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July 2020

July 31, 2020
    The latest installment of my bi-weekly Deseret News column went up yesterday.  I'm...
July 31, 2020
    A new article by Brian Hales has appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of...
July 31, 2020
    I pick up here with a brief allusion to the story that I...
July 30, 2020
    Shortly before our departure for Colorado, a good friend -- formerly our branch...
July 30, 2020
    When we were out and about along the Blue River near Breckenridge, Colorado,...
July 30, 2020
    But first, the following item was called to my notice by a high...
July 30, 2020
    New materials from the Interpreter Foundation:   Interpreter Radio Show — July 26,...
July 29, 2020
    On our way home this afternoon, we stopped by the fossil quarry at...
July 29, 2020
    A couple of stories will make clear the power that poets were thought...
July 28, 2020
    We have been shocked and disheartened to see the amount of damage that...
July 28, 2020
    Many years ago, at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Society in...
July 28, 2020
    Poetry was the sole medium of literary expression in pre-Islamic Arabia. In a...
July 27, 2020
    First, I share some news from outer space:   "Rock from Mars heads...
July 27, 2020
    New on the website of the Interpreter Foundation, a piece by Mark Alan...
July 27, 2020
    Closely related to the obligations felt by a host toward his guests is...
July 26, 2020
    I was heartbroken at what happened to the Latter-day Saint film Heart of...
July 26, 2020
    The British paleontologist Simon Conway Morris (1951-) established his international reputation on the basis of...
July 26, 2020
    As in the case of Shanfara, the devotion to one's oath among these...
July 25, 2020
    The birth of contemporary interest in near-death experiences is often credited to Raymond...
July 25, 2020
    I'm. pleased to announce the appearance of a new book from the Interpreter...
July 25, 2020
    In my previous installment, I wrote about the pre-Islamic Arabian value of revenge,...
July 24, 2020
    The latest installment of my regular Deseret News column was actually published yesterday...
July 24, 2020
    A nicely illustrated new article appeared today at noon in Interpreter: A Journal...
July 24, 2020
    Nomadic life breeds hardiness, frugality, eagerness for material things, fortitude, and hospitality. Such...
July 23, 2020
    Interpreter Radio Show — July 19, 2020 The 19 July 2020 broadcast of...
July 23, 2020
    When the Jewish exiles returned from their Babylonian captivity and began to rebuild...
July 23, 2020
    Driving over to Colorado the other day, my wife and I were struck...
July 22, 2020
    The title of my forthcoming presentation for the 2020 FairMormon conference has now...
July 22, 2020
    For several weeks, I spent quite a while here on this blog calling...
July 22, 2020
    From the earliest times, the people of Arabia, though dominantly nomadic, have also...
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