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Seeing is believing, right?

    “One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his temple.”  (Psalm 27:4 KJV)   I love the temple, and I love […]

An even MORE ancient inscription on metal?

    A very worthwhile essay from two of my favorite commentators at the Deseret News, Jacob Hess and Hal Boyd:  “Perspective: What’s behind American media’s unhealthy fixation on ‘Mormons, Inc.’?”     The oldest currently known copy of a biblical text is to be found on what are commonly called the “Hinnom Scrolls.”  Discovered […]

Atheism, spiritual experiences, and ESP

    This review essay, written by Jeff Lindsay, just went up on the blog of the Interpreter Foundation:  “Brent J. Schmidt’s Relational Faith: An Essential Book for Understanding the New Testament Meaning of “Faith” and for Better Appreciating the Beauty of the Restoration”   As did this archived recording of our weekly AM radio program:  Interpreter […]

What he saw in heaven

    I thought, it being late on the evening of the Sabbath as I write, that some might enjoy reading a few short excerpts from Marvin J. Besteman (with Lorilee Craker), My Journey to Heaven: What I Saw and How It Changed My Life (Grand Rapids: Revell, 2012).  Marvin J. Besteman (1934-2012) was a […]

So what do YOU think?

    At least half, and probably more, of the flights that I’ve taken in the past year or two have ended up being substantially delayed or altogether cancelled.  (Back on 1 August of last year, in a blog entry here, I celebrated a wonderful day on which I spent nine hours traveling from my […]

The Book of Abraham, the Resurrection of Jesus, and Faith

    Two new review-articles appeared earlier today (Friday) in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “A New and Most Welcome Resource for Book of Abraham Studies,” written by Quinten Barney Review of Stephen O. Smoot, John Gee, Kerry Muhlestein, and John S. Thompson, “A Guide to the Book of Abraham,” BYU Studies […]

Brigham Young in England

    An article of mine appeared in Meridian Magazine last evening:  “A Mind Built to Believe.”  I hope that somebody will read it.  Also . . . “The religious term you should try to stop using: A growing group of scholars, journalists and others recommend against labeling a faith group as a cult” I […]

“Why Are There Hebraisms in the Book of Mormon?”

    Jeff Bradshaw, one of the vice presidents of the Interpreter Foundation, and Russ Richins and James Jordan — respectively, the producer and associate producer of the Interpreter Foundation’s Witnesses film and our Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon docudrama and our short “Witnesses” video features — are  over in the Democratic Republic […]

A note on “selfish genes” and “altruism”

    Dr. Mario Beauregard, a Canadian cognitive neuroscientist who is currently affiliated with the University of Arizona’s Department of Psychology, was a member of the faculty of the Université de Montréal when, with Denyse O’Leary, he wrote The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Case for the Existence of the Soul (New York City: Harper Collins, 2007). On […]

Religion, Death, and Self-Control

    I’m late in calling attention to this brief article, which went up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation on Friday, 5 May 2023:  “Interpreting Interpreter: A Dark Mark,” written by Kyler Rasmussen. This post is a summary of the article “Understanding the Lamanite Mark” by Clifford P. Jones in Volume 56 of Interpreter: A […]