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February 2020

February 19, 2020
    I thought that I would share with you another charming little eighth-century animal...
February 18, 2020
    I've begun to publish a short series of notes extracted from an article...
February 18, 2020
    With my wife and a couple of Utah friends, I made yet another...
February 18, 2020
    I continue with some notes from Bart J. Kowallis, “In the Thirty and Fourth...
February 18, 2020
    As I continue to read David Brooks, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral...
February 17, 2020
    "‘We were one people today — the people of Jesus Christ,’ says Elder Rasband...
February 17, 2020
    New, on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Science & Mormonism Series...
February 17, 2020
    I'm using portions of Munther A. Younes, Tales from Kalila wa Dimna: An...
February 16, 2020
    I published the column below in the Provo Daily Herald around 29 April...
February 16, 2020
    We and our visiting friends attended church this morning and then had lunch...
February 16, 2020
    I'm on the road, and I think that I neglected to call attention...
February 15, 2020
      I've always wanted to visit Sedona, but somehow, prior to today, I...
February 15, 2020
    I share a few more notes here from a significant article that a...
February 15, 2020
    Yesterday, I cited an account, gathered by Russell Blong, of a catastrophic volcanic...
February 14, 2020
    I first met Bart Kowallis when we were freshmen living in Hinckley Hall...
February 14, 2020
    On the flight from Salt Lake City to Phoenix last night, I began...
February 14, 2020
    I wrote this column for the Provo Daily Herald in October 1998:  ...
February 14, 2020
    I published this column in late April of 2001 in the Provo Daily...
February 13, 2020
    I published the little item below in the Provo Daily Herald way back...
February 13, 2020
    Here are a trio of passages that I've extracted from Huston Smith, Beyond...
February 12, 2020
    Bill Hamblin and I published the column below back in the early 2000s....
February 12, 2020
    Quite a number of years ago, my late friend Bill Hamblin and I...
February 12, 2020
    I've been asked by a reader to substantiate my lack of admiration for...
February 11, 2020
    We're just back from a performance of the Jeff Hamilton Trio in the Concert...
February 11, 2020
    "UV Light On Airplanes Could Prevent Spread Of Coronavirus And Other Infectious Diseases"...
February 11, 2020
    Every once in a while, I think it appropriate to remind Latter-day Saints...
February 10, 2020
    One argument that has recently been raised against Senator Mitt Romney's vote to...
February 10, 2020
    A new piece has been posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:...
February 10, 2020
      I continue in the spirit of another very recent blog entry:  ...
February 09, 2020
    The once-famous poem "Thanatopsis" (roughly, "a reflection on death," from the Greek thanatos ("death")...
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