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December 2016

December 22, 2016
      We never had such excellent images when I was a young...
December 22, 2016
    A follow-up to my earlier post on this topic:   Some are really...
December 22, 2016
    I've been challenged repeatedly over the past two or three days by people...
December 22, 2016
    Taki Theodoracopulos, the urbane, long-time, and sometimes (be warned!) slightly off-color columnist for...
December 22, 2016
      For obvious reasons, I have mixed feelings about this.  But not...
December 22, 2016
    My 2016 Deseret News Christmas column has appeared:     It's received...
December 22, 2016
      Congratulations to all involved!    
December 22, 2016
    "Instinct is a marvelous thing," mused Poirot.  "It can neither be explained nor...
December 21, 2016
    This interview treats an interesting little bit of Latter-day Saint history:  
December 21, 2016
    This is a really nice little essay.  Despite the title, not at all...
December 21, 2016
    A follow-up to a post from earlier today:   "Swamp Waters Not Drained, But Stirred"...
December 21, 2016
    At first glance, I thought that this might be a comment about my...
December 21, 2016
    Amusingly, the "Christian university" in question is BYU:     You may...
December 21, 2016
    The author gets our theology a bit wrong, and he doesn't seem to...
December 21, 2016
    People on both the political Left and the political Right are noticing it:...
December 21, 2016
    The prize-winning science fiction and fantasy author Orson Scott Card wrote Interpreter's holiday...
December 21, 2016
    Most of us seldom if ever think about our Christmas customs.  We follow...
December 21, 2016
    I suppose that Xmas could be used as part of a campaign against Christianity....
December 21, 2016
    This is, essentially, a companion piece to the column on "Is Islam a...
December 20, 2016
    In the 192nd scripture roundtable posted by the Interpreter Foundation, Stephen Smoot, Kristine Frederickson,...
December 20, 2016
    "You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water -- an...
December 19, 2016
    What seems to be a sober, grown-up look at the question of the...
December 19, 2016
    If you're a Latter-day Saint and you haven't seen this little 46-second classic,...
December 19, 2016
    About a year ago, my friend and colleague Bill Hamblin and I published...
December 19, 2016
    Perhaps you're out of gift-giving ideas?  Here's one that never fails:  
December 19, 2016
    Here's an interesting article suggesting that it's only via exobiology -- that is,...
December 19, 2016
    The Interpreter Foundation has posted its 191st scripture roundtable, which features Shon Hopkin, Martin...
December 19, 2016
    For normal people, though, here's a rare bit of private home video with...
December 18, 2016
    I've posted before -- here and here -- about the exciting, innovative, and...
December 18, 2016
    Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a...
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