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April 2018

April 30, 2018
    Still working through the preliminary manuscript:   Syria, too, is under the control...
April 30, 2018
    There are many who claim that science and religious belief are entirely incompatible....
April 30, 2018
    From his location in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the irreplaceable Jeff...
April 28, 2018
    A bit more from The Once and Future Manuscript:   The Ba‘th Party...
April 28, 2018
    I've shared this comedic masterpiece with you before now, but that doesn't bother...
April 28, 2018
    Some Reflections on Being a Pin Cushion   I learn new things about...
April 27, 2018
    British troops took Mesopotamia away from the Ottoman Turks during the First World...
April 26, 2018
    I'm often challenged by certain critics to "prove" my fundamental beliefs.  I don't...
April 26, 2018
    In this further snippet from my manuscript, I reflect (very, very briefly and...
April 25, 2018
    Every day, a little bit more.   The institutional details of government were...
April 25, 2018
    We took our leave of (almost all of) our friends from the conference...
April 24, 2018
    The West wasn't always exactly helping:   The newcomer among the three political...
April 24, 2018
    I've been over here in Jordan, with my wife, to participate in what...
April 24, 2018
    The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into...
April 23, 2018
    Another snippet:   The second political tradition characteristic of the Middle East is...
April 23, 2018
    “This sense of wonder leads most scientists to a Superior Being – der...
April 23, 2018
    Just in case you haven't been keeping up with President Russell M. Nelson's...
April 22, 2018
    I think it worth calling attention to prominent scientists who are religious believers...
April 22, 2018
    Fairly often, critics demand "proof" from me that the claims of Mormonism are...
April 22, 2018
    Continuing a bit more with my first pass through a manuscript that I...
April 21, 2018
    Owing to my travel schedule and other obligations over the past thirty-six to...
April 21, 2018
    Flying yesterday evening from Paris to Amman, my wife and I found ourselves...
April 20, 2018
    I've been enjoying myself in this space with responding to an anti-Islamic Facebook...
April 19, 2018
    Truman Madsen, who died in 2009 and whom I greatly miss, changed the...
April 19, 2018
    Gerald L. Schroeder, an American Jew who now lives and teaches in Jerusalem,...
April 18, 2018
    Several people have asked me for my opinion of the recent American and...
April 18, 2018
    Gerald L. Schroeder earned B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute...
April 18, 2018
    The anti-Islamic Facebook image or meme that was sent to me the other...
April 18, 2018
    For quite a few years now, I've been a fan of the work...
April 18, 2018
    A nice piece from the inimitable Jeff Lindsay, of Shanghai:   "Don't Ignore...
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