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2019-12-31 Thank You! Happy New Year!
2019-12-31 A night for booze and for booze-related auto accidents?
2019-12-31 The Savior Discovered His Purpose, So Can We
2019-12-31 The Savior Discovered His Purpose, So Can We
2019-12-31 "The Outer Solar System: A Window to the Creative Breadth of Divinity"
2019-12-31 Two Mottos (or Mottoes)
2019-12-30 "Conversation in Nauvoo about the Corporeality of God"
2019-12-30 LDS Inc. (Part 19)
2019-12-30 Wishing you a better New Year's than Amalickiah's was
2019-12-29 Elsa and Anna and Moana and Me
2019-12-29 "Joseph Smith and Modern Cosmology"
2019-12-28 Seeing America with Amtrak
2019-12-28 I went, so that you don't have to.
2019-12-27 "He Knows My Affliction"
2019-12-27 "Tax Man"
2019-12-27 Two Faces as a Good Thing
2019-12-27 A linguistic question, for you (my informants)
2019-12-27 Art in Progress
2019-12-26 "The Journey of the Magi"
2019-12-26 Winter after Christmas
2019-12-25 One final wish for a wonderful Christmas
2019-12-25 "Wel may swych a lady Godes moder be"
2019-12-25 Fröhliche Weihnachten!
2019-12-25 "And is it true?"
2019-12-24 Dickens and Our Celebration of Christmas
2019-12-24 LDS Inc. (Part 18)
2019-12-24 On the Magi, and the Deity of Christ
2019-12-23 LDS Inc. (Part 17)
2019-12-23 When light begins to gain the upper hand
2019-12-23 Hoarding the Sacrifices of Ordinary People: A Question of Ethics
2019-12-23 Hoarding the Sacrifices of Ordinary People: A Question of Ethics
2019-12-22 “Then pealed the bells more loud and deep"
2019-12-22 Christmas Messages
2019-12-22 LDS Inc. (Part 16)
2019-12-22 "One of Us"
2019-12-21 "The First Vision of Joseph Smith, Jr.: 200 Years On"
2019-12-21 LDS Inc. (Part 15)
2019-12-20 Two Christmas carols, one from Nigeria and the other from St. George
2019-12-20 "Advent"
2019-12-20 Christmas Reflections from the Interpreter Foundation
2019-12-20 Attending "Messiah"
2019-12-19 Save the Dates! (1-2 May 2020)
2019-12-19 LDS Inc. (Part 14)
2019-12-19 'The difficulty is to me a fatal one"
2019-12-19 Christmas and Easter
2019-12-18 LDS Inc. (Part 13)
2019-12-18 On the Church's impending death
2019-12-17 The Inexorable Progress of Christmas
2019-12-17 LDS Inc. (Part 12)
2019-12-17 Obituary and Funeral Information
2019-12-17 "There is no profit in helping other people"
2019-12-16 Meet the Magi
2019-12-16 Policy Reversal Process requires Repentance
2019-12-16 God's Promises of Bread
2019-12-16 Christmas in the Qur’an
2019-12-16 "An ill-judged reductionist triumphalism"
2019-12-15 Christmas reflections
2019-12-15 "Midway"
2019-12-15 Post Deleted
2019-12-14 Memories of interreligious “trialogue” (III)
2019-12-14 "Christ the Conqueror"
2019-12-14 He tented among us.
2019-12-14 The End of an Era
2019-12-13 "Midway"
2019-12-13 "The stubborn faithfulness of liberal Latter-day Saints"
2019-12-13 "Conclusions in Search of Evidence"
2019-12-13 "Just the kindest person"
2019-12-13 Is genuine knowledge possible outside of science?
2019-12-12 "Lo, how a rose e'er blooming"
2019-12-12 "Ave Maria, gratia plena"
2019-12-11 A Christmas-related lecture on Thursday night
2019-12-11 On "the Pope's divisions"
2019-12-11 William J. Hamblin (1954-2019)
2019-12-10 Memories of interreligious “trialogue” (II)
2019-12-10 "The Restored Gospel and the Birth of the Modern Age"
2019-12-09 Timeline of the LDS church and the ERA
2019-12-09 Working Towards a Non-Splintered Community
2019-12-09 LDS Inc. (Part Eleven)
2019-12-09 LDS Inc. (Part Ten)
2019-12-09 A Year After a Church Discipline and I'm Still Mormon!
2019-12-09 Science as "a profound source of spirituality"?
2019-12-09 Memories of interreligious "trialogue" (I)
2019-12-08 LDS Inc. (Part Nine)
2019-12-08 A memory from southeastern Austria
2019-12-08 Will computers ever become conscious? (B)
2019-12-07 LDS Inc. (Part Eight)
2019-12-07 LDS Inc. (Part Seven)
2019-12-06 Will computers ever become conscious? (A)
2019-12-06 Today's two new articles from Interpreter
2019-12-06 Latter-day Saints, the "Washington Post," refugees, and religion as mere wish-fulfillment fantasy
2019-12-06 Is science the only arbiter of truth?
2019-12-06 "New Video Explores the Historical Credibility of the Book of Abraham"
2019-12-06 LDS Inc. (Part Six)
2019-12-05 For the Other Side
2019-12-05 LDS Inc. (Part Five)
2019-12-04 "Smithmas," again
2019-12-04 MORMON FAITH CRISIS RETREAT--THIS WEEKEND
2019-12-04 A, B, C, and M(e)
2019-12-04 LDS Inc. (Part Four)
2019-12-03 So many needs...
2019-12-02 LDS Inc. (Part Three)
2019-12-02 For Facebook's matching funds offer, Giving Tuesday begins at 6:00 AM Utah time
2019-12-02 Time to be Thankful
2019-12-02 Still two places available. But only two.
2019-12-02 It's the Giving Month. Here are some suggestions.
2019-12-02 LDS Inc. (Part Two)
2019-12-01 The Annual "Sic et Non" Christmas Carol Improvement Project
2019-12-01 LDS Inc. (Part One)
2019-12-01 On alcohol and the Latter-day Saints
2019-12-01 Three religious traditions on compassion
2019-11-30 "Darwinian evolution -- whatever its other virtues -- does not provide a fruitful heuristic in experimental biology."
2019-11-29 Another installment on "The Ancient Making of a Modern Scripture"
2019-11-29 "A Passover Setting for Lehi’s Exodus"
2019-11-28 Gratitude
2019-11-28 "Answering New Atheism and Seeking a Sure Knowledge of God"
2019-11-28 George Washington, and "Gratitude for the Dirt Beneath Our Feet"
2019-11-28 Confusing scientism with science?
2019-11-27 Lincoln's Original Thanksgiving Proclamation
2019-11-27 "The Lost 116 Pages: Reconstructing the Book of Mormon's Missing Stories"
2019-11-27 Some expressions of scientific humility
2019-11-27 My encounter with Iran's foreign minister
2019-11-26 St.George Utah-- Mormon Faith Crisis Retreat
2019-11-26 From nearly a decade ago
2019-11-26 Angelic choirs and Palestinian shepherds
2019-11-25 "There does seem to be something special about science"
2019-11-25 Apple Pie and the Big Bang
2019-11-25 Polemical atheist crusader, meet the facts about suicide bombing!
2019-11-25 Reasons to be grateful
2019-11-24 Living with Ambiguity
2019-11-24 An Open Letter to Ben Affleck
2019-11-24 “Non nobis, Domine, non nobis"
2019-11-24 The Middle East: What's In a Name?
2019-11-24 26 miles across the sea, Santa Catalina was still waiting for me
2019-11-23 "The Ancient Making of a Modern Scripture"
2019-11-22 From about as far west as I can go for the moment
2019-11-22 At rather a high cost, it seems to me
2019-11-22 Revisiting two recent reviews of a volume in the Joseph Smith Papers series
2019-11-22 A few Arabic/Islamic factoids
2019-11-21 A Record of Moses' Blessing The Tribes of Israel
2019-11-21 "The cosmological proof of the existence of God... updated and refurbished"
2019-11-21 2014 thoughts for Thanksgiving
2019-11-21 "Robust and fruitful fine-tuning"
2019-11-20 Salt Lake City and Jerusalem, this morning
2019-11-20 The Well of Miriam
2019-11-20 "Why the Houston City mayor specifically asked Latter-day Saint missionaries to help with a service event"
2019-11-20 Unfalsifiability and Evolution
2019-11-19 A note regarding Israeli settlements on the West Bank
2019-11-19 Thanksgiving and the Soul's Captain
2019-11-19 "Science and Mormonism"
2019-11-18 The collapse of French Catholicism
2019-11-18 The religious faith of two Nobel laureate physicists
2019-11-17 A bit of "biblical" history that you may never have encountered before
2019-11-17 Approaching the Thanksgiving Holiday
2019-11-17 How Solomon built his temple
2019-11-16 Science, between fact and theory
2019-11-16 Southeast Asia, Mesoamerica, Manhattan, and Utah Valley
2019-11-16 Liberty University's goal -- amazingly -- of becoming something like BYU
2019-11-15 Islam, a religion of the desert?
2019-11-15 Two new articles from the Interpreter Foundation
2019-11-15 Fine-Tuning and Dimensionless Physical Constants
2019-11-15 Too short
2019-11-14 "What’s the Best Way to Sail From World to World?"
2019-11-14 From two biographers of Muhammad
2019-11-14 3 Nephi 11-18: One Day with Jesus
2019-11-14 How to Talk to Your Kids About Sex
2019-11-13 "There’s Growing Evidence That the Universe Is Connected by Giant Structures"
2019-11-13 Is Islam really a religion?
2019-11-13 Dismissing Witness Testimony
2019-11-13 Some Arabic influence in the American Southwest
2019-11-13 A Kierkegaardian reaction to "Thoroughly Modern Millie"
2019-11-12 ""Two science societies removed BYU job postings over the school’s Honor Code ban on ‘homosexual behavior'"
2019-11-12 On reconsidering the emotions of God
2019-11-11 Islamic Relief and the Latter-day Saints
2019-11-11 "Twenty Questions about Science and Religion"
2019-11-11 THRIVE DAY 2019
2019-11-11 25 Miles to Empty, 22 Miles to Go
2019-11-11 Come, fly with me!
2019-11-10 Werner Heisenberg on Religion
2019-11-10 Running with the golden plates
2019-11-10 You might as well pray to a rock
2019-11-09 A note on Arabic personal names
2019-11-09 Can a Darwinian Be a Christian?
2019-11-09 "Enter Paradise, you and your spouses: you will be filled with joy."
2019-11-08 "Memory and Millennials"
2019-11-08 Thoughts on John Lennon's "Imagine"
2019-11-08 "Buried before they died"
2019-11-08 Theism and Atheism, Islam and Communism
2019-11-07 Why do Latter-day Saints tend to reject evolution?
2019-11-07 "#LightTheWorld Giving Machines Expand to 10 Locations During Christmas Season"
2019-11-06 Does Darwinism necessarily entail atheism?
2019-11-06 "Muslims and Latter-day Saints can be leaders in building tolerance"
2019-11-06 On "Edward Stevenson’s Journal Entry about Martin Harris"
2019-11-06 Are You Heeding Recent Prophetic Invitations?
2019-11-06 Memories of Kamal
2019-11-06 Little Birdies
2019-11-05 Introducing "an indigent jeweller named Snite"
2019-11-04 "Science vs. Religion: Can this Marriage Be Saved?"
2019-11-04 They're by no means all over THERE.
2019-11-04 "Crossings"
2019-11-03 For a Sabbath Day, the "Great Hymn to the Aten"
2019-11-03 Archaeology and the Book of Mormon?
2019-11-03 Meaning of the Names of the First Presidency & Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
2019-11-03 Do Muslims and Christians worship the same God?
2019-11-02 "Did a “Magic World View” Influence the Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon?"
2019-11-02 "Trees"
2019-11-02 "Harriet"
2019-11-01 "Historicity: Does it matter?"
2019-11-01 "The Role and Purpose of Synagogues in the Days of Jesus and Paul"
2019-11-01 Flourishing Sexually after Orthodox Religious Upbringings
2019-11-01 "Stone Cold Sober"
2019-10-31 "Paradigm Shift"
2019-10-31 True or False? "Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war."
2019-10-31 Who Gets Spiritual Gifts?
2019-10-30 "Exploring the Isaiah Scrolls and Their Textual Variants"
2019-10-30 I, arrogant usurper of the prophets
2019-10-30 Of gay giraffes, the communion of minds, and Einstein's biggest blunder
2019-10-30 Ibn Khaldun on government, and on the purpose of life
2019-10-30 Lord Kelvin on Ether
2019-10-29 In the end, we keep moving forward.
2019-10-29 "But once He has delivered them safely back to land..."
2019-10-28 A musing on the "God of the gaps"
2019-10-28 Starting with the end in mind? (1)
2019-10-28 Have You Ever Asked God for Gifts?
2019-10-28 "Plenty of opportunities"
2019-10-27 "Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth."
2019-10-27 On the belated departure of a genuinely evil man
2019-10-27 "Semitic abecedary found in Egypt"
2019-10-26 On "the cosmic religious feeling"
2019-10-26 "A Christian life involves the whole person"
2019-10-26 Halloween's supposedly evil and satanic roots
2019-10-26 "Ministering across Fault Lines"
2019-10-25 Against "lonely heavens"
2019-10-25 Silencing Sexual Science
2019-10-25 A couple of places to try Middle Eastern cuisine in Orlando
2019-10-24 "Snorkeling grandmothers reveal large deadly sea snake population in popular bay"
2019-10-24 "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints reaffirms opposition to conversion therapy"
2019-10-24 "The Appearance of Elijah and Moses in the Kirtland Temple and the Jewish Passover"
2019-10-24 "Does time spent on social media impact mental health?"
2019-10-23 Don't Call it a Choice...
2019-10-23 Banned in Boston? No, suppressed in Salt Lake City.
2019-10-23 Avoiding the danger of "permanent human infantilism and absolute uselessness"
2019-10-23 "Evolution and Faith"
2019-10-22 It's time to buy something at Chick-fil-A again
2019-10-22 "Breathtaking Beauty"
2019-10-21 "Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom."
2019-10-21 Now, you can read a transcript of “'Idle Tales'? The Witness of Women”
2019-10-21 Educating Ourselves on Matters of "Biological Sex"
2019-10-21 "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus" (A)
2019-10-20 Temples in Germany, Utah, and the Congo
2019-10-20 National Geographic discovery of Mayan ruins wasn't proof, but it was very interesting
2019-10-20 Monday, 28 October 2019: "Recovering a Lost World: The LiDAR Revolution and Ancient Maya Warfare"
2019-10-19 On repealing the First Amendment, explicitly or implicitly
2019-10-19 "La Traviata," "like a bird on the wire"
2019-10-18 Is southern California doomed? and other interesting scientific questions
2019-10-18 Biological Sex and Gender are not Binary
2019-10-18 "An American Indian Language Family with Middle Eastern Loanwords"
2019-10-18 Syria, the Kurds, and "Mormons to the Rescue?"
2019-10-18 The Church of Jesus Christ and so-called "conversion therapy"
2019-10-18 "Heavenly Parents"
2019-10-18 "Extent, depth, and stunning grandeur"
2019-10-17 "Elder Holland gives an inside look to miracles that made the BYU Jerusalem Center possible"
2019-10-16 "Catholics and Mormons forged ties in 1800s"
2019-10-16 Thinking about religion and science while in Arizona
2019-10-16 "The oldest historic buildings along the Pacific shore of the United States"
2019-10-15 Russell M. Nelson, M.D., Ph.D.
2019-10-15 Two Qur’anic passages about families
2019-10-15 On judgment and charity
2019-10-15 "Phantom"
2019-10-14 "The Kurds, caught between four modern countries"
2019-10-14 The Starry Heaven Above and the Moral Law Within
2019-10-13 Toward remembering Joseph Smith's First Vision
2019-10-13 "Lights. Camera. Prayer."
2019-10-13 "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." (Tolstoy)
2019-10-12 Interpreter and Me
2019-10-12 When "balanced coverage" misleads
2019-10-12 The oldest still-functioning temple in the Church
2019-10-12 "Lessons from scorching hot weirdo-planets"
2019-10-11 A memory from southeastern Austria
2019-10-11 "A treasure that is both hidden and inexhaustible"
2019-10-11 Trump's Folly, America's Shame
2019-10-10 Seismology and Theology: Is There a Distinction?
2019-10-10 Will all 150 of your relationships end if Yellowstone erupts?
2019-10-09 The holidays are coming. Shouldn't Amazon be contributing something to your favorite charity?
2019-10-09 Siddhartha and the First Vision
2019-10-09 Once more, on Lord David Alton's BYU plenary address
2019-10-09 An Important Milestone
2019-10-08 Siddhartha, and a world of inflexible cause and effect
2019-10-08 Mr. Trump's shameful betrayal of our Kurdish allies
2019-10-08 Personal Perspectives and Historical Reconstructions
2019-10-07 Lunch with the Turkish consul general
2019-10-07 A wistful Bavarian memory
2019-10-07 Cedar City, on Sunday, 13 October 2019; the Passing of an Icon; and a Nobel Prize for Utah?
2019-10-06 Out of Liberty--SEE IT NOW!
2019-10-06 President Nelson, Muslims, and Humanitarian Service
2019-10-06 Pre-Death Apparitions
2019-10-06 Eight New Temples -- So I'm Even MORE Frustrated!
2019-10-05 Faithful women and the blessings of the life to come
2019-10-05 Saints and Scientists
2019-10-05 Response to President Nelson’s BYU Address
2019-10-05 An extract from the opening of Alexander Kinglake's "Eothen"
2019-10-04 Friday, from the Interpreter Foundation
2019-10-04 Fortifying Our Homes Against the Adversary
2019-10-04 Is beauty truth? Is truth beauty?
2019-10-04 "If we study astronomy, we study the works of God."
2019-10-03 "The eyewitness testimony of Newel Knight," and other matters
2019-10-03 "Divine Decree and Predestination"
2019-10-03 Professor Louis C. Midgley and the Maori
2019-10-02 "The astonishing array of 'just so' coincidences"
2019-10-02 Sympathy for Atheism
2019-10-02 New from the set of "Witnesses"
2019-10-02 "Peterson's Rule"
2019-10-01 Policy Expertise and Baptism at Age Eight
2019-10-01 Chronicling the early Restoration
2019-09-30 A bit of science and two bits on scientism
2019-09-30 On religious liberty, or, Why the courts matter
2019-09-30 "Faith and Science are Symbiotic"
2019-09-29 A note on Philo of Alexandria
2019-09-29 Comrade Stalin and the Pope's Divisions
2019-09-28 The Behemoth at the Center of Our Galaxy
2019-09-28 Notes on Violence and the Qur’an (1)
2019-09-28 "Gay, transgender youth at 'significantly higher risk' of suicide than heterosexual peers"
2019-09-28 "Dealing with the Dead"
2019-09-28 "Lehi, Joseph, and the Kingdom of Israel"
2019-09-28 Lucy Harris v. Joseph Smith Jr.
2019-09-28 The subject that cannot be discussed
2019-09-27 These supposed "parallels" are quite bogus
2019-09-27 Two new temples
2019-09-26 Order in Nature and Another of the Social Benefits of Religion
2019-09-26 "Last Chance to Book 'Ultimate Egypt'!"
2019-09-26 People, events, and ideas
2019-09-26 Returning to the political serenity of the United States
2019-09-25 The example of al-Ghazali
2019-09-25 Don't yell. Don't demonstrate. Plant some trees!
2019-09-25 Thinking about things Hispanic while far from the Hispanic world
2019-09-25 Pilgrim's Regress and the Mythical History of the Croissant
2019-09-25 On the latest Trump twist
2019-09-24 Science and the Last Word
2019-09-24 "Church Donates to Suicide Prevention and Awareness Campaign in Utah"
2019-09-24 The most sacred place in Finland
2019-09-24 "Gentiles in the Book of Mormon" and Murals at Dura Europos
2019-09-24 Eating in the late Middle Ages in a beautiful place
2019-09-24 Visiting a fairy-tale town in Estonia
2019-09-22 The fireside in Tampere
2019-09-21 Affixing blame for the Mountain Meadows Massace
2019-09-21 In Tampere, Finland
2019-09-20 Endless things to see and to do
2019-09-20 Children of Privilege
2019-09-19 At Mountain Meadows
2019-09-19 Above St. George
2019-09-18 Human history can be an eloquent testament to the fact of the Fall.
2019-09-18 Io is icky, bullying and suicide, and other science news
2019-09-18 "Israel election exit poll suggests Benjamin Netanyahu has failed to win majority | ITV News"
2019-09-17 Ignoring Evidence, Inventing Evidence, Redefining "Woman," and Journalism Unbound
2019-09-17 President Nelson, Bishop Caussé, Sister Eubank, and Dr. Swift
2019-09-17 The early history of the Restoration set in... Massachusetts?
2019-09-17 Two upcoming public lectures by a friend, on "Wonders of Egypt"
2019-09-16 Oklahoma! (with a note on atheism and science)
2019-09-16 Only in his imagination? Only with "spiritual eyes"?
2019-09-15 Belated Happy 106th, Dad! (2)
2019-09-15 Belated Happy 106th, Dad! (1)
2019-09-15 "The Spirit of Elijah"
2019-09-14 Is "Islamist" suicide bombing in the Middle East really motivated by religion?
2019-09-14 "Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions"
2019-09-14 Is there a hint of a premortal existence, and even of a premortal council, in the Qur’an?
2019-09-13 "If Truth Were a Child"
2019-09-13 The mosquito in history
2019-09-13 Enormous radio bubbles, an unearthly mineral, mass extinction, and another note on the perils of rural England
2019-09-12 "The Record of the Jews and the Record of the Nephites are One."
2019-09-12 What a difference a little translation choice can make!
2019-09-11 "Evolution on Display at BYU," and Other Science News
2019-09-11 The roots of the Restoration, and its fruits
2019-09-11 Tuesday morning, eighteen years ago today
2019-09-11 "A Crowd of 'Witnesses'"
2019-09-10 Why this scientist is a Christian
2019-09-10 A Changed Viewpoint: Seeing Beauty in the Pain of Trials
2019-09-10 A book recommendation regarding global Muslim attitudes
2019-09-10 What is a prophet?
2019-09-09 "Ultimate Egypt" this coming December?
2019-09-09 The deadly jungles of England
2019-09-09 It matters. It really, really matters.
2019-09-08 Despair, Drugs, and Faith
2019-09-08 "Have Archaeologists Found the Lost City of the Apostles?"
2019-09-08 Who protects mainstream Christendom's holiest church?
2019-09-07 Celebrating President Nelson's 95th Birthday, Friday Night
2019-09-07 "Belief, Behavior, and Belonging: How Faith is Indispensable in Preventing and Recovering from Substance Abuse"
2019-09-06 President Nelson's Birthday Party Tonight
2019-09-06 Repeating a previous note on women and apologetics
2019-09-06 What did the Urim and Thummim look like?
2019-09-06 No Ma’am, that's not Islamic history
2019-09-05 Johannes Kepler and the supposed war between science and religion
2019-09-05 Church history, then and now
2019-09-04 "Doors of Death"
2019-09-04 An early seventh-century Arabian William McLellin?
2019-09-04 The original anti-vaxxers and some new thoughts about the atmosphere of Mars
2019-09-04 The "Witnesses" film project reaches a milestone
2019-09-03 "Death of the 'gay gene'" -- and of most everything else.
2019-09-03 Were there Near Eastern languages in ancient America?
2019-09-03 Chick-fil-A and the Mental Health of Certain Academics and Administrators at the University of Kansas
2019-09-02 "One of the chief characteristics of Deity"
2019-09-02 Once more on that "eagle" and those "lands of Allah"
2019-09-02 Anecdotal intimations of immortality (2)
2019-09-02 Well? Does Qur’an 9:11 prophesy that "the wrath of the eagle" will cleanse the lands of the Arabs?
2019-09-02 Anecdotal intimations of immortality (1)
2019-09-01 It was a good run (for me, anyway)
2019-09-01 On three remarkable biological facts
2019-08-31 How far should we go in restricting freedom in order to promote virtue?
2019-08-31 New, from Square Two
2019-08-31 Looking Forward to Fall Term
2019-08-30 "The Language of the Spirit in the Book of Mormon"
2019-08-30 A note on scientism and reductionism
2019-08-30 Of reductionism
2019-08-30 Two examples of Muslim hatred for Christian churches
2019-08-30 Hope for everybody's future
2019-08-29 Dear Elder Hathaway... your remarks are inexcusable...
2019-08-29 The United Nations in Salt Lake City, President Nelson in South America
2019-08-29 Global warming, global cooling, and mayhem (terrestrial and intergalactic)
2019-08-28 There's considerable satisfaction in this, notwithstanding the bad memories
2019-08-28 "The Importance of Christian Unity in 1 Corinthians"
2019-08-28 Some recent Israeli news
2019-08-27 The dirt beneath your feet
2019-08-27 Thoughts on Masturbation from Blaire Ostler
2019-08-26 An autumn of great reading
2019-08-26 On solid ground? (2)
2019-08-26 September Workshop--Get Your Tickets Now!
2019-08-26 Sobek, god of Pharaoh, and other matters of interest
2019-08-26 Fun with Americanized Arabic (3)
2019-08-25 On solid ground? (1)
2019-08-25 A second call for movie extras!
2019-08-25 "He has not created me for naught."
2019-08-25 Fun with Americanized Arabic (2)
2019-08-24 Will Justice Ginsburg afford Mr. Trump another chance for an appointment to the Supreme Court?
2019-08-24 Today, 24 August, is "Pluto Demotion Day"!
2019-08-24 "Our religion will not clash with or contradict the facts of science in any particular."
2019-08-23 John Gee on the recent Joseph Smith Papers volume, and Jonathan Neville on... well, ME
2019-08-23 Fun with Americanized Arabic (1)
2019-08-22 "The Surprising and Meaningful History Behind the Word 'Sacrament'"
2019-08-22 The Thin Blue Line (2)
2019-08-22 High thoughts, high culture, and high ecclesiastical officials?
2019-08-22 "And how be it my church save it be called in my name?"
2019-08-21 Henry VI and the Shah of Iran
2019-08-21 Flourish Intimately Online Program
2019-08-21 The Thin Blue Line (1)
2019-08-21 A first look at the "Kalila wa-Dimna"
2019-08-20 Movie Extras Needed!
2019-08-20 "Fools' names and fools' faces"
2019-08-20 Cinderella and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
2019-08-20 Giggling toward the apocalypse
2019-08-20 "Hamlet" (C)
2019-08-20 Ed Smart-A Common LDS Story
2019-08-19 "Hamlet" (B)
2019-08-19 "Hamlet" (A)
2019-08-18 Is "compassion" a significant idea in Latter-day Saint thinking?
2019-08-18 "Dark Matter May Be Older Than The Big Bang, Study Suggests"
2019-08-18 When, with the morn, those angel faces smile
2019-08-18 Will I be on the Headline News Network on Sunday night?
2019-08-17 Science and Wissenschaft (A)
2019-08-17 Jimmy Aldaoud RIP
2019-08-16 "Jacob Did Not Make a False Prediction"
2019-08-16 "The Interpreter Foundation 7th Annual Dinner and Fireside"
2019-08-15 Compassion and Religion
2019-08-15 Is religion -- terrifying thought! -- good for your health?
2019-08-15 A personal, autobiographical, note about the St. George Utah Temple
2019-08-15 "Every Brilliant Thing"
2019-08-14 The Myth of the Unrighteous Parent
2019-08-14 From a charter member of Mr. Jonathan Neville's "M2C citation cartel"
2019-08-14 "Muslims being 'erased' from Central African Republic"
2019-08-14 On mental health and the Latter-day Saints
2019-08-14 The "Scottish play" in Cedar City
2019-08-13 Finding Joy in Fasting
2019-08-13 In and around Utah's Dixie
2019-08-13 Blessings of Tithing
2019-08-13 Question: Is religious faith a mental illness?
2019-08-12 There is a God, even in Las Vegas
2019-08-12 Flourish Intimately --TOMORROW!
2019-08-12 Recalling the surprisingly modern story of a medieval Muslim
2019-08-12 Of guns, shootings, and facts
2019-08-12 A physician and a prophet
2019-08-12 Theological Twinkies and our Spiritual Diet
2019-08-12 Our seventh-birthday party
2019-08-11 Tentative meditations of a non-Buddhologist
2019-08-11 "Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction"
2019-08-10 "Hilf du, Sankt Anna!"
2019-08-10 "For religious American Muslims, hostility from the right and disdain from the left"
2019-08-10 A note on “economic libertarianism,” goodness, and kindness
2019-08-09 Friday afternoon at the 2019 FairMormon Conference in Provo, et finis
2019-08-09 "Welding Another Link in Wonder’s Chain"
2019-08-09 Friday morning at FairMormon
2019-08-08 Concluding the Thursday session of the 2019 FairMormon Conference
2019-08-08 Thursday Afternoon at FairMormon
2019-08-08 Thursday morning at the 2019 FairMormon Conference
2019-08-08 "Be Perfectly Joined Together"
2019-08-07 Wednesday afternoon at the 2019 FairMormon Conference
2019-08-07 Another note from today's session of the 2019 FairMormon Conference
2019-08-07 Wednesday morning, from the floor at FairMormon
2019-08-07 Brigham Young and the Prophetic Mantle in Nauvoo
2019-08-06 "Nation Warned Of Roving Mormon Bicycle Gang 'Heck's Angels'"
2019-08-06 Two windows and a bathtub
2019-08-06 "Ancient Maya warfare flared up surprisingly early"
2019-08-06 Mathematics and the Physical Universe (B)
2019-08-05 Two very distinct translators of the “Arabian Nights” (2)
2019-08-05 Mathematics and the Physical Universe (A)
2019-08-05 “You’re a stranger here”
2019-08-05 "We ever pray for thee, our prophet dear" -- and the opposition
2019-08-04 The Circle of (Latter-day Saint) Life
2019-08-04 Some work on the name "Alma"
2019-08-03 Memories of Heaven?
2019-08-03 Bidding farewell to Arnie Green
2019-08-03 "Brigham Young’s Newly Located February 1874 Revelation"
2019-08-02 Henry Eyring
2019-08-02 Brother Brigham
2019-08-02 Two very distinct translators of the "Arabian Nights" (1)
2019-08-01 Maybe, of course, the firing squad was just on your side...
2019-08-01 "Alma," Deception, and I
2019-07-31 Is morality merely an illusion?
2019-07-30 Covenant and law, grace, works, and faith.
2019-07-30 A note -- probably not my last -- about the "Shroud of Turin"
2019-07-30 The definitive text of the "Arabian Nights"?
2019-07-30 Of Ancient Pyramids in East St. Louis, the Heartland, and Educational Levels in Provo/Orem
2019-07-30 Linking heaven and earth in Calgary
2019-07-30 Misogyny in the "Arabian Nights"?
2019-07-29 Fauna in the Mountains Above Canmore
2019-07-29 Some Thoughts on the Temple
2019-07-29 Unutterable sadness in Syria. Please don't avert your eyes.
2019-07-29 A financial report from the Church, and a financial report about the Church
2019-07-29 "What we should think of current science can quite properly depend, in part, on theology"
2019-07-28 A note on doing "the works of Abraham"
2019-07-27 Of beetles and the brevity of human life
2019-07-27 "Religion Creates Community"
2019-07-27 Climate Change in the Canadian Rockies
2019-07-27 Are the "Arabian Nights" great literature?
2019-07-27 Athabaskan
2019-07-27 "Comparing Phonemic Patterns in Book of Mormon Personal Names with Fictional and Authentic Sources"
2019-07-26 How the "Nights" Came to the West
2019-07-26 "An opportunity to learn 'by study and also by faith'"
2019-07-25 "Human understanding remains provisional and fragmentary"
2019-07-25 How we Interact with and Represent "Boys" matters...
2019-07-24 Arnold H. Green (1940-2019)
2019-07-24 Another little bit on the "Arabian Nights"
2019-07-24 Of course, if you're going to make an omelet you have to break some eggs.
2019-07-24 Nearing the goal with "Witnesses"
2019-07-24 Theodore Turley Returns to England and Preaches the Gospel to His Family
2019-07-24 Connecting with the Past
2019-07-24 More about that shoe on the ledge
2019-07-24 Introducing the "Arabian Nights"
2019-07-24 Two infestations?
2019-07-23 The shoe on the ledge
2019-07-23 At play in the (glacier) fields of the Lord
2019-07-23 Confessions of a wannabe architect
2019-07-22 "The Homophobic Teachings of the Mormon Church Killed my Son"
2019-07-22 Boastful? Arrogant? No, he wasn't.
2019-07-22 The last best place?
2019-07-21 All religion would be threatened.
2019-07-21 Earthquake Lake, Montana
2019-07-20 A Million Dollar Quartet and Joseph's Dreamcoat
2019-07-20 Regarding President Nelson's imminent speech to the NAACP
2019-07-19 Apollo 11, broccoli, and the pressing need for more trees
2019-07-19 "A Precious Resource with Some Gaps"
2019-07-19 Sexual Pleasure and Hell too Closely Correlated
2019-07-19 Once more on "sending her back"
2019-07-18 Recordings available!
2019-07-18 "His death was indeed 'according to plan.'"
2019-07-18 "In Good Faith"
2019-07-18 "Send her back!"
2019-07-18 God Speaks Through Visions in the Book of Acts and in the Latter Days
2019-07-18 Flourish Intimately
2019-07-17 On those living stipends for General Authorities
2019-07-17 "Something far more deeply interfused"
2019-07-17 Ten Muslim Classics
2019-07-17 "While he lay 'dying'"
2019-07-16 On the Trump Tweet (2)
2019-07-16 Las Vegas on Wednesday
2019-07-16 "Is God the Answer to the Suicide Epidemic?"
2019-07-16 Thinking about and with Jane
2019-07-15 On the Trump Tweet (1)
2019-07-15 Mr. Jonathan Neville intensifies his puzzling personal attacks.
2019-07-15 "Can the human soul be a scientific concept?"
2019-07-15 Hug a Bisexual Mormon
2019-07-15 "A subject so worthy"
2019-07-15 "Finding Nature's Deep Design"
2019-07-15 A note regarding complaints about LDS humanitarian efforts
2019-07-14 "Occasionally, when the dead are seen by the living..."
2019-07-14 Are evolution and theism incompatible?
2019-07-13 The "Modern Western Mindset"?
2019-07-13 Three fascinating days in August
2019-07-13 I'm sincerely worried, and I hope that this will stop.
2019-07-12 Gender Nineteen Eighty-Fouria
2019-07-12 Hugh Nibley and the Heartland
2019-07-12 "Shazer: An Etymological Proposal in Narrative Context"
2019-07-12 Sunstone Summer Symposium August 2019
2019-07-12 A sewer leak and the first-century world of Jesus
2019-07-11 A giant marble pyramid-shaped island complex rising from the sea
2019-07-11 Funny, and not so funny
2019-07-11 Pre-Columbian Horses in the Americas, Again?
2019-07-10 Using media tools to commend and defend the claims of the Restoration
2019-07-10 On the Moon
2019-07-10 Yes, I have a weakness
2019-07-10 "The Fire Drill": A Coping Technique for Tempers, Triggers, and Big Feelings
2019-07-10 Four hundred years of Christian devotion in a small Bavarian town
2019-07-10 Acts 7: Re-Moved and Outs
2019-07-09 Religion and "unmatched wickedness"
2019-07-09 Acts 6: Full, Multiplied, and the Face of an Angel
2019-07-09 "Building Zion" in Las Vegas
2019-07-09 "Woo" and the study of consciousness
2019-07-09 "Freaky Friday" on a Monday and the Blessing of Community
2019-07-08 Is naturalism a religion?
2019-07-08 A part of a legacy, I hope
2019-07-08 On the mysterious 40-day post-Easter ministry of Jesus
2019-07-07 "The Aristocrat"
2019-07-07 What made the first apostles such fearless preachers?
2019-07-07 "Studied all about it. Didn't worry me then. Doesn't worry me now."
2019-07-06 Jesus Rises From the Tomb
2019-07-06 Jesus' Burial in the Tomb
2019-07-06 A grotesquely obvious missed opportunity
2019-07-06 "The conquest of the deadly flux of time"
2019-07-06 Marching Toward Goodthink in San Francisco!
2019-07-05 "Muslims have been an integral part of the United States of America since her birth"
2019-07-05 A note on the anthropology of the Pacific
2019-07-05 "Compassion as the Heart of the Gospel"
2019-07-04 "All men are... endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights"
2019-07-04 From the opening pages of Alexander Kinglake's "Eothen"
2019-07-04 "The more who have derived from the less, or the less who have derived from the more"?
2019-07-04 Later this month in Las Vegas?
2019-07-03 Evolutionary theory and nihilism?
2019-07-03 I need your feedback...
2019-07-03 "The Rivers of Paradise"
2019-07-02 Belief in the Historicity of the Book of Mormon, and Some of the Fruit that Such Belief Yields
2019-07-02 News out of Iraq, Yemen, and Turkey
2019-07-02 Theists and Science
2019-07-02 Communications from the Dead?
2019-07-01 On the Freedom of Religion
2019-07-01 Parson Thwackum and a Reading List
2019-07-01 Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York, in Orem, Utah -- within walking distance of my house
2019-06-30 "Exceedingly white and strange"
2019-06-30 Why it matters
2019-06-30 "Gee, but it's great to be back home"
2019-06-30 For Dad (1913-2003)
2019-06-30 "The Other Side of Heaven" and Evidence of Heaven
2019-06-29 A thought on forgiveness
2019-06-29 The truth is not in them.
2019-06-29 7-9 August in Provo -- or at a distance
2019-06-29 "An Open Letter to William Lane Craig"
2019-06-28 Entering into "Neville-Neville Land"
2019-06-28 A new film and our forthcoming film
2019-06-28 "A Nourishing and Accessible Read"
2019-06-28 To Know of God as Did Joseph
2019-06-28 Yoga and Faith Crises - Learning to Bend When You Feel Like Breaking
2019-06-27 An anniversary not to be forgotten
2019-06-27 Accountability in the "Comments Section"
2019-06-27 How sweet the sound!
2019-06-27 Looking around Lima
2019-06-26 Sunstone July31-August3
2019-06-26 Notice: A "Procedural" Matter Regarding This Blog
2019-06-26 A brief comment on "sociobiology"
2019-06-26 A day on Perelandra
2019-06-25 Sad news, but, sadly, not at all surprising
2019-06-25 A quick response to Mr. Jonathan Neville, Esq.
2019-06-25 Join us in 2020!
2019-06-25 On the question of other religions
2019-06-25 FEARLESS CONVERSATIONS IN PRACTICE-- AUG 1, 2019
2019-06-25 Laser scans and a Maya "megalopolis"
2019-06-25 At the highest lake of its size in the world
2019-06-23 An ancient alien space facility near the Sacred Valley
2019-06-23 Hiram Bingham of Honolulu, New Haven, Machu Picchu, and... Washington DC
2019-06-23 At Machu Picchu
2019-06-23 Hope for the eternities
2019-06-22 Hebrew wordplay in the Book of Moses?
2019-06-21 In the Sacred Valley
2019-06-21 A visit to the site of the once-fabulous Coricancha temple
2019-06-21 The Lightest Day
2019-06-21 Waves: A Response to Painful Rhetoric
2019-06-21 Cusco, Navel of the Earth?
2019-06-20 Corpus Christi in Cusco
2019-06-20 Sacsayhuamán
2019-06-20 The Real Elder Price - entire series
2019-06-20 Arrival and Departure
2019-06-20 I liked this jungle
2019-06-20 In Lima. (At the airport, that is.)
2019-06-20 Walking above the rainforest, receiving a blessing from a shaman
2019-06-20 2019 Oklahoma City, OK Mormon Faith Crisis Workshop
2019-06-19 Among the Yagua people, and out on the river at sunset
2019-06-19 Dangers lurking on the land and in the water
2019-06-19 Pink Dolphins and Black Water
2019-06-19 My Three Days of Silence
2019-06-17 Parents: Worry is NOT Love
2019-06-16 Out in the Jungle
2019-06-16 With the Saints in the Amazon
2019-06-16 For Lena, Five Years Later
2019-06-16 La Casa de Fierro, Gustave Eiffel, and Ludwig II of Bavaria
2019-06-16 From downtown Amazonia
2019-06-15 In which I indulge my weird fascination with etymologies
2019-06-14 "Prospering in the Land: A Comparison of Covenant Promises in Leviticus and First Nephi 2"
2019-06-14 Gospel Doctrine Teaching (4)
2019-06-14 Charles Dickens, on "the pick and flower of England"
2019-06-13 Victorious regret
2019-06-13 On Gospel Doctrine Teaching (3)
2019-06-13 Lehi in Arabia, and John Gee in Asian and Near Eastern Languages
2019-06-13 News!
2019-06-13 Happy birthday, Lena. I miss you.
2019-06-12 On "the arrogance of the intellectuals behind the Interpreter.”
2019-06-12 On Gospel Doctrine Teaching (2)
2019-06-12 Perú and the Potato, Life and Death
2019-06-12 I can't think of any reason at all NOT to do this.
2019-06-12 The "Witnesses" film effort is moving forward
2019-06-12 That the Restoration stands up to history
2019-06-12 On Gospel Doctrine Teaching (1)
2019-06-11 Beyond the Heartland
2019-06-10 Joseph Smith, plural marriage, polyandry, DNA, and Josephine Lyon (b. 1844)
2019-06-10 Returning, yet again, to the 1832 acount of the First Vision
2019-06-10 Heartland Heartbreak and Unsleeping Malice
2019-06-10 Once more, on the First Vision
2019-06-10 On the supposed scandal of multiple First Vision accounts
2019-06-10 A Eulogy for Roy Jeffs, Beloved Friend and Brother
2019-06-09 Divine counsel to President Hugh B. Brown
2019-06-09 Paris again, very briefly again
2019-06-08 Somewhere, it may be that William Paley is smiling
2019-06-08 In and Through: Jonah In Ship, Waves, Fish, City, Shadow
2019-06-08 Shalom!
2019-06-08 In and Through: In a Lions Den and a Fiery Furnace
2019-06-07 Some comments about the four great gods of ancient Hawaiian religion
2019-06-07 In Jerusalem's King David Hotel
2019-06-07 "Yes, It’s True, But I Don’t Think They Like to Hear it Quite That Way"
2019-06-07 Oy Veh! Heartburn in the Heartland?
2019-06-06 The Multiverse, Fine-Tuning, and Russell's Teapot
2019-06-06 An evening on Mount Scopus
2019-06-06 The Trinity: Where the Disagreement Really Lies
2019-06-05 New Testament Note 367 et Finis
2019-06-05 "The Church has an interest in all of Abraham's descendants"
2019-06-05 Wordplay in Book of Mormon Names
2019-06-04 New Testament Notes 360-366
2019-06-04 A Note on the Empty Tomb
2019-06-04 Caves and a Fortress
2019-06-03 New Testament Notes 356-359
2019-06-03 "The Temple: A Multi-Faceted Center and Its Problems"
2019-06-03 An academic joke
2019-06-03 "The Lives of Abraham"
2019-06-02 New Testament Notes 354-355
2019-06-02 Unfortunately, we couldn't just walk across.
2019-06-01 New Testament Notes 351-353
2019-06-01 Of the "heartland" and the world
2019-06-01 Mary of Bethany Defended by Jesus Christ
2019-06-01 How to Fortify Your Mormon Mixed-Faith Relationship--WEBINAR
2019-05-31 New Testament Notes 348-350
2019-05-31 Tel Dan tells a lot
2019-05-31 A note on Tel Dan
2019-05-31 Not Feeling Relief in Relief Society
2019-05-30 New Testament Notes 344-347
2019-05-30 From the northeastern shore of Kinnereth
2019-05-30 Resolving ethical questions with a tape measure?
2019-05-30 To the Authors of a Better Mormon Story
2019-05-29 New Testament Notes 340-343
2019-05-29 A reflection on the tragedy of Charles Darwin
2019-05-29 Traditions, True and False
2019-05-28 Cruise Alaska with Natasha
2019-05-28 New Testament Notes 336-339
2019-05-28 "Invictus" and "The Soul's Captain"
2019-05-28 Vai Sikahema and Jonah Lomu
2019-05-27 New Testament Note 335
2019-05-27 To some extent, geography is destiny (Part 2)
2019-05-27 Real life, right now, is parting
2019-05-26 New Testament Notes 332-334
2019-05-26 Of great minds, average minds, and small minds
2019-05-26 To some extent, geography is destiny (Part 1)
2019-05-25 Some Boundaries are meant to be Broken
2019-05-25 New Testament Note 331
2019-05-25 Are Latter-day Saints musically Christian?
2019-05-25 Of holy islands and other matters
2019-05-24 New Testament Note 330
2019-05-24 News from the global Church, and from beyond this planet
2019-05-24 "A Fresh Look at Three Incidents in Church History"
2019-05-23 Moving in the right direction?
2019-05-23 New Testament Notes 328-329
2019-05-23 John Gee's good news
2019-05-23 Something tells me it's all happening at the zoo
2019-05-23 New Testament Notes 323-327
2019-05-23 Temples around the world
2019-05-22 "The Horrid Voice of Science"?
2019-05-21 New Testament Notes 319-322
2019-05-21 On the scale of creation in space and time
2019-05-21 Different Ways we Could Say Goodbye when People Leave the Church
2019-05-21 A Freshman's Blessings from Attending Seminary
2019-05-21 "Empirical Perspectives on Religion and Violence"
2019-05-20 New Testament Note 318
2019-05-20 From a significant region for the Church
2019-05-20 Is it safe to visit Egypt?
2019-05-19 New Testament Notes 314-317
2019-05-19 The continuing gift of C. S. Lewis
2019-05-19 Why the shortage of Muslim terrorists?
2019-05-19 Michael Hill (1951-2019)
2019-05-18 Sacred Space
2019-05-18 New Testament Notes 310-313
2019-05-18 "The Māori Latter-day Saint Historical Narrative: Additions and Amendments"
2019-05-18 Recognizing Evil, and Recognizing God
2019-05-17 New Testament Notes 307-309
2019-05-17 "And did those feet in ancient time walk upon England's mountains green?"
2019-05-17 One of the greatest legislative threats religious liberty has ever faced in the United States?
2019-05-17 Religious Freedom and Homosexuality
2019-05-17 Stepping away briefly from the gravy train?
2019-05-16 New Testament Notes 302-306
2019-05-16 Egypt this December!
2019-05-16 In Upper Egypt, Part 2
2019-05-16 It's Never too Late to Apologize
2019-05-16 New Testament Notes 300-301
2019-05-16 In Upper Egypt, Part 1
2019-05-15 New Testament Notes 297-299
2019-05-15 Cairo: much the same but very different
2019-05-14 Some controversial topics
2019-05-14 Supporting my Wife's Journey Outside the Church
2019-05-13 New Testament Notes 294-296
2019-05-13 A column regarding mental health and the Latter-day Saints
2019-05-12 New Testament Notes 291-293
2019-05-12 A few remarks on Islamophobia, religion, and violence from y'r obed't servant
2019-05-12 An unusually interesting papyrus from ancient Egypt
2019-05-11 New Testament Notes 289-290
2019-05-11 Evolutionary biology and the gospel
2019-05-11 LDS Comments are a Good Indicator of why LGBTQ+ Youth feel Rejected & Afraid to Tell their Truth
2019-05-11 Regarding the lady Sariah of Elephantine
2019-05-11 Small Flecks of Gold Bring Great Treasure
2019-05-10 New Testament Notes 285-288
2019-05-10 Son of Egypt
2019-05-10 Crossing over the Jordan -- and perhaps the Rubicon
2019-05-10 A comment on recent scholarship and the search for the historical Jesus
2019-05-09 Can We Glorify God in Our Trials?
2019-05-09 We Love to Blame Social Media for A LOT!
2019-05-09 New Testament Notes 281-284
2019-05-09 Dismissing Yadin and Albright
2019-05-08 A few lines on my commitment to interfaith understanding
2019-05-08 New Testament Notes 278-280
2019-05-08 A few words on archaeology and the boyhood of Jesus in Nazareth
2019-05-08 Ramadan karim!
2019-05-08 "Ask a Latter-day Saint Therapist..." Beware of Therapist Bias
2019-05-08 Our distant neighbor, Titan
2019-05-07 New Testament Notes 275-277
2019-05-07 Life and Death on Planet Earth (and Elsewhere)
2019-05-07 From Orson Hyde's 1841 dedicatory prayer
2019-05-07 Yom HaZikaron
2019-05-07 A Woman's Needs
2019-05-06 New Testament Notes 270-274
2019-05-06 A note on "going up" to Jerusalem
2019-05-06 From a previous visitor to the Holy Land
2019-05-06 Was Jesus baptized at this place?
2019-05-05 New Testament Notes 268-269
2019-05-05 A note on science, progress, and religion
2019-05-05 A Day in the Life
2019-05-04 The Spartans and the Jews -- long separated cousins?
2019-05-04 Whatever happened to fasting among the Latter-day Saints?
2019-05-04 Where fish were processed and apostles called on the Sea of Galilee
2019-05-04 Innocent Abroad
2019-05-04 Jesus probably taught in this synagogue
2019-05-04 "Joseph Smith: The World’s Greatest Guesser"
2019-05-03 Rescinding Policy without Apology is Bad Leadership
2019-05-02 An Encounter with an Adulteress
2019-05-02 On the so-called "Pilate Stone" in Israel's Caesarea-by-the-Sea
2019-05-02 New Testament Note 267
2019-05-02 A note on a modern airport and a very ancient history
2019-05-02 High Intelligence and Religious Belief
2019-05-02 New Testament Note 266
2019-05-02 Living in, while attempting to cure, a "culture of contempt"
2019-05-01 A truth: "Even without gills, we need oceans"
2019-05-01 Spiritual Extortion
2019-04-30 I Found Mercy When I Deserved Justice
2019-04-30 New Testament Notes 263-265
2019-04-30 Water Worlds
2019-04-30 Time passes, and so does BYU
2019-04-30 What's in it for me?
2019-04-30 It's all about $$$!
2019-04-30 President Nelson... I'm having a Trust Crisis
2019-04-30 New Testament Notes 261-262
2019-04-30 "This valedictorian came out during his graduation speech -- at a Mormon university"
2019-04-29 "'What Thank They the Jews?'"
2019-04-29 India and the soft underbelly of Asia
2019-04-29 An interfaith panel discussion in Poway, California
2019-04-29 New Testament Note 259-260
2019-04-29 "Square Two," through Spring 2019
2019-04-28 Playing through pain, and the insufficiency of this life
2019-04-28 "Compelled... to accept the existence of the Master Architect"
2019-04-28 Anti-Semitism and the Latter-day Saints
2019-04-28 New Testament Notes 257-258
2019-04-28 Sadness for Poway
2019-04-27 "Perhaps we're all Martians"
2019-04-27 What Happened to Old Testament Prophets?
2019-04-27 "Therefore there must be a heaven"
2019-04-27 BYU, intensive Arabic study, and a newly-discovered ancient mosaic from the Galilee
2019-04-27 Procrastination Steals Opportunities for Grace
2019-04-27 New Testament Note 256
2019-04-27 "Latter-day Saint Romney was never Christian enough for some Republicans. Somehow, Trump still is."
2019-04-26 Moabosaurus and Me
2019-04-26 "Muslims and Mormons," from Sweden
2019-04-26 "Procedural Violations in the Trial of the Woman Taken in Adultery"
2019-04-26 New Testament Notes 253-255
2019-04-26 Why in the world go to Iran?
2019-04-26 Our Children Taught Us How to Love
2019-04-26 It's all "comprised within the Gospel"
2019-04-25 It's still true
2019-04-25 Remembering an academic conference that I once attended in an ideologically hostile location
2019-04-25 New Testament Notes 250-252
2019-04-25 Kulchur and Me, or, Die Bekenntnisse eines Hochstaplers
2019-04-24 Tel Dan, just a little bit
2019-04-24 Can anything good come out of Provo?
2019-04-24 On the Christian hope of heaven
2019-04-24 "All too convenient 'coincidences'"
2019-04-24 Sometimes, science is personal for me
2019-04-24 New Testament Notes 246-249
2019-04-23 The Mystery of Iniquity
2019-04-23 Some resources for addressing tough topics, from the Interpreter Foundation
2019-04-23 Easter Thoughts: a Personal Call for Bridge Building
2019-04-23 My Op-Ed in the Salt Lake Tribune
2019-04-23 New Testament Notes 242-245
2019-04-23 William of Ockham and the Multiverse
2019-04-22 Some notes on Herzliya
2019-04-22 The "Comment" Section is a Place to be Held Accountable
2019-04-22 Some additional information on the "Witnesses" film effort
2019-04-22 Christian discipleship and mercenary reward
2019-04-22 New Testament Notes 237-241
2019-04-22 "And What is It We Shall Hope For?"
2019-04-21 Where is or was the tomb of Jesus?
2019-04-21 On "deathbed visions"
2019-04-21 "Truly he is risen!"
2019-04-21 New Testament Notes 233-236
2019-04-21 War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength, and Conformity is Diversity
2019-04-20 On the Challenge of the Empty Tomb
2019-04-20 Some brief background articles for a trip to Israel/Palestine
2019-04-20 Yet another theologian/scientist
2019-04-20 The Gospel truly brings us joyful news
2019-04-20 New Testament Notes 230-232
2019-04-19 What is science, anyway?
2019-04-19 Brushing aside the accounts of these men is not as simple as some imagine
2019-04-19 On that first Easter weekend
2019-04-19 A witnessed fact, not a much later fantasy
2019-04-19 ...and we like our heaven better.
2019-04-19 New Testament Notes 226-229
2019-04-19 A bit more on two of the four fundamental forces
2019-04-18 A note on Middle East Studies at BYU
2019-04-18 "Can modern people believe in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ?"
2019-04-18 Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, C.S. Lewis, and the hope of Easter
2019-04-18 "I am not defined by the declaring or rescinding of policy."
2019-04-18 New Testament Notes 223-225
2019-04-17 "I wish to God I did not know it."
2019-04-17 "Not long after the Big Bang, chemistry as we know it took its first baby steps"
2019-04-17 Irena Sendler (1910-2008)
2019-04-17 "Infected with doubt"
2019-04-17 New Testament Notes 218-222
2019-04-17 An Easter sermon from more than sixteen centuries ago
2019-04-17 Some preliminary notes on fine-tuning and the "four fundamental forces"
2019-04-16 Where things stand regarding the "Witnesses" film project
2019-04-16 Alleged Racism and the Newly-Dedicated Temple in Kinshasa
2019-04-16 New Testament Notes 214-217
2019-04-15 Easter greetings from the Congo, an Easter hymn from an atheist, and a message from modern apostles
2019-04-15 Our Lady of Paris
2019-04-15 Articles & News Coverage To Be Aware Of...
2019-04-15 New Testament Notes 211-213
2019-04-15 "Beyond our common-sense understanding"
2019-04-14 Once more, John Updike's "Seven Stanzas at Easter"
2019-04-14 Palm Sunday, Easter, and Holy Week (in Between)
2019-04-14 New Testament Notes 205-210
2019-04-14 Why Didn't He Answer Me? My Journey to Hear Him
2019-04-13 Arabic-speaking missionaries in greater San Diego?
2019-04-13 A brutal dinosaur who isn't me
2019-04-13 O brave new world, that has such complexly-gendered people in it!
2019-04-13 New Testament Notes 201-204
2019-04-12 Religion is, yes, fascinatingly still alive.
2019-04-12 "The Record of My Father," "The Symbol of the Cross," and a famous group of warrior monks
2019-04-12 The world is not enough
2019-04-12 Instagram Renews Honor Code Conversation
2019-04-12 New Testament Notes 198-200
2019-04-12 Mental Health Implications of Policy Reversal
2019-04-11 An excellent example of Latter-day Saint outreach
2019-04-11 Counting sheep on Malacandra?
2019-04-11 My speaking schedule here in greater San Diego
2019-04-11 New Testament Notes 193-197
2019-04-11 Remembering My Mom
2019-04-11 The Bedouin Achilles, Antara b. Shaddad
2019-04-10 Sacrifice of Our Fathers: My Mother's Counsel
2019-04-10 An astronomical breakthrough, a moral quagmire, and the difficulty of economics
2019-04-10 Look Me In the Eyes and Say "I'm Sorry"
2019-04-10 "The Mormon as Magus," Part Three
2019-04-10 New Testament Notes 191-192
2019-04-10 They're even older than I am.
2019-04-09 The Testimony of Somebody Well Qualified to Make This Specific Point
2019-04-09 “The Mormon as Magus,” Part Two
2019-04-09 New Testament Notes 186-190
2019-04-08 "The Mormon as Magus," Part One
2019-04-08 Toward understanding the centrality of temple rites
2019-04-08 And now you know the rest of the story.
2019-04-08 Always Playing Defense?
2019-04-08 Plea to President Nelson about Families
2019-04-08 New Testament Notes 182-185
2019-04-07 Glutting themselves upon the labors of their dupes?
2019-04-07 Why does hostility to theism tend to be more pronounced among some biologists than among physicists?
2019-04-07 No new policy announcements at Conference?
2019-04-07 New Testament Notes 177-181
2019-04-06 The Kingdom is rolling forth, but it needs to regain speed.
2019-04-06 References to the Lamb of God
2019-04-06 A brief primer on Arabic and Islamic names
2019-04-06 Science marches on
2019-04-06 Did You Ask Any Questions?
2019-04-06 Honor Code at BYU
2019-04-06 New Testament Notes 174-176
2019-04-05 MMHA Makes Statement in Response To Policy Reversal
2019-04-05 "BYU Professor Brings Joseph F. Smith's Vision of the Dead to Life in New Film"
2019-04-05 "Revisiting 'Sariah' at Elephantine"
2019-04-05 An ancient synagogue in which Jesus may have preached
2019-04-05 "A case of robust and fruitful fine-tuning"?
2019-04-05 New Testament Notes 169-173
2019-04-05 "Everywhere science is enriched by unscientific methods and unscientific results"
2019-04-05 "A Bible Reader's History of the Ancient World"
2019-04-04 Please Don't Hit Me Again: Response to New Policies
2019-04-04 The God Who Changes His Mind
2019-04-04 A Pivotal Step Towards LGBTQ+ Inclusion and Repair
2019-04-04 "Looking in caves to verify a Book of Mormon-era famine"
2019-04-04 Some Thoughts on the Hope of Full Flowering
2019-04-04 New Testament Notes 166-168
2019-04-04 Mind, and the Universe's Mysterious Orderliness
2019-04-03 John Whitmer's near-denial of the Book of Mormon
2019-04-03 Christopher Hitchens gets it wrong, yet again.
2019-04-03 Driven by guilt and the fear of Hell?
2019-04-03 New Testament Notes 164-165
2019-04-03 "To this day, there is no alternative to it."
2019-04-02 "To defeat ISIS, we need to destroy its extremist ideology."
2019-04-02 Against straw men
2019-04-02 There's No Such Thing as Broken Family
2019-04-02 New Testament Notes 161-163
2019-04-01 Two films that need to be seen
2019-04-01 Interesting things just around the corner in Poway, California
2019-04-01 "Neurosexism," with a note on gendered pronouns
2019-04-01 Mixed-Faith Marriage Webinar
2019-04-01 Archaeology continues to deliver
2019-04-01 New Testament Notes 159-160
2019-04-01 8 August 1844, on the eastern shore of the Mississippi River
2019-04-01 "The Disenchantment of the World"
2019-03-31 Sometimes, it's not getting better
2019-03-31 New Testament Notes 157-158
2019-03-30 Reprising "Everyone Else Makes Such Lonely Heavens"
2019-03-30 On "the most significant event in the history of life on Earth"
2019-03-30 Father Anawati, Part Three
2019-03-30 New Testament Notes 154-156
2019-03-30 Father Anawati, Part Two
2019-03-29 On Lise Meitner, a pioneering female Christian physicist who has been largely forgotten
2019-03-29 "They shall deceive the very elect"
2019-03-29 "When My Marriage Became Mixed-Faith--and Stronger"
2019-03-29 New Testament Notes 152-153
2019-03-29 Divine Discontent Helps Us Share Our Unique Gifts
2019-03-28 "Can God make a rock so heavy that he can't lift it?"
2019-03-28 On ignoring the evidence of our eyes
2019-03-28 Father Anawati, Part One
2019-03-28 New Testament Notes 150-151
2019-03-28 "Science is a Sacred Cow"
2019-03-27 Mostly on Christchurch and Islam
2019-03-27 "The Mutant Says in His Heart, 'There Is No God'"
2019-03-27 Should We Tolerate Those Who Are Intolerant?
2019-03-27 A willingness to take upon ourselves the name of the Son
2019-03-27 Drop in the Bucket: Changes to Temple Ordinances
2019-03-27 New Testament Notes 147-149
2019-03-27 Angels in America
2019-03-26 "Physics Is Pointing Inexorably to Mind"
2019-03-26 "The Islamic Law of Nations"
2019-03-26 WORKSHOP in Kansas City: Navigating Life During and After a Faith Crisis
2019-03-26 New Testament Notes 145-146
2019-03-25 Two new publications on the Middle East with BYU connections
2019-03-25 "Such ridiculous folly"
2019-03-25 To pass through Nature, beyond her, into the splendor
2019-03-25 Remember the Alamo!
2019-03-25 For Kenneth, Seven Years Later
2019-03-25 New Testament Notes 142-144
2019-03-25 "Letter to a Doubter," and Other Good Things
2019-03-24 A few notes from an Arabist on the word "Amen"
2019-03-24 The early testimony of Martin Harris's wife, Lucy, to the Book of Mormon
2019-03-24 "No, the death experience was very different to that."
2019-03-24 New Testament Notes 140-141
2019-03-24 CNN: "Why the 'Mormon' church changed its name"
2019-03-23 Nature and Intrinsic Qualities
2019-03-23 A battle in Paneion
2019-03-23 Theism, Power, and Wealth
2019-03-23 New Testament Notes 138-139
2019-03-23 Seven years ago
2019-03-22 Remembering a lazy afternoon on the Nile, decades ago
2019-03-22 "Atheism Is Inconsistent with the Scientific Method"
2019-03-22 San Antonio and the rise of anti-religious tyranny in the United States
2019-03-22 New Testament Notes 135-137
2019-03-22 Faith and Solace in Aotearoa
2019-03-21 11-13 April in Poway, California
2019-03-21 Mother Earth and I
2019-03-21 New Testament Notes 130-134
2019-03-20 "The play's the thing"
2019-03-20 A friendly tip for climbing the traditional Mount Sinai
2019-03-20 Thoughts on a few controversial topics related to science
2019-03-20 Leavening, or assimilation?
2019-03-20 Five Days after the Christchurch Shootings: Subversive Compassion
2019-03-20 New Testament Notes 128-129
2019-03-20 Revelation, human or divine?
2019-03-19 Thinking about mosques today
2019-03-19 "Simple" life? There doesn't appear to be any such thing.
2019-03-19 New Testament Notes 124-127
2019-03-18 Brigham Young opposed a then-fashionable scientific form of racism
2019-03-18 Christchurch and Islamophobia
2019-03-18 From Interpreter's man in the Congo
2019-03-18 Note on New Zealand and Religious Freedom
2019-03-18 New Testament Notes 120-123
2019-03-17 Christian Anfinsen, Nobel laureate and theist
2019-03-17 On the quality of the Book of Mormon
2019-03-17 New Testament Notes 117-119
2019-03-17 Shen Yun
2019-03-16 From Christchurch: A Critique and a Lament
2019-03-16 On "Spooky action at a distance"
2019-03-16 New Testament Notes 112-116
2019-03-16 The Grand Canyon's natural "temples"
2019-03-15 Temples, psalms, prophets, and Catholics
2019-03-15 "New Zealand's Darkest Day"
2019-03-15 New Testament Notes 108-111
2019-03-15 Six quotations from scientists on religion
2019-03-15 Passing sunlight on the grass
2019-03-14 Iran 7: It felt as if I hadn't left Utah!
2019-03-14 New Testament Notes 106-107
2019-03-13 Anti-Catholicism, My Church, and I
2019-03-13 "A potential biosignature" at 4.1 billion years before the present?
2019-03-13 Iran 6: Would I be able to leave?
2019-03-13 Possible Copycat Arson Target the Church of Jesus Christ Twice
2019-03-13 New Testament Notes 103-105
2019-03-13 Some thoughts on science, progress, and religion
2019-03-12 Iran 5: Nervously Well-Treated
2019-03-12 New temples in Rome and in what may soon be (if it isn't already) the world's largest French-speaking metropolitan area
2019-03-12 New Testament Notes 100-102
2019-03-12 La science, c'est moi
2019-03-11 Starting with "The Niche of Lights"
2019-03-11 Pope Francis and President Russell M. Nelson Meet at the Vatican
2019-03-11 Pope Francis and President Russell M. Nelson Meet at the Vatican
2019-03-11 Against demonization and rhetorical total war
2019-03-11 An iconic and historic photograph
2019-03-11 Reasons I Love the Church of Jesus Christ #3: Free Character Curriculum
2019-03-11 Prophets and Apostles Witness of Jesus Christ in Rome
2019-03-11 An amazing thought: "New find could be oldest evidence of life ever discovered"
2019-03-11 Iran 4: Going to Church
2019-03-11 New Testament Notes 96-99
2019-03-11 Thoughts on some worldly benefits of missionary service
2019-03-10 On Hiatus until June
2019-03-10 And It Was VERY Good...
2019-03-10 New Testament Notes 94-95
2019-03-10 Ring out the old, bring it in again as the new?
2019-03-09 "The great and abominable church of the Devil"?
2019-03-09 Iran 3: Shopping in Tehran
2019-03-09 "Ihr seid -- wir sind -- seine Zeugen"
2019-03-09 A prophet and a pope, and all of the living apostles
2019-03-09 New Testament Notes 92-93
2019-03-09 "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
2019-03-09 Iran 2: Media Stardom
2019-03-08 "Was Adam a Monotheist?"
2019-03-08 The Gutzon Borglum of the Gaps
2019-03-08 Why We Need Baptism of Water and Fire
2019-03-08 New Testament Notes 90-91
2019-03-08 Regarding the surprisingly modern story of a medieval Muslim
2019-03-08 A starry-eyed youth
2019-03-07 "'You Are My People': Inactive Gay Mormon Shares Powerful Insights After Attending Church for the First Time in Years"
2019-03-07 Thinking of "The Inner Ring"
2019-03-07 New Testament Notes 86-89
2019-03-07 "In an era of declining faith, Mormon membership is holding steady."
2019-03-07 The Sudden Rise, Brief Career, and Sudden Fall of Steady State Cosmology
2019-03-07 Arabs and Israelis, for laughs
2019-03-06 Lessons Learned from a Pair of Crutches
2019-03-06 New Testament Notes 83-85
2019-03-06 Introducing the Pope's Planetologists
2019-03-06 An Arab-Islamic Music Video Opposing Extremist Violence
2019-03-06 "Utard," the Homeland of "Mormondumb," as Hell on Earth.
2019-03-05 New Testament Notes 80-82
2019-03-05 David Whitmer's Testimony in Verse
2019-03-04 Of super-intellects and a super-intellect
2019-03-04 "Was Pontius Pilate's Ring Discovered at Herodium?"
2019-03-04 New Testament Notes 76-79
2019-03-04 Recommendation: "The Biology of the Second Reich: Social Darwinism and the Origins of World War 1"
2019-03-04 Looking toward the "Book of Mormon Musical"
2019-03-03 An historical appreciation of Christianity
2019-03-03 New Testament Note 75
2019-03-02 Hearts Open to Conviction of the Holy Ghost
2019-03-02 Miracles Following the Savior's Example
2019-03-02 Variations on a theme from Jordan Peterson
2019-03-02 On Mani and Manichaeism
2019-03-02 "The Hyperactive Agency Detector"?
2019-03-02 The Book of Mormon, the Gathering of the Jews, and Other Matters
2019-03-02 "The Book of Mormon includes a history of an ancient people"
2019-03-02 New Testament Notes 73-74
2019-03-01 Materialism just isn't what it used to be
2019-03-01 "A Case for the Book of Mormon"
2019-03-01 A note on the self-limited nature of science
2019-03-01 New Testament Notes 70-72
2019-03-01 Just in case you haven't bought them yet
2019-03-01 "The universe looks suspiciously like a fix"
2019-02-28 Were the Nephites racists?
2019-02-28 New Testament Notes 68-69
2019-02-27 Thinking about neutrinos
2019-02-27 "Top 20 Evils You’re Responsible For By Believing the Book of Mormon"
2019-02-27 Scholars and General Authorities
2019-02-27 New Testament Notes 66-67
2019-02-26 Elder David B. Haight on the 1978 priesthood revelation
2019-02-26 New Testament Notes 64-65
2019-02-25 Some background notes, again, about the "Islamic State"
2019-02-25 "Even older and deeper than ethics"
2019-02-25 An ancient American book that was dismissed as a fraud but that now seems to be genuine
2019-02-25 New Testament Notes 62-63
2019-02-24 A brief primer on women's clothing in the Islamic world
2019-02-24 "Why propaganda works"
2019-02-24 At the end of a good life
2019-02-24 A short explanation of "Hezbollah" and "Hamas"
2019-02-24 New Testament Notes 60-61
2019-02-23 “If any of you lack wisdom, let him Google!”
2019-02-23 On "the growing convergence of science and religion"
2019-02-23 Some recent not-so-recent movies
2019-02-23 New Testament Notes 58-59
2019-02-22 Tyrannosaurus Rex, an Asteroid, Volcanoes, and Gordon B. Hinckley
2019-02-22 Notes on Islamophobia, helping traumatized Muslim children, and combating racism within American Islam
2019-02-22 "Assessing the Criticisms of Early-Age Latter-Day Saint Marriages"
2019-02-22 Of Apiculture and Keeping the Faith
2019-02-22 New Testament Notes 56-57
2019-02-21 New Testament Notes 54-55
2019-02-20 Really, "worlds without number"
2019-02-20 Theatricality in Church?
2019-02-20 "Christian Faith in Contemporary China"
2019-02-20 New Testament Notes 50-53
2019-02-19 Is the Church lying to us through its art?
2019-02-19 "Motivationsverdrängung" or "Motivation Crowding"
2019-02-19 Israel and me
2019-02-19 New Testament Notes 48-49
2019-02-18 "Can Mormon transhumanists revitalize the Latter-day Saints?"
2019-02-18 Bernard Weiss RIP
2019-02-18 "Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo"
2019-02-18 Witnessing for our Kiwi Mormon - Page 9
2019-02-18 Brief paragraphs on Jesus in Islam and the Restoration
2019-02-17 New Testament Notes 46-47
2019-02-17 Ideas have consequences
2019-02-17 “Intentionality contra Physicalism: On the Mind’s Independence from the Body” (2)
2019-02-17 Missing The Dolphins Rendezvous
2019-02-17 "Is Religious Freedom for Christians Only?"
2019-02-16 New Testament Notes 44-45
2019-02-16 "Intentionality contra Physicalism: On the Mind's Independence from the Body" (1)
2019-02-16 Another remembrance of things past
2019-02-16 "Berührungsdenkfehler"
2019-02-16 New Testament Notes 41-43
2019-02-15 "Curiously Unique"
2019-02-15 Learning to Respond Better to Sexual Assault
2019-02-15 New Testament Notes 36-40
2019-02-15 Imagination Run Wild
2019-02-14 "One continual round of murder and bloodshed"
2019-02-14 In which I recall embarrassing myself with President Nelson
2019-02-14 Once more, on the supposed psychology of Islamic suicide bombing
2019-02-14 New Testament Notes 34-35
2019-02-14 Linguistic change, with a brief excursus on sausage, bacon, and the like
2019-02-13 Germany and Austria in 2020!
2019-02-13 You mean, there's, like, opposition? Disagreement?
2019-02-13 New Testament Notes 32-33
2019-02-13 Maybe I should write that handbook on logical fallacies after all.
2019-02-13 A reaction of the highest class
2019-02-12 New light on the question of bees and the Book of Mormon
2019-02-12 New Testament Note 31
2019-02-12 "The psychology of Islamic suicide bombing"?
2019-02-11 A note on veganism and vegetarianism (2)
2019-02-11 A note on veganism and vegetarianism (1)
2019-02-11 New Testament Notes 29-30
2019-02-11 On that article about "Mental Distress and Disaffection from the Church"
2019-02-10 Gleanings on a Sabbath in February
2019-02-10 On the acts of forgetting and remembering
2019-02-10 A heartwarming story with a slight Las Vegas connection
2019-02-10 New Testament Note 28
2019-02-09 A Look at Primeval Coats
2019-02-09 Christianity didn't begin in "the West"
2019-02-09 Academic elitism and me
2019-02-09 New and Old from the Interpreter Foundation
2019-02-09 A note on "Intelligent Design" and the "God of the gaps"
2019-02-09 New Testament Note 27
2019-02-08 Supreme Court Deals Blow to Religious Freedom
2019-02-08 A bit of background on the "Witnesses" film project
2019-02-08 On the unexpected Book of Mormon
2019-02-08 New Testament Notes 25-26
2019-02-07 Of milestones and mill stones
2019-02-07 "Can science explain everything?"
2019-02-07 New Testament Notes 21-24
2019-02-07 The Pope in Abu Dhabi
2019-02-06 "Witnesses"
2019-02-06 The evils of religion in North Korea?
2019-02-06 "Research is not the answer"
2019-02-06 Did the Church Get Caught Covering Up a Sex-Abuse Crisis?
2019-02-06 New Testament Notes 19-20
2019-02-06 On "The Myth of Religious Violence"
2019-02-06 "Near East"? "Middle East"? "Nile-to-Oxus Region"?
2019-02-05 Becoming Zion's Citizens
2019-02-05 In which I announce my rejection of all scientific principles
2019-02-05 New Testament Note 18
2019-02-05 Fifty Shades of Gravy
2019-02-04 The conversion of Saul
2019-02-04 Medieval Córdoba and Beyond
2019-02-04 "Introducing 'An Introduction to the Book of Abraham,'" Again
2019-02-04 New Testament Note 17
2019-02-03 Epicureanism, the scriptures, and being human
2019-02-03 Temples and Binding Together
2019-02-03 Seeing God, and a Hidden Temple
2019-02-03 New Testament Note 16
2019-02-03 Some rather impressive numbers
2019-02-02 On discussing a famous medieval Arabic treatise
2019-02-02 On "The Spectacles, the Stone, the Hat, and the Book"
2019-02-02 Maybe the media would have more of a problem with infanticide if those practicing it dressed differently?
2019-02-02 New Testament Notes 14-15
2019-02-01 Why humans -- unlike the great apes -- must be active to be healthy (2)
2019-02-01 A start on a basic Islamic chronology
2019-02-01 "Messengers of the Covenant" and members of Utah's state legislature
2019-02-01 A note on women and the Church
2019-02-01 New Testament Note 13
2019-02-01 15-16 March, in Logan, Utah
2019-01-31 Faith, Scholarship, Faithful Scholarship, and the Like
2019-01-31 Why humans -- unlike the great apes -- must be active to be healthy (1)
2019-01-31 New Testament Note 12
2019-01-30 "Defending the faith intelligently"
2019-01-30 Methane on Mars?
2019-01-30 "What happens to a dream deferred?"
2019-01-30 New Testament Notes 10-11
2019-01-30 Why go to church?
2019-01-30 News and updates!
2019-01-30 New Genetic Tricks
2019-01-29 Wrong ideas that merit reply
2019-01-29 New Testament Note 9
2019-01-28 Religious liberty under threat
2019-01-28 Muslims, Christians, and a Medieval Philosopher
2019-01-28 Religious Freedom Already Part of 2020 Presidential Campaign
2019-01-28 Once more, back to Venus!
2019-01-28 A Sacrament Meeting Sermon on Forgiveness
2019-01-28 New Testament Note 8
2019-01-27 The Throne Verse, and the Erasure of Muslim Contributions from Western History
2019-01-27 Keeping meaninglessness at bay?
2019-01-27 How will we be judged?
2019-01-27 New Testament Note 7
2019-01-27 Women and Apologetics (3)
2019-01-26 Women and Apologetics (2)
2019-01-26 Women and Apologetics (1)
2019-01-26 New Testament Note 6
2019-01-25 Revisiting Venus
2019-01-25 A new era in Latter-day Saint scholarship on the New Testament
2019-01-25 "Joy without lapse, unending bliss, infinite rapture and delight"
2019-01-25 Ignorance will not yield bliss
2019-01-25 New Testament Note 5
2019-01-25 "A divine sign and a mercy to the Gentiles"?
2019-01-24 "The Exoplanet Next Door"
2019-01-24 No Refuge?
2019-01-24 New Testament Notes 3-4
2019-01-24 New Testament Notes 3-4
2019-01-24 Some notes on evolution, values, and possible "design"
2019-01-24 Some notes on evolution, values, and possible "design"
2019-01-23 "In the beginning were the words"
2019-01-23 "In the beginning were the words"
2019-01-23 Easter is still some distance off, but here's an Easter-related movie suggestion.
2019-01-23 Easter is still some distance off, but here's an Easter-related movie suggestion.
2019-01-23 Homosexuality, the Latter-day Saints, and Suicide in India
2019-01-23 Homosexuality, the Latter-day Saints, and Suicide in India
2019-01-23 The Birds
2019-01-23 The Birds
2019-01-23 New Testament Note 2
2019-01-23 New Testament Note 2
2019-01-23 Egypt, anybody?
2019-01-23 Egypt, anybody?
2019-01-22 A deluge of notifications from 2012
2019-01-22 New Testament Note 1
2019-01-21 "Conceivably he could get along without his head"
2019-01-21 Martin Luther King, in his own words
2019-01-21 "Can friendship rescue you?"
2019-01-21 "Unspeakable words"
2019-01-21 Thoughts on the passing scene
2019-01-20 "Memory and Erasure in the Story of the West: Where Have All the Muslims Gone?"
2019-01-20 "The Dance of the Solids"
2019-01-20 "Heretics and Other Insiders"
2019-01-19 “We can only ask questions that we have imagination for.”
2019-01-19 NT Gospel Doctrine Lesson 3: Luke 2, Matthew 2
2019-01-19 "Day of Judgment"
2019-01-19 A Path to Testimony: Christy Huch
2019-01-19 A Path to Testimony: Christy
2019-01-19 "Karen and Mike Pence's astonishing moral hypocrisy"
2019-01-19 NT Gospel Doctrine Lesson 2: Matthew 1, Luke 1
2019-01-18 In defense of patriarchs
2019-01-18 Seeing something, rather than merely learning about it
2019-01-18 "Barriers to Belief"
2019-01-18 "Science is [easier] than theology."
2019-01-17 "Utah researcher: theory of religious influences in Utah LGBT suicides may be overblown"
2019-01-17 A world with neither freedom nor morality?
2019-01-17 Anti-Mormon Mockery of Family Proclamation Begins to Circulate
2019-01-17 Do Latter-day Saints and Muslims Worship Different Gods? (Take Two)
2019-01-16 Replying to a Critic of Islam (Part Two)
2019-01-16 Grant Hardy, Temples, and Arranged Marriages
2019-01-16 Daily Beast Must Twist Truth to Engineer Latest Hit Job
2019-01-16 Replying to a Critic of Islam (Part One)
2019-01-15 Why I called him "it"
2019-01-15 CNN: "Move over, Vatican -- there's a new church in town!"
2019-01-15 The Church Established the Bible, Not Vice Versa
2019-01-14 Tempio di Roma
2019-01-14 How incomprehensibly old IS the universe?
2019-01-14 A Tear for Turkey
2019-01-14 "An alleged new revelation... in the age of newspapers, railways, and the electric telegraph"
2019-01-13 C. S. Lewis and J. B. Phillips: An Unexpected Meeting
2019-01-13 Russell's Teapot, Fine-Tuning, and the Multiverse
2019-01-13 Compassion and Religious Belief
2019-01-13 President Russell M. Nelson and mortal loss
2019-01-12 "Deaths of Despair"
2019-01-12 "Becoming Whole: From Secular Learning to Religious Living"
2019-01-12 New Year's Resolution: See More Movies Featuring "The Rock"
2019-01-12 Name Change
2019-01-12 Do Christians and Muslims worship the same God?
2019-01-11 Science and Scientific Humanism
2019-01-11 "Light and Perspective"
2019-01-11 "Character is Destiny"
2019-01-11 A limit on divine power?
2019-01-10 C. S. Lewis on Joseph Smith (As It Were)
2019-01-10 Oliver Cowdery, the "Second Elder" of the Restoration
2019-01-10 Twitter Fails to Ban Hyper-Sexualized President Nelson Impersonator
2019-01-10 "Alzheimer's Under Attack"
2019-01-09 Should religious believers be permitted to serve in the American judiciary?
2019-01-09 Two believing scientists
2019-01-09 μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος οὐλομένην
2019-01-09 Lucy Mack Smith recalls the experience of the Eight Witnesses
2019-01-08 What, if Anything, Does the Testimony of the Witnesses to the Book of Mormon Prove?
2019-01-08 "Mere Morality"
2019-01-08 Faithful Latter-day Saint Guide to the Bruhaha with the Temple
2019-01-08 Lèse Majesté, Anyone?
2019-01-07 Question: Are the New Testament documents reliable?
2019-01-07 On some literally hard facts at the beginning of the Restoration
2019-01-06 Midnight in Paris
2019-01-06 Latter-day Waiting
2019-01-05 Temple Changes I Can't Experience Yet
2019-01-05 On what it feels like to be a Mormon 'apologist'
2019-01-05 Women at the Well - A Review of Eric Huntsman's _Becoming the Beloved Disciple_
2019-01-05 A note on "relics"
2019-01-04 "Waiting for the Barbarians"
2019-01-04 "'Come unto Me' as a Technical Gospel Term" (Plus an Excursus on Saqqara)
2019-01-04 At Mit Rahina
2019-01-04 On our last full day (for a few months, anyway) in Egypt
2019-01-04 On idolatrous deities and the Book of Abraham
2019-01-03 Maybe Later
2019-01-03 On getting ready to study the New Testament
2019-01-03 The beat goes on.
2019-01-03 Brief NT Introduction and Gospel Doctrine Lesson 1: John 1:1-14, Isa 61:1-3, JST Luke 3:4-11
2019-01-02 It's Time to Choose to Be Offended
2019-01-02 Medieval and Modern History in Two Cairo Mosques
2019-01-02 Regarding an exceptionally interesting ancient Egyptian papyrus
2019-01-02 Regarding the Lady Sariah of Elephantine
2019-01-02 Aswan, Abu Simbel, and Philae

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