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“Converging on Nahom”

  Two new articles went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: “The Nahom Convergence Reexamined: The Eastward Trail, Burial of the Dead, and the Ancient Borders of Nihm,” written by Neal Rappleye Abstract: For decades, several Latter-day Saint scholars have maintained that there is a convergence between the location of Nahom in […]

Cornucopia

  This just went up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:  “The Temple: Ancient and Restored:  ‘The Cosmic Mountain in Islamic Tradition,'” written by Daniel C. Peterson Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article originally appeared in The Temple: Ancient and Restored, Proceedings of the Second Interpreter Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference “The […]

Every Member A Missionary: Here’s Some Important Help

  For Christmas, a neighbor gave us a new book by her brother.  The book is Gary C. Lawrence, Millions Believe As We Do, But Haven’t Yet Found the Church:  Conversation Ideas from a National Poll.  Gary Lawrence is an active Latter-day Saint — currently, I believe, an ordinance worker in the Newport Beach California […]

“I’ve seen them both, and they’re not the same.”

  I’ve recently shared three or four passages here with you from Hadley Vlahos, The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life’s Final Moments (New York: Ballantine Books, 2023).  Here’s another one that I really liked, and that I think you might find interesting, as well: I’ve seen just as many patients who aren’t religious and don’t […]

“The In-Between”

  As I mentioned in a recent blog entry, somebody in Modesto, California — I don’t know who it was — sent me a copy of a small and very accessible book a few days before Christmas: Hadley Vlahos, The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life’s Final Moments (New York: Ballantine Books, 2023).  Ms. Vlahos is […]

Toward Lives Well-Lived

  Our last church meetings of 2023 were, I thought, quite good.  Our first sacrament meeting speaker today was a young woman from our ward who has interrupted her studies at Brigham Young University to accept a call to the Chile Antofagasta Mission.   She spoke quite well and will, I think, be a wonderful […]

God knows and speaks to individuals

  I would like to commend two recent blog entries by the redoubtable Jeff Lindsay to your attention.  It seems particularly fitting to do so as we’re about to enter a new year for the “Come, Follow Me” curriculum of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a curriculum that will be focused on […]

An attempt at a reminder

  My day yesterday (Friday) was completely booked, from morning until late at night, and I posted nothing.  Which means that I failed to note that a new article appeared yesterday in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship.  And it was just a bit unusual:  For the first time in the history […]

Approaching the turning of the year

  I can’t say that I’m even slightly surprised by these findings, which are reported by the impressive Stephen Cranney.  I’ve always tended to regard the self-description “I’m spiritual, but not religious” as rather vacuous.  But it’s good — albeit, yes, admittedly quite sad — to see them backed by apparently solid data:  “Less church, […]

A few gathered posies

  Even at Christmas, the Interpreter Foundation continues to produce.  Here, for example, is a sextet of very recent new items: “Conference Talks:  Recovering the Language of Purity after the First Revolt“ The fourth “Temple on Mount Zion” Conference was held on Saturday, 10 November 2018 in the Tanner Building at Brigham Young University, Provo, […]