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July 2018

July 22, 2018
    There's much in the work of the late astronomer, astrophysicist, and science writer...
July 22, 2018
    We spent yesterday afternoon and evening at the incredibly beautiful Butchart Gardens.  ...
July 21, 2018
    Here's another little mini-essay that I wrote and published back in 2002:  ...
July 21, 2018
    The latest iteration of the bi-weekly Hamblin/Peterson column in the Deseret News has...
July 21, 2018
    This is another entry that has been inspired by my reading of James...
July 21, 2018
    Many people have heard the word fatwa.  Most famously, particularly for people in...
July 20, 2018
    Before FreedomFest 2019 draws too near, I want to post my final comment...
July 20, 2018
    Two new review articles appeared today (Friday) in Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon...
July 20, 2018
    We went whale watching for several hours today.  We saw only one humpback...
July 20, 2018
    Something that I wrote and published back in 1998:   The Church of...
July 19, 2018
    From a manuscript of mine:   The medieval Florentine poet Dante Alighieri (d....
July 19, 2018
    I continue with a few notes from James Hannam, The Genesis of Science:...
July 18, 2018
    A Canadian woman told the Guggenheims about seeing her two daughters, ten days...
July 18, 2018
    There is a great deal of concern among some Americans about shari‘a (or...
July 18, 2018
    It's time, probably, for me to post some of the links that I've...
July 18, 2018
    I've just begun reading James Hannam, The Genesis of Science: How the Christian...
July 18, 2018
    During the period between roughly my graduation from high school and going away...
July 18, 2018
    Just a few notes from, yes, yet another of those incomplete manuscripts:  ...
July 17, 2018
    From one of my manuscripts:   Another famous element on Moody’s list is...
July 17, 2018
    I was surprised to see, in the July/August 2018 issue of Smithsonian, an...
July 17, 2018
    With several others, I spent most of yesterday filming interviews with Susan Easton...
July 15, 2018
    Two passages from a rough manuscript:   Jedediah M. Grant, a counselor to...
July 15, 2018
    Well, FreedomFest 2018 is complete.  (I'll make my final report on Monday, most...
July 14, 2018
    I share a note from one of my still-incomplete book manuscripts:   In...
July 14, 2018
    This morning, I attended a panel chaired by Matt Kibbe, author of (among...
July 13, 2018
    Some notes for The Book:   Christianity arrived in what is today known...
July 13, 2018
    Earlier today, I attended a panel that included such figures as John Mackey...
July 13, 2018
    From Elder D. Todd Christofferson, of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of...
July 13, 2018
    Continuing with a passage from a rough manuscript-in-progress:   One of Osis and...
July 13, 2018
    "Philosophise this – psychology research by philosophers is robust and replicates better than other...
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