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“The Comedy of Errors”

    We’ve just returned from a crowd-pleasing slapstick Comedy of Errors set in the Old Wild West.   Yet another excellent production.   Still, there were a few empty seats.   The executive director of the Utah Shakespeare Festival told me, this afternoon, that overall ticket sales for the Festival are slightly down this year. [Read More...]

“A Look at Some ‘Non-Standard’ Book of Mormon Grammar”

    It being that day of the week, Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture has published another article:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/a-lo...   I think this now represents one hundred and seven [107] consecutive weeks of publication.   I’m not alone in regarding this week’s article as exceptionally significant.  My friend and colleague Professor Royal Skousen, [Read More...]

Jane Austen, on stage

    After enjoying lunch with Will Schryver and his wife, we attended a very well done theater version of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility.   I’m a really, really, really enthusiastic Jane Austen fan.   It worries me.   Nothing blows up.  There are no car chases.   Am I, simply, when all is said [Read More...]

“A Church for Exiles”

    This article — written by a Christian in the Reformed tradition — makes an interesting case for the claim that Reformed Christianity is best suited for disciples of Jesus living in a rapidly emerging post-Christian America.   As I read it, I was thinking to myself of ways in which what the author [Read More...]

Bart Sibrel vs. Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin

    Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, now 84, is a retired NASA astronaut who, as part of the Apollo 11 mission, became the second man to walk on the surface of the moon.   At least, that’s what mainstream thinkers and historians believe.   Bart Sibrel, however, is no conventional mind.  A taxi driver and conspiracy [Read More...]

“Henry IV Part One”

    My wife and I enjoyed a first-rate performance of Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part One tonight.  Really, a very fine production.   I was saddened and shocked, though, to notice a fairly large number of empty seats — more than we’ve ever seen in the Adams Shakespearean Theater here. People are missing out on a [Read More...]

A quick report from Cedar City

    We saw Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods this afternoon, and are just about to head off to see Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part One.  (At least I think that’s what we’re seeing.)   The Utah Shakespeare Festival here is a state and regional treasure.   Posted from Cedar City, Utah  

The funny side of terrorists

    This is about five years old now, but it’s still pretty funny:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eyT-...   Posted from Cedar City, Utah    

A brief cartoon history of the Holy Land

    A humorous and slightly gruesome but — alas! — fairly accurate capsule summary of thousands of years of history in Palestine:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-evIy...   Brought to my attention over dinner last night with LDS academic friends whom we’ve known since Cairo in 1978.    

“Two legal tests of Joseph Smith’s integrity”

    This week’s Thursday column for the Deseret News:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...