related to archaeology and the Book of Mormon
2016-04-10 "Escape to America: A Syrian Christian Perspective"
2016-04-10 Too much food today.
2016-04-10 On Sabbath Observance
2016-04-09 A blistering rebuke to Evangelicals and conservatives who support Mr. Donald Trump
2016-04-09 "The surprising story of a Book of Mormon in the Harvard library"
2016-04-09 A striking comparative test of attendees at Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump rallies
2016-04-09 "Remembrance and the Past"
2016-04-09 BOM Mosiah 27
2016-04-09 "Inconvenient Genocide": An Israeli responds to the persecution of Christians in the Middle East
2016-04-09 "Is wine good for you or is it not?"
2016-04-09 "The Kingdom of God Has No Geographical Boundaries"
2016-04-09 On rule by elites and technocrats
2016-04-08 "Hillary Clinton Rides the Subway Just Like Normal [New York] People!"
2016-04-08 BOM Mosiah 26
2016-04-08 "Mormonism at Oxford and What It Signifies"
2016-04-08 "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Map: Part 1 of 2"
2016-04-08 "About 1 in 3 Economics Studies Don't Replicate"
2016-04-08 "Mormons Approaching Orthodoxy"?
2016-04-08 "Only Muslim victim of the Brussels attack was a mother of three"
2016-04-08 Light souls and dark souls
2016-04-08 "Myths, Lies, and Capitalism"
2016-04-08 BOM Mosiah 25
2016-04-08 "10 Stunning Pictures from NASA's Release of 3 Million Images"
2016-04-08 "The Longest Voyage: Lehi's Journey to the Promised Land"
2016-04-07 This coming Sunday night in the Phoenix area
2016-04-07 "The Enormous Fraud of the Iran Deal is Catching Up with Obama"
2016-04-07 An example of how claims by bitter critics of Mormonism may not be altogether reliable
2016-04-07 Is the universe genuinely pointless and random?
2016-04-07 "A vote for Trump is a vote for abortion"
2016-04-07 "42 Shrines and a Tomb Discovered in Egypt"
2016-04-07 "Is it intellectually honest to have faith?"
2016-04-07 From HuffPo: "Mormon Church Responds to Refugee Crisis (and It’s Remarkable!)"
2016-04-07 "European Labor Laws and Radical Islam"
2016-04-07 "After Wisconsin, is Donald Trump unraveling?"
2016-04-07 BOM Mosiah 24
2016-04-07 My brief remarks from tonight's program
2016-04-07 Ten quotations from the late Justice Scalia, who is missed
2016-04-06 "Genetic research shows how thousands of years of Native American lineage collapsed when the Europeans arrived"
2016-04-06 Senator Cruz vows to protect BYU's religious liberty
2016-04-06 Speeches in the greater Phoenix area, 15 April through 17 April
2016-04-06 Okay. One last reminder.
2016-04-06 Some excellent Mormon writing (and some probably not)
2016-04-06 Thanks, Wisconsin!
2016-04-06 ISIS, the Kurds, and the continuing fecklessness of the West
2016-04-06 LDS missionaries sing a version of Adele's "Hello"
2016-04-06 BOM Mosiah 23
2016-04-06 From "The Great Divorce"
2016-04-05 Idiocy at a Scottish university
2016-04-05 "Curse Tablets Discovered in 2400-Year-Old Grave"
2016-04-05 Want to think deeply about things Mormon?
2016-04-05 As Wisconsin casts its very important vote, here are two pieces on Mr. Trump
2016-04-05 "A Reason for Faith"
2016-04-05 "25 things you might not know about Wonder Woman"
2016-04-05 BOM Mosiah 22
2016-04-05 "Muslims and Jews join forces to fix up struggling Detroit public school"
2016-04-05 What is the proper study of Man?
2016-04-05 Sunday, 17 April, somewhere in the Phoenix/Mesa area
2016-04-04 Perhaps the last reminder that I'll post for this...
2016-04-04 California college students object to Madeleine Albright as white war criminal
2016-04-04 A little girl's horrible Easter and the evils of Mormonism
2016-04-04 Start planning for May 2017
2016-04-04 BBC: "Lasers could 'cloak Earth from aliens'"
2016-04-04 "The Chain that Veils: A Word Play in Moses 7:26?"
2016-04-04 "Trump is No Pro-Lifer"
2016-04-04 Of attitudes
2016-04-04 "Professor Explains Why Mormons Don't Like Trump (and My Thoughts on Dissent)"
2016-04-04 "Beware of Biased Skepticism"
2016-04-04 BOM Mosiah 21
2016-04-04 Elder Patrick Kearon, on the current refugee situation
2016-04-03 "The Town that Rescued 5000 Mormon Refugees"
2016-04-03 "The furnace of affliction"
2016-04-03 The Rings of Saturn
2016-04-03 "'Extraordinary Find': Rare Religious Text Written in Lost Etruscan Language"
2016-04-03 "What this year's early Easter date tells us about early Christianity"
2016-04-03 "References to Jesus in Pagan Literature"
2016-04-03 BOM Mosiah 20
2016-04-03 "Nonprofits inundated after LDS Church urges women to serve refugees"
2016-04-03 Complain, or rejoice?
2016-04-02 This coming Wednesday!
2016-04-02 "Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing"
2016-04-02 "White dwarf [star] with nearly pure oxygen atmosphere surprises astronomers"
2016-04-02 "Syria's Palmyra: Ghost town bearing scars of IS destruction"
2016-04-02 "Resources on the Spalding Theory of Book of Mormon Origins"
2016-04-02 "The tomb of Jesus"
2016-04-02 "The Pirate Queen"
2016-04-01 BOM Mosiah 19
2016-04-01 "Nice Try, But No Cigar: A Response to Three Patheos Posts on Nahom (1 Nephi 16:34)"
2016-04-01 Acting on impressions
2016-04-01 "How to effectively engage in social media during LDS general conference"
2016-04-01 An old man, clearly past his prime, joins in on a soccer game
2016-04-01 It's April One!
2016-04-01 "The Mostly German Philosophers Love Song"
2016-04-01 "14th annual interfaith music tribute hosted in Tabernacle on Temple Square"
2016-04-01 "Galileo's reputation is more hyperbole than truth"
2016-04-01 An update from the executive director of the LDS Church Missionary Department
2016-04-01 "None Could Deliver Them but the Lord"
2016-04-01 Trumpism: Where does it come from? Is it finally beginning to fade?
2016-03-31 BOM Mosiah 18
2016-03-31 "No war. No order."
2016-03-31 (Syrian) Palmyra recaptured
2016-03-31 How the Church has callously abandoned the missionaries who were wounded in Brussels
2016-03-31 "God Himself Shall Redeem His People"
2016-03-31 Deseret News: "Editing out the 'bad grammar' in the Book of Mormon"
2016-03-31 Perhaps Mr. Trump's most illuminating debate
2016-03-31 "Awakenings: Living as a Believer in the Nation We Have Now"
2016-03-31 BOM Mosiah 17
2016-03-30 "The terrifying tsunami that devastated Britain"
2016-03-30 The god Gad
2016-03-30 "A Seer Becometh a Great Benefit to His Fellow Beings"
2016-03-30 So you want to feel comfortable, contented, and happy?
2016-03-30 "Gender Ideology Harms Children"
2016-03-30 About my vocal opposition to Donald Trump
2016-03-30 A Pro-ISIS Demonstration in Dearborn, Michigan, Last December?
2016-03-30 "Grace Merged with Works: Mormonism in Theory and Practice"
2016-03-30 "How Stephen Fry Got Kicked Out of Salt Lake City"
2016-03-30 BOM Mosiah 16
2016-03-30 A few thoughts on the arrest of Donald Trump's campaign manager
2016-03-30 Joseph F. Smith on Evolution and Teaching in Church Schools
2016-03-29 Honesty and Deceit
2016-03-29 "Vermont-Driven GMO Labeling Could Have Troubling Unintended Consequences"
2016-03-29 "An Open Letter to Trump Voters from His Top Strategist-Turned-Defector"
2016-03-29 Grace Merged with Works: Mormonism in Theory and Practice
2016-03-29 "Worldwide Stake Growth Accelerating in 2016"
2016-03-29 "Muslim Murdered in Scotland After Offering Easter Blessing to 'My Beloved Christian Nation'"
2016-03-29 "The Simpsons" as Political Prophecy, and Etc.
2016-03-28 BOM Mosiah 15
2016-03-28 Where Is Mormonism On Civil Rights?
2016-03-28 President Martin Van Buren's two happiest days
2016-03-28 Wall Street Journal: "With welcoming stance, conservative Utah charts its own course on refugees"
2016-03-28 Our place in the universe
2016-03-28 Al-Ghazali and Ibn Rushd duke it out, verbally.
2016-03-28 Taylor Petrey is Tenured: What does This Mean for LDS Scholars of Religion?
2016-03-28 "LDS Church launches 'I Was a Stranger' website for Mormon women's refugee relief effort"
2016-03-28 "Donald Trump: A History of Violence"
2016-03-28 BOM Mosiah 14
2016-03-28 The difference the Resurrection makes
2016-03-28 "How Mormon is Mitt Romney? Fifty jokes for Trump"
2016-03-27 More on the Tabernacle Choir's "Messiah"
2016-03-27 "Buried Hope or Risen Savior"
2016-03-27 "Mormon Apostle: Seek a 'Cease-fire' in the Culture Wars"
2016-03-27 Some reading for Easter
2016-03-27 "He lives -- Celebrate Easter because Jesus Christ lives"
2016-03-27 "'Parallels' of prophets not parallel"
2016-03-27 Χριστός ἀνέστη! Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη!
2016-03-27 An Easter Post: Refugees, Mormons, and the Law of Moses
2016-03-27 "The Challenge of Easter"
2016-03-27 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 13: Jacob 5-7
2016-03-27 "None Were with Him"
2016-03-27 "The International Day of the Book of Mormon"
2016-03-27 Listening to two of the injured LDS missionaries in Brussels
2016-03-26 "The Gospel truly brings joyful news"
2016-03-26 "Hakuna Matata!"
2016-03-26 Today's feel-good post
2016-03-26 "Sic et Non" now has its own Facebook page
2016-03-26 Ben Shapiro: "I will never vote for Donald Trump. Here's why."
2016-03-26 "Christ's resurrection was a witnessed fact, not a later fantasy"
2016-03-26 BOM Mosiah 13
2016-03-26 A. E. Housman's "Easter Hymn"
2016-03-26 The Mormon Tabernacle Choir (really) does Händel
2016-03-25 "Why Did You Choose Me?"
2016-03-25 "Editing Out the 'Bad Grammar' in the Book of Mormon"
2016-03-25 "In submission is our salvation"
2016-03-25 Today is Good Friday
2016-03-25 "The Economist": "Mormons against the Donald"
2016-03-25 How I Failed My Mormon Sabbatical
2016-03-25 "Mormon Rejection of Trump Provides Insight into Islamic Extremism"
2016-03-25 BOM Mosiah 12
2016-03-25 A famous conspirator on the conspiracy that would have been necessary
2016-03-24 Digging heroically, Donald Trump reaches yet another new low.
2016-03-24 "'Allah' is not pagan term. It means 'God'"
2016-03-24 "Mormon Rejection of Trump Embarrassing for Evangelicals?"
2016-03-24 "A 'great cloud of witnesses' at Easter"
2016-03-24 BOM Mosiah 11
2016-03-24 "Muslim restorers feel history in work on mosaics above Jesus' burial site"
2016-03-24 How should Mormons treat the faith of others?
2016-03-23 Let us All Praise Mormons. And Catholics.
2016-03-23 "The GOP Needs More Mormons"
2016-03-23 CBS News: "[LDS] American victim in Brussels had encountered terror attack before"
2016-03-23 Kenneth D. Walters: Gone, but very much not forgotten
2016-03-23 Mormon, the Musical
2016-03-23 "Utah, We Love Thee"
2016-03-23 "The Incredible Story of the Stake Center That Became a Jewish Synagogue"
2016-03-23 "At least 9 Americans wounded in Belgium attacks, officials say"
2016-03-23 BOM Mosiah 10
2016-03-23 "An Easter Carol"
2016-03-22 Ted Cruz's Weak Islamaphobia
2016-03-22 "Holy Week aids Easter reflections"
2016-03-22 Background for Brussels
2016-03-22 In "The Federalist": "How Mormons Could Prevent a President Trump"
2016-03-22 Reflections on Brussels
2016-03-22 Faith, Works and Prayer
2016-03-22 "Our Government Was Designed to Protect Us from the Trumps of the World"
2016-03-22 Fresh insights into a story common to both Genesis and the Qur’an
2016-03-22 BOM Mosiah 9
2016-03-22 Easily checked in Jerusalem, after all
2016-03-21 "Gay rights activists target 'religious colleges' with letter asking NCAA to 'divest'"
2016-03-21 Good stuff from Book of Mormon Central
2016-03-21 "How to Spot Research Spin: The Case of the Not-So-Simple Abstract"
2016-03-21 Utah has a chance to do something great.
2016-03-21 Republican First, Mormon Second?
2016-03-21 "Easter and the At-one-ment"
2016-03-21 BOM Mosiah 8
2016-03-21 Hoping for a "new and more perfect edition"
2016-03-21 Freedom and the Amorphous Individual
2016-03-21 "Names and Meaning, Part 2: Zoram Revisited"
2016-03-21 "And What Is It We Shall Hope For?"
2016-03-21 Hosanna!
2016-03-20 "Before Islam: When Saudi Arabia Was a Jewish Kingdom"
2016-03-20 From the ashes, a symbol of the resurrection
2016-03-20 A report from Rexburg
2016-03-20 BOM Mosiah 7
2016-03-20 Valuing the One
2016-03-20 The Scholarly Mantle
2016-03-19 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 12: Jacob 1-4
2016-03-19 "Earthquake threat to California may be greater than thought"
2016-03-19 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 11: 2Ne 31-33
2016-03-19 "Is voting for Donald Trump unchristian?"
2016-03-19 "The Redeemer," tonight
2016-03-19 "The words of Easter"
2016-03-19 Burning Bush
2016-03-19 A divisive campaign of unprecedented nastiness
2016-03-19 BOM Mosiah 6
2016-03-19 Man's way of "redemption" versus God's
2016-03-18 "Mitt Romney to vote for Ted Cruz in Utah"
2016-03-18 “'See That Ye Are Not Lifted Up': The Name Zoram and Its Paronomastic Pejoration"
2016-03-18 "Assessing an 'argument' against LDS belief in the pre-existence"
2016-03-18 Mr. Trump: "There will be riots"
2016-03-18 “'My People Are Willing': The Mention of Aminadab in the Narrative Context of Helaman 5-6"
2016-03-18 Literature and the Art of Friendship
2016-03-18 "Mormon Scolded by Christian Group Is At Center of Kansas Law"
2016-03-18 "What Does It Mean To Be a White and Delightsome People?"
2016-03-18 "The Excess of Stephen H. Webb"
2016-03-18 ACADEMIC PEER REVIEW TO BE REPLACED BY SOMETHING MUCH BETTER!!!!!!
2016-03-18 "Irish roots of Mormon founder Joseph Smith discovered"
2016-03-18 BOM Mosiah 5
2016-03-18 Music, tonight and (more urgently) tomorrow
2016-03-17 "Transgenderism: A Pathogenic Meme"
2016-03-17 A thought for Easter, from a perhaps unexpected source
2016-03-17 How to think about Mr. Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court
2016-03-17 Mr. Trump and Violence
2016-03-17 Is the Bible more like Copernicus, or Plato?
2016-03-17 BOM Mosiah 4
2016-03-17 "Bible bonfire: ISIS video shows Christian books being destroyed"
2016-03-16 "'Elias' as a 'forerunner' in LDS Scripture"
2016-03-16 "A Modern 'Malleus Maleficarum'"
2016-03-16 7 PM on Wednesday, 6 April: Mark Your Calendars!
2016-03-16 "Mitt Romney should run for president as a third-party candidate. Seriously."
2016-03-16 My remaining public lectures for the week
2016-03-16 "Every action I take, no matter how violent or how cruel, is for the greater good of my people."
2016-03-16 Two quotations from Arthur Peacocke
2016-03-16 Gandhi on the atonement
2016-03-15 METI lives
2016-03-15 "Many scientific 'truths' are, in fact, false"
2016-03-15 BOM Mosiah 3
2016-03-15 President Russell M. Nelson and local missionaries featured on Houston TV
2016-03-15 New Seals discovered in Jerusalem
2016-03-15 Father Trump Knows Best, in His Little House on the Prairie
2016-03-15 Mit brennender Sorge
2016-03-15 Which holiday did earlier Christians consider most important?
2016-03-15 The Restoration and Western Humanity – Triumph or Crisis?
2016-03-15 "Donald Trump has a Mormon problem"
2016-03-14 "An Open Letter to Donald Trump"
2016-03-14 Ten Intro Books for Getting a Handle on the Early Chapters of Genesis
2016-03-14 "LDS Church Temples"
2016-03-14 "Follow Him"
2016-03-14 "Khor Kharfot: The Mormon Connection to a Muslim Land"
2016-03-14 Lord Drumpf
2016-03-14 Trumpism and the Rise of American Political Violence
2016-03-14 The essence of Easter
2016-03-14 "#Hallelujah -- An Easter Message about Jesus Christ"
2016-03-14 "How to be a Christian in a society that's increasingly skeptical of faith"
2016-03-13 "Ancient Super-Eruption Reconstructed"
2016-03-13 Nice little discoveries in the Upper Galilee
2016-03-13 "Authority in the Book of Mosiah"
2016-03-13 Right, Wrong, and the Divine Voice in Scripture
2016-03-13 My three public lectures this week, in Utah and Idaho, starting TONIGHT
2016-03-13 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 10: 2Ne 26-30
2016-03-13 BOM Mosiah 2
2016-03-13 Ahhhhh. We can kick back and relax for a moment. (And lose an hour of sleep.)
2016-03-13 "Despite all evasions"
2016-03-12 "The Faith of an Observer"
2016-03-11 "Sauron endorses Donald Trump for president"
2016-03-11 "Telling the Story of the Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon"
2016-03-11 "Latter-day Saint Youths' Construction of Sacred Texts"
2016-03-11 Stephen H. Webb: "Godbodied: The Matter of the Latter-day Saints"
2016-03-11 The alarming rise of the Strong Man
2016-03-11 Should We Be Worried About Donald Drumpf's Mind Control Powers?
2016-03-11 Robert Blair Obituary, Part 4: The Story Teller's Last Stories
2016-03-11 Natural and Supernatural
2016-03-11 A last reminder
2016-03-11 "An appeal to our fellow Catholics and to all men and women of good will"
2016-03-11 "Lehi teens stand up to LDS Church protesters"
2016-03-11 BOM Mosiah 1
2016-03-11 More progress in physics than in theology?
2016-03-10 Death of a Latter-day Saint
2016-03-10 "Another Endorsement for Brian Hales"
2016-03-10 Do you intend to vote for Donald Trump because he's a brilliant businessman?
2016-03-10 "BYU-Idaho historian sheds more light on the 1838 attack on Mormon poet Eliza Snow
2016-03-10 Getting to know the real Donald Drumpf
2016-03-10 "Thinking about religion and science, Thursday through Sunday afternoon"
2016-03-10 An ancient rule
2016-03-10 Finally, a strategy that, if faithfully followed, would stop Trumpism in its tracks...
2016-03-10 "Mormon scholars laud late Catholic thinker who probed LDS theology"
2016-03-09 "Cosmos, Earth, and Man" in my two eager hands
2016-03-09 Two lectures on the BYU campus tomorrow at 4 PM, and one following
2016-03-09 "Jacob 1-4. Seek the Kingdom of God"
2016-03-09 "Elder Holland answers questions from a missionary who returned early due to mental problems in personal video"
2016-03-09 Haaretz: "A mission to bring Jewish bagels to the heart of Mormon country"
2016-03-08 "Think You Can Drive Fast Enough to Escape an Erupting Volcano?"
2016-03-08 BOM The Words of Mormon
2016-03-08 So many losses
2016-03-08 A Peculiar People Aims for Respectability
2016-03-07 Mournful News
2016-03-07 Three reflections on the other night's Republican debate
2016-03-07 "Teaching our kids about Joseph Smith's Book of Mormon translation"
2016-03-07 BOM Omni
2016-03-07 On depression
2016-03-06 "Ye Shall Be Called the Children of Christ"
2016-03-06 Mark W. Cannon on "Mormon Scholars Testify"
2016-03-06 "Stanford fellow delves into archival materials that shed new light on the early days of Islam"
2016-03-06 "What the media got wrong about Elder Bednar's comments"
2016-03-06 Contemplating NGC 4258
2016-03-06 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 9: 2Ne 11-25
2016-03-06 BOM Jarom
2016-03-06 "The Discipline of the Written Word"
2016-03-06 "Trump puts Idaho Mormons in tough spot"
2016-03-05 Ammon, before Trump
2016-03-05 "Jacob 1-4. Seek the Kingdom of God"
2016-03-05 In the New York Times: "Donald Trump, the Great Betrayer"
2016-03-05 "What are the demographics of heaven?"
2016-03-05 "An open letter to Trump supporters and the other Republican candidates"
2016-03-05 "Kings and Conversion"
2016-03-05 "We should remember our dying"
2016-03-05 Did God design the human hand?
2016-03-05 A stunning historical revelation about the iconic Eliza R. Snow?
2016-03-05 "Trump is unfit to command the military"
2016-03-04 "Science and Mormonism"
2016-03-04 Why this KiwiMormon would Vote for Bernie Sanders if I Could
2016-03-04 The Cad Who Would Be King
2016-03-04 Three definitions and a quotation from Ambrose Bierce
2016-03-04 Release the Romney
2016-03-04 The Crude Vulgarian in 2016!
2016-03-03 Plaster Wall Inscription 4.2: El, Baal, and YHWH
2016-03-03 Apparently, Utah really IS different from the rest of America
2016-03-03 Mr. Donald Trump on women
2016-03-03 "The Impenetrable Mystery of Being You"
2016-03-03 Sigh. No one knows the depths of my suffering.
2016-03-03 "Piercing the Veil: Temple Worship in the Lost 116 Pages"
2016-03-03 "Global warming hiatus is real"
2016-03-03 Wait, What Is The White Horse Prophecy?
2016-03-03 On the speech that Mitt Romney will be delivering at 9:30 AM, Utah time, on Thursday
2016-03-03 Two items from the secularist, socialist utopia of Sweden
2016-03-03 A most radical question
2016-03-02 "NASA: Drought in Middle East Is the Worst in 900 Years"
2016-03-02 Who is Baal?
2016-03-02 BOM Enos
2016-03-02 The French Book of Mormon: Written for Our Time
2016-03-02 "There are no homosexual members of the Church."
2016-03-02 "Out of Mesoamerica: The Archaeological Context of the Book of Mormon"
2016-03-02 "Why Max Lucado Broke His Political Silence for Trump"
2016-03-02 A reminder regarding Saturday, 12 March
2016-03-02 What is a demagogue?
2016-03-02 "Church Assists Cyclone Winston Victims in Fiji"
2016-03-02 "Academic Drivel Report: Confessing My Sins and Exposing My Academic Hoax"
2016-03-02 "Keep hope alive" (Jesse Jackson)
2016-03-02 "Deport the Tsarnaev Sisters"
2016-03-02 "Reactor data hint at existence of fourth neutrino"
2016-03-01 Controversy about campaign to write positive Book of Mormon reviews on Amazon
2016-03-01 "An Open Letter to Super Tuesday Voters"
2016-03-01 My Kids Hate Trump, and That Worries Me
2016-03-01 "Donald Trump is a Scam. Evangelical Voters Should Back Away"
2016-03-01 On Worship, Practical, Contemplative, and Aesthetic-Humanitarian
2016-03-01 BOM Jacob 7
2016-03-01 The duty of good people confronted by evil
2016-03-01 "Dear Trump Fan: So You Want Someone to 'Tell It Like It Is'? OK, Here You Go"
2016-03-01 Donald Trump on Mormonism and on his own suffering as a Christian martyr
2016-02-29 "The Die-Hard Republicans Who Say #Never-Trump"
2016-02-29 The future isn't yet written in stone, but we're coming perilously close.
2016-02-29 "Praising and Complaining about an Apostle"
2016-02-29 Time to Say 'Mormonist'
2016-02-29 "Trump vs. the First Amendment"
2016-02-29 Donaldo Trumpolini
2016-02-29 BOM Jacob 6
2016-02-29 A medieval Muslim take on the problem of motes, beams, and casting the first stone
2016-02-28 "'Hard' Evidence of Ancient American Horses"
2016-02-28 On cosmic fine tuning
2016-02-28 "A Good Man"
2016-02-28 Reflections on the New Zealand/Australia Special Conference: Finding Mormonism's Thin Places
2016-02-28 "A Fourth-Watch God"
2016-02-28 BOM Jacob 5
2016-02-28 "The Mormons on Mount Scopus"
2016-02-28 Who Will Get the Mormon Vote, Part 2
2016-02-28 "Vice President Joe Biden receives family history during Temple Square visit"
2016-02-28 "Eternally Indebted to Your Heavenly Father"
2016-02-28 "Did Christie just spark a 'Draft Romney' movement?"
2016-02-28 "Earth may be a 1-in-700-quintillion kind of place"
2016-02-28 Donald Trump wants to protect American jobs, right?
2016-02-28 The King and the Maiden
2016-02-27 "Yes, Trump University was a massive scam"
2016-02-27 BOM Jacob 4
2016-02-27 Elder Ballard on approaching challenging issues forthrightly and head-on
2016-02-27 Judgmentalism
2016-02-26 "Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon, and the American Renaissance: An Update"
2016-02-26 An apology regarding my "Interpreter" article today
2016-02-26 "Cloud Illusions and the Perfect Day"
2016-02-26 BOM Jacob 3
2016-02-26 Mr. Trump garners two important endorsements
2016-02-26 Another day under the thumb of Utah's theocracy
2016-02-26 "When will the universe end? Not for at least 2.8 billion years."
2016-02-26 "A Rubio-Cruz Ticket Might Be the Only Way to Stop Trump"
2016-02-26 Counterintuitive
2016-02-25 "With God as my witness, I will never vote for Donald Trump."
2016-02-25 "The best predictor of Trump support isn't income, education, or age. It's authoritarianism."
2016-02-25 "Vatican astronomer to speak at three free events": So mark your calendars!
2016-02-25 Daniel Peterson and William Hamblin debate Rev. James White
2016-02-25 "Of Napoleon and 'religious wars'"
2016-02-25 "The Constitution 'Divinely Inspired'? Ben Franklin Answers"
2016-02-25 "'Landmark' new mosque planned in Salt Lake City"
2016-02-25 "Utah Transcends Political Tribalism"
2016-02-25 BOM Jacob 2
2016-02-25 Obituary for Robert Blair - Part 3: The Baltics
2016-02-25 From the floor of the Utah State Senate
2016-02-24 "Teaching faith and science to children"
2016-02-24 A plea, not just for civility but for charity
2016-02-23 "Iraqi Kurdish troops rescue Swedish teen from 'Islamic State'"
2016-02-23 BOM Jacob 1
2016-02-23 Robert Wallace Blair Obituary, Part 2
2016-02-23 "A conversation with Dr. John Sorenson"
2016-02-23 The Starry Heavens and the Moral Law
2016-02-23 "Exoplanet Census Suggests Earth is Special After All"
2016-02-23 The China Post: "Utah choir brings sounds of gospel, soul to Mormon hymns"
2016-02-23 The socialist imperative
2016-02-22 Honoring Elder Robert Gay (please don't worry; he's quite healthy)
2016-02-22 BOM 2 Nephi 33
2016-02-22 "More Terrible Than Even the Persecutions of the Jews: The Mormon Experience in 'Ha-Magid'"
2016-02-22 "Can we please stop pretending marijuana is harmless?"
2016-02-22 A perspective on science and religion
2016-02-22 "This scholar says she's unlocked the secret of the Pyramid Texts"
2016-02-22 Some of Us Should Stay
2016-02-22 I Bet I Know Who Hugh Nibley Would Vote For
2016-02-22 "When the Lord's choicest blessings come imperfectly wrapped"
2016-02-22 Robert W. Blair, 1930-2016
2016-02-22 Jewish Telegraphic Agency: "For Jewish Mormons, hybrid identity seen as no contradiction"
2016-02-22 "'The Book of Mormon is True' studies the importance of a unique vocabulary"
2016-02-21 Two testimonies from an internationally noted planetary scientist
2016-02-21 BOM 2 Nephi 32
2016-02-21 "Nine memorable quotes from 'To Kill a Mockingbird'"
2016-02-21 "No Big Bang? Quantum equation predicts universe has no beginning"
2016-02-21 "The Great Jerusalem Temple Prophecy: Latter-day Context and Likening unto Us"
2016-02-21 Of making many objections to Mormonism there is no end
2016-02-20 "Poll shows BYU students prefer socialist Sanders"
2016-02-20 BOM 2 Nephi 31
2016-02-20 The mark of a cynic
2016-02-20 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 8: 2Ne 6-10
2016-02-20 "For a Wise Purpose"
2016-02-20 "Down with love: 9 movies to celebrate Singles Awareness Day"
2016-02-20 "The demigod Maui and his islands"
2016-02-20 Obituary for Robert Wallace Blair - Part I
2016-02-20 Being a Legislator in Utah Doesn't Sound Fun
2016-02-20 "A history of 'Pride and Prejudice' on TV and film"
2016-02-20 New book: "Lehi and Sariah in Arabia"
2016-02-20 "Risen"
2016-02-19 "I love Mormons"
2016-02-19 "This is a Woman's Church"
2016-02-19 "Onomastic Wordplay on 'Joseph' and 'Benjamin' and 'Gezera Shawa' in the Book of Mormon"
2016-02-19 “'They Were Moved with Compassion' (Alma 27:4; 53:13): Toponymic Wordplay on 'Zarahemla' and 'Jershon'"
2016-02-19 "How ISIS recruits children, then kills them"
2016-02-19 "5 reasons why anecdotes are totally worthless"
2016-02-19 "The Science of Waiting in Modern Courtship"
2016-02-19 "Youth help at Haitian church"
2016-02-19 Trump contra mundum
2016-02-19 BOM 2 Nephi 30
2016-02-19 Looking back at the first volume of "Interpreter"
2016-02-18 Give Mormon liberals a break
2016-02-18 "Remembering the history of the LDS Church on the Hawaiian Islands"
2016-02-18 Seven quotations from the very quotable Mark Twain
2016-02-18 How has Obamacare Helped Queer People?
2016-02-17 What Is Morality in Mormonism?
2016-02-17 On obnoxious reader comments
2016-02-17 "Tragedy and Choices"
2016-02-17 "Joseph Smith's Sexual Polyandry and the Emperor's New Clothes: On Closer Inspection What Do We Find?"
2016-02-17 "2 Nephi 6-10: Jacob's Masterful Discourse"
2016-02-17 Praying for Richard Dawkins? Quelle horreur!
2016-02-17 "The Right Dose of Exercise for a Longer Life"
2016-02-17 "Fearing the ‘G’ Word, the State Department Turns Its Back on Middle Eastern Christians"
2016-02-17 "The Allegory of the Olive Trees"
2016-02-17 BOM 2 Nephi 29
2016-02-17 Is this progress?
2016-02-17 Voices of Child Abuse Survivors - Day 5
2016-02-17 "Keeping the Young Ignorant about Socialism"
2016-02-16 The Donald, Vladimir, and Saddam: A New Mutual Admiration Society?
2016-02-16 BOM 2 Nephi 28
2016-02-16 "Seek ye for the Kingdom of God"
2016-02-16 On Not Being an Ex-Mormon
2016-02-16 Our Virtue – Faith and Education
2016-02-16 "With Kinshasa Temple Groundbreaking, Church Growing Rapidly in Africa"
2016-02-16 "Mormonism, Islam, and the Question of Other Religions"
2016-02-16 Boundaries for Worthiness Interviews
2016-02-16 A new form of water created?
2016-02-16 Netflix's Daredevil and The Ghost of Frank Miller
2016-02-15 What is government?
2016-02-15 Honesty in Science (or Not)
2016-02-15 "Press Forward with a Steadfastness in Christ"
2016-02-15 On caring about appearances
2016-02-15 "He Inviteth All to Come Unto Him"
2016-02-15 Emergent Theology: Steven Peck's "Evolving Faith"
2016-02-15 "For What Crime Was Nehor Executed?"
2016-02-15 Don't forget Saturday, 12 March 2016!
2016-02-15 BOM 2 Nephi 27
2016-02-15 Mark Twain reveals the secret behind the persistence of some anti-Mormon theories!
2016-02-14 Prioritizing love, intimacy & relationship...
2016-02-14 Are we too easily satisfied?
2016-02-14 One scientist's testimony
2016-02-14 "Number of Mormon prisoners in UK jails is rapidly growing"
2016-02-14 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 7: 2 Nephi 3-5
2016-02-14 BOM 2 Nephi 26
2016-02-14 How to eliminate atheism
2016-02-14 For all you Pope Francis fans out there
2016-02-13 Open up!
2016-02-13 Scientific evidence suggests that fear of divine punishment encourages social cooperation
2016-02-13 "The Faith to See: Burning in the Bosom and Translating the Book of Mormon in Doctrine and Covenants 9"
2016-02-13 The passing of Justice Scalia
2016-02-13 "What A 19th Century Campaign To Declare Mormons ‘Non-White’ Tells Us About Modern Islamophobia"
2016-02-13 "The secret 'anti-languages' you're not supposed to know"
2016-02-13 "Do Mormons Believe in Hell?"
2016-02-13 BOM 2 Nephi 25
2016-02-13 Seeking the truth, and seeking God
2016-02-12 Notes on Vaginas
2016-02-12 "BYU's first physics grad earns posthumous Grammy award"
2016-02-12 Jane Manning James: Her Life Story in Her Own Words
2016-02-12 "Day of the Demagogues"
2016-02-12 Teaching Seminary with Cuneiform, Shortbread, and The Shining
2016-02-12 BOM 2 Nephi 24
2016-02-12 George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" -- on two guitars
2016-02-12 "The Reliability of Mormon History Produced by the LDS Church"
2016-02-12 Israel's new shari‘a court judges
2016-02-12 Coming up in March
2016-02-11 Satan in Control of Clinical Depression?
2016-02-11 "Gravitational Waves Detected, Confirming Einstein's Theory"
2016-02-11 True Value
2016-02-11 "Mormonism and the Art of Boundary Maintenance"
2016-02-11 "Physicists find signs of four-neutron nucleus"
2016-02-11 More ISIS Depravity: Using Small Children to Kill People
2016-02-11 "Trump's America"
2016-02-11 "The Book of Mormon wasn't what they expected"
2016-02-11 "Four Accounts and Three Critiques of Joseph Smith's First Vision"
2016-02-11 BOM 2 Nephi 23
2016-02-11 Two prominent Latter-day Saints discuss religious liberty in eastern U.S. speeches
2016-02-11 Advice for your morning and your evening
2016-02-10 Interpreter takes a serious hit for the good of the Saints and the Kingdom
2016-02-10 A State That Will Live in Infamy
2016-02-10 Peter Brook and Coldplay's Orientalist Weekend
2016-02-10 "Hundreds of galaxies discovered hidden behind the Milky Way"
2016-02-10 "Terryl Givens on What It Means to Sustain"
2016-02-10 BOM 2 Nephi 22
2016-02-10 Tolerance and Despair
2016-02-09 "Top intelligence official: ISIS to attempt U.S. attacks this year"
2016-02-09 Voices of Child Abuse Survivors - Day 4
2016-02-09 Drones and Realism in the Middle East
2016-02-09 "Do animals feel empathy?"
2016-02-09 "Finding the first use of the name 'Christ' in the Book of Mormon"
2016-02-09 If thou dost wish to laugh...
2016-02-09 "My soul delighteth in the words of Isaiah"
2016-02-09 Faith Crises, Table-Pounding and Mechanical Rabbits
2016-02-09 "Defenders of the Book: Surveying the New World Evidence for Book of Mormon Historicity"
2016-02-09 BOM 2 Nephi 21
2016-02-09 Happy Chinese New Year!
2016-02-09 Missionaries for Dinner
2016-02-09 Able to Destroy, But Not to Create?
2016-02-09 "O How Great the Goodness of Our God"
2016-02-08 About Those Super Bowl Ads
2016-02-08 "The Fallacy of Fundamentalist Assumptions"
2016-02-08 "Seven Cities Announced for 2016 Mormon Tabernacle Choir European Tour"
2016-02-08 Bill Clinton calls Comrade Bernie supporters "sexist"
2016-02-08 Speaking the truth in the Middle East
2016-02-08 Did you hear about that apparent bomb attack on an airliner over Somalia earlier this month?
2016-02-08 "Pluto has 'floating hills,' NASA says"
2016-02-08 If You Are Gay, You Are 150% Welcome Here
2016-02-08 "Official 'Well-Being' Statistics Show Religious People Are Happier Than Atheists"
2016-02-08 BOM 2 Nephi 20
2016-02-08 Now is the time.
2016-02-07 "The Sabbath is a Delight"
2016-02-07 Just a thought or two on being a Mormon
2016-02-07 "Columbus Ledger-Inquirer": "Longtime Mormon seeks to educate masses with new book"
2016-02-07 "Capernaum bears witness of Christ"
2016-02-07 "Half-Time" in Ancient Rome
2016-02-07 President Uchtdorf recounts his childhood experience as a two-time refugee
2016-02-07 BOM 2 Nephi 19
2016-02-07 "13 Hours"
2016-02-07 What is humility?
2016-02-06 On Disagreements at Church
2016-02-06 "What Next for the Left?"
2016-02-06 An Appeal to the Voters of New Hampshire
2016-02-06 A murmuration of starlings
2016-02-06 "Restaurants du Coeur: LDS Charities is assisting work in Lebanon to preserve dignity"
2016-02-06 Voices from Child Abuse Survivors - Day 3
2016-02-06 "Clinton, Sanders battle over 'gods' and 'devils'"
2016-02-06 "Buddhism and Violence"
2016-02-06 BOM 2 Nephi 18
2016-02-06 "'Let a Hundred Flowers Blossom': Some Observations on Mormon Studies"
2016-02-06 We must learn.
2016-02-05 "The Yoke of Christ: A Light Burden Heavy with Meaning"
2016-02-05 "National Universities Where Students are Eager to Enroll"
2016-02-05 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 6: 2 Nephi 1-2
2016-02-05 "President Obama denounces anti-Muslim bias, mentions anti-Mormon history"
2016-02-05 "From exile to eminence: How the alien hunters conquered astronomy"
2016-02-05 "Deification: Divine Inheritance and the Glorious Afterlife in the Book of Mormon and Ancient Mesoamerica"
2016-02-05 "How the Satanic temple forced Phoenix lawmakers to ban public prayer"
2016-02-05 Video Presentation: "'These Were Days Never to Be Forgotten': The Witnesses to the Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon"
2016-02-05 BOM 2 Nephi 17
2016-02-05 On seeking revenge
2016-02-05 "The Night Chris Christie Killed the Romney Campaign"
2016-02-04 "Early Mormon Missionaries"
2016-02-04 "The Soul and the City"
2016-02-04 "The Science of Hillary Clinton's Coin Toss Victories"
2016-02-04 "Thomas Jefferson was a Muslim"
2016-02-04 "Do You KnoWhy? Book of Mormon Central, Month 1"
2016-02-04 "Why the question of God matters"
2016-02-04 Upcoming Presentations in Arizona
2016-02-04 Some useful items on 1 Nephi
2016-02-04 BOM 2 Nephi 16
2016-02-04 Mwahahahaha!
2016-02-04 "What's Wrong with the Humanities?"
2016-02-03 "Marilynne Robinson and the Mystery of Progressive Democracy"
2016-02-03 "Christianity Today": "Dispatch from Sundance: 'Agnus Dei'"
2016-02-03 The Church's "Africa Clean Water Initiative: 2003-2010"
2016-02-03 Has neuroscience really demonstrated that human free will is an illusion?
2016-02-03 Voices from Child Abuse Survivors - Day 2
2016-02-03 "Debating the Foundations of Mormonism: The Book of Mormon and Archaeology"
2016-02-03 Tonight in West Jordan, Utah
2016-02-03 "Archaeologists Find a Rare 4500-Year-Old Egyptian Funerary Boat"
2016-02-03 BOM 2 Nephi 15
2016-02-03 "The true measure of a man"
2016-02-02 Historical events as the basis of religious belief
2016-02-02 "The Book of Mormon and the modern-day Tyndale moment"
2016-02-02 Galilee Grill and Bakery
2016-02-02 Mourning, Right and Wrong
2016-02-02 Voices from Child Abuse Survivors - Day 1
2016-02-02 Happy Groundhog Day!
2016-02-02 They made Iowa great again!
2016-02-02 The Fullness of the Gospel for the Fullness of Life
2016-02-02 "Four Frightening Archaeological Finds"
2016-02-02 "A Wrested Development: Mourning with Those that Mourn as a Rhetorical Weapon"
2016-02-02 Thank You, Iowa!
2016-02-01 BOM 2 Nephi 14
2016-02-01 Knowledge, hate, and love
2016-02-01 Call for Responses to New Press Release about Child Abuse
2016-02-01 YHWH and his asherah
2016-02-01 Not the 'Why' but the 'What' of the Western Wall
2016-02-01 News Flash: Bill Maher ISN'T actually the embodiment of pure scientific rationality, fed on pure objective evidence!
2016-02-01 Warning: Three More Articles That Are Critical of Mr. Donald Trump
2016-02-01 The father of microcredit
2016-02-01 Has the Church's stance on homosexuality caused a recent rash of suicides?
2016-02-01 A video tour of the new Provo City Center Temple
2016-01-31 Suicide Awareness and Prevention: 10 Things We All Can Do
2016-01-31 Daniel Peterson and Admitting Defeat
2016-01-31 Book Notes and Thoughts on Tradition and "Doctrine Creep"
2016-01-31 BOM 2 Nephi 13
2016-01-31 A. Pope, on Mercy
2016-01-31 The Quest for the Historical (Mormon) Jesus
2016-01-31 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 5: 1 Nephi 16-18
2016-01-31 "'You Can't Close My Heart': Ghanaian Saints and the Freeze"
2016-01-31 Coming up on Saturday, 12 March!
2016-01-31 Pierre Manent’s Christian Aristotelianism, and Aristotelian Christianity
2016-01-30 "Another Book of Mormon Publication in a Non-LDS Academic Source"
2016-01-30 Warning: These articles are critical of Mr. Donald Trump
2016-01-30 BOM 2 Nephi 12
2016-01-30 A note on dealing with the death of a loved one
2016-01-30 We Tend to Resurrect in my Family
2016-01-30 Vulcan: "The Ninth Planet That Wasn't"
2016-01-30 BOM 2 Nephi 11
2016-01-29 "Faithful Viewer: Biopic about Black Preacher is Toast of Sundance"
2016-01-29 "Samuel the Lamanite, Christ, and Zenos: A Study of Intertextuality"
2016-01-29 Marilynne Robinson’s Calvinism & Progressive Democracy
2016-01-29 "Restoring Petra: BYU Archaeologists Restoring Ancient Waterworks"
2016-01-29 "Is Homophobia Going to Cost This Law School Its Accreditation?"
2016-01-29 Not to decide is also to decide.
2016-01-29 Robert LaVoy Finicum, RIP
2016-01-29 Now THIS is a seriously impressive man.
2016-01-29 Too Close to Call? Daniel Peterson in the Deseret News
2016-01-29 "Making America Great Again" for Late-Term Abortions!
2016-01-29 "Historic church discovered in Turkey’s Nevşehir ‘could change history of Orthodoxy’"
2016-01-29 "The biggest solar system ever found is very, very big"
2016-01-29 "A Rubio Surge in Iowa -- Is a Viral Video the Reason?"
2016-01-29 "The King Follett Discourse in the Light of Ancient and Medieval Jewish and Christian Beliefs"
2016-01-29 Double Binds Hurt Us
2016-01-28 BOM 2 Nephi 10
2016-01-28 The great virtue of a free market system
2016-01-28 Survey on Sexual Education
2016-01-28 More on that new ninth planet, "Planet X"
2016-01-28 "Morocco Declaration: Muslim Nations Should Protect Christians from Persecution"
2016-01-28 Of General Authorities and "Criminal Minds"
2016-01-28 "Is faith irrational?"
2016-01-28 "Klintonerdämmerung: What Really Happened to Mrs. Clinton's Emails"
2016-01-28 "Explaining Away the Book of Mormon Witnesses"
2016-01-28 Fresno this weekend
2016-01-28 The personal character of the current Republican frontrunner
2016-01-27 BOM 2 Nephi 9
2016-01-27 Four quotations from Milton Friedman
2016-01-27 President Uchtdorf, Harrison Ford, and the "Candy Bomber"
2016-01-27 "Why a Christian can view Muhammad as a prophet"
2016-01-27 Prima Donald
2016-01-27 When my Loved Ones Don't Leave the Church
2016-01-27 'Gospel' Culture Shock
2016-01-27 "Donald Trump: Don't hand federal lands to states"
2016-01-27 Why Alaska has so many earthquakes
2016-01-27 BOM 2 Nephi 8
2016-01-27 Risen and Rising
2016-01-27 The Donald whines, pouts, takes his ball, and goes home.
2016-01-27 "Tuesday on TV: Book of Mormon, angel Moroni show up in 'The Expanse'"
2016-01-27 Law and mores
2016-01-26 Intimacy vs. Protection Quote
2016-01-26 To the Editors of the Deseret News
2016-01-26 Is the religious liberty of Muslims and Mormons worth protecting?
2016-01-26 Are we reaching the limits of physics, the end of science?
2016-01-26 "Trump's Liberty U performance was insulting to Christians everywhere"
2016-01-26 You will be assimilated
2016-01-26 Choose the Right. Why?
2016-01-26 "Dr. Thomas Sowell -- on Trump"
2016-01-26 "Of Beehives, Books, and Bricks"
2016-01-26 BOM 2 Nephi 7
2016-01-26 Dr. Johnson on civility
2016-01-26 "The Long History of Muslims and Christians Killing People Together"
2016-01-26 Please, Iowa caucus-goers. I'm begging you. Please don't do this to us.
2016-01-25 What will it mean to be Maori and Mormon in 2050?
2016-01-25 Deep disappointment with Jeb Bush
2016-01-25 The new temple in Philadelphia
2016-01-25 "Ten Little Monkeys" Parody
2016-01-25 "'Yeah but' Discipleship"
2016-01-25 A potentially helpful book for students of the Book of Mormon
2016-01-25 "Physicist George Ellis knocks physicists for knocking philosophy, falsification, free will"
2016-01-25 BOM 2 Nephi 6
2016-01-25 Better than wisdom
2016-01-24 LDS missionary numbers declining?
2016-01-24 How great Thou art!
2016-01-24 BOM 2 Nephi 5
2016-01-24 On Huffington Post: "Why do Mormons have churches and temples?"
2016-01-24 "Kenyan Muslim who shielded Christians in al-Shabab attack dies"
2016-01-24 "Scholar disputes pollsters' dire predictions for faith in U.S."
2016-01-24 The so-called "Prayer of St. Francis"
2016-01-24 "The Missionary Killed by Islamist Terror"
2016-01-24 "What Secularism Wrought in Catholicism"
2016-01-24 "Why We March for Life"
2016-01-23 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 4: 1 Nephi 13-14
2016-01-23 Mr. Trump and an anti-Semitic site
2016-01-23 "These astronomical glass plates made history"
2016-01-23 "Meet five Catholic heroes of science"
2016-01-23 "Ten Commandments of Mormon Appreciation"
2016-01-23 "Is Trump the American Sadr?"
2016-01-23 Dumb and Dumber visit Rexburg, Idaho
2016-01-23 BOM 2 Nephi 4
2016-01-23 A fabulous wedding "haka"
2016-01-23 "Two men of faith and science"
2016-01-23 Where do I come from?
2016-01-22 "Nephi and Goliath: A Reappraisal of the Use of the Old Testament in 1 Nephi"
2016-01-22 A strong leader who can fill whole stadiums!
2016-01-22 How Did Ruth Get Past the Guards?
2016-01-22 "To 'See and Hear'"
2016-01-22 "Can you exercise too much?"
2016-01-22 "Muslims and Mormons: An Interfaith Event at Harvard featuring BYU Professor Daniel Peterson"
2016-01-22 "Against Trump"
2016-01-22 Love Letters from China
2016-01-22 What is the true measure of a man (or woman)?
2016-01-22 "The Iron Rod"
2016-01-22 From the "Gonzaga Bulletin": "Suits, bicycle helmets and BYU"
2016-01-22 BOM 2 Nephi 3
2016-01-22 Planet 9 from Outer Space
2016-01-22 "National Review, conservative thinkers stand against Trump"
2016-01-22 "Muslim leaders plan summit on protecting non-Muslims in their midst"
2016-01-21 "Muslims challenge extremist preachers"
2016-01-21 "A Social History of the Early Nephites"
2016-01-21 "Recent scholarship and the search for the historical Jesus"
2016-01-21 Guest Post re LGBT Policy
2016-01-20 Conscience in men
2016-01-20 Mac and Cheese Apologetics
2016-01-20 "Philomena Cunk's Worlds of Wonder -- Philosophy"
2016-01-20 Two pieces on Sarah Palin's endorsement of Donald Trump
2016-01-20 "How Not to Defend Atheism"
2016-01-19 "Does Anyone Believe Trump Seriously Cares about Whether Ted Cruz Is a Natural-Born Citizen?"
2016-01-19 "Signs of Second Largest Black Hole in the Milky Way -- Possible Missing Link in Black Hole Evolution"
2016-01-19 In memory of Doug Barney
2016-01-19 "Toward a New Islamic Golden Age"
2016-01-19 There are No Gays in Heaven?
2016-01-19 "Right on Target: Boomerang Hits and the Book of Mormon"
2016-01-19 "How Tocqueville Schooled Bernie Sanders 200 Years Ago"
2016-01-19 I Was So Much Older Then, I’m Younger Than That Now
2016-01-19 BOM 2 Nephi 2
2016-01-19 Three Quotations from Booker T. Washington
2016-01-19 The Invention of God
2016-01-19 The Courage and Light of Martin Luther King, Jr.
2016-01-18 "Scholastic Pulls Children's Book About George Washington And His Slaves After Outcry"
2016-01-18 Three quotations attributed to the Prophet Muhammad
2016-01-18 God Spell
2016-01-18 Three quotations from Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2016-01-18 You'll probably want to avoid West Jordan, Utah, on these two dates.
2016-01-18 "I Know in Whom I Have Trusted"
2016-01-18 "'Thou Knowest that I Believe': Invoking the Spirit of the Lord as Council Witness in 1 Nephi 11"
2016-01-18 BOM 2 Nephi 1
2016-01-18 Of faith and evidence
2016-01-18 "Free to Choose Liberty and Eternal Life"
2016-01-17 "Disagreeing with LDS Prophets and Apostles vs. Losing Confidence in Them"
2016-01-17 Has human nature changed much in the last thousand years?
2016-01-17 "Arabia and the Book of Mormon"
2016-01-17 "'From Darkness unto Light' takes a fresh look at recovery, publication of the Book of Mormon"
2016-01-17 "Beauty is Physics' Secret Weapon: A Nobel Laureate Maps His Path to Discovery"
2016-01-17 BOM 1 Nephi 22
2016-01-17 "Prince Andrew Thanks Mormon Helping Hands Volunteers"
2016-01-17 "The world of strict naturalism"
2016-01-16 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 3: 1 Nephi 8-12, 15
2016-01-16 "Don't Kill Yourself, Kevin Drum"
2016-01-16 Jordan and Israel at the end of April
2016-01-16 "The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Joseph Smith: Defending the Faith"
2016-01-16 "The Long Road to Harvard"
2016-01-16 A principal cause of the loss of religious faith
2016-01-16 A dramatic step toward schism in the Anglican communion
2016-01-16 "What If History's Brightest Supernova Exploded in Earth's Backyard?"
2016-01-16 Pleasant conversation about a very important topic
2016-01-16 BOM 1 Nephi 21
2016-01-16 Of intellectuals and "the people"
2016-01-16 "Recommended Reading List for Students of the LDS (Mormon) Religion"
2016-01-15 Should we pressure the Brethren to change Church policies?
2016-01-15 Mr. Justice Holmes on religion and science
2016-01-15 "The Case of Plural 'Was' in the Earliest Text"
2016-01-15 "The Case of the {-th} Plural in the Earliest Text"
2016-01-15 "Muslims collect money to build a church in the Egyptian province of Al-Manufiyya"
2016-01-15 One week left- KS City Workshop
2016-01-15 "Egypt's president attends mass, vows to rebuild churches"
2016-01-15 "'Mormonism--Shadow or Reality?' History or Propaganda? Joseph Smith as a Case Study"
2016-01-15 BOM 1 Nephi 20
2016-01-15 Wanting to leave a legacy?
2016-01-15 Did Mormon leaders claim, between 1843 and 1904, that polygamy was required for exaltation?
2016-01-14 Traces of the earliest stars in the universe may have been found.
2016-01-14 "Church of England attendance plunges to record low"
2016-01-14 "The Corruption of Scripture in the Second Century"
2016-01-14 "How to Find Honest Stories about Muslims"
2016-01-14 Eat locally? Sure. If you don't mind starving to death.
2016-01-14 "Meet three of the Eight Witnesses"
2016-01-14 The administration at the University of Utah held a meeting...
2016-01-14 A wonderful and inspiring funeral
2016-01-14 BOM 1 Nephi 19
2016-01-14 Proof in religion?
2016-01-14 "'A Fountain of Pure Water': Lake Atitlán"
2016-01-14 Explaining the Bundys sans Mormonism
2016-01-13 "Faking Data for a Good Cause"
2016-01-13 Where are the safest college campuses in America?
2016-01-13 "Pixar, Star Wars and the fans themselves: Why 2015 was a good-verging-on-great year for movies"
2016-01-13 "The 'Other Side' is Not Dumb"
2016-01-13 "Muslim Millennials' Views on Religion"
2016-01-13 Thought for the Day
2016-01-13 Visiting the Provo City Center Temple
2016-01-13 BOM 1 Nephi 18
2016-01-13 How kind should we be?
2016-01-13 Why Pour Salt in Wounds?
2016-01-12 "... Outside the House of God"
2016-01-12 On Maintaining Integrity in Difficult Circumstances
2016-01-12 "ISIS burns fighters alive for letting Ramadi fall"
2016-01-12 A People Blessed by Revelation
2016-01-12 BOM 1 Nephi 17
2016-01-12 God is Silent on Same Sex Marriage – How Opinion Turns into Doctrine
2016-01-12 The Ongoing Work of Dr. Ugo Perego
2016-01-12 "Is the work of Brian Hales taken seriously by Mormon historians?"
2016-01-12 "Cruz, Rubio, and National Security"
2016-01-12 On spreading happiness
2016-01-11 "What Should I Do If I Think I've Received Revelation Different from Apostles and Prophets?"
2016-01-11 In His Final Performance, David Bowie Embraced Death
2016-01-11 "U.S. bombs 'millions' in ISIS currency holdings"
2016-01-11 "Storm Clouds Form: Bob Woodward Compares Hillary Scandal to Watergate"
2016-01-11 "Why Cosmology Is in Crisis"
2016-01-11 Guest Post: The Tyranny of Rule(s)
2016-01-11 Narnia, the Solstice, and Heaven
2016-01-11 This Seems Relevant
2016-01-11 A More Balanced Account of President Nelson's Remarks
2016-01-11 BOM 1 Nephi 16
2016-01-11 Of kindness and wisdom
2016-01-11 "Mormon gay policy is ‘will of the Lord’ through his prophet, senior apostle says"
2016-01-11 "In England, more accusations that Jehovah's Witnesses hid sex abuse"
2016-01-10 "Mormonism in the Early Jewish Christian Milieu"
2016-01-10 Two news items connected with the sadly declining Church of England
2016-01-10 "String theory has failed as a scientific theory"
2016-01-10 "A New Day for the Book of Mormon"
2016-01-10 "1 Nephi 12-14: Nephi's Grand Vision"
2016-01-10 "Why Muslims and Christians Worship the Same God"
2016-01-10 BOM 1 Nephi 15
2016-01-10 Good Old Words
2016-01-10 "The Ancient Temple: An LDS Perspective"
2016-01-10 "Never Enough Abortions in California"
2016-01-10 "BYU-Utah cancellation is about more than a punch"
2016-01-10 "Early Christian and Jewish Rituals Related to Temple Practices"
2016-01-10 "When should we be afraid of the future?"
2016-01-09 Hillary Clinton will speak for downtrodden women!
2016-01-09 A note on the "horses" in the Book of Mormon
2016-01-09 Review of Brant A. Gardner, Traditions of the Fathers: The Book of Mormon as History
2016-01-09 Midwest Workshop - Healing from Faith Transitions
2016-01-09 "How you manage your emails may be bad for your health"
2016-01-09 Benjamin the Scribe
2016-01-09 "A musical, religious, and historical treasure"
2016-01-09 Starvation in a Syrian Town
2016-01-09 BOM 1 Nephi 14
2016-01-09 "Little bits of good"
2016-01-08 "Yellowstone about to blow? Scientists warning over SUPER-VOLCANO that could kill MILLIONS"
2016-01-08 "Editorial In Saudi Daily: The West Made Mistakes With North Korea; It Is Now Repeating Them With Iran"
2016-01-08 "Faithful Latter-day Saints Dealing with the New LDS policy on Same-Sex Marriage"
2016-01-08 "Untangling Scripture from the Philosophies of Men"
2016-01-08 "Christian Printer Punished by the Gov’t for Refusing to Print Gay Pride T-Shirts"
2016-01-08 "'Look Over All the Land Round About': El Mirador!"
2016-01-08 O Say What is Truth
2016-01-08 Robert M. Cundick: "Well done, thou good and faithful servant"
2016-01-08 BOM 1 Nephi 13
2016-01-08 Three quotations about punctuation
2016-01-08 "Larycia Hawkins 'Flabbergasted' by Wheaton's Move to Fire Her"
2016-01-08 "Why Federal Lands are So Wildly Controversial in the West"
2016-01-07 "America will elect its first Latino president -- and other New Year's predictions"
2016-01-07 "Mass Sex Abuse in Cologne: Part of a Disturbing Trend among Middle East and North African immigrants"
2016-01-07 "So now Muslims can be fired for praying?"
2016-01-07 "A massive new resource for students of the Book of Mormon"
2016-01-07 "Adventures in Islam: The Myths and Legends of Muslim Homogeneity"
2016-01-07 "Going booze-free? The effects of a month without alcohol"
2016-01-07 Jesus in Doubt
2016-01-07 BOM 1 Nephi 12
2016-01-06 A thought for a civilization in decline
2016-01-06 "Don't worry. Be happy."
2016-01-06 "Did Lehi Use the Poetry of the Ancient Bedouin?"
2016-01-06 "'13 Hours' Honors the Sacrifice of the Men on the Ground in Benghazi"
2016-01-06 "Alien life could thrive in ancient star clusters"
2016-01-06 "Why you can't be loyally opposed to the Church"
2016-01-06 "Trumpservations"
2016-01-06 BOM 1 Nephi 11
2016-01-06 More thoughts on the Oregon stand-off
2016-01-06 It's what you're looking for.
2016-01-05 The Next Church Handbook Change: Tithing and Affinity Fraud
2016-01-05 A note on the current tension between Iran and Saudi Arabia
2016-01-05 "The Case for Civil Disobedience in Oregon"
2016-01-05 Mormon Church Responds to Bundy-led Oregon Occupation
2016-01-05 Knowledge – On Whose Terms?
2016-01-05 "Is Interstellar Travel Possible?"
2016-01-05 "Mormon background helped 5 BYU grads make list of world's 50 most important management thinkers"
2016-01-05 BOM 1 Nephi 10
2016-01-05 Save the Date!
2016-01-05 Paradox is not Contradiction, but Wealth of Meaning
2016-01-05 Everyone's greatest need
2016-01-04 "Dear Media: Stop Trying to Teach Christians Theology"
2016-01-04 Mitt Romney on Jeb Bush, on entering the presidential race, and etc.
2016-01-04 Yes, I actually do Islamic studies (not apologetics) for a living
2016-01-04 Is life really better under Scandinavian-style socialism?
2016-01-04 Cliven Bundy and His Sons Are Terrorists: So Why Haven't They Been Excommunicated?
2016-01-04 The Call of Faith
2016-01-04 "The Return of the King"
2016-01-04 Brief but excellent thoughts from Patrick Mason on encountering difficult things in Church history
2016-01-04 A chiastic article in a modern newspaper
2016-01-03 "Tech Wizardry Solves Mysteries of Egypt's Royal Mummies"
2016-01-03 On retaining anger
2016-01-03 "'When the Land and the Stones, and the Books Tell the Story So Plain': Quiriguá"
2016-01-03 BOM 1 Nephi 9
2016-01-03 Are YOU part of a vulnerable religious minority?
2016-01-03 BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 2: 1 Nephi 1-7
2016-01-03 Are drunks in the audience ruining Broadway performances of "The Book of Mormon"?
2016-01-03 Two movies
2016-01-03 A thought for the Sabbath
2016-01-02 Me, the Blog, and Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 1: Changes!
2016-01-02 Some archaeological developments to look for in 2016
2016-01-02 "Forty-Five Years of Chiasmus Conversations: Correspondence, Criteria, and Creativity"
2016-01-02 "Man wraps bacon over Las Vegas mosque's door handles in possible hate crime"
2016-01-02 BOM 1 Nephi 8
2016-01-02 The Most Religious Song in the Songbook
2016-01-02 Reflections
2016-01-01 "The Unforgettable Natalie Cole"
2016-01-01 "May your new year begin better than Amalickiah's"
2016-01-01 Mr. Trump on Asians
2016-01-01 An interesting internal document from the battle for the soul of Islam
2016-01-01 "'Spectre' villain fails neuroanatomy in latest Bond film"
2016-01-01 BOM 1 Nephi 7
2016-01-01 "Joseph Smith Read the Words"
2016-01-01 "The More Part of the Book of Mormon is Early Modern English"
2016-01-01 "Mormonism and the New Liberalism: The Inescapability of Political Apologetics"
2016-01-01 Präsident Uchtdorf on Christmas Day
2016-01-01 If he were ever wrong...

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