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“Proven quality and solidarity”

    But, first, I call your attention to a couple of my typically mean-spirited and buffoonish crimes against humanity: “Beautiful Patience,” written by Daniel C. Peterson.  “Abstract: Believers in the God of Abraham — who include not only Jews and Christians but also Muslims — are exhorted to call upon him every day, as well […]

“A Moslem fought an infidel one day”

    These three pieces have gone up quite recently on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Conference Talks: “Science and Genesis: A Personal View,” originally presented in 2013 by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw Given their status as targets of humor and caricature, the well-worn stories of Adam, Eve, and Noah are difficult for many […]

An entry on some critics

    I mentioned the other day that I had responded to an online article in Newsweek entitled “Black Mormon told they can’t marry white members because “seed is cursed.””  Almost immediately, a clutch of vocal anti-Mormons showed up to target me, personally.  I wasn’t surprised.  It’s happened many times before.  So, basically, I backed out […]

On an American university’s imposing one particular version of Islamic orthodoxy on its students and faculty

    By now, you may perhaps have heard of this outrageous case from Hamline University in Minnesota.  (I’ve already mentioned it here in my blog entry for 30 December 2022, noting that I myself have used precisely the same image — see immediately above — in lectures that I have delivered, accompanied by exactly […]

“Signature in the Cell”

    When I was a young’un — long, long ago, in a galaxy far away — there was a rather powerful weekly magazine called Newsweek.  Apparently it still exists even now, at least online.  And, just today, this wonderful article went up:  “Black Mormon Told They Can’t Marry White Members Because ‘Seed is Cursed'” […]

Five Years On

    Elder Russell M. Nelson was set apart as the seventeenth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on 14 January 2018 — which means that this past Saturday marked his fifth anniversary as the leader of the Church.  Here are some interesting retrospectives on his tenure in office: “A Look […]

Lightning Strikes

    I’m halfway through a period of temporary bachelorhood: My wife is babysitting one of our granddaughters out in Virginia, assisted by my middle son.  I couldn’t go because of some obligations here at home.  But it now appears that I may actually survive.  And, someday, I’ll do the dishes and do the wash.  […]

“An Important New Study of Freemasonry and the Latter-day Saints”

    A new article — this one a review essay — went up earlier today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship.  As with all of the other journal articles that we’ve published over the past nearly 10.5 years, it is available to all and sundry at absolutely no charge:   […]

“Written records of biblical King David discovered by researchers,” plus the “Drake Equation”

    Scott Pierson has kindly called my attention to this article from today’s Jerusalem Post about an important recent research discovery.  I was already aware of the discovery and will probably write something about it for Meridian Magazine, but I had not seen this particular article, which provides a very accessible summary of the […]

“Answering New Atheism and Seeking a Sure Knowledge of God”

    Up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:  “Conference Talks: Answering New Atheism and Seeking a Sure Knowledge of God,” given by Amy L. Williams In these remarks, which were delivered in 2013, Dr. Williams describes and counters the arguments of the “New Atheism,” a loose movement that some have characterized as […]