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“Is Eyewitness Testimony Reliable?”

    A new short-video feature has gone up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation.  Please watch it.  And, if you like it, please share it with others:   “Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 18: Is Eyewitness Testimony Reliable?” Eyewitness testimony is used around the world in courts of law. But […]

“Should a member of the clergy report sex abuse of the penitent? A look inside the priest-penitent privilege”

    This article, written by Tad Walch for the Deseret News, provides extremely important background material for reflecting upon the controversial recent sexual abuse case in Arizona that has drawn a great deal of hostile attention to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:   “Should a member of the clergy report sex […]

“Should I Be My Brother’s Keeper? Yes and No”

    A new article went up a short while ago in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:   “Should I Be My Brother’s Keeper? Yes and No,” written by . . . well, Daniel C. Peterson Abstract: We typically teach and often even sing that we should be our brothers’ (and sisters’) […]

Serious issues are involved

    I liked this Fox News interview with Senator Mitt Romney that aired a few days ago.  Perhaps, if you haven’t already watched it, you too will find it interesting:   “Bret Baier hosts exclusive interview with Sen. Romney at Washington DC Temple: ‘Special Report’ host Bret Baier interviews Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, outside […]

A memorable acquaintance beside an Alpine lake

    What the heck.  I’m in the mood, and I think that I haven’t told this missionary story here before.  So I offer to you yet another exercise in geezerly nostalgia.  (It’s my blog, after all.  Just try to stop me!)   One of the principal areas where my companions and I “tracted” — […]

A curious missionary experience in northwestern Switzerland

    I continue, briefly, with the theme of yesterday’s entry, “Reminiscences of a beautiful but difficult mission area.”  Another vignette:   Once — I think while I was serving in the mission office in Zürich, or shortly prior to that — I was sent out to the northwestern Swiss town of Biel (or, as […]

Reminiscences of a beautiful but difficult mission area

    Well, our stay in the Berner Oberland has finally come to an end.  I’ll do a retrospective on it in a day or two, when I get a chance.  (I just know that everybody out there is dying to read my travelogue!)  In self-justification, I point out that this blog sometimes functions as […]

What does it mean to be a witness?

    Given the time difference between where it was posted and where I am right now, it was a little difficult to call attention to this short newly posted video in a timely fashion.  So I’m calling attention to it a bit late:   Witnesses of the Book of Mormon — Insights Episode 17: […]

Ranking books to rankle believers?

©   I’ve had a very, very long day, and it’s late, and I’m tired.  (For that matter, I’m still not entirely over jet lag.)  So I think that I’ll repost something from about five years ago that you might have missed:   There was considerable buzz back in 2014 about the results of a […]

“A Comet, Christ’s Birth, and Josephus’s Lunar Eclipse”

    “A Comet, Christ’s Birth, and Josephus’s Lunar Eclipse,” written by Charles Dike Abstract: A comet seen by the Chinese in 5 bc has been considered by some authors as a possibility for the Star of Bethlehem. This article starts with that premise and argues that Book of Mormon evidences reinforce that likelihood. The comet path can account […]