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“The Easter Connection”

  Interpreter Radio Show — February 25, 2024 For the 25 February 2024 episode of the Interpreter Radio Show, Steve Densley and John Thompson spoke with their special guest, Kerry Muhlestein. They discussed Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon lesson 12 and Kerry’s new book The Easter Connection. Their conversation, shorn of commercial breaks and […]

“The Power of Boundless Compassion”

  My wife and I have belonged for many years to a monthly reading group — its formal name is The Gadianton Polysophical Marching and Chowder Society — that I’ve mentioned here at least once or twice before.  Tonight, we were the leaders of a discussion that was centered on a book that we had […]

“Christ’s Resurrection (UCLA)”

  While going through and trying to organize some materials on my computer, I came across the following file, which was titled “Christ’s Resurrection (UCLA).”  Evidently, it is a set of notes for some sort of undated presentation at or near UCLA that I can no longer recall.  Their reliance upon an article by the […]

“Kingly Names, Kingly Ambitions”

  “Proper Names and Political Claims: Semitic Echoes as Foundations for Claims to the Nephite Throne,” written by Lyle H. Hamblin Abstract: The Book of Mormon contains examples of phonemes in character names that resemble Semitic root words. The possible meanings of the names and their timing in the Book of Mormon narrative provide a […]

Christian California

  I would like to call your attention to a few articles by Latter-day Saint social scientists whom I find consistently interesting and worth reading.  One of them is Stephen Cranney: “How many churches still favor traditional marriage?  Have most American churches accommodated by now the sea change in public attitudes about marriage? Not really” […]

With aroha for all

  According to accounts preserved in Hawaiian mythology, the great gods Kāne (pronounced KAH-nay), Lono, Kū, and (possibly) Kanaloa existed before the creation of the world. In the beginning, according to one tradition, nothing existed except a chaotic blackness called the “Po” (“night”). But Kāne awoke and, realizing that he was distinct from the Po, […]

“We Rejoice in Christ”

  Some of the polymathic scientists and  littérateurs over at the Peterson Obsession Board like to picture me as a gourmand and a foodie who waddles incessantly between high-end multiple-course meals.  That isn’t actually me at all — last night, we had grated cheese on tortilla chips for dinner, whereas the previous two nights had […]

Ignorance is No Defense

  This blog entry is, to a considerable extent, a continuation of the thinking that I began yesterday. Considerable merriment has been occasioned among a handful of merry madcaps over at what I call the Peterson Obsession Board by my repeated invitations to an atheist commenter on my blog (whom we shall call “gemli”) that […]

Fact and Theory and Extraordinary Claims

  An article in The New York Times Magazine for 26 April 1981 entitled “Rosetta Stones from Space” opened as follows: The first recorded meteorite fell in Phrygia in Asia Minor about 2000 B.C. The object was carried to a local temple and then later transported to Rome, where it remained for 500 years before […]

A transient paradise

  Traveling around Hawai’i — we went up and around to Princeville today, and out to the overlook by Kilauea Point Lighthouse — it’s interesting to see evidences of the forces that made its islands and that are now, in most places here, very slowly unmaking them.  As the tectonic plate on which the Hawaiian […]