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Of “Visions in a Seer Stone”

    ***   New, on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Come, Follow Me — D&C Study and Teaching Helps Lesson 40, September 27–October 3: D&C 109-110 — “It Is Thy House, a Place of Thy Holiness”   ***   And here are links to five articles from an earlier number of the […]

“An Early Christian Context for the Book of Moses” and a Possible Future Catholic Saint from Moloka‘i

    An article — this one by David M. Calabro — went up yet again today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship.  I think that many of you will find it interesting:   “An Early Christian Context for the Book of Moses” Abstract: This study argues that the Book of Moses was […]

A Landmark in the History of American Religious Liberty

    ***   On Friday, the last day that I was in Newport, Rhode Island, we drove by the Touro Synagogue, the oldest synagogue in the United States.  It was, alas, closed — just as it was on the previous occasion that my wife and I drove by it.  (It’s still a functioning house […]

Observations of a Jaundiced Eye

    ***   One of the many unappetizing features of our unfortunate present age — a wonderful period of human history in so many ways, with remarkable technological advancements and unprecedented comfort and overall health, but riven with hostilities and dulled in far too many cases by despair, purposelessness, and anomie — is our […]

“A New Reading of Moses 7”

    A new article — this one by Adam Stokes — appeared earlier today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:   “The People of Canaan: A New Reading of Moses 7” Abstract: Moses 7 is one of the most famous passages in all of Restoration scripture. It is also one of […]

From what, until 2020, was officially known as “The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations”

      ***   At least two of my very favorite people, both of them faithful and productive Latter-day Saint scholars and both of them wonderfully kind friends who have had a tremendous impact for good on my life, earned their doctorates here in Providence, Rhode Island, at Brown University.  And, for whatever little […]

Back to Camelot

    This new installment of Kyler Rasmussen’s Bayesian explorations went up earlier today on the Interpreter Foundation’s blog:   “Estimating the Evidence Episode 11: On Imprinted Words”   ***   As may be evident, I’ve been on the road in New England — and I mean really on the road — for the past […]

An Expatriate, a Pioneer, and the Pilgrims

    ***   Up this morning in Brattleboro, we first drove out to see Naulakha, the house that the British writer Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) built in 1893 for his American wife and where the Kiplings lived from 1893 until 1896.  (They left it partially because of an unfortunate family dispute with an unpleasant and […]

Happy 108th, Dad!

    ***   My father would have been 108 years old today.  He died at the end of June, in 2003.   I still miss him very much.  I think about him every day.  Certain sights always, invariably, remind me of him.  There are many things that I would like to tell him, many […]

“And that has made all the difference.”

    ***   On Saturday, en route from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, we stopped off at Sharon, Vermont, at the birthplace of the Prophet Joseph Smith.  Although I had visited all of the other major eastern Church historical sites multiple times, I had never previously gone up to Sharon.  (It’s a bit of a geographical […]