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“Records, Writing, and Language”

  This new piece went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: “Interpreting Interpreter: (Non-)Anachronisms – Writing,” written by Kyler Rasmussen: This post is a summary of the article “Anachronisms: Accidental Evidence in Book of Mormon Criticisms — Chapter 7: Records, Writing, and Language” by Matthew Roper in Volume 65 of Interpreter: A […]

She would have been eleven years old today

  For quite a number of years, I wrote a regular weekly column for the Deseret News.  (Every other week, I also co-wrote another, separate, column for the Deseret News with my late, lamented friend Bill Hamblin.) I published this particular column in the News very nearly eleven years ago.  Under the circumstances, it was […]

A blog entry for Friday the Thirteenth

  These two new articles went up online today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Anachronisms: Accidental Evidence in Book of Mormon Criticisms, Chapter 7, “Records, Writing, and Language,” written by Matthew Roper [Editor’s Note: We are pleased to present chapter 7 from a book entitled Anachronisms: Accidental Evidence in Book […]

Thinking about a member of the Quorum of the Twelve

  Newly posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:  The Temple: Plates, Patterns, & Patriarchs: ““That I May Lift Up My Eyes”: Bartimaeus as a Temple Petitioner before the Veil,” written by Spencer Kraus Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article originally appeared in The Temple: Plates, Patterns, & Patriarchs, edited by […]

In Defense of My Friends

  An important new entry in an important series of blog posts has just gone up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: “The Heartland Versus Mesoamerica Part 9: Population Density and Social Complexity,” by Brant A. Gardner. “A lie,” Mark Twain (along with a number of others) is incorrectly alleged to have said, “can […]

Some Good News for the Interpreter Foundation

  I’m very pleased to share this news release, which I’ve just received from our friend and colleague James Jordan: Global Media Award Recognition for The Interpreter Foundation and RedBrick FilmWorks’ Historical Feature Film SIX DAYS IN AUGUST Orem, Utah, Jun 6, 2025 /TIFNewswire/ — The Interpreter Foundation and their media partner RedBrick FilmWorks announced […]

Some notes on the origin of life and the Shroud of Turin

  A little article of mine went up this morning in Meridian Magazine: “When “Great” Men Are Anything But: Rethinking Power Through the Lens of Christ” Statues may rise for those called “great,” but history often forgets the blood they shed to get there. The world crowns the conqueror, but heaven sees greatness another way. I […]

An ancestor whose example challenges me to be faithful, too

  As I’ve noted here, I was born to a marginally active Latter-day Saint mother and a nominally Protestant father.  It was many years before I discovered the depth of the roots of my maternal family in the Restoration.  But I want to say something about one of my ancestors here. Polly Peck was born […]

Rightly Understanding the Restoration’s Doctrinal History

  One of my nephews — my late brother’s eldest son — has been in town, along with a daughter of his who is participating in a camp at BYU.  On Thursday evening, they took us out to dinner at AjiPeru.  I enjoyed the lomo saltado and washed it down with glasses of cold chicha […]

Remember!

  Eighty-one years ago today, Allied troops came ashore on the beaches of Normandy during “Operation Overlord,” more widely known as the “D-Day” invasion. Although much fighting, suffering, destruction, and death remained to be endured, it was the beginning of the end of the Third Reich.  The debt that we owe to those who fought […]