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The Sound of Silence

  We had hoped to be able to take in a session at the still relatively new Richmond Virginia Temple, but it seems that our schedule — coupled with the cold that I came down with on the flight from Denver to here (I could almost give you the precise minute that it hit me) […]

Contra Calvinism 2

  About nine days ago, I posted a blog entry that was entitled “Contra Calvinism 1.”  If you read it, you’ll be able to judge for yourself whether, as my Malevolent Stalker and his small tribe of fellow warriors have characterized it, the blog entry was “motivated by bigotry, hatred, and revenge,” and whether, as […]

“Among the most significant holy sites in the world”

  I’ve just finished reading Keith A. Erekson and Matthew J. Grow, “Assuming Stewardship: Notes on the Recent Transfer from Community of Christ,” BYU Studies 63/1 (2024): 4-32.  Their article is a useful and well-illustrated summary account of the properties and the artifacts whose change in ownership was announced on 5 March 2024.  I found […]

Thinking about Evolution

  I have a new article up in Meridian Magazine and I hope that you’ll take a look at it.  In it, I recommend a book that I recently read and that I very much enjoyed:  “How Can We Make Sense of Evolution?: A Latter-day Saint Perspective” Now let me continue on that subject for […]

“I did liken all scriptures unto us”

  On Thursday night, in company with our core group of filmmakers and two of their wives, my wife and I were able to see a complete version of the forthcoming Interpreter Foundation theatrical film, Six Days in August.  There is still post-production work to be done, of course.  But there were several scenes in […]

Recording the Stories of African Saints

  Dr. Jeffrey Mark Bradshaw, vice president for special projects at the Interpreter Foundation, is in Africa at the moment in connection with the Foundation’s effort (under the title of Not By Bread Alone) to document some of the stories of the Saints there.  He has kindly been sharing photographs with me from his travels […]

A really serious challenge

  Just in time for the weekend, two new articles have appeared on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: ““One Drop of Salvation from the House of Majesty”: An Analysis of the Revelation of the Magi and Restoration Scripture,” written by Spencer Kraus Abstract: An early Christian text called the Revelation of the Magi presents […]

Gathering lessons from the past, both good and ill

  I’m pleased to report that Jeff Bradshaw and others working on the Interpreter Foundation’s Not by Bread Alone film project are safely landed in Africa, where they have already begun their work. I’m also pleased to note the appearance of a new article on the website of the Interpreter Foundation — which, according to […]

Of Decision-Making and Ignorance

  I finished an important and good book the other day:  Samuel T. Wilkinson, Purpose: What Evolution and Human Nature Imply About the Meaning of Our Existence (New York and London: Pegasus Books, 2024).  I’ll have more to say about the book later, but I enjoyed reading it and I recommend it to others who […]

The Bells of Las Vegas

  A new article of mine went up yesterday in Meridian Magazine.  Enjoy it, if you can:  “The Heavenly Sign: Brigham Young’s Transfiguration at Nauvoo” Some of the objections that are being raised against construction of the proposed Lone Mountain Nevada Temple in Las Vegas are, at least outwardly, quite legitimate and worthy of being […]