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A River Ran Over Her (Conclusion)

    Gee but it’s great to be back home.Home is where I want to be.I’ve been on the road so long my friend.And if you came alongI know you couldn’t disagree.It’s the same old story:Everywhere I go,I get slandered, Libeled,I hear words I never heardIn the Bible.   Paul Simon’s lyrics actually apply remarkably […]

Accounting for the past week

    When we arrived here on Monday afternoon, my wife and I and my two visiting Utah cousins had an early dinner at the Farmhouse at Roger’s Gardens in Corona del Mar.  Only my second time, I think.  Maybe my third.  (My wife had been introduced to the place by friends, and she introduced […]

When we arrived here on Monday afternoon, my wife and...

    When we arrived here on Monday afternoon, my wife and I and my two visiting Utah cousins had an early dinner at the Farmhouse at Roger’s Gardens in Corona del Mar.  Only my second time, I think.  Maybe my third.  (My wife had been introduced to the place by friends, and she introduced […]

Don’t I already have trouble enough?

    Newly posted at 7 PM Utah time on Saturday:   “Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 23: Why did Martin Harris Join So Many Churches?“ Martin Harris was away from the church for many years before finally returning. Critics have tried to use the fact that he joined other denominations as […]

“Brother Brigham”

    Three new items appeared today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship.  As with all such articles, they are made freely available to anybody who might be interested:   ““For Their Good Have I Written Them”: The Onomastic Allusivity and Literary Function of 2 Nephi 25:8,” written by Matthew L. […]

“Brother Brigham

    Three new items appeared today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship.  As with all such articles, they are made freely available to anybody who might be interested:   ““For Their Good Have I Written Them”: The Onomastic Allusivity and Literary Function of 2 Nephi 25:8,” written by Matthew L. […]

Hurrah for Excommunication!

    Something new has gone up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Conference Talks: “Edfu and Exodus” (John Gee) In this essay John Gee draws a connection between the Egyptian “Book of the Temple” and the book of Exodus, both in structure and topic, describing the temple from the inside out. Gee […]

On evaluating possibly jarring information

    On several occasions over the past few years, in various venues — see here, for example — I’ve published a list of four books that I recommend as a kind of “basic  packet” for people struggling with their testimonies, and I’ve explained that I think it important to preemptively strengthen faith as well […]

“The Jews of Greco-Roman Egypt and the Transmission of the Book of Abraham”

    Today’s reading in the new issue of BYU Studies was Stephen O. Smoot and Kerry Muhlestein, “Prophets, Pagans, and Papyri: The Jews of Greco-Roman Egypt and the Transmission of the Book of Abraham,” BYU Studies Quarterly 61/2 (2022): 105-134.  Stephen O. Smoot holds a master’s degree in Near and Middle Eastern Civilizationsf rom […]

On Sexual Orientation, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Youth Suicide in Utah

    But first, I’ve been really busy of late, and I haven’t called attention to the newest of our short Witness-related videos.  It went up, as they always do, at 7 PM on Saturday evening, Utah time.  And, as they always are, it’s free.  Here it is:   “What Else Did the Witnesses See?” […]