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November 11, 2018

“Memory and Erasure in the Story of the West: Or, Where have All the Muslims Gone?”

I would like to call general attention to a lecture that will be...

November 11, 2018

Temple on Mount Zion (D) and Elder Holland’s Remarks

I think that Saturday's Temple on Mount Zion conference, jointly sponsored by the...

November 10, 2018

Temple on Mount Zion (C)

I now offer the third installment of my brief report from the fourth...

November 10, 2018

Temple on Mount Zion (B)

Here is a second installment of my brief report from the fourth biannual...

November 10, 2018

Temple on Mount Zion (A)

What follows is the first installment of a brief report of the fourth...

November 09, 2018

Islam and Australia

In the few spare moments that I've had to think about it up...

November 09, 2018

Māori Saints, the Temple, and More on the Book of Abraham

New, in Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture: "Marjorie Newton’s Account of the...

November 09, 2018

Unity, diversity, and the Qur’an

I'm beginning to wind down with my note-taking from John L. Esposito and Dalia...

November 08, 2018

“Welcome home, Samaa”

A strange but remarkable story that's included in John Burke, Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences,...

November 08, 2018

Marijuana and the Male Adolescent Brain

"Marijuana may change the decision-making part of teen brains: A new rat study...

November 08, 2018

The Joseph Smith Papers Project and the Book of Abraham

The real question is not whether Joseph Smith knew Egyptian—no one has claimed...

November 08, 2018

“Peace for a Palestinian”

I was pleased to see this item in the Deseret News: "‘Peace...

November 07, 2018

The Islamic monolith?

Some further useful notes from John L. Esposito and Dalia Mogahed, Who Speaks for...

November 07, 2018

Responding to popular demand, Peterson reacts to the midterm elections

That the Democrats regained control of the House of Representatives is unfortunate, from...

November 07, 2018

Forgotten things, recalled to remembrance

In miscellaneous science news: "Why the world should remember this forgotten Danish...

November 07, 2018

The influence of the Restoration in Europe, the Congo, Afghanistan, the family, and human hearts

I will go forward. . . . I will smile at the rage...

November 07, 2018

“Confirmed, in its very origin, by so many witnesses”

While hosting me for my little fireside up in American Fork last Saturday,...

November 06, 2018

Iran 1: Arriving in Tehran

Many years ago, back during the relatively moderate Iranian presidency of Seyyed Mohammad...

November 06, 2018

This Saturday: “The Temple on Mount Zion”

Please share this with anybody who might be interested: Saturday, November...

November 05, 2018

Muslim homogeneity and other tales

Here are five more passages that I've extracted from John L. Esposito and...

November 05, 2018

I hope that those who agree with me will vote in Tuesday’s elections. Those who disagree with me should cast their ballots next week.

As I think I've made very clear over the past three years or...

November 05, 2018

For me, the horizon was a bit too close.

I grew up fairly near to Pasadena's California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and...

November 05, 2018

“Raising William Huntington from the Dead”

In a very recent blog entry here (“Finally, I returned to my body”),...

November 04, 2018

Can reason survive naturalism?

Yawn. More notes from another incomplete manuscript. I wrote this up several years...

November 04, 2018

Islam and the supposed evils of theism

People in the West who strongly oppose and condemn Islam don't do so...

November 04, 2018

A basic reading list

Every once in a while, I feel moved to post this item, which...

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