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Oliver Cowdery to Samuel W. Richards

    A preliminary partial draft of one of my manuscripts-in-progress:   In 1848, the year before he died, Oliver Cowdery received rebaptism into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Kanesville, Iowa.  “I feel that I can honorably return,” he told the high council there.  “I have sustained an honorable character before […]

“Let your light so shine”

    Matthew Wheeler kindly called my attention to this item:   “Malaysia’s Queen is cooking for frontline workers during the coronavirus outbreak: She’s treating hospital workers to a well earned meal”   Doug Ealy called this one to my notice:   “Israel delivers 3,000 more COVID-19 test kits and 50,000 masks to Palestinian Authority”   […]

Martin Harris and the Coronavirus

    Up now on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   “Teachings and Testimony of the First Vision: Pure Apostolic Witness and Testimony of the First Vision”: Part 20 of a Series Compiled by Dennis B. Horne   Hales Swift:  “The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Words of Jesus (3 Nephi 27)” A Video Supplement […]

Human Teeth and “Design”

    Yes, I’m enough of a troglodyte to have read Jonathan Wells, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design (Washington DC: Regnery, 2006).  Jonathan Wells is a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute in Washington.  He earned a Ph.D. in religious studies at Yale University with a focus on historical reactions to […]

“I saw a bright light”

    Herewith, I offer two additional passages — reports from actual “experiencers” — that I’ve extracted from J. Steve Miller, Near-Death Experiences As Evidences for the Existence of God and Heaven: A Brief Introduction in Plain Language (Acworth, GA: Wisdom Creek Press, 2012):   I saw a bright light, and on my way there […]

“Look down from Thy holy habitation”

    My friend and former FARMS colleague Matt Roper has shared this prescient passage from a prayer that was given roughly 127 years ago by President Wilford Woodruff of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  With the temples all closed during the coronavirus contagion and with the Salt Lake Temple specifically closed […]

Something to do right away, if you haven’t done it already

    In this genuinely weird time of lock-downs and social distancing, rising unemployment and wildly fluctuating markets, we’re rightly most concerned about the lives that the coronavirus contagion threatens.  But there are other victims, including those whose social and mental health have been put at risk by the countermeasures that we’re all taking.   […]

The Ark and the Extent of the Flood, Plus Some Quotations from NDE Accounts

    As Messala said to Ben Hur, “It goes on, Judah.  It goes on.”  Here are two new items that have appeared today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   In God’s Image and Likeness 2: Enoch, Noah, and the Tower of Babel: Genesis 7: The Flood Part of our book chapter reprint series, this […]

“Spooky action” that can’t exist but does

    Here are a couple of additional passages that I’ve marked in Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner, Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness, 2d ed. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011):   The first is about Albert Einstein:   [B]ack in 1935 he had startled the developers of quantum theory by pointing out […]

The Real Shangri-La?

    Here are two new items that are available via the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   “Teachings and Testimony of the First Vision: President Hinckley Comments on Joseph Smith’s and the Church’s Critics”: Part 19 of a Series Compiled by Dennis B. Horne   “Interpreter Radio Show — March 22, 2020” An archived recording of […]