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Hungering and Thirsting after Righteousness

    I should have said something earlier about the physical setting of the Matthew’s account of the Sermon on the Mount, about its location: “And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:  And he opened his mouth, and taught them.”  (Matthew 5:1-2) […]

Thinking about “Evolution”

    It seems to me that the term evolution has at least three quite distinct meanings in ordinary lay English conversation, and that these three need to be carefully distinguished during conversation, lest confusion result.  One meaning is “change over time.”  Nobody seriously disputes this.  Or, at least nobody should dispute it.  People today […]

Adieu!

    Two new articles went up today at noon (Utah time) on the website of the Interpreter Foundation.  We hope that you’ll enjoy them:   “Toward a Greater Appreciation of the Word Adieu in Jacob 7:27,” written by Godfrey J. Ellis Abstract: The phrase “Brethren, adieu” (Jacob 7:27) has been criticized over the years as an obvious […]

Two types of transformation

    Over the past year  — and the distribution of the  dates below will demonstrate that beyond any reasonable question — I’ve been sporadically and unsystematically bookmarking articles related to the subject of transgenderism.  I’m cleaning out my files, and I thought that at least a few of you might be interested in one […]

The Tale of Brigham Young and the Scratched-Up Leather Saddle

    But, first, there’s been some recent activity on the website of the Interpreter Foundation, and I should call your attention to it.  Here are three new links:   “Conference Talks: “Let the Beauty of the Lord our God be Upon Us”: The Role of Visual Aesthetics in Ancient Israel’s Temple Worship,” presented by […]

“He gets us”: Fascism with a Happy Face?

    If you watched the Super Bowl on Sunday — and there’s really no need to raise your hand or to identify yourself; you know who you are — you very likely saw one or two of the Christian ads that ran during the game from the “He gets us” campaign.  The potential audience […]

Are you an unlovable Christian nationalist like me?

    There have been a couple of polls in the news over the past week or two that touch on Latter-day Saints, and they’ve been followed by some very animated conversations about what they portend.  (A substantial proportion of American Latter-day Saints are Christian nationalists?  And we’re really unpopular?  Aieee!)   Here are a trio […]

Mourning and Meekness

    Herewith, I post another brief set of preliminary notes for (this time) a couple of chapters in my projected book on the Beatitudes.  The first two entries in this littler series are “Introducing a Blog Focus for the Sabbath” and ““Blessed are the poor in spirit.””  So here, for whatever it’s worth, is […]

“Local” Planetary Conditions

    I carry on now with my appropriation, for my own undoubtedly wicked purposes, of material drawn largely (though not quite entirely) from the online “List of Fine-Tuning Parameters” compiled by Jay W. Richards.  (My first entry taken from his list, and explicitly dependent upon it, was this one:  “An initial survey of the […]

Two Very Distinct Prophets

    Happy weekend!  Two new articles appeared today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   ““According to the Spirit of Revelation and Prophecy”: Alma2’s Prophetic Warning of Christ’s Coming to the Lehites (and Others),” written by Matthew Scott Stenson Abstract: Some students of the Book of Mormon have felt that while the coming […]