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January 2018

January 31, 2018
    The following notes are drawn from Keith Ward, Why There Almost Certainly Is...
January 31, 2018
    I'm still working my way through some note-taking from John W . Welch, et al., eds., Knowing Why:...
January 31, 2018
    Still excerpting passages from a manuscript in progress:   Islam insists on an...
January 31, 2018
    There have been a number of deaths over the past few days in...
January 30, 2018
It was my very great privilege to spend two months with the late Huston Smith in a...
January 30, 2018
      Continuing with yesterday's discussion of Mormonism, Islam, and the mainstream Christian doctrine...
January 29, 2018
Some additional notes from John W . Welch, et al., eds., Knowing Why: 137 Evidences That the Book of Mormon...
January 29, 2018
    I've been reading a few pages every few days in Jordan Ellenberg, How...
January 29, 2018
    Yet another passage from my book on Islam for Mormons:   Islam is...
January 29, 2018
    Elder Von Keetch of the Seventy died suddenly last week.  He was just...
January 28, 2018
    "My original decision to devote myself to science was a direct result of...
January 28, 2018
    From a manuscript:   Islam has consistently denied the divinity of Christ. "If the...
January 27, 2018
    The Interpreter Radio Show will air its third broadcast today, Sunday, between 7 PM and...
January 27, 2018
    A passage from a manuscript with which I tinker from time to time:...
January 27, 2018
    A few days ago, I discovered that David Grandy, now an emeritus professor...
January 27, 2018
    After the panel discussion in which we had both participated on Wednesday morning,...
January 26, 2018
    I received the following from my former BYU colleague Don Holsinger, via my...
January 26, 2018
    Continuing with my notes from John W . Welch, et al., eds., Knowing Why: 137 Evidences That the...
January 26, 2018
Continuing with my manuscript on Islam for Latter-day Saints:   So far, I have emphasized...
January 26, 2018
    A note from George Johnson, Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the...
January 25, 2018
    Further notes from John W . Welch, et al., eds., Knowing Why: 137 Evidences That the Book...
January 25, 2018
    My regular Deseret News column has appeared:   "Appreciating eyes that see, fingers...
January 25, 2018
    Every year, in connection with the annual Sundance Film Festival, the Sundance Institute...
January 24, 2018
    A preliminary partial draft of one of my manuscripts-in-progress:   In 1848, the...
January 24, 2018
    An amusing thought-experiment from Chris Impey's How It Began: A Time-Traveler's Guide to...
January 23, 2018
    Pressing forward with the manuscript of my introduction to Islam for Latter-day Saints:...
January 23, 2018
    Continuing with my note-taking from Chris Impey, University Distinguished Professor and Deputy Head of...
January 23, 2018
    I continue with the manuscript of a book that I'm preparing as an...
January 22, 2018
    Latter-day Saints have never been especially fond of President James Buchanan.  And that's...
January 22, 2018
    In an earlier post, "The supposed war between science and religion," I cited Sir John...
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