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May 2015

May 14, 2015
    Today's installation of my weekly Deseret News column has now appeared:  
May 14, 2015
    Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address is a profoundly religious document (virtually inconceivable today)....
May 13, 2015
    The new issue of SquareTwo (8/1, Spring 2015) is now up.  
May 13, 2015
    I'm sitting in Park City, and I've seen two movies recently.   I'm...
May 13, 2015
    On 31 May 1968, very nearly forty-seven years ago, Hugh B. Brown, first...
May 13, 2015
    Mark 8:22-26    The ruins of Bethsaida may well have been found, at...
May 13, 2015
      Notwithstanding denials on every side, I'm having a difficult time seeing...
May 13, 2015
    The archaeology of Paris is very little known.  (People generally, I think, overestimate...
May 13, 2015
    There are some fantastic scenes here (the one shown above not among them),...
May 13, 2015
    Judging from photographs, I had always thought Antoni Gaudí's basilica church of La...
May 13, 2015
      The author of this piece, David French, is himself a Harvard-educated...
May 13, 2015
    The American religious landscape appears to be changing dramatically, particularly among young people:...
May 13, 2015
      Kirsten Powers is an outspokenly Democratic commentator, and a relatively recent Christian...
May 13, 2015
    At first, reading the headline, I thought that one of my malevolent anonymous...
May 13, 2015
    I think that I failed to note this very important little piece from...
May 13, 2015
    "Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize...
May 12, 2015
    Some might be interested to know that Yeah Samake, the Latter-day Saint mayor...
May 12, 2015
      Peggy Noonan had a disturbing article in the Saturday/Sunday (9-10 May 2015)...
May 12, 2015
    Sometimes the sacrament can become . . . ordinary.  If that's a problem...
May 12, 2015
      It's sad to see that vast, marvelous, sloped lawn turn brown....
May 12, 2015
    Jabra Ghneim called my attention to this piece.  The discovery isn't especially new...
May 12, 2015
      I've known John Tanner for many years.  He'll make an excellent...
May 12, 2015
    The decision of four out of six heads of Gulf Cooperation Council states...
May 12, 2015
    Have you ever wondered?   The probable answer suggests that Mars once had...
May 12, 2015
    Jeff Bradshaw, John Gee, Cassandra Hedelius, Martin Tanner, and Bruce Webster came together...
May 12, 2015
    Matthew 16:5-12 Mark 8:14-21 Compare Luke 12:1   Just as it takes only...
May 12, 2015
    Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), who has long been a personal hero of mine, distinguished himself...
May 12, 2015
    As we draw ever closer to a Supreme Court decision in which, effectively,...
May 12, 2015
    In the Interpreter Foundation's 121st scripture roundtable, Jeffrey Mark Bradshaw, Cassandra Hedelius, Daniel...
May 12, 2015
    My friend Bianca Lisonbee has called my attention to the fact that special...
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