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Knowing your enemy (in a rather different sense)

    “If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow    

Two non-Mormon academics who call Joseph Smith a “prophet”

    My wife and I brought the Catholic philosopher Stephen Webb to our ward today.  He was able to attend sacrament meeting and almost all of Sunday school with us, before he and I had to leave for the airport.   He was, he said, very positively impressed.   I was certainly happy to have [Read More...]

Interpreter’s Third Birthday Party

    About seventy-five friends of The Interpreter Foundation gathered tonight for a birthday dinner celebrating the Foundation’s third birthday (which was actually a few days ago).   A high point for me, and I think for many if not all of those who were there, was a roughly sixty minute question-and-answer session (which I [Read More...]

New Testament 231

    Luke 17:5-6 Compare 17:19-21; 21:21; Mark 9:28-29; 11:22-23   I’m reminded, in this context of the Lectures on Faith:   Lecture One 1. Faith [is] the first principle in revealed religion, and the foundation of all righteousness. 9. Faith is the assurance which men have of the existence of things which they have not [Read More...]

Looking toward the Sabbath

    “Divine worship means the same thing where time is concerned, as the temple where space is concerned. ‘Temple’ means . . .  that a particular piece of ground is specially reserved, and marked off from the remainder of the land which is used either for agriculture or habitation. . . .  Similarly in [Read More...]

“No Trust, No Verification, No Sanctions: Obama’s Humiliating Capitulation to the Mullahs”

    It appears to be a complete disaster:   http://www.nationalreview.com/article... Hope and change!    

Why did the Church conceal Joseph’s seer stone?

“Is our universe a fake?”

    Stretch your mind with this little item!   http://www.space.com/30124-is-our-uni...    

“Now accepting nominations and applications for next [Maxwell] Institute director”

    My former Maxwell Institute colleague Dr. Kristian Heal has asked that I announce this.  So here it is:   http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/now-a...   One of the questions submitted following my FairMormon remarks late yesterday afternoon asked whether I would be submitting my name as a candidate to be the next executive director of the Maxwell [Read More...]

Lecturing in West Jordan, Utah, on Tuesday evening

    Cruise Lady, the travel company for which I sometimes lead tours to Israel and elsewhere, has inaugurated a series of lectures at a newly-created little facility adjacent to their offices in West Jordan, Utah:   http://www.cruiselady.com/learn-our-r...   You’ll notice, for example, that Michael Ballam, the impresario of the Utah Festival Opera in Logan, [Read More...]