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“It’s like a teeter-totter.”

    A new link has been posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Conference Talks: “Joseph Smith and Modern Cosmology,” given by Ron Hellings In this Interpreter presentation, originally given in 2013, the late physicist Ron Hellings took a look at some of the teachings of Joseph Smith to try to understand these in […]

A non-Christian Christmas

    “The New Testament in Context Lesson 1: “We Are Responsible for Our Own Learning” In this week’s Come, Follow Me segment of Interpreter Radio, our hosts Bruce Webster, Kris Frederickson and Martin Tanner introduce our new show format. Each show will be divided into a number of segments that may vary from week to week. […]

“Unintended Corruption” and Other Quirks in Current Physics

    Herewith, I share some more notes that have been inspired by and/or are based 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).  Dr. Guillen, who grew up in East Los Angeles (not too terribly far […]

Behind the tinsel

    I published this column in the Deseret News for Christmas 2016:   Behind the tinsel and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, beyond Santa Claus, Christmas represents an enormously serious claim—the incarnation of God or, literally, God’s “enfleshment.”  “And the Word was made flesh,” says John 1:10, “and dwelt among us.”  It’s a proposition unique […]

“The beginning of the end of death’s dominion”

    I spoke today at the U.S. Hazara Conference 2022, which was held in Provo, at the BYU Conference Center. The program describes it as “the first ever Hazara conference.”  “The conference aims to gather the Hazaras across the U.S., harmonize with the interfaith groups of Utah, provide them with an interactive platform, strategize […]

“Reflections on the Importance of Scientific and Theological Humility”

    Last night, my wife and I attended the first evening of the annual three-night Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir program in the magnificent and magnificently decorated Conference Center in Salt Lake City.  We thoroughly enjoyed it.  The special guests this year are Lea Salonga and Sir David Suchet, and they were very good.  […]

Are logic and mathematics purely rational? (2)

    Yesterday, I posted a brief preliminary note inspired by and 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).  It concerned the modern collapse of confidence in the “certainty” of mathematics and logic, which have […]

Are logic and mathematics purely rational? (1)

    The following went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Conference Talks: “The Scale of Creation in Space and Time,” given by John S. Lewis In this presentation, which was given at the 9 November 2013 Interpreter Symposium on Science and Mormonism: Cosmos, Earth, and Man, the distinguished planetary scientist […]

“More protective than any pill, than any therapy, than any program.”

    But, first, here are three items that went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Nibley Lectures:  Time Vindicates the Prophets — Prophets and Reformers Between 7 March 1954 and 17 October 1954, Hugh Nibley delivered a series of thirty weekly lectures on KSL Radio that were also published as pamphlets. […]

Big News

    If you haven’t yet watched this eighteen-minute video from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I encourage you to do so between now and the end of Christmas day.  If you already have, but not recently, it would probably be worth seeing it again.  And it would be very good if […]