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Thales of Miletus and Me

    ***   In the wake of my two recent falls — chronicled here and here — several people have responded with suggestions (whether amused or concerned) that I buy and use a walker, that I have myself checked for transitory ischemic strokes, and so forth.  I have not felt such measures necessary, since […]

“If Ye Keep My Commandments Ye Shall Prosper in the Land”

    ***   A new article, written by Taylor Halverson, appeared just a few minutes ago in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship.  I have very limited time at the current moment, but I can at least find a few minutes to call the article to your attention:   “The Origin and […]

“God is a Mathematician”

    ***   Dr. Kyler Rasmussen continues with his still-new series of Bayesian blog posts on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   “Estimating the Evidence: Episode 3: On an Improbable Dictation”   ***   Here at FreedomFest 2021, I chaired a session early this afternoon in which Professor Daniele C. Struppa, a professor of […]

“This means something. This is important.”

    ***   Here, for your entertainment and edification, are three new items that went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 31 “The Power of Godliness” D&C 84 The Interpreter Radio Roundtable for Come, Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 31, “The Power of Godliness” on D&C 84, featured […]

Boise, Soda Springs, Kaysville, and Mt. Pleasant, it’s your turn!

      ***   The number of theaters in which Witnesses is appearing is slowly but unmistakably going down.  This is inevitable.  It happened to not only to Titanic and Gone with the Wind and Citizen Kane and Avatar, in their day, but even to Ishtar, Heaven’s Gate, and Mars Needs Moms.   However, I’m […]

“Adam, Eve, the Book of Moses, and the Temple: The Story of Receiving Christ’s Atonement”

    ***   A new article has appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship, this one by Bruce C. Hafen and Marie K. Hafen:   “Adam, Eve, the Book of Moses, and the Temple: The Story of Receiving Christ’s Atonement” Abstract: The authors begin by highlighting the importance of Book of Moses […]

Seven for This Next Week

      [Owing, yet again, to a recurring technical problem at Patheos, I’m unable to share an image right now in connection to this post.  Perhaps the problem will be fixed soon.  I apologize to any beside myself who might care.]   It’s been a long day, and I’m tired.  So I thought that […]

An unexpected experience with family history

    ***   This item went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Book of Moses Essays #64: Moses Witnesses the Fall: (Moses 4): The False Apron and the Tree of Death and Rebirth (Moses 4:13)   ***   Today was an exceptionally satisfying day, something that I had definitely not […]

Retracing my father’s early footsteps

    [A recurring technical problem at Patheos has once again blocked my ability to post images here.  I’ll share the appropriate photographs when and if I’m able.]   After I finished an article that was overdue and sent it off this morning, we headed up the road from Devils Lake to Rugby, North Dakota.  […]

On the Book of Mormon and the Goodness of God

    ***   The newest article in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship was written by Noel B. Reynolds and appeared today (Friday):   “The Goodness of God and His Children as a Fundamental Theological Concept in the Book of Mormon” Abstract: The phrase goodness of God does occur occasionally in the Hebrew Bible but has not been considered […]