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    Samuel Tadros provides a very helpful historical overview and an analysis of the...

    There's been a recent flurry of excitement among certain critics of Joseph Smith...

    "Some people grumble because roses have thorns; I am thankful that the thorns...

    Although one hubristic reader directed me this morning to post no more political comments...

    An entertaining and provocative 17.5 minutes:     It's pretty painfully obvious...

    The 2016 United States tax year is coming to a close, and many...

    You might find this retrospective interesting.  There'll be stories that you had forgotten,...

    Most of you have probably already heard about this -- I'm a bit...

    Someone called my attention to this article, on what seems to be an...

    "'Almost everything is already discovered', a young Max Planck was told in 1874....

    By Saturday Night Live:   http://www.ldsliving.com/SNL-Hilariously-Shows-What-Trump-Romney-s-Meetings-Must-Have-Looked-Like/s/83984?utm_source=ldsliving&utm_medium=email    

    http://www.ldsliving.com/Mitt-Romney-Posts-about-Ordaining-His-Grandson-to-Priesthood-Sparks-Unique-Missionary-Opportunity/s/83971?utm_source=ldsliving&utm_medium=email   Many anti-Mormons and apostates and alienated members use social media to...

    A story from about a year ago.  In Israel (as elsewhere), many archaeological...

    So much for the mystique of CSI:     I remember, years...

    From time to time, I read mocking comments about the "Early Modern English"...

    “The conservative thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and...

    For those who won't have a chance to see the Christmas lights on...

    For quite a number of years now, it's been a holiday tradition for...

    Even dust can be interesting and revealing:     That's why I...

    An interesting article from an evangelical Protestant apologetics source -- very frequently quite...

    The value of this effort is genuinely incalculable.  It will be a massive...

    The American intelligence community is apparently saying that it did:   https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-orders-review-of-russian-hacking-during-presidential-campaign/2016/12/09/31d6b300-be2a-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_russiahack-745p%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.db28ef9d95db  ...

    Last month, I alluded to the alleged approach of the grand Mormon holiday of "Smithmas,"...

    A thought for Christmas, on the New Testament Christmas story:    ...

    The Interpreter Foundation's 19oth posted scripture roundtable -- featuring Martin Tanner and Bruce Webster...

    Five quotations from the great Irving Berlin:   "The toughest thing about success...

      If it's Friday, there must be a new article from Interpreter: A...

        You should meet the man who wants to strip your church...

    “When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is...

      His was a titanic name when I was a boy.  And...