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A rather strange notion about Earth’s fall

    In the most recently posted episode of The Interpreter Radio Show — originally broadcast on 16 April 2023, but edited since airtime in order to remove commercial and other extraneous breaks — the discussants are Bruce Webster, Kris Frederickson, and Martin Tanner. Here are the two segments of the program that are now […]

On Being “Perfect” (Part Two)

    This post, which focuses again on the famous passage in Matthew 5:48 (in the King James Version, “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect”), is a continuation of “On Being ‘Perfect’ (Part One),” which went up on 2 April 2023.   In our effort to understand […]

If there is no God, is everything permitted?

    These new entries went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation, all of them compiled or selected by Dennis B. Horne: “Elder Spencer W. Kimball’s Apostolic Call Experience: From his own writings” ““I feel impressed to say…”: Items regarding President David O. McKay from the Journal of President Spencer W. Kimball” […]

Joseph Mormon Harris?

    I spent about 5.5 hours today — minus a ten-minute break! — recording an interview with Stephen Murphy for his Mormonism with the Murph podcast.  Brother Murphy is based in County Armagh, Northern Ireland.  He tells me that the recorded material, which will be divided into (at least) two parts, will likely go […]

“Time to Think”

    My wife and I went out to dinner last night with a former student of mine and her husband, who himself recently retired as a professor of biology at a university in Texas.  They have been in the MTC lately and will soon begin eighteen months as a Church service couple in Egypt.  […]

Links Left Lying

    Oy veh.  This is not a story that I was happy to see: “Duncan Event at BYU Law School ‘Canceled’” And here, for your convenience, is the article to which reference is made: “BYU Cancels Debate Event on Abortion: Beams before Motes” Which leads me into a more general topic.  We have, I […]

“Six Days in August” reaches an early milestone

    I’ve had a number of people ask whether I could share a link to a video of my remarks on Easter Sunday.  Not feeling entirely comfortable (or authorized) to treat a sacrament meeting talk that way, though, I sat down today with my friend Tom Pittman and recorded it.  The talk is now […]

Hot Off the Press!

    I’m very pleased to have just received in the mail a hard copy of BYU Studies Quarterly 61/4 (2022).  This latest — special — issue of BYU Studies was created by Stephen O. Smoot, John Gee, Kerry Muhlestein, and John S. Thompson, and is entitled A Guide to the Book of Abraham.  I […]

A Testimony: Χριστὸς ἀνέστη! Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη!

    I was the speaker in my ward’s sacrament meeting this Easter morning.  Below is a fairly accurate text of what I said.  (I wasn’t always reading it so, at some points, the wording is only approximate.  I share it as an expression of my testimony, wishing everybody within my reach a blessed and […]

“Very difficult to dismiss”

    Last night, Mike Parker (aka Peter Pan) and Robert Boylan (aka Roibeárd Ó Baíoláin, the proprietor of the impressive Scriptural Mormonism blog) recorded a genial ninety-minute conversation about the Heartland movement (regarding Book of Mormon geography), the origins and approach of Mr. Pan’s Neville-Neville Land blog, and l’affaire Richard Nygren (aka le scandale […]