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“Why aren’t more Americans atheists?”

    An interesting article, brought to my attention by Stephen Smoot:   http://www.politico.com/magazine/stor...   Posted from the floor of the 2014 FairMormon conference, where Sharon Eubank, director of LDS Charities for the Church, is currently speaking

“The Title of Liberty”

    More from our friends who are presiding over the Samoa Apia Mission:   http://samoamission.blogspot.com/2014...   Posted from the 2014 FairMormon conference, where Robert Smith’s presentation is underway  

An Interpreter App?

    Two or three days ago, my friend Jabra Ghneim asked me, on Facebook, when The Interpreter Foundation would have an app.   I passed the question on to Bryce Haymond, our indispensable guru on all such matters.  Here is his response, to which, when he saw it, Jabra Ghneim responded that it was wonderful [Read More...]

The Renewing of Our Minds

    Ty Mansfield’s excellent FairMormon presentation has just concluded.  Along the way, he cited Elder Neal A. Maxwell’s teaching about “educating and training our desires,” as well as the eminent British New Testament scholar N. T. Wright — who was, at the time, the Anglican bishop of Durham:   “We all have all kinds [Read More...]

The Hit Piece, again

    A couple of people have come up to me today, asking where, on the website of The Interpreter Foundation, they can find Greg Smith’s appallingly vicious, disgusting, hateful, and dishonest hit piece about John Dehlin (my words, borrowed from frequent mischaracterizations of it online, not theirs).   The notorious hit piece is, I [Read More...]

“Will the Guardians of the Galaxy ever cross paths with the Avengers?”

    I know that this is a burning question for many of you out there.   So here’s some help, from an author whom I happen to like a lot.   Posted from the 2014 FairMormon conference, where, Barry Bickmore having spoken and lunch being over, Robert Rees is speaking.    

“To Mormons, with love from your non-LDS neighbor”

    Here are some interesting observations from a non-Mormon who moved to a small (and heavily Mormon) town in Utah County, Utah, slightly more than a decade ago.   What would it be like to belong to a small religious minority in a society centered on religion?   http://ldsliving.com/story/76513-to-m...   O wad some Pow’r [Read More...]

“Salvation comes through Christ, without exception”

      My weekly Thursday column is up in the Deseret News:   http://www.deseretnews.com/user/comme...   Thus far, I think, 80% of the comments — that is, four out of five — have come from atheists, who’ve been yukking it up at the nut cake idea that Jesus is the Savior.   Posted from the [Read More...]

The 2014 FairMormon conference

    The 2014 FairMormon conference begins, in Provo, in just a few hours:   http://www.fairmormon.org/perspective...   Some of us got together tonight for dinner and conversation.  It’s a very good group.    

My opinion of J. K. Rowling just went up.

    Not that I had a poor opinion of her.   I simply had no real opinion at all.   I’ve never read a line of one of her books, nor seen more than ten minutes of any movie based on her books.  I may be among the few people in America who can say [Read More...]