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“‘Hard’ Evidence of Ancient American Horses” (Part 4)

    In “‘Hard’ Evidence of Ancient American Horses’ (Part 1),” I began to extract notes from an article about possible Pre-Columbian horses in the Americas that appeared in 2015, surveying the state of the question at that time:  Daniel Johnson, “‘Hard’ Evidence of Ancient American Horses,”  BYU Studies Quarterly 54/3 (2015): 149-179.   I continue with that […]

Apostasy and the rise of the elite in the first centuries of Christianity

    Because Cruise Lady: Latter-day Adventures kindly supports the Intepreter Radio Show — and because I know and like the folks at the company and have accompanied at least one tour for them each year for more than a decade — I give them some publicity here on my blog from time to time […]

Martin Luther King: “I may not get there with you.”

    There is no better way to think of Martin Luther King today than to listen to his own incomparable voice, which, if you choose, you can do here:   “5 of Martin Luther King Jr.’s most memorable speeches”   His speech at the Lincoln Memorial on the Washington Mall, commonly called “I Have […]

“‘Hard’ Evidence of Ancient American Horses” (Part 3)

    In “‘Hard’ Evidence of Ancient American Horses’ (Part 1),” I began to extract notes from an article about possible Pre-Columbian horses in the Americas that appeared in 2015, surveying the state of the question at that time:  Daniel Johnson, “‘Hard’ Evidence of Ancient American Horses,”  BYU Studies Quarterly 54/3 (2015): 149-179.   I continue with that […]

An early-1978 encounter on the street in Jerusalem

    Curiously, one of the experiences that I remember clearly from my stay in East Jerusalem during the first half of 1978 was a conversation on a street corner with three or four American evangelical Protestants.  I seem to recall that the conversation occurred on a street corner near the American Colony Hotel; they […]

Martin Harris: “Unfailing Affirmation”

    An important and still relatively recent contribution to the literature on the history of the Restoration is Susan Easton Black and Larry C. Porter, Martin Harris: Uncompromising Witness of the Book of Mormon (Provo: BYU Studies, 2018).  Herewith, I begin an effort to write up my notes from reading the book:   First, […]

Some very good links for some very good reading

    On the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Come, Follow Me — Study and Teaching Helps: Lesson 4, January 20-26: 1 Nephi 11-15   Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon Lesson 4 “Armed with Righteousness and with the Power of God” : 1 Nephi 11-15 The Interpreter Radio Roundtable for Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon Lesson 4, “Armed with Righteousness and […]

“‘Hard’ Evidence of Ancient American Horses” (Part 2)

    In “‘Hard’ Evidence of Ancient American Horses’ (Part 1),” I began to extract notes from an article about Pre-Columbian horses in the Americas that appeared in 2015, surveying the state of the question at that time:  Daniel Johnson, “‘Hard’ Evidence of Ancient American Horses,”  BYU Studies Quarterly 54/3 (2015).   I continue with that project, thinking […]

A bit more on Yours Truly, vintage 1978, in East Jerusalem

    In my immediately prior post (“A Prolegomenon to My First Sojourn in the Middle East”), I provided some indication of the reflexively pro-Israeli attitudes with which I grew up.   By the time of my first actual visit to the Middle East, however — a 1978 visit that lasted approximately six months — […]

A Prolegomenon to My First Sojourn in the Middle East

    I posted a light item yesterday (“A couple of songs from my first residence in the Middle East”) about my first stay in the Middle East, which occurred way back in the first half of 1978.  (That was 42 years ago.  Forty-two years!  As the saying goes, I didn’t realize that getting old […]