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March 2020

March 22, 2020
    Quite a number of years ago, I wrote the article on Allah for the Macmillan Encyclopedia...
March 21, 2020
    Anybody out there who is still zealously stuffing illustrative examples into his or...
March 21, 2020
    Here are two new items on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:  ...
March 21, 2020
    I was so impressed by these two (somewhat lengthy) articles, and I regard...
March 20, 2020
    Tyler Moulton kindly called my attention to the second of the two articles...
March 20, 2020
    I'm shocked and dismayed at the number of people who still don't appear...
March 20, 2020
    I'm deeply saddened to say that the tour that I was scheduled to...
March 20, 2020
    A new article-- this one by Mark J. Johnson -- has appeared in...
March 19, 2020
    I published this article on 18 October 2018 in the print edition of...
March 19, 2020
    Pestilence and disease?   Check.   Earthquake?   Check.   Plague of locusts?...
March 19, 2020
    What would a day be without links to stories about the coronavirus?  ...
March 18, 2020
    I hear hints of a premortal existence in the famous "Song of the...
March 18, 2020
    Many of us are essentially trapped at home these days.  Our usual activities...
March 18, 2020
    I don't know that this has any direct relevance to the claims of...
March 17, 2020
    Many wise sayings are attributed to ‘Ali b. Abi Talib (d. AD 661),...
March 17, 2020
    To the surprise and considerable irritation of its most devoted critics, the Interpreter...
March 17, 2020
    Volcanoes have been on my mind of late.  (Oddly, perhaps, when maybe I...
March 16, 2020
    I'm taking the occasion, with his permission, to correct an error (regarding the...
March 16, 2020
    Newly posted on the webpage of the Interpreter Foundation:   In God’s Image...
March 16, 2020
    "President Nelson Gives a Message of Hope at This Troubled Time"   ***...
March 16, 2020
    Today, writing from deep within Fortress Peterson, I conclude my slow-motion promenade through Bart...
March 15, 2020
    I continue to be struck by a quotation from then-Elder Russell M. Nelson...
March 15, 2020
    I offer, for your unlikely but possible interest, a passage from Michael Bonner,...
March 15, 2020
    Here are some of my final notes from Bart J. Kowallis, “In the Thirty...
March 14, 2020
    President Russell M. Nelson of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
March 14, 2020
    And then behold, there was darkness upon the face of the land. And...
March 14, 2020
    In the midst of a global pandemic during which public religious services are...
March 13, 2020
    I received the item below as an email from the California Islamic University,...
March 13, 2020
    Occasionally, when I'm reading online comments from some of the more embittered, alienated,...
March 13, 2020
    A new article in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship...
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