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2020-12-31
At war among ourselves?
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2020-12-31
On Witnesses to Extraordinary Events
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2020-12-30
The Origin of Life on Earth: An Insoluble Problem?
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2020-12-28
Martin Harris Testifies in Smithfield, plus "Medieval Christian Views of Hebrew as the Language of Magic"
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2020-12-28
A Home-Based MTC Sneak Peek
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2020-12-27
Does the Existence of the Universe Point to a Creator?
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2020-12-26
Revision 8.9 Students occupy the BYU Jerusalem Center (plus a Christmas wrap-up)
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2020-12-25
"Christmas as Devotional": Christ appeared in order to reconcile us
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2020-12-25
Some favorite music for the season (3)
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2020-12-24
Some favorite music for the season (2)
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2020-12-24
"Three witnesses who were representative of the human race"
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2020-12-24
The Nativity Story from The First Gospel of the Infancy of Jesus Christ
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2020-12-24
Some favorite music for the season (1)
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2020-12-23
Two Hundred and Fifteen Years Ago, Today
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2020-12-23
Ghost Stories, Richard Dawkins, Christmas, and Other Related Matters
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2020-12-21
"A Prophet Like Moses," and "The Journey of the Magi"
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2020-12-21
Some possible reading for Christmas week
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2020-12-20
A Revelation in the Operating Room
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2020-12-19
Revision 8.8 More opposition to the BYU Jerusalem Center
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2020-12-18
Confounded and Mixed in Moroni 10:31
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2020-12-18
"Joseph Smith's Translation Projects under a Microscope"
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2020-12-18
"Adam and Christ, Eve and Mary at Christmastime"
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2020-12-17
"The Most American Religion"?
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2020-12-16
Two memorable nineteenth-century stories from Santaquin and Nephi
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2020-12-16
Nephite Secret Combinations and Shining Jaredite Stones
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2020-12-14
Nephite personal names, possible religious bigotry at Utah State, and an Arizona court addresses whether Latter-day Saints are Christians
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2020-12-13
Revision 8.7 "The Orson Hyde Memorial Garden and BYU's Jerusalem Center"
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2020-12-12
Some things that need to be accounted for
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2020-12-11
"Did Joseph Smith Hypnotize the Book of Mormon Witnesses?" and Various Other Wonders
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2020-12-11
Peaceable Followers of Christ: Moroni 7
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2020-12-10
"My life is worth more to me than that"
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2020-12-10
"In" in Moroni 7
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2020-12-10
"Was a Rare Book on the Hindu Religion a Source for the Book of Ether?"
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2020-12-09
An earnest year-end appeal
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2020-12-09
Susan Stringham's #LightTheWorld with the Book of Mormon
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2020-12-09
“FairMormon Statement Regarding 'This is The Show' Videos”
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2020-12-08
Help Hoped for in Holladay
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2020-12-07
"Chiastic Structuring of Large Texts: Second Nephi as a Case Study"
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2020-12-06
My Connection with Some Controversial Recent Videos
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2020-12-06
Revision 8.6 "Near Eastern Missions and a Branch in Jerusalem"
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2020-12-05
Berlinski imagines Borges imagining literary "evolution"
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2020-12-05
The Point of the Plates, and Moroni and Joseph's Amazing Coat
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2020-12-04
Mary and the Infant Jesus in the Qur’an (My Translation), Plus a Note on Reductionism
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2020-12-03
Does President Trump Need to Suspend the Constitution, Void the Election, and Impose Military Rule?
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2020-12-02
"Barren Women, the Christmas Story, and the Promise of Seed in Both Time and Eternity"
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2020-12-01
Good reading, free, online
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2020-11-30
Lifetime Honors Come to Two Former Colleagues
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2020-11-30
Jeremiah 1:5, Premortal Existence, the Status of the EModE Hypothesis, Latter-day Saints, and Sexuality
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2020-11-29
Introductory thoughts for a natural theology, and dreams for a conference
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2020-11-29
Revision 8.5."David O. McKay, Hugh J. Cannon, and Joseph Wilford Booth"
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2020-11-27
Brief Theological Introductions, the "Witnesses" Movie Trailer, and a Tender Mercy
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2020-11-26
Family, Temple, and Eternal Life #Give Thanks
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2020-11-25
Profound Thanks and Radical Orthodoxy
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2020-11-24
New from Interpreter #GiveThanks
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2020-11-24
Utah's desert monolith and the God of the gaps
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2020-11-23
Mormonism, the Trinity, Joseph Smith, Plagiarism, and Adam Clarke #GiveThanks
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2020-11-22
"A Fortunate Universe" #GiveThanks
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2020-11-22
The Son of God? Or a poached egg? #GiveThanks
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2020-11-20
"Count Your Many Mormons" #GiveThanks
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2020-11-19
"Did Nero really fiddle while Rome burned?"
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2020-11-18
Of moral relativism and ethical nihilism
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2020-11-18
Did Nietzsche get this one right?
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2020-11-16
Forgiveness, grace, and cosmic justice
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2020-11-15
Revision 8.4 A Latter-day Saint Presence in Palestine and the Near East?
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2020-11-14
The reliability of eyewitness testimony and the Book of Mormon
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2020-11-14
Of Eyewitnesses, the Resurrection, and the Gold Plates
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2020-11-13
A Thought on Political Right and Political Left
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2020-11-12
Ancient Sunstones and Transparent Glass
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2020-11-11
Ziauddin Yousafzai
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2020-11-11
On Christ's death and his empty tomb
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2020-11-11
"The Case for Ancient Roots in the Book of Moses"
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2020-11-10
More on a Moral Argument for the Existence of God
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2020-11-09
Science, Knowledge, and Sticking to Solid Fact
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2020-11-08
Abraham Lincoln on civil discord and fierce political disagreement
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2020-11-08
President Biden's success will be our country's success. We should all root hard for him, and pray for him.
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2020-11-07
Revision 8.3 "On Early Apostles and Missionaries in the Holy Land and the Near East"
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2020-11-07
Saturday's Temple Conference
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2020-11-06
Was the Book of Mormon the product of Joseph Smith's own thinking?
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2020-11-05
Hagia Sophia, Tenochtitlan, the Incas' Golden Temple, and Jerusalem's Temple Mount
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2020-11-04
A moral argument for the existence of God
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2020-11-03
The Book of Mormon: Focus and Coherence
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2020-11-02
A vision through the veil, on Maui
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2020-11-01
Revision 8.2 "A further note on the rededication of Palestine"
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2020-11-01
Did life reach Earth from beyond the solar system? Has intelligent life made an appearance here yet?
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2020-10-31
An 1865 Vision of a Gathering Place for the Saints in Hawai’i
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2020-10-30
Reacting to the recent Islamist terror attacks in France
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2020-10-28
Of Smallpox, Epidemics, Hawaii (or Hawai’i), Latter-day Saints, and the Sandwich
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2020-10-27
A quirky thought on scientific progress and human exaltation
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2020-10-26
The theology of C. S. Lewis and the witness of the Whitmer family
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2020-10-25
Quantum Physics and Early Death
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2020-10-24
Revision 8.1 "Apostles Rededicate the Holy Land"
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2020-10-24
Bob: "There's light at the end of the tunnel." Bill: "WHAT tunnel?"
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2020-10-23
Revision 6.18 "The United Nations Plan," plus a bibliography on Latter-day Saints and Islam
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2020-10-23
In the Book of Moses, ""Where Did the Names Mahaway and Mahujah Come From?"
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2020-10-23
"Revisions in the Analysis of Archaic Language in the Book of Mormon"
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2020-10-22
"Utah is in trouble"
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2020-10-22
"A Latter-day Saint Defense of the Unborn"
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2020-10-22
Revision 6.17 "The Balfour Declaration"
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2020-10-22
Science and Mutual Care
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2020-10-21
On "sustainable societies" and hateful politics, with a note on sex
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2020-10-21
Revision 6.16 "The Rise of Zionism" (B)
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2020-10-21
The Interpreter Foundation, airborne, and Will Latter-day Saints provide the margin against Mr. Trump in Arizona?
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2020-10-21
A coming "mega-tsunami"?
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2020-10-20
Revision 6.15 "The Rise of Zionism" (A)
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2020-10-20
"Deeply religious marriages have more spousal equality" and Sweden's COVID-19 response "shouldn’t be a model for the rest of the world"
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2020-10-20
Revision 6.14 "Denial"
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2020-10-19
"Tocqueville on New Prophets and the Tyranny of Public Opinion"
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2020-10-19
"I cheerfully certify"
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2020-10-18
"A more beautiful message cannot be conceived. "
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2020-10-18
Revision 6.10a "The West achieves dominance” (addendum)
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2020-10-17
"Yes, as material as anything can be."
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2020-10-17
"The Church supports the use of vaccinations"
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2020-10-17
Revision 6.13 "Occidentosis"
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2020-10-17
"Anthropic balances should not be dismissed"
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2020-10-16
Revision 6.12 "A quack-medicine cure appears"
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2020-10-16
"Textual Criticism and the Book of Moses"
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2020-10-16
"Altogether universal"
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2020-10-15
"Improbable Planet"
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2020-10-15
Revision 6.11 "The 'mission civilisatrise'"
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2020-10-15
Revision 6.11 "The mission civilatrise"
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2020-10-15
"An event of zero probability"
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2020-10-14
Latter-day Saints and the Apocalypse
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2020-10-14
Revision 6.10 "The West achieves dominance"
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2020-10-14
"How to be a Good Apologist," Revisited
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2020-10-13
Revision 6.9 "Entering the Modern Period"
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2020-10-13
The benefits of practiced religion and ancient South American immigrants to Polynesia
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2020-10-12
"Video: Bishopric invites their congregation back to church with a little Billy Joel flair"
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2020-10-12
An atmospheric miracle
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2020-10-12
"The Visions of Moses and Joseph Smith’s Bible Translation"
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2020-10-12
Revision 6.8 "The Modern Period, from 1800 to the Present"
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2020-10-12
"How to be a Good Apologist"
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2020-10-11
"You cannot help but think of a Creator."
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2020-10-11
Revision 6.7 "Gunpowder Empires" (B)
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2020-10-11
"It was... intensely interesting"
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2020-10-10
"You are never, ever alone."
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2020-10-10
Revision 6.6 "Gunpowder Empires" (A)
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2020-10-10
"Dr. Ross, I could dance again."
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2020-10-09
Revision 6.5 "Setbacks and Advances" [Needs Considerable Expansion]
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2020-10-09
“I of Myself Am a Wicked Man”
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2020-10-09
"Governed in completely precise detail by mathematical principles"
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2020-10-09
Revision 6.4 "Of Mamluks and Mongols"
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2020-10-08
"And that was past believing."
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2020-10-08
"Holy mystery, heaven's daughter!"
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2020-10-07
Personal
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2020-10-07
"If they are not true, then there is no truth"
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2020-10-07
Revision 6.3 "Mamluks and the Problem of Political Succession"
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2020-10-07
Learning to Let God Prevail
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2020-10-07
The Destruction in 3 Nephi: An Interim Retrospective
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2020-10-07
For heart and mind and soul
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2020-10-06
Revision 6.2 "Meet the Middle Periods"
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2020-10-05
Revision 6.1 "Decline and Response, 'Party Kings' and Crusaders"
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2020-10-05
"Janus Parallelism: Speculation on a Possible Poetic Wordplay in the Book of Mormon"
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2020-10-05
Of Elder D. Todd Christofferson and "Bitter Fruits"
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2020-10-05
"Even if we cannot prove them with absolute certainty"
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2020-10-04
"And he became miffed with the Prophet Joseph"
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2020-10-04
Revision 5.21 "The End of the High Caliphal Period"
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2020-10-04
"Turning Gems Into Dirt"
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2020-10-03
Julia Groberg Blair Obituary
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2020-10-03
Ask Questions
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2020-10-03
Revision 5.20 "What the West Owes the East” (A Word Sampler, Part 3)
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2020-10-03
"Doing science a disservice"
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2020-10-03
Religion and Health, With Data from the Sciences
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2020-10-02
Revision 5.19 "What the West Owes the East" (A Word Sampler, Part 2, Including Excurses on Chess and the Book of Mormon)
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2020-10-02
Me, the coronavirus, and my fiendish attempt to take away the freedoms of BYU students, staff, and faculty
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2020-10-02
Joseph Smith, Adam Clarke, and Nauvoo
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2020-10-02
Some background on Hallowe'en
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2020-10-02
Revision 5.18 "What the West Owes the East” (A Word Sampler, Part 1)
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2020-10-02
English "Science" and German "Wissenschaft"
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2020-10-01
Still Moving Forward with the "Witnesses" Project
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2020-09-30
Revision 5.17 "What the West Owes the East" (The Arts)
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2020-09-30
Brigham Young and those "damned rascals"
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2020-09-30
Of the shining city on a hill
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2020-09-29
"Physics explains everything"
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2020-09-29
Revision 5.16 "What the West Owes the East" (Literature)
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2020-09-29
Processes, and events that are junction points between processes
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2020-09-28
Yet another upcoming Interpreter Foundation conference!
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2020-09-28
Revision 5.15 “What the West Owes the East” (Navigation, Optics, Chemistry, Astronomy, and Calendrics)
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2020-09-28
Four Nineteenth-Century Latter-day Saint Comments on Science and Religion
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2020-09-28
"He was perfectly rational"
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2020-09-27
Revision 5.14 “What the West Owes the East” (Medicine and Other Sciences)
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2020-09-26
Did David Whitmer heft the golden plates?
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2020-09-26
"God is a mathematician of a very high order"
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2020-09-26
Revision 5.13 "What the West Owes the East" (Mathematics)
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2020-09-26
Hiram Page and His Seer Stone
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2020-09-25
"Reckoning with the Mortally Inevitable"
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2020-09-25
Revision 5.12 “What the West Owes the East” (Take Two)
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2020-09-25
Atheism as Wonderfully Good News...
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2020-09-24
"Robust" fine-tuning in chemistry and biochemistry?
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2020-09-24
Revision 5.11 "What the West Owes the East" (Take One)
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2020-09-23
When the neat world depicted by science fell apart
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2020-09-23
Of seer stones and hearing angels sing
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2020-09-23
Revision 5.10 "The Decline of the Abbasid Caliphate"
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2020-09-23
"But it's still possible, right?"
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2020-09-23
B. H. Roberts and the Book of Mormon. Again???
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2020-09-22
Revision 5.9 "Enter the Abbasids"
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2020-09-21
"Jesus’s Courtroom"
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2020-09-21
Tales of the Coronavirus
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2020-09-21
Revision 5.8 "The Umayyads"
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2020-09-21
The Book of Moses conference proceedings are already up (preliminarily, anyway)
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2020-09-20
On weighing evidence regarding near-death experiences
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2020-09-20
Revision 5.7 "Islamic Law" (F)
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2020-09-20
"Someone is standing here dressed in white clothes. I will not go with you!"
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2020-09-19
Can you get there from here?
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2020-09-19
Revision 5.6 “Islamic Law” (E)
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2020-09-19
Were the Whitmers marginal social outcasts and weirdos?
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2020-09-19
Revision 5.5 “Islamic Law” (D)
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2020-09-18
RECLAIM YOUR TRUE SELF
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2020-09-18
"The Expanse of Joseph Smith’s Translation Vision"
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2020-09-18
Reconsidering the emotions of God, with the help of Moses 7
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2020-09-18
“The Design Inference” (Part 4)
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2020-09-17
Changing Self-Condemnation to Motivation
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2020-09-17
Revision 5.4 “Islamic Law” (C)
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2020-09-16
"Watch the 'Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses' Conference This Weekend"
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2020-09-16
“The Design Inference” (Part 3)
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2020-09-16
Revision 5.3 "Islamic Law" (B)
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2020-09-16
"Taking a 'Leap of Faith' in [the late Senator Bob] Bennett's book on the origins of the Book of Mormon"
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2020-09-15
"For me there is no debate."
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2020-09-15
Revision 5.2 "Islamic Law" (A)
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2020-09-15
On my father's birthday
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2020-09-15
Revision 5.1 "The Emergence of Classical Arabic Civilization"
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2020-09-14
Life on Venus? Intelligent Life on Earth?
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2020-09-14
An overflowing cup
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2020-09-13
At the very end
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2020-09-13
"I became aware of the most powerful, radiant, brilliant white light."
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2020-09-13
Once Again, a Note on Traditional Arabic Names
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2020-09-13
“The Design Inference” (Part 2)
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2020-09-13
Orson Pratt, reacting to the death of Martin Harris
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2020-09-12
Revision 4.25 “Contrasting Islam and Latter-day Saint Teaching” (Part 5, Conclusion)
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2020-09-12
"The Design Inference" (Part 1)
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2020-09-11
"'Shut up,' he explained."
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2020-09-11
"The Waters of Mormon, Baptism, the Love of God, and the Bitter Fountain"
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2020-09-11
Late 1870, near Logan, Utah
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2020-09-11
Revision 4.24 “Contrasting Islam and Latter-day Saint Teaching” (Part 4)
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2020-09-10
Revision 4.23 “Contrasting Islam and Latter-day Saint Teaching” (Part 3)
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2020-09-09
Martin Harris, testifying in 1870
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2020-09-09
Grow Where You Are Planted
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2020-09-09
Is religion a failed attempt at scientific explanation?
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2020-09-09
Revision 4.22 "Contrasting Islam and Latter-day Saint Teaching” (Part 2)
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2020-09-09
Can the study of history yield genuine knowledge?
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2020-09-09
When Political Opinion is the New Religion
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2020-09-08
Revision 4.21 "Contrasting Islam and Latter-day Saint Teaching" (Part 1)
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2020-09-07
Regarding the Young/Dumb at BYU, and Watermelons
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2020-09-07
"Faith, Hope, and Charity: The 'Three Principal Rounds' of the Ladder of Heavenly Ascent"
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2020-09-07
Revision 4.20 “Some Similarities between the Qur’an and Latter-day Saint Scripture” (Part 3)
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2020-09-07
Religion, Science, and Awe
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2020-09-07
A friend's statement of faith
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2020-09-06
Revision 4.19 “Some Similarities between the Qur’an and Latter-day Saint Scripture” (Part 2)
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2020-09-06
Shared Revelations
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2020-09-05
"Why the 'COVID-19 killed only 6%' argument is wrong"
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2020-09-05
Revision 4.18 "Some Similarities between the Qur’an and Latter-day Saint Scripture" (Part 1)
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2020-09-05
So what DOES Saturn's largest moon smell like?
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2020-09-04
Must one know the precise GPS coordinates of the final Jaredite and Lehite battles in order to be a good Latter-day Saint?
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2020-09-04
Who Is Your Book of Mormon Hero?
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2020-09-04
"Visions in a Seer Stone"?
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2020-09-04
Revision 4.17 "Jihad"
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2020-09-04
"It's not there just somehow by chance."
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2020-09-04
"Were the Names “Mahijah” and “Mahujah” Inspired by Adam Clarke’s Commentary?"
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2020-09-03
Revision 4.16 "The Hajj"
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2020-09-03
Our galaxy is "highly skewed toward fitness for life"
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2020-09-02
An "Update" from Professor Muhlestein regarding work on the Book of Abraham
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2020-09-02
Revision 4.15 "Almsgiving and fasting in Islam, preceded by a bit more on prayer"
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2020-09-02
The aged Martin Harris in Utah
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2020-09-02
"The extremes of small and large upon which we depend"
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2020-09-01
Revision 4.14. "Prayer in Islam"
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2020-09-01
Nature and "Natural Theology"
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2020-08-31
Attacking Other Faiths
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2020-08-31
"Baptized for the Dead"
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2020-08-31
Ewan Harbrecht Mitton (1929-2020)
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2020-08-31
Revision 4.13 "The Five Pillars of Islam" (Part 1)
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2020-08-30
Must one first believe in the supernatural in order to regard near-death experiences as real?
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2020-08-30
Revision 4.12 "The Treatment of Women"
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2020-08-30
An exceptionally stupid argument against the Restoration
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2020-08-29
3 Nephi and Regional Earthquake Fault Zones
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2020-08-29
Revision 4.11 "More on the Ethical Values of the Qur’an"
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2020-08-28
"Some Notes on Jacob 4:14, Revelation, Canon, Covenant, and Law"
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2020-08-28
On Latter-day Saint Rejection of Evolution
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2020-08-28
Revision 4.10 "On the Moral Teachings of the Qur’an"
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2020-08-28
The Book of Moses and a School for Souls
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2020-08-27
David Whitmer's testimony, in verse
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2020-08-27
No doubt: "There is grandeur in this view of life"
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2020-08-27
Revision 4.9 "Hell and Heaven in the Qur’an"
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2020-08-27
Greed, Priestcraft, and Me
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2020-08-26
Was Sidney Rigdon in on the creation of the Book of Mormon?
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2020-08-26
"Sturm und Drang" in 3 Nephi
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2020-08-26
Revision 4.8 "Judgment and Grace in Islam"
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2020-08-25
"Scholarly Support for the Book of Abraham"
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2020-08-25
"How Astronomers Revolutionized Our View of the Cosmos," Revisited
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2020-08-25
Revision 4.7 "The Qur’an on the Last Days"
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2020-08-24
"How Astronomers Revolutionized Our View of the Cosmos"
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2020-08-24
"Another Breakthrough for the Arabian Peninsula Evidence for the Book of Mormon"?
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2020-08-24
Revision 4.6 "The Religion of Abraham"
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2020-08-24
A kind of Interpreter Foundation "annual report"
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2020-08-23
A Universe Like a Bach Fugue
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2020-08-23
What happened in September 1823? Why? Given COVID-19, will anything at all happen THIS September?
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2020-08-23
Revision 4.5 "Muhammad and the Restoration of Lost Truth"
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2020-08-22
Book of Moses Insights, Radio Shows, and How You Can Help
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2020-08-22
The "economic quark" and the "immanent quark"
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2020-08-22
Revision 4.4 "Dispensations"
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2020-08-22
"The Pathway" by Roberta Flake Clayton
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2020-08-22
Divine Wisdom at the Foundation of the Universe?
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2020-08-21
Revision 4.3 "The Qur’an and the Doctrine and Covenants"
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2020-08-21
"Nephi’s “Shazer”: The Fourth Arabian Pillar of the Book of Mormon"
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2020-08-21
Did they take "Under God" out of the Pledge of Allegiance?
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2020-08-21
A ten-minute video on "Evidences of the Book of Abraham: Historicity"
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2020-08-20
Of reductionism, "meat wads," and "cockroaches"
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2020-08-20
Revision 4.2 "Can the Qur’an Be Translated?" (Plus a Note on Religious Bigotry and Me)
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2020-08-20
On "The Witnesses: Variety and Complexity"
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2020-08-19
Latter-day Saint intellectuals, plus a note on education and Jehovah's Witnesses
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2020-08-19
"All we see is order and symmetry of pristine mathematical purity.”
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2020-08-19
Revision 4.1 "Islam and the Qur’an"
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2020-08-18
"Did Joseph Smith Rely on Adam Clarke’s Bible Commentary? Forthcoming Article Says “No.”"
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2020-08-18
The "shaky foundations of reality"
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2020-08-18
Revision 3.16 "The Passing of the Four Orthodox Caliphs"
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2020-08-18
Life in Community
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2020-08-17
Seeking the Law of the Lord
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2020-08-17
Revision 3.15 "The First Arab Conquests"
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2020-08-17
A few ordained scientists
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2020-08-16
Can the major features of Jesus’ life be found in ancient non-biblical sources? (Part 2)
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2020-08-16
Revision 3.14 "The Succession to Muhammad"
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2020-08-16
Can the major features of Jesus' life be found in ancient non-biblical sources? (Part 1)
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2020-08-16
Frankly non- or at least post-biblical
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2020-08-15
Revision 3.13 "So, was he or wasn't he?"
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2020-08-15
Neti neti.
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2020-08-15
"Using the Science of Time to Understand God’s Nature and Our Own"
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2020-08-14
The Love Poem I Should Have Expected From Her
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2020-08-14
In which I renounce politics
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2020-08-14
Revision 3.12 "Latter-day Saints in the Middle"
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2020-08-14
Next Year Along the Nile
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2020-08-14
Does science stand alone as the path to knowledge?
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2020-08-13
Revision 3.11 "What Are We to Make of Muhammad?" (An Introductory Comment)
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2020-08-13
"And for this testimony I expect to give an account in the day of judgment.”
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2020-08-13
"Producing Ancient Scripture — Thomas Wayment on Joseph Smith’s Use of Adam Clarke in the JST" (plus Stephen Smoot on B. H. Roberts and the Book of Mormon)
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2020-08-12
Back to Politics
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2020-08-12
Revision 3.10 "The Death of Muhammad"
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2020-08-11
The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of Modern Science
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2020-08-11
If you're looking for easy, black and white answers, you need my Miracle Elixir™
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2020-08-11
Muhammad frowned.
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2020-08-11
"Intellectual inebriation"?
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2020-08-10
Who Are You Choosing to Follow Into Battle?
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2020-08-10
"Everyone Else Makes Such Lonely Heavens," Reprised
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2020-08-10
Revision 3.8 "From Prophet to Prophet-Statesman"
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2020-08-09
Answers to questions that were submitted after my presentation at FairMormon last Friday
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2020-08-09
A scientist/theologian reflects on science and theology
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2020-08-09
Revision 3.7 "Muhammad's Reception Among the Arabs" (Part 2)
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2020-08-09
My Hope for the Eternities
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2020-08-08
Wonderment at the Structure of Cells and the Life-Friendly Universe in Which We Find Ourselves
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2020-08-08
Revision 3.6 "Muhammad's Reception among the Arabs" (Part 1)
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2020-08-07
Mom Rallying Us Around a Family Title of Liberty
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2020-08-07
"What makes a human can... be scribbled on the back of a napkin"
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2020-08-07
"The End from the Beginning"
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2020-08-07
Comments on Navigating Mixed Faith Marriages
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2020-08-07
Revision 3.5 "Paganism Condemned"
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2020-08-07
The Judge - Part 5: How it ended
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2020-08-07
Yet another new book from the Interpreter Foundation!
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2020-08-06
Was a human-life-permitting universe monumentally unlikely?
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2020-08-06
Revision 3.4 "Continuing with Muhammad at Mecca"
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2020-08-06
The Judge - Part 4: The Plea Deal
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2020-08-05
"Pillar of Light"
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2020-08-05
"How the Pandemic Defeated America," and Other Evils of Science
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2020-08-05
My Little Prayer
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2020-08-05
Revision 3.3 "The Meccan Chapters of the Qur’an"
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2020-08-05
The Judge - Part 3: Meeting with the Public Defender
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2020-08-05
"Remarkably well adjusted in our favor"
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2020-08-05
What I was up to today for FairMormon 2020 and BYU Education Week 2020
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2020-08-04
Revision 3.2 "Muhammad in Mecca"
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2020-08-04
The Judge, Part 2: Silencing
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2020-08-03
Question: "Is Decrypting the Genetic Legacy of America’s Indigenous Populations Key to the Historicity of the Book of Mormon?"
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2020-08-03
"Heavy drinking drove hundreds of thousands of Americans to early graves"
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2020-08-03
The Judge (Part 1)
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2020-08-03
Revision 3.1 "Mecca and the Quraysh"
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2020-08-03
The Teachings of Enoch, a Gift-Giving Idea, and an Anecdote Involving Cleon Skousen and Olivia de Havilland
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2020-08-03
Three passages from B. H. Roberts
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2020-08-02
Revision 2.16 "The Blessings of Ishmael"
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2020-08-02
That one time when we fought about white appropriation
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2020-08-02
"Witnesses": A Brief Progress Report
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2020-08-02
On Invoking the "Gutzon Borglum" of the Gaps
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2020-08-01
Revision 2.15 "Arabia on the Eve of Islam"
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2020-08-01
Of ancient plagues and really, really ancient extinctions
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2020-07-31
"Visions, Mushrooms, Fungi, Cacti, and Toads: Joseph Smith’s Reported Use of Entheogens"
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2020-07-31
Allies for Darius - 1965, Provo, Utah
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2020-07-31
Revision 2.14 "The leader of the poets to hellfire"
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2020-07-31
What happened to the early apostles?
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2020-07-30
Martin Harris, William Smith, and the quest for Colorado gold
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2020-07-30
An Interesting Example Of Different Perspectives
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2020-07-30
The Genesis Group and the Stake Basketball Tournament Finals --that didn't happen
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2020-07-30
Revision 2.13 "Ancient Arabia and the Power of Words"
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2020-07-30
A brief visit to the Vernal Utah Temple
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2020-07-30
A brief visit to Dinosaur National Monument
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2020-07-29
Revision 2.12 "The Power of Ancient Arabian Poets"
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2020-07-29
The spreading deadwood forests of western North America
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2020-07-28
Prophets, as it were, without honor in their own country
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2020-07-28
Revision 2.11 "Poetry and Poets"
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2020-07-28
The KKK in Alabama and in Utah
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2020-07-28
Rocks, terrestrial and Martian, and some wild animals
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2020-07-27
Miracles Come in Small Ways
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2020-07-27
"Nephite Daykeepers: Ritual Specialists in Mesoamerica and the Book of Mormon"
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2020-07-27
Revision 2.10 "The epitome of pre-Islamic Arabian generosity"
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2020-07-27
In support of "Heart of Africa"
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2020-07-26
"A superbly structured universe where mind is an integral component"
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2020-07-26
Revision 2.9. "Fidelity to One’s Promises in Ancient Arabia (and the Book of Mormon!)"
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2020-07-26
"Death is nothing more than a doorway, something you walk through."
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2020-07-25
"Sacred Time, Sacred Space, & Sacred Meaning"
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2020-07-25
Revision 2.8 "Shanfara of Azd, and friends"
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2020-07-25
Our Pioneer Ancestors and Slavery
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2020-07-25
"Galileo: Science vs. religion or truth vs. fiction?"
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2020-07-24
"Moses 1 and the Apocalypse of Abraham: Twin Sons of Different Mothers?"
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2020-07-24
Revision 2.7 "Life Among the Pre-Islamic Bedouin"
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2020-07-24
We Are Masters of Our Thoughts
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2020-07-24
Goodness from the Heartland
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2020-07-23
Revision 2.6 "Early Arabian Values"
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2020-07-23
A tale of two adjacent states
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2020-07-23
Green and Lizzy: Wedding Gifts
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2020-07-23
"There is just one thing that you won't hear about."
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2020-07-23
Living longer and better through religious involvement? A summation
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2020-07-22
Revision 2.5 "Arab nomadism and the scriptures"
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2020-07-22
The Great Middle Initial Scandal
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2020-07-22
Before he found Tokyo
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2020-07-21
Revision 2.4."The Earliest Arabs and Lehi's Trail"
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2020-07-21
A note on Joseph Smith, death, and out-of-body experiences
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2020-07-21
Darius Aidan Gray at BYU
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2020-07-20
"The Lady at the Horizon: Egyptian Tree Goddess Iconography and Sacred Trees in Israelite Scripture and Temple Theology"
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2020-07-20
Revision 2.3 "Frankincense and Lehi's Trail"
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2020-07-20
An Apology...
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2020-07-20
A witness to many remarkable things
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2020-07-19
Why have physicists become increasingly open to the "God question"?
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2020-07-19
Darius Gray in Provo, Utah
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2020-07-19
Revision 2.2 "Arabia"
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2020-07-18
Revision 2.1 "The Arabs before Islam"
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2020-07-18
For the weekend
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2020-07-18
Once More, on Hagia Sophia
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2020-07-17
Where are we going? And why are we in this handbasket?
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2020-07-17
Revision 1.15 "Jerusalem, Byzantines, and Persians"
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2020-07-17
"Four Idolatrous Gods in the Book of Abraham"
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2020-07-17
A Letter to Mixed Faith Couples
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2020-07-17
Darius: Growing up Black in the 1950s
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2020-07-17
A bit more about Hagia Sophia and those huge black disks suspended within it
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2020-07-17
"Bad men on paper"
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2020-07-16
O That I Were An Angel -- To Have a Voice and Be Visible
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2020-07-16
Setbacks, Archaeological and Epidemiological
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2020-07-16
John Bushman's Severe Accident
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2020-07-16
Revision 1.14 "Talmudic Judaism, Constantinian Christianity, and the 'De-Judaizing' of Palestine"
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2020-07-16
Gobo Fango and my Family
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2020-07-16
Simple deception?
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2020-07-15
"New Study Finds Some Polynesians Carry DNA of Ancient Native Americans"
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2020-07-15
Revision 1.13 "The Mishnah and the Talmuds"
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2020-07-15
Weeping with Darius as we wrote the auction scene
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2020-07-15
Ancient geology and really ancient geology
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2020-07-14
Revision 1.12 "Philo and the Intellectuals"
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2020-07-14
"Human Wrecks"
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2020-07-14
The Art of Difficult Conversation: My Story.
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2020-07-14
Young and Gray #2: Writing Slavery
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2020-07-13
Revision 1.11 "Yohanan ben Zakkai"
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2020-07-13
Do you see my people as representatives of Satan?
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2020-07-13
"Temples All the Way Down"
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2020-07-13
"If You Could Hie to Kolob"
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2020-07-13
Revision 1.10. "What survived from Second Temple Judaism"
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2020-07-12
A case for the resurrection of Christ (3)
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2020-07-12
"If the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it?"
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2020-07-12
Very sad news from my home town of San Gabriel, California
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2020-07-11
A case for the resurrection of Christ (2)
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2020-07-11
"Utah Area presidency urges Latter-day Saints in the state to wear masks in public"
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2020-07-11
Revision 1.9 "Judaism survived, despite the odds"
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2020-07-10
Revision 1.8. "Masada and Its Sequel"
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2020-07-10
"Area Seventy, Pfizer Head of Anti-Viral, Has Good News on COVID-19," Plus a Fascinating Near-Death Account
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2020-07-10
Sensationalism and Missing Words
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2020-07-10
A case for the resurrection of Christ (1)
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2020-07-09
Sojourner Truth "Ain't I a Woman?"
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2020-07-09
Volcanism in Mesoamerica
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2020-07-09
Revision 1.7. "The First Jewish Revolt"
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2020-07-09
"DNA suggests people from the Americas had a role in the peopling of Pacific islands"
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2020-07-08
Revision 1.6 "Herod the Great"
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2020-07-08
"I stood with the Prophet Joseph Smith in the presence of the angel"
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2020-07-08
My most recent acts of villainy
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2020-07-08
"BYU Vocal Point pays tribute in CNN performance to COVID-19 victims"
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2020-07-07
"Good Morning!" Praises though the Battle Rages
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2020-07-07
Are mind and consciousness reducible to events in the physical brain?
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2020-07-07
Revision 1.5. "The Maccabean Revolt and the Rise of the Pharisees"
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2020-07-07
I Needed to Hear This Again Today
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2020-07-07
From the Eight Witnesses
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2020-07-06
"Saving Faith: How Families Protect, Sustain, and Encourage Faith"
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2020-07-06
On "The Sôd of Yhwh and the Endowment"
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2020-07-06
Getting to Know Elder Boyd K. Packer (Conclusion)
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2020-07-06
Revision 1.4 Hellenism
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2020-07-06
Doubting is Grief Work
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2020-07-05
A Prolegomenon to "Getting to Know Elder Boyd K. Packer"
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2020-07-05
Getting to Know Elder Boyd K. Packer
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2020-07-05
Revision 1.3 "Post-Biblical Judaism" B
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2020-07-05
Revision 1.2 "Post-Biblical Judaism"
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2020-07-04
Some all-too-hasty thoughts for American Independence Day 2020
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2020-07-04
On some proposed psychological explanations for near-death experiences
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2020-07-04
"Please Keep the Name 'Redskins'"
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2020-07-04
"A faithful testimony"
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2020-07-04
Middle Eastern Book Revision 1.1
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2020-07-03
Commencing another look at the geology of the Book of Mormon
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2020-07-03
"Every Saint who knew him loved him"
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2020-07-03
"Offering Americans Religious and Political Salvation"
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2020-07-03
"What can I do, as one person, to make this world a better place?"
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2020-07-02
August 1870, with Martin Harris
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2020-07-02
The apparent reason for my disinvitation from that Australian school many years ago
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2020-07-02
"Rick Anderson named university librarian at BYU"
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2020-07-01
"Church’s COVID-19 relief now the largest humanitarian aid project in its history"
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2020-07-01
A remembrance of things past
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2020-07-01
Considering retirement locations
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2020-06-30
For My Father (1913-2003)
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2020-06-30
Living longer, but committing fewer crimes
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2020-06-30
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE LDS CHURCH
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2020-06-30
"Ascending into the Hill of the Lord"
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2020-06-30
A Portion of His Spirit to be an Instrument
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2020-06-30
Friendlier people and fewer school shootings?
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2020-06-29
"What the critics say is irrelevant, and you need not heed them."
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2020-06-29
"Secret Works, Oaths, and Murders," and a Note on Comparative Topography
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2020-06-29
Jeffrey A Bushman: A Dream About My Future Wife
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2020-06-29
"You simply couldn't help but like him"
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2020-06-29
"Spelling in the Manuscripts and Editions"
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2020-06-29
A testimony from John Taylor
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2020-06-29
"He was the most wrought-upon man I ever saw"
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2020-06-28
"Science has taken on the role of mankind's deliverer."
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2020-06-27
176 years ago, today
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2020-06-27
Another milestone in the scholarship on the Book of Mormon
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2020-06-27
From a ridiculous obnoxious arrogant lunatic
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2020-06-27
"It was a sublime moment"
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2020-06-26
"Times of Reckoning and Set Times in Abraham 3"
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2020-06-26
Symmetry Solutions Strategies
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2020-06-26
Obedience That's Binding, Not Blinding Leads to Revelation
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2020-06-26
"Strictly upright"
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2020-06-25
Einstein's "greatest blunder"
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2020-06-25
Philo-Semitism, Vicarious Baptisms, and Me: A Retrospective
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2020-06-25
Some Physical, Social, and Psychological Benefits of Religious Involvement
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2020-06-24
Will ANYBODY be saved on his or her own merits, without the Atonement of Christ?
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2020-06-24
James J. Strang and His Witnesses, More or Less Revisited
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2020-06-24
Four really challenging quotations
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2020-06-23
Liberal Islam and Illiberal Islam
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2020-06-23
"A total wholeness"
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2020-06-22
One point clearly made by the resurrection of Jesus
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2020-06-22
Is there any place at all in the West for Islam?
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2020-06-22
"Atheism... turned out to be the most irrational of the choices."
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2020-06-21
Modeling a way of being a Latter-day Saint family on the eastern bank of the Nile
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2020-06-21
On "shared-death experiences"
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2020-06-21
Keeping the tradition alive through potatoes
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2020-06-21
"She Said that they Were fastened with Rings"
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2020-06-21
A miraculous harrowing
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2020-06-20
It's the First Step. Isn't that Amazing!
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2020-06-20
An oppressive theocracy
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2020-06-20
Toward a Better Life
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2020-06-20
Are NDEs caused by carbon dioxide overload? And what about psychedelics?
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2020-06-19
Greenwood--from The Last Mile of the Way (Young and Gray)
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2020-06-19
"A Native American Perspective on Juneteenth"
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2020-06-19
"Ever ready to share his conviction"
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2020-06-19
My sorry career as a religious bigot
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2020-06-19
The Murder of Martin Harris
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2020-06-18
Are NDEs caused by oxygen deficiency in the brain? (Part 2)
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2020-06-18
"Finding the Roots of Religion in Saudi Arabia" (and Its Ambiguous Status in the West)
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2020-06-18
"And you know that I know that it is true."
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2020-06-17
Are NDEs caused by oxygen deficiency in the brain? (Part 1)
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2020-06-17
Islam and the West(s)
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2020-06-17
Darius Gray and a Wish List for BYU
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2020-06-16
Jesus and the "Swoon" Theory
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2020-06-16
What Arabs really think
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2020-06-16
Dear Anonymous Mormon: There is no comparison.
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2020-06-16
Humans as "cockroaches"? One Way of Reading Scientific Naturalism
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2020-06-16
For Lena, Six Years Later
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2020-06-16
On Monday morning's Supreme Court ruling
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2020-06-15
Reading the DNA of a single human cell
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2020-06-15
It didn't have to be this way...
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2020-06-15
"One night in an inconvenient hotel"
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2020-06-15
"The Sacred Embrace and the Sacred Handclasp in Ancient Mediterranean Religions"
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2020-06-15
"It's our glory that we can rise to the dignity of despair."
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2020-06-15
"It's possible to be physically dead while your mind lives on."
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2020-06-14
Religion and Health, with Notice of COVID-19
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2020-06-14
"It really is easier to keep the commandments 100 percent of the time than it is 98 percent of the time."
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2020-06-13
"British anti-racism protestors call for destruction of Giza Pyramids"
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2020-06-13
Some hear mere noise, while others hear a tune
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2020-06-13
A Snare And Souls Like Birds
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2020-06-13
She would have been six years old today
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2020-06-13
Making sense of "surprising" facts
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2020-06-12
"Vaughn J. Featherstone’s Atlanta Temple Letter"
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2020-06-12
The Decline of the East
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2020-06-12
"I know that what I am talking about is true"
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2020-06-11
Enter the age of Marshall Hodgson's "Gunpowder Empires"
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2020-06-11
"One of humanity's greatest achievements"
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2020-06-11
"But it's still possible, right?"
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2020-06-10
Religious Minorities and Islam
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2020-06-10
Resting (and Making a Movie) in the Plague Year
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2020-06-10
A hint from evil to God?
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2020-06-09
Separation of "church and state" in Islamic history
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2020-06-09
Faster Healing, Better Health, and Stronger Families
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2020-06-09
Help Wanted (for Later This Month)
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2020-06-09
"Emergency COVID-19 measures prevented more than 500 million infections, study finds"
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2020-06-08
"Understanding Ritual Hand Gestures of the Ancient World"
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2020-06-08
"A Planet is Born"
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2020-06-08
President Nelson, the NAACP, Senator Romney, and some observations on the passing scene
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2020-06-08
A brief and perhaps somewhat too colorful autobiographical fragment
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2020-06-07
A further note on Acts 6
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2020-06-07
A brief note on the suggestion of multiple universes
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2020-06-07
Once more, on the plague
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2020-06-07
If you're not taking this seriously, you're wrong.
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2020-06-06
We're headed for an upsurge in deaths, and there's no valid reason for it
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2020-06-06
Infighting in Acts 6
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2020-06-06
The "Acme Universe Making Machine"
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2020-06-06
Black Clinician's Community Support
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2020-06-05
If there is fine-tuning, does that imply a fine-tuner?
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2020-06-05
"Answering the Critics in 44 Rebuttal Points"
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2020-06-05
Mormon Stories Podcast-The Killing of George Floyd, the Protests, and Russell M. Nelson’s Reaction
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2020-06-05
"What do you pray for when you’re at war?"
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2020-06-05
Advice from Grandma on Using Primary Answers to Overcome Obstacles to Courage
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2020-06-05
A note on race and ethnicity in the scriptures
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2020-06-04
The value of "wonder"
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2020-06-04
About this coming 3 November
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2020-06-04
Racism is bigger than hate
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2020-06-03
Uto-Aztecan languages and a very eccentric Interpreter donor
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2020-06-03
The Latest from the Interpreter Foundation (Part Two)
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2020-06-03
The Latest from the Interpreter Foundation (Part One)
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2020-06-02
The fifth printing of the Yale edition of the Book of Mormon
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2020-06-02
Divisions
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2020-06-02
Maybe It’s Time To Feel Some Shame
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2020-06-02
On Judging Another's Journey
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2020-06-02
Non-scientific matters that we know with certainty
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2020-06-02
Lorenzo Snow meets Joseph Smith for the first time
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2020-06-01
A note from the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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2020-06-01
Half full, or half empty? More similar, or more different?
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2020-06-01
Scientific reductionism and common sense
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2020-06-01
Do Better
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2020-05-31
Literary craftsmanship and a jubilee celebration in Alma 29?
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2020-05-31
Step Aside.
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2020-05-31
Two linguistic notes regarding Book of Mormon names
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2020-05-31
Luke as Careful Historian
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2020-05-31
A few reactions to Acts 5
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2020-05-30
Polling on shari‘a
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2020-05-30
Just a temporary assemblage of chemicals?
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2020-05-30
On the late Christopher Hitchens
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2020-05-29
Surfing in Idaho
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2020-05-29
Bad Book of Mormon Grammar?
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2020-05-29
"Lehi’s Dream and the Plan of Salvation," plus Latter-day Saint sociability
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2020-05-29
"Changes in Languages from Nephi to Now"
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2020-05-28
Napoleon the Muslim
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2020-05-28
Greedy LD$ Inc., Again
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2020-05-28
What's at stake?
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2020-05-27
Notes on racial and religious tolerance in early Islam
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2020-05-27
Ignorance is Only Bliss for the Ignorant
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2020-05-27
At the apparent ultimate boundary of science
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2020-05-27
The early Arab conquests and forced conversions
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2020-05-26
Gathering the scriptural passages about the experience of the Book of Mormon Witnesses
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2020-05-26
On rejecting reports of unexpected things upfront
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2020-05-26
Memorial Day 2020
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2020-05-25
For this coming Sunday evening
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2020-05-25
"Joseph Smith Performing a Miraculous Healing According to a Non-LDS Source"
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2020-05-25
A column in "Scientific American" on near-death experiences
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2020-05-25
1LT Marlin Arthur Tanner - Died While Missing in Action - Korean War
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2020-05-25
Scientism versus Scientism's Caricature of Christian Theism
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2020-05-24
"Once you have died you will know it anyway."
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2020-05-24
The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper as Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus
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2020-05-24
Symmetry Solutions Strategies
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2020-05-23
Bad Grammar and Early Modern English, on the Radio!
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2020-05-23
Book of Moses Insights, and the Pax Americana
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2020-05-23
"Boldness" in Acts 4
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2020-05-23
Life Before Life and Life After Life, with Jalal al-Din Rumi
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2020-05-22
Some of the things that you might miss out on if you don't go back to church when you can
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2020-05-22
"Table Rules: A Response to Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon"
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2020-05-21
What can afford us a basis for hope?
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2020-05-21
"The world is not as real as we think."
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2020-05-21
Finding Gratitude in the Difficult Sacrifice
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2020-05-21
"Who founded Hinduism?" and other matters
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2020-05-21
Arabs and religious fanaticism
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2020-05-20
BYU and the Church's Avarice
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2020-05-20
Einstein's big mistake
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2020-05-19
A Commandment for Parents to Prepare Self-Reliant Children, Even During a Pandemic
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2020-05-19
One implication of the resurrection of Jesus
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2020-05-19
Do Arabs hate America?
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2020-05-19
Consciousness and Stewardship
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2020-05-18
The fire-breathing Arab
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2020-05-18
A Biblical Pattern and a Chemical Engineer
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2020-05-18
Four decades or, in geological terms, really nothing at all
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2020-05-17
Near-Death Experiences among Muslims?
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2020-05-17
Two Book of Mormon grains
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2020-05-17
Victor Hugo on Immortality?
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2020-05-17
Of Limhi and Seer Stones
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2020-05-17
Another Illustration of Our War with Science?
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2020-05-16
Lucius Scovil and Noah Rogers Flee from a Missouri Mob
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2020-05-16
Majoring in a Minor
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2020-05-16
"To this we are witnesses": A note on Acts 3
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2020-05-15
Protecting LGBT+ Members
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2020-05-15
Two (or three) very different conquests of Jerusalem
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2020-05-15
Dante, Einstein, and the curvature of spacetime
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2020-05-15
On reading Isaiah as Latter-day Saints
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2020-05-14
Was Jesus "White"?
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2020-05-14
1820, Again
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2020-05-14
Religion and "Deaths of Despair"
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2020-05-13
Happiness, Excitement, Health, and Wealth?
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2020-05-13
SOMETHING happened in 1820...
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2020-05-13
A Lost Book by Luke?
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2020-05-12
Has the volcano responsible for the destruction in 3 Nephi been located?
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2020-05-12
J. B. Phillips on Luke as historian
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2020-05-12
At the very foundation of the Restoration
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2020-05-12
"A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest," revisited
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2020-05-11
David Whitmer's June 1829 journey from Fayette to Harmony and back
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2020-05-11
Islam, Love, and Violence
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2020-05-11
3 Nephi: Another Volcanological Perspective (2)
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2020-05-11
On "Mormon" and "Mormonism"
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2020-05-10
Immanuel Kant and the Book of Abraham
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2020-05-10
A few more thoughts on Acts 2
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2020-05-09
Two Reports from Paradise?
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2020-05-09
Some notes on olive cultivation and the Book of Mormon
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2020-05-09
Insights into the Book of Moses and other relevant topics
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2020-05-08
Some notes on Wahhābism
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2020-05-08
"A Democratic Salvation"
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2020-05-08
When it's available, you should go back to church
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2020-05-08
A chiasm in King Benjamin's speech
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2020-05-07
Napoleon's "Savants" and the Great "Description de l'Égypte"
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2020-05-07
"Ancient astronomers of the Colorado Plateau," living in "A Fortunate Universe"
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2020-05-07
On condemning Napoleon
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2020-05-06
Napoleon, en route to Egypt
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2020-05-06
Why not Kafka every day?
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2020-05-05
3 Nephi: Another Volcanological Perspective (1)
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2020-05-05
Still cautiously looking to October
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2020-05-05
A Note of Appreciation
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2020-05-04
Trying to Get It Right
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2020-05-04
King Benjamin and the Blood of Christ
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2020-05-04
"From the greatness and beauty of created things comes a corresponding perception of their Creator."
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2020-05-04
Acts 2, with an axe to grind
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2020-05-04
Emma, about Joseph
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2020-05-03
On temporary disembodiment
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2020-05-03
Some jottings on the first chapter of Acts
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2020-05-02
BYU Education Week this August
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2020-05-02
"There is this God, and this God actually helps to make sense of things."
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2020-05-02
"Book of Moses Insights" and Arab Voices
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2020-05-02
On the manufacture of fake history
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2020-05-01
Some reflections on Peter's deliverance from prison
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2020-05-01
"Death to Seducers!"
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2020-05-01
"The Temple on Mount Zion"
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2020-04-30
Pagan Natural Theology
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2020-04-30
There is still a chance to go with us to Egypt in late November!
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2020-04-29
For your "Christopher Hitchens Memorial 'How Religion Poisons Everything' File"
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2020-04-29
From my reading: "Arab Voices"
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2020-04-29
Maori Welcome Ceremony and Ammon Meeting King Limhi
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2020-04-29
From my readings: "Nothingness" in ancient Egyptian thinking
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2020-04-28
"Can We Trust the Gospels?"
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2020-04-28
The beginning of modernity in the Middle East
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2020-04-28
Better Health and Longer Life with Religion?
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2020-04-28
Introducing Ali Shariati
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2020-04-27
"Abductive Reasoning"
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2020-04-27
A simple argument for the historicity of Jesus as a miracle-worker
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2020-04-27
"He found himself standing next to his own body."
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2020-04-26
The Whitmer Family Prior to the Book of Mormon (B)
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2020-04-26
"We are stardust. We are golden. We are billion-year-old carbon."
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2020-04-26
"Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe"
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2020-04-25
A first pass at Sayyid Qutb
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2020-04-25
The Whitmer Family Prior to the Book of Mormon (A)
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2020-04-25
A mid-mission jaunt from Switzerland to northern Germany
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2020-04-25
Robert Charles Luerssen #HearHim
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2020-04-25
Imagination as a Key Element in Science and Mathematics
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2020-04-24
Hebrew Wordplay on the Name "Benjamin" in the Book of Mosiah?
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2020-04-24
Norwegian churches that survived the Black Death, and other matters
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2020-04-24
Good Reasons to Attend Church
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2020-04-23
Correcting a basic mistake in neuroscience, or just committing one?
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2020-04-23
A Great Early Muslim Woman: Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya (3)
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2020-04-23
"Searching for Jesus"
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2020-04-22
I Never Knew Of One of [The Prophet's] Promises to Fail
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2020-04-22
One take on "Jihad" and violence in Islam (2)
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2020-04-22
Strikingly, "science is a value-laden activity"
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2020-04-21
David Whitmer and the Great Richmond Tornado of 1878
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2020-04-21
One take on "Jihad" and violence in Islam (1)
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2020-04-21
Say Hello to the "Great Attractor" (Hint: It's not me)
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2020-04-21
A Reign of Dangerous Lunacy
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2020-04-20
"Can An Atheist Be a Good Citizen?"
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2020-04-20
Natural Theology, Again
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2020-04-20
A Great Early Muslim Woman: Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya (2)
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2020-04-20
Try to imagine a totally different morality
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2020-04-19
The same sociality, but with much better music
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2020-04-19
Fifteen years ago
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2020-04-19
"The Spacious Firmament on high"
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2020-04-19
A Nephite Feast of Tabernacles
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2020-04-18
Temple Withdrawals-Celebrating The 100 Temple Milestone
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2020-04-18
A Great Early Muslim Woman: Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya (1)
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2020-04-18
Steve Davis on Mind and Brain
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2020-04-18
"Ultimate Questions"
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2020-04-17
Copernicus and a Very Old Universe
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2020-04-17
Symmetry Solutions Strategies
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2020-04-17
On criticism of the church’s COVID-19 assistance, and other topics
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2020-04-17
"Only the best and most serious people"
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2020-04-16
On Anwar Sadat and the Fundamentalists
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2020-04-16
"The most beautiful of theories," vindicated yet again
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2020-04-16
"I... stood in the presence of John"
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2020-04-15
Solar Eclipses and Terrestrial Coincidence?
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2020-04-15
"Genesis 1 as Ancient Cosmology"
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2020-04-14
"First Presidency has approved humanitarian projects in 57 countries to battle COVID-19"
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2020-04-14
"Kingship, Coronation, and Covenant in Mosiah 1-6"
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2020-04-14
"I will vote for Joe Biden in November. And it will kill me"
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2020-04-14
Some notes on cosmic "fine-tuning"
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2020-04-14
Once More, on the Temple in Dubai
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2020-04-13
Back to Designing a Temple for Dubai
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2020-04-13
Mount St. Helens and the Book of Mormon
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2020-04-13
"Glory, Fall, and Judgment"
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2020-04-13
"Have You Seen a Miracle? and What Have Heavenly Father and Jesus Done for You?" Kids Respond
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2020-04-12
"Make No Mistake"
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2020-04-12
"The Four Proven or Minimal Facts Argument" for the Resurrection of Jesus
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2020-04-12
Truly, he is risen!
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2020-04-12
Extrabiblical References to Jesus?
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2020-04-11
Jesus mythicism, yet again
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2020-04-11
Thoughts for Holy Saturday
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2020-04-11
"Why Did Jesus Have to Die? and How Do You Know He Suffered for Our Sins and Rose Again?" Kids Respond
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2020-04-11
Revisiting an agnostic's argument for the existence of Jesus
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2020-04-11
Ignorant gullibility?
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2020-04-10
Three who yearned for Easter
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2020-04-10
A Great Cloud of Witnesses
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2020-04-10
Symmetry Solutions Strategies
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2020-04-10
"Cunningly devised fables"?
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2020-04-10
"What Happened in the Garden of Gethsemane? and How Do We Repent?" Kids Respond
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2020-04-10
"Christ and the Work of Suffering"
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2020-04-09
Faraday and Maxwell
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2020-04-09
Designing a Temple for Dubai
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2020-04-09
"Easter’s answer to the ‘terrible question’"
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2020-04-09
"What is Easter?" Kids Respond
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2020-04-09
"What is Easter?" Kids Respond
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2020-04-09
Against idolatry
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2020-04-09
"Subscriptio" in the Book of Mormon
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2020-04-08
"Passover with Dennis Prager"
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2020-04-08
Once again, who speaks for Islam?
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2020-04-07
The "lakam-tuun" of Book of Mormon Omni 1:20
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2020-04-07
"There is no ultimate meaning for humans."
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2020-04-07
Blaming Islam
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2020-04-07
Just a simple fraud?
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2020-04-06
"United Arab Emirates leaders welcome Latter-day Saint temple in series of tweets"
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2020-04-06
Marriage on a Tightrope
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2020-04-06
"Two kinds of thinkers"
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2020-04-05
"Celebrating a Very Special Holy Week"
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2020-04-05
"I can make your job easy."
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2020-04-05
Shared Delusion?
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2020-04-04
Entering Holy Week
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2020-04-04
Science and Health, with No Reference to Mary Baker Eddy
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2020-04-04
A visit with the Great Spirit in pre-1847 "Utah"
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2020-04-03
The sunset of Arab nationalism
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2020-04-03
World Views and World Models
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2020-04-03
"Now If This Is Boasting, Even So Will I Boast!"
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2020-04-03
Symmetry Solutions Strategies
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2020-04-02
Call The People Together: Divine Manifestations for the Congregation
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2020-04-02
"Backward in time"
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2020-04-02
Blackening Martin Harris's Reputation, Post-1830
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2020-04-02
Afghanistan as a Jihadi Turning Point
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2020-04-02
Oliver Cowdery to Samuel W. Richards
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2020-04-01
"Let your light so shine"
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2020-04-01
Martin Harris and the Coronavirus
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2020-04-01
Wednesday Night Online Support Group--THRIVE
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2020-04-01
Human Teeth and "Design"
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2020-04-01
"I saw a bright light"
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2020-03-31
"Look down from Thy holy habitation"
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2020-03-30
Something to do right away, if you haven't done it already
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2020-03-30
The Ark and the Extent of the Flood, Plus Some Quotations from NDE Accounts
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2020-03-30
"Spooky action" that can't exist but does
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2020-03-29
The Real Shangri-La?
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2020-03-29
On the "east wind" in the Book of Mormon
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2020-03-29
Intellectual schizophrenia as a symptom of a bad theory
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2020-03-29
"Risen"
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2020-03-28
Martin Harris, reputable witness
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2020-03-28
Amazing scientific progress and surprising scientific ignorance
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2020-03-28
We fall so very short of the ideal
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2020-03-27
"Utahns have earned a C for social isolation efforts"
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2020-03-27
"Pitfalls of the Ngram Viewer"
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2020-03-27
Symmetry Solutions Strategies
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2020-03-27
Diving Into Doctrine and Covenants 25:8-16
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2020-03-27
Diving Into Doctrine and Covenants 25:8-16
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2020-03-27
Diving into Doctrine and Covenants 25:1-7
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2020-03-27
Diving into Doctrine and Covenants 25:1-7
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2020-03-27
Quantum mechanics and commonsense intuitions
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2020-03-26
"Alleged Assault on ‘Middle Eastern’ Man in Utah"
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2020-03-26
One Hundred and Ninety Years Ago, Today
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2020-03-26
"Church parking lots in Utah could be used as COVID-19 testing sites if needed"
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2020-03-25
Does this Thursday mark the 200th anniversary of Joseph Smith's First Vision?
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2020-03-25
Mutual Assured Destruction
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2020-03-25
"The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague"
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2020-03-25
ʿAjā'ib al-makhlūqāt wa gharā'ib al-mawjūdāt
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2020-03-24
"How Latter-day Saint Charities is helping during coronavirus crisis — in Utah and around the world"
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2020-03-24
If you take Pascal's wager and it turns out to have been a good one
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2020-03-24
THRIVE Online Support via ZOOM
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2020-03-24
Sanity during Corona Virus - a writing exercise
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2020-03-24
Introducing Pascal and his "wager"
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2020-03-23
Mr. Trump, Senator Romney, and the Coronavirus
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2020-03-23
Yet, again: Has Richard Bushman declared the "dominant narrative" of Church history "false"?
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2020-03-23
For Kenneth, Eight Years On
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2020-03-23
"Natural Theology" and the Natural Sciences: A Prologue
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2020-03-22
House Churches, Restored
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2020-03-22
"Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep"
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2020-03-22
"Coronavirus: Church is helping Iran, Italy, China and 13 other countries"
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2020-03-21
Some resources for a Sunday at home
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2020-03-21
Act Now!
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2020-03-21
Free Market, Latter-day Saint, and Other Reactions to COVID-19
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2020-03-20
"Coronavirus presents millennials with a generational moment"
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2020-03-20
Oberammergau 2022!
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2020-03-20
"The Lost Prologue: Reading Moses Chapter One as an Ancient Text"
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2020-03-20
Of what value are the Book of Mormon witnesses?
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2020-03-20
"A scourge of biblical proportions"
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2020-03-19
Finding Our New Normal During the Coronavirus
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2020-03-19
Recalling much darker times
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2020-03-18
Premortality and Theosis in a Great Medieval Persian Mystical Poet
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2020-03-18
For those long, lonely hours at home
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2020-03-18
Simplistic theories on the settlement of the Americas take a hit
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2020-03-18
Online Quarantine Support at Symmetry Solutions
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2020-03-18
Wisdom from Imam ‘Ali, the fourth caliph of Islam
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2020-03-17
Interpreter As a Lifeline
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2020-03-17
Krakatoa, a Comparison, and a Concordance
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2020-03-16
For the 2020 "Temple on Mount Zion" conference
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2020-03-16
"Moses 7: The City of Enoch"
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2020-03-16
Responding to the Coronavirus
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2020-03-16
Protecting Your Mental Health During the Coronavirus Outbreak
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2020-03-16
Geology and Third Nephi (18): Finis
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2020-03-16
Two thoughts on heaven
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2020-03-15
William E. McLellin and the Qur’an's "Challenge Verses"
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2020-03-15
Geology and Third Nephi (17): “Thick Darkness” (Part Two)
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2020-03-15
A call for papers related to ancient temples
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2020-03-14
Geology and Third Nephi (16): “Thick Darkness” (Part One)
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2020-03-14
Facing the Temporary Temple Closure
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2020-03-14
A few hasty, coronavirus-inspired reflections
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2020-03-13
"Islamic Guidelines on Covid-19 [Coronavirus]"
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2020-03-13
"We haven't let anyone take us in."
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2020-03-13
Interpreter, Moses, and Ancient Money
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2020-03-13
More on Medical Science, Faith, and Prayer
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2020-03-13
Symmetry Solutions Strategies
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2020-03-13
Medicine Versus the Priesthood?
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2020-03-12
BYU responds to the coronavirus
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2020-03-12
On "Self-Control"
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2020-03-11
"Enemy-Occupied Territory"
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2020-03-11
2020 General Conference: God Has a Vision for Each of Us in Our Own Space
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2020-03-11
Geology and Third Nephi (15): “Broken and Scattered Rocks” (Part Two)
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2020-03-11
In which I denounce science as a sham!
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2020-03-11
At the Holy Sepulcher
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2020-03-10
"Well there ain't no time to wonder why. Whoopie! We're all gonna die!"
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2020-03-10
Is dishonesty to non-Muslims okay in Islam?
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2020-03-09
Geology and Third Nephi (14): “Broken and Scattered Rocks” (Part One)
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2020-03-09
"Enoch the Seer" (and Some Who Evidently Can't See At All)
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2020-03-09
Symmetry Solutions Strategies
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2020-03-09
The sacrifice of Martin Harris
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2020-03-08
Geology and Third Nephi (13): “Whole Face of Land Changed” (Part Two)
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2020-03-08
A democratic salvation
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2020-03-08
Geology and Third Nephi (12): "Whole Face of Land Changed" (Part One)
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2020-03-07
Why I object to the word “homophobia” (conclusion)
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2020-03-07
Why I object to the word "homophobia" (introduction)
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2020-03-07
20 March 2020
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2020-03-06
Geology and Third Nephi (11): Cities Burned, Buried, and Drowned (Part Three)
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2020-03-06
A Correlation Between the Coronavirus and the First Vision
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2020-03-06
Just Let Us Love One Another
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2020-03-06
"The Character and Knowledge of Mary, the Mother of Christ"
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2020-03-06
"Remain faithful to the end, and everything will be all right."
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2020-03-05
On a current controversy involving BYU (2)
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2020-03-05
On a current controversy involving BYU (1)
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2020-03-05
Do I ever do anything Islamic?
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2020-03-04
Orson F. Whitney's Dream-Vision of the Savior
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2020-03-04
Geology and Third Nephi (10): Cities Burned, Buried, and Drowned (Part Two)
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2020-03-04
A testimonial from William E. McLellin
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2020-03-04
Three wonderful passages from Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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2020-03-04
A landmark in the history of medicine
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2020-03-03
Uncovering Adam-ondi-Ahman
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2020-03-03
I Live to Serve
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2020-03-02
Geology and Third Nephi (9): Cities Burned, Buried, and Drowned (Part One)
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2020-03-02
We aren't dead yet.
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2020-03-02
Geology and Third Nephi (8): An Interim Update
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2020-03-02
"The True Believer"
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2020-03-01
From the 19th Annual LDS Film Festival
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2020-02-29
"A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest"
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2020-02-29
Geology and Third Nephi (7): "Shaking and Quaking"
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2020-02-29
"Yes, wonderful things."
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2020-02-28
Geology and Third Nephi (6): Storms and Tempests
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2020-02-28
Symmetry Solutions Strategies
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2020-02-28
"Scriptures through the Jeweler’s Lens"
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2020-02-28
"Ultimate Egypt Lecture Series"
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2020-02-28
“Who Is Leaving the Church?” (Part Three)
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2020-02-27
New "Witnesses" trailer available!
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2020-02-27
"A very skillful Watchmaker”
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2020-02-26
“Who Is Leaving the Church?” (Part Two)
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2020-02-26
The rise of Comrade Bernie
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2020-02-26
Remembering Boko Haram's Dark Vision
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2020-02-26
"Latter-day Saint Charities Blessed Millions of Lives in 2019"
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2020-02-25
Evolution and the Church, plus "You're Going to Get the Coronavirus"
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2020-02-25
A note about this coming Saturday
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2020-02-24
What's happening with Interpreter?
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2020-02-24
Praying For This Moment For Years
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2020-02-24
The mysterious world revealed by quantum physics
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2020-02-24
An inheritance for all the peoples of the world
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2020-02-23
The Gardens of Paradise
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2020-02-23
What makes evil possible?
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2020-02-22
"I still had hands, and feet, and a body"
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2020-02-22
Against our sovereign myth?
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2020-02-22
"Who Is Leaving the Church?" (Part One)
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2020-02-22
Affirmation's Response to New Church Handbook
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2020-02-22
A Blast from the Past: "Blasphemous Art in Brooklyn Stirs Controversy"
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2020-02-22
"The Hermit and the Cat"
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2020-02-21
Was I the last to know?
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2020-02-21
"First Visions and Last Sermons"
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2020-02-21
It’s All A Reflection Of You
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2020-02-21
Prophecies of the People of the Seventh Fire
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2020-02-21
Still going!
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2020-02-21
"The most convinced and convincing Christian writer of his generation"
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2020-02-21
The religious transformation of Latin America
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2020-02-20
"The Raven and the Snake"
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2020-02-19
Symmetry Solutions Strategies
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2020-02-19
Geology and Third Nephi (5): Evidence from Ice Cores?
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2020-02-19
Art and Architecture and Really Good Fast Food
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2020-02-18
Geology and Third Nephi (4): An Explosive Volcanic Eruption?
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2020-02-18
God Prepares The Way to Keep His Commandments
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2020-02-18
ἦθος ἀνθρώπῳ δαίμων
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2020-02-18
"I want to hear them ring again."
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2020-02-17
"The Merry Minuet"
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2020-02-17
"The Raven's Gait"
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2020-02-17
A note on the Mennonites
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2020-02-17
"The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else."
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2020-02-16
"Discipleship of Yesterday for Today"
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2020-02-16
Unrivalled silliness and conceit?
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2020-02-16
Geology and Third Nephi (3): The Time of Darkness (B)
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2020-02-16
Geology and Third Nephi (2): Santorini and the Land of the Pharaoh
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2020-02-16
William Huntington Raised From the Dead
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2020-02-15
Geology and Third Nephi (1): The Time of Darkness (A)
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2020-02-15
An ethos that puts commitment making at the center of things
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2020-02-14
The Holocaust and the Problem of Goodness
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2020-02-14
A debate on the resurrection of Christ
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2020-02-14
The Miracle Story of Francisco and God's Tender Mercy
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2020-02-14
"How can any intelligent person possibly believe in that?
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2020-02-13
Relativism, consciousness, and the sacred
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2020-02-13
Thru Cloud and Sunshine
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2020-02-13
"What is the Islamist Movement?"
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2020-02-13
Yup! Religion Poisons EVERYTHING!
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2020-02-13
"God and mr. hitchens," again
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2020-02-12
Chelsea Handler on "Mormonism"
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2020-02-11
"The best thing since sliced bread"?
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2020-02-11
"God's Love for All Mankind"
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2020-02-10
Civics 101: Senator Romney and Representative Government
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2020-02-10
"Who is Adam?"
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2020-02-10
On "the crisis of contempt"
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2020-02-10
"Thanatopsis"
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2020-02-10
"The spirit of contention"
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2020-02-09
An apostle makes a political move
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2020-02-09
"One of the ugliest political spectacles I have ever witnessed"
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2020-02-09
Quick Verse Study-2 Nephi 1:7 Him Whom He Shall Bring
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2020-02-08
Quick Verse Study-2 Nephi 1:7 This Land Is Consecrated Unto Him
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2020-02-08
Current American politics explained, and other scientific news
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2020-02-08
"It was incredible, how fantastic I felt!"
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2020-02-07
Symmetry Solution Strategies
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2020-02-07
Mitt Romney a RINO? A Democrat?
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2020-02-07
"Bad Grammar in the Book of Mormon Found in Early English Bibles"
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2020-02-07
Am I a conservative?
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2020-02-07
Reprise: "Harry Reid, My Brother"
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2020-02-07
Sacred Calendars and the Millennium
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2020-02-07
Iconoclasm
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2020-02-06
Interesting thoughts from C. S. Lewis on the origins of modern science
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2020-02-05
Remembering Atticus Finch
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2020-02-05
"Infused with glowing light"
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2020-02-05
"There is no music in hell"
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2020-02-04
Christianity in Ethiopia
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2020-02-04
A note on "sociobiology" or "evolutionary psychology"
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2020-02-04
The gullible Martin Harris and his wife, Lucy
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2020-02-03
"Ultimate Egypt Interpreter Foundation Tour"
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2020-02-03
Inheriting Wind
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2020-02-03
"Cosmic Optimism"
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2020-02-02
One of the highpoints of the annual calendar
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2020-02-02
A non-LDS experience with angels?
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2020-02-02
Brigham Young on the life to come
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2020-02-01
In the wake of the Senate vote on witnesses (II)
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2020-02-01
In the wake of the Senate vote on witnesses (I)
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2020-02-01
6 October 1981, in Luxor, Egypt
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2020-02-01
"Light Began Once More to Grow"
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2020-01-31
Dr. Collins and (the late) Dr. Salisbury
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2020-01-31
"The Manifesto was a Victory!"
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2020-01-31
"Faith of the Fatherless"?
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2020-01-31
"How 'God is Light'" and the World's Darkness
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2020-01-29
"Brothers and Sisters, do you know who has been in your midst this night?"
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2020-01-29
"Compelling Book of Mormon Evidence for Lehi’s Journey through Arabia"
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2020-01-29
"Don’t Believe in God? Lie to Your Children"
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2020-01-29
"The Near East"? "The Middle East"? "The Nile-to-Oxus Region"?
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2020-01-29
“‘Hard’ Evidence of Ancient American Horses” (Part 7)
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2020-01-28
A "Witnesses" milestone
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2020-01-27
Martin Harris on the witness stand in Lyons, New York
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2020-01-27
"'Hard' Evidence of Ancient American Horses" (Part 6), Plus a Note on Evolution and Faith
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2020-01-27
My career as a water witcher, armed with a divining rod
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2020-01-27
The real Tower of Babel
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2020-01-27
"Ask thy father, and he will shew thee"
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2020-01-26
“‘Hard’ Evidence of Ancient American Horses’ (Part 5)”
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2020-01-26
"All at once a light came down from above us"
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2020-01-25
We're trying to help.
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2020-01-25
"Another Temple in Judah!" and another victory for the Book of Mormon
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2020-01-25
In quest of the "real" but sadly invisible Planet Vulcan
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2020-01-25
"Day breaks over Mercury in a white heat."
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2020-01-24
The Palestinians: An Invented People?
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2020-01-24
"Rethinking Alma 36," and remembering Clayton Christensen
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2020-01-24
Symmetry Solutions Strategies
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2020-01-24
How I stopped being addicted to political news
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2020-01-24
Ice Cream, Babies, and the Pre-Mortal World
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2020-01-24
"An account of real people and real events"
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2020-01-23
FOR YEARS UTAH'S LGBTQ CHILDREN WERE SUBJECTED TO CONVERSION THERAPY. THAT'S ABOUT TO END
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2020-01-23
Life may have started earlier on Earth than previously thought.
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2020-01-22
"Journey of Faith: The Old World" -- Lehi and Nephi in Arabia
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2020-01-22
"The morning breaks, the shadows flee"
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2020-01-22
Racism and East Jerusalem's Vienna Hotel
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2020-01-22
Moving with Royal Skousen toward a fictional Book of Mormon?
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2020-01-22
Understanding Evolution, and Earthquakes
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2020-01-20
“‘Hard’ Evidence of Ancient American Horses” (Part 4)
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2020-01-20
Apostasy and the rise of the elite in the first centuries of Christianity
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2020-01-20
Martin Luther King: "I may not get there with you."
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2020-01-20
“‘Hard’ Evidence of Ancient American Horses” (Part 3)
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2020-01-19
An early-1978 encounter on the street in Jerusalem
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2020-01-19
Martin Harris: "Unfailing Affirmation"
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2020-01-19
Some very good links for some very good reading
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2020-01-18
“‘Hard’ Evidence of Ancient American Horses” (Part 2)
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2020-01-18
A bit more on Yours Truly, vintage 1978, in East Jerusalem
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2020-01-18
A Prolegomenon to My First Sojourn in the Middle East
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2020-01-18
A couple of songs from my first residence in the Middle East
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2020-01-17
“'Somebody Wrote It:' The Book of Mormon’s Missionary Message to a 21st-Century World”
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2020-01-17
"'Hard' Evidence of Ancient American Horses" (Part 1)
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2020-01-17
"Dating the Departure of Lehi from Jerusalem"
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2020-01-17
"Cyrus the Great and Persian control of the Middle East"
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2020-01-16
Underdetermination and Games
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2020-01-16
From the Skousen presentation (2)
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2020-01-16
From the Skousen presentation (1)
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2020-01-15
Tonight is the Night
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2020-01-15
On Perfection
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2020-01-15
"1917"
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2020-01-14
An empty victory for science?
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2020-01-14
Tierra del Fuego and the Book of Mormon
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2020-01-13
Was Lehi following in the footsteps of earlier refugees?
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2020-01-13
“Am I dead or what?” (continued)
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2020-01-13
"When I found what I had said I was surprised"
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2020-01-12
Lehi and the "Fragrant Highway"
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2020-01-12
"Am I dead or what?"
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2020-01-12
An evening with Bernadette Peters
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2020-01-11
On losing the power of reason
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2020-01-11
It's a Book of Mormon year, so this is all appropriate
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2020-01-11
Who really cares?
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2020-01-11
If we're provoked again, should we target the cultural treasures of Iran?
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2020-01-10
Should we pray toward Paris?
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2020-01-10
Contradicting an attempt at revisionist history
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2020-01-10
"An Approach to Isaiah Studies"
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2020-01-10
THRIVE Community Support Classes
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2020-01-10
"Death and Transfiguration"
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2020-01-08
"How the Book of Mormon Counters Anti-Semitism," and etc.
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2020-01-08
A comment on the Iranian missile strikes
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2020-01-08
Let’s stay positive
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2020-01-08
LDS Inc. (Part 21)
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2020-01-08
Once more on the Qur’an's prophecy of America's role in the Middle East
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2020-01-08
Ad astra
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2020-01-07
"The history of human thought... from the point of view of temple worship"
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2020-01-07
An evening on Peru, in Provo
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2020-01-06
"Deep Time and the Gospel"
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2020-01-06
Escaping poverty through tithing?
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2020-01-06
Frankincense and Myrrh
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2020-01-06
15 January 2020: Mark the Date!
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2020-01-05
Notes from “Timing the Translation of the Book of Mormon” (2)
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2020-01-05
Aileen Clyde: Leader, Counselor, Sister
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2020-01-05
The Lehites and Arabia
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2020-01-04
Notes from "Timing the Translation of the Book of Mormon" (1)
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2020-01-04
"Somewhere in Time," its Utah connection, and that out-of-body experience
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2020-01-04
Progress in science and religion
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2020-01-03
FREE THRIVE EVENT--JANUARY 8TH
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2020-01-03
"The Prophets Who Wrote the Book of Omni"
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2020-01-03
"In Honor of William J. Hamblin - 'Warfare in the Book of Mormon'"
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2020-01-03
"The essential thing was not to be forgotten by the living"
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2020-01-02
Out of a severely broken body
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2020-01-02
"Thursday Appointment"
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2020-01-02
The Sound of Her Voice
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2020-01-01
LDS Inc. (Part 20)
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2020-01-01
"How Lovely was the Morning!"
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2020-01-01
Entering the Bicentennial Year