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August 2019

August 31, 2019
    From Thomas Dubay, The Evidential Power of Beauty: Science and Theology Meet (San...
August 31, 2019
    This is a really interesting issue, and the little essay below raises it nicely:...
August 31, 2019
    I just received this note from Valerie Hudson regarding the interesting online Latter-day...
August 30, 2019
    It was a real loss to our Arabic faculty at BYU when my...
August 30, 2019
    It being Friday, a new article has appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of...
August 30, 2019
    I have occasionally used the term scientism here on this blog.   Some...
August 29, 2019
    Reductionism, the practice of analyzing and describing complex phenomena in terms of what...
August 29, 2019
    In response to my posting of a photograph, several years ago, that showed...
August 29, 2019
    God loves all of his children, even those who have sinned grievously or...
August 29, 2019
    I had personal reasons to be absolutely thrilled -- as, in fact, I...
August 28, 2019
    I've sailed past the island of Stromboli, off the coast of Italy.  Neighbors...
August 28, 2019
    Well, we're preparing to launch into the new academic year at Brigham Young...
August 27, 2019
    A video supplement created by Dr. Hales Swift for Come, Follow Me Lesson 34: “‘Ye...
August 27, 2019
    As always, the Middle East is in flux and a focus of differing...
August 27, 2019
    I've lately posted a loosely related series of four blog entries:   "The...
August 26, 2019
    I believe that I've already posted my basic fall teaching schedule.  But just...
August 26, 2019
    Continued from "On solid ground? (1)":   The Earth's crust is much like...
August 26, 2019
    The 18 August 2019 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show, featuring Bruce Webster,...
August 25, 2019
    I continue here with my lengthy quotation from H. L. Mencken, The American...
August 25, 2019
    One of my earliest memories is a curious one:  I recall, as a...
August 25, 2019
    I posted an appeal for movie extras several days ago, in connection with...
August 24, 2019
    Here's a piece from the redoubtable Jeff Lindsay:   "John Gee's Troubling Review...
August 24, 2019
    From H. L. Mencken, The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of...
August 24, 2019
    There is significant and potentially history-making news out of Washington DC:   "Ruth...
August 24, 2019
    Today marks the thirteenth anniversary of the day in 2006 that the International Astronomical Union...
August 24, 2019
    "Our religion will not clash with or contradict the facts of science in...
August 23, 2019
    Today's new article in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship...
August 23, 2019
    Arabic is built almost entirely off of triconsonantal roots -- e.g., k-t-b, which...
August 22, 2019
    My bi-weekly "Defending the Faith" column appeared in the print edition of the...
August 22, 2019
    Continuing with some thoughts on the earth's atmosphere from my previous post on...
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