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August 1870, with Martin Harris

    Here are a couple of passages from Susan Easton Black and Larry C. Porter, Martin Harris: Uncompromising Witness of the Book of Mormon (Provo: BYU Studies, 2018):   On 19 August 1870, headed ultimately for Salt Lake City and accompanied by Elder Edward Stevenson, Martin Harris boarded a westbound train for Chicago.  Stevenson later recalled […]

The apparent reason for my disinvitation from that Australian school many years ago

    In case you don’t already have sufficient reason to suspect that the current Chinese regime is evil, here’s one for you.  If you’re really determined, you can perhaps even try to fit it into your Christopher Hitchens Memorial “How Religion Poisons Everything” File, but I doubt that it will fit very well:   […]

“Rick Anderson named university librarian at BYU”

    Brigham Young University has just announced the naming of a new university librarian.  He is Rick Anderson, and he will be officially coming to campus on 1 September 2020 from his current position as associate dean for Collections & Scholarly Communication in the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah.  BYU’s previous […]

“Church’s COVID-19 relief now the largest humanitarian aid project in its history”

    Here is some new material for your enjoyment and edification that has recently appeared on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   “Alma 30-31 Two More Anti-Christs,” by Jonn Claybaugh Come, Follow Me — Study and Teaching Helps: Lesson 27, July 6-12: Alma 30-31 — “The Virtue of the Word of God”   Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me Book […]

A remembrance of things past

    I’ve been on the campus of Brigham Young University only once, I believe, since in-person classes were cancelled on 12 March 2020 under the pressure of the coronavirus pandemic.  This has, obviously, had enormous impact on normal social interactions with students and fellow faculty.  And it has often caused me to lose track […]

Considering retirement locations

    As I contemplate the idea of retirement (from my job, though emphatically not from my work), I’ve found this document quite useful.  It was shared with me earlier today by my friend Louis Midgley; I don’t know its original source:   Retirement locations evaluated…. You can retire to Arizona where: 1. You are […]

For My Father (1913-2003)

    My father died seventeen years ago today.   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 questions that I would like to ask of him.   Virtually all, if not […]

Living longer, but committing fewer crimes

    Well, I’m very close to posting my last notes from Paul McFate, 52 Good Reasons to Go to Church, Besides the Obvious Ones (Chicago: ACTA Publications, 2004).  But I’m not quite there yet.  Happily, though, I can report that the two items listed below, like those that have gone before them from Paul […]

“Ascending into the Hill of the Lord”

    Another article has appeared on the website of the Interpreter Foundation.  It was authored by David J. Larsen, and I expect that many will find it of interest:   “Ascending into the Hill of the Lord: What the Psalms Can Tell Us About the Rituals of the First Temple” Abstract: In this article, the […]

Friendlier people and fewer school shootings?

    I offer two more items from Paul McFate, 52 Good Reasons to Go to Church, Besides the Obvious Ones (Chicago: ACTA Publications, 2004).  Both of them have been officially board-certified as appropriate for inclusion in your Christopher Hitchens Memorial “How Religion Poisons Everything” File: Fewer School Shootings (page 58) — In his book […]