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September 2015

September 26, 2015
    Scientifically.   Doctrinally.   Personally, though, I don't care what they say.  I...
September 26, 2015
  We spent an hour or more upstairs in Newel K. Whitney's store this morning....
September 26, 2015
    “We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity....
September 26, 2015
    An interesting little article making a very important point:     Galileo's...
September 26, 2015
    It's reassuring to know that ISIS isn't the only bad news coming out...
September 25, 2015
    Professor Arthur Henry King’s trust in Joseph Smith as a human being, which...
September 25, 2015
    Symonds Ryder was an apostate from the Church who led the mob that tarred and...
September 25, 2015
    "When we think Kirtland, we think that heaven was walking here with the...
September 25, 2015
    You may well be wondering to yourself, "How can that clown be off...
September 25, 2015
        I've known Matt Roper well for . . . I dunno,...
September 25, 2015
    This week's new article from Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture:    ...
September 24, 2015
    Here's an announcement issued by BYU Studies today:   We are pleased to...
September 24, 2015
    Whoever the Salt Lake area Saints were in this case, I'm proud of...
September 24, 2015
    Humor is in short supply among fanatics, and is something carefully avoided by...
September 24, 2015
    This is more than a little weird:     Had you heard...
September 24, 2015
    The brutal murders committed by the so-called "Islamic State" aren't precisely redeemed by...
September 24, 2015
    Joseph Smith recalled that, during the dedication of the Kirtland Temple on 27...
September 24, 2015
    Almost since the beginning, Sidney Rigdon has been a principal suspect among those...
September 23, 2015
        Posted from Nauvoo, Illinois    
September 23, 2015
      Yesterday, I posted an item -- part of a larger series of...
September 23, 2015
    It's interesting to see this discussion of the history and nature of religious...
September 23, 2015
      So please whisper, and turn your sound system down.   Posted...
September 23, 2015
      You want impressive?  Consider this:     Thanks to Charles Steinman...
September 23, 2015
    Solemn reflections today, as we visited Carthage Jail, due east of Nauvoo, and...
September 23, 2015
    I had to find just the right blade of grass to stand on,...
September 22, 2015
    It was the palpable genuineness of Joseph Smith’s accounts of his experiences that...
September 22, 2015
      Well . . .   There seem to me some real...
September 22, 2015
    Granted, Alaska then wasn't like Alaska now.  But, still, it was scarcely tropical:...
September 22, 2015
      I don't believe that many who knew of him were surprised, and...
September 22, 2015
    “The building up of Zion is a cause that has interested the people...
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