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Calling All Experts!

  This timely new book review was published today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation, where nothing new is ever published:  “Learning Political Civility from Pahoran to Lincoln,” written by Brian Warby: Review of Rodney Dieser, Cease to Contend: Healing a Nation Through Christlike Civility in Politics (Springville, UT: Cedar Fort, 2025). 136 pp., $16.99 […]

Utah: “The Bluest of the Red States”?

  I’ve indicated here more than once that I try to make my blog practically useful to its readers by offering occasional comments on such things as movies, plays, pieces of music, restaurants, and travel destinations.  Here, for example, is a short but important video about an airport that should definitely be avoided:  “Kafka International […]

Please remember the Constitution and the Bill of Rights!

  Earlier this year, I participated in a conference on religious freedom and related subjects in Uzbekistan.  One of the others who attended and presented there was Shima Baradaran Baughman, who was born in Iran and who is now Woodruff J. Deem Professor of Law at Brigham Young University.  I’ve been impressed by an essay […]

“Everyone is Lying to You” (Except Me, of Course)

  My attention has been called to a Latter-day Saint blog — located, like mine, here on Patheos — that is entitled Ye Shall Prosper in the Land.  The entry that I first read on it was this one:  “Who Is Behind the Murder of Charlie Kirk and What Happened?”  It turns out that former […]

“Stand Ye in Holy Places”

  The still relatively new Orem Utah Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints stands across the I-15 freeway, a short distance to the southwest of the campus of Utah Valley University (UVU).  That campus, of course, is where Charlie Kirk was assassinated last week.  The temple is a bit of a […]

Some notes on the resurrection of Jesus

  A new interview went up today that I commend to the notice of anybody who might have an interest in the Prophet Joseph Smith: “Rough Stone Rolling: Richard Bushman Reflects 20 Years Later: Joseph Smith still eludes me.” It being Sunday, the day on which, according to the New Testament accounts, Jesus rose from […]

Maybe I believe it but think I DON’T believe it?

  Driving back from the coast to drop our friends off at the airport in Portland, we stopped by the Portland Oregon Temple and walked around its grounds.  We didn’t have enough time, alas, to do a session there — though we’ve attended sessions in it once or twice before.  I’ve always liked its striking […]

She couldn’t have done it. Impossible. But she did it.

  Having been on the road much of the day and having spoken at a fireside this evening, I’m a bit late with this notification.  However, today being Friday, a new article went up this afternoon in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:  “Possible Remembrance and Re-enactment of Old World’s Hieros Gamos […]

Two Anniversaries and a Final Warning

  This is my final warning:  Decent people who may be in or near the Pacific Northwest on the evening of Friday, 12 September 2025, should maintain a safe distance from the chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that stands at 4195 Southwest 99th Avenue in Beaverton, Oregon, on that evening […]

At Utah Valley University, earlier today

  The big news of the day, of course, was the assassination of Charlie Kirk on the campus of Utah Valley University.  It’s a dark day for the university, for the state of Utah, and for the United States.  And a horrible day, an indescribably horrible day, for Charlie Kirk’s family. On a personal note: […]