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Doing for Jews what has already been done to/for Latter-day Saints?

    To the considerable irritation of at least a few extremely irritable critics, the Interpreter Foundation continues to produce.  Here are three items that went up just today:   Come, Follow Me — New Testament Study and Teaching Helps: Lesson 4, January 16 — January 22: John 1 — “We Have Found the Messiah” As […]

“At that time I was no longer in my body.”

    Many years ago, there was a period when my speaking engagements on behalf of the old FARMS — the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, predecessor to the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship and, organizationally, to BYU’s new-direction Maxwell Institute — got a bit out of hand.  I was being […]

England, anybody?

    With a group of friends (mostly neighbors and former neighbors), we are putting together a private bus tour for this summer to church history and general historical sites in England and just a bit of Scotland.  (Some of the sites will probably play a role in our new “Six Days in August” film […]

It Came from Outer Space, Maybe, or Perhaps from the Black Lagoon

    I think that I’ll post another set of draft notes inspired by (and, to a considerable extent, drawing upon) Michael Guillen’s Believing is Seeing: A Physicist Explains How Science Shattered His Atheism and Revealed the Necessity of Faith (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale Refresh, 2021).   The question of the origin of life on […]

““We Don’t Know, So We Might as Well”: A Flimsy Philosophy for Same-Sex Sealings”

    Today’s new article in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship reviews an essay by a friend and former student of mine (one of the brightest that I’ve ever had).  It touches on a sensitive and often inflammatory subject: ““We Don’t Know, So We Might as Well”: A Flimsy Philosophy for […]

Meditations and Reflections

    I first read the Meditations of the Stoic Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) back when I was in high school.  (I belonged to some sort of book club through which I bought fairly inexpensive hardback editions of classic works; I still own the copy that I bought and read when I was […]

“I made a mistake in growing weary of the Gospel.”

    New material on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Conference Talks:  “From All Eternity to All Eternity: Deep Time and the Gospel,” written and presented by Bart J. Kowallis in November 2013 Geology professor Bart J. Kowallis takes readers to the realm of “deep time,” referring to that vast length of time […]

Benedictus est

    His death has received (to me) surprisingly little coverage, probably because he was no longer the reigning pope and because he had gone into fairly complete seclusion since resigning the papacy nearly a decade ago.  Those are, of course, very much the reasons why his funeral — although it will take place in […]

Incomprehensibly Old, but Not Infinitely So

    Gotcha.  Its title notwithstanding, this is not an autobiographical essay.   In the writing project for which these preliminary notes are intended, I need to do a fair amount of “setting up,” which, in this portion of the project, means that I need to lay out some general background on certain issues of […]

“Rejoice, the Lord is King!”

    Today, 1 January 2023, is a Sunday — and that fact seems wholly appropriate to me as those of us who attended sacrament meeting today were able to renew our covenants in the ordinance of the Lord’s supper.  It also seemed exceptionally appropriate that our opening hymn, the very first hymn of this […]