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July 2020

July 12, 2020
    18 And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called...
July 12, 2020
        Chris Miasnik kindly called my attention to a horribly painful story...
July 11, 2020
    Having laid down a kind of preface in a previous post, I now...
July 11, 2020
    This ought to settle the matter:   "Church leaders ask Latter-day Saints in...
July 11, 2020
    Paul Johnson well summarizes the catastrophic changes in the fortunes of world Jewry:...
July 10, 2020
    The last Jewish stronghold was the spectacular mountain for­tress-palace of Masada, 1300 feet...
July 10, 2020
    There hasn't been a whole lot of really encouraging news about the coronavirus...
July 10, 2020
    Two new pieces appeared today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith...
July 09, 2020
    In Acts 17:31, Luke writes of God the Father that   he hath...
July 09, 2020
    Among other things, Jerry D. Grover, Jr., Geology of the Book of Mormon (2014) supplies...
July 09, 2020
    The death of Herod the Great marked the end of the last period...
July 08, 2020
      "South Americans may have traveled to Polynesia 800 years ago: DNA suggests...
July 08, 2020
    In 63 B.C., Judea became a client-state of the new superpower, Rome. Thus,...
July 08, 2020
    Some further notes drawn from Susan Easton Black and Larry C. Porter, Martin Harris:...
July 08, 2020
    Some new accusations have recently been made against me online.  I don't want...
July 07, 2020
    On national television:  "BYU Vocal Point pays tribute in CNN performance to COVID-19...
July 07, 2020
    Notes drawn from Pim van Lommel, Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death...
July 07, 2020
    In 175 B.C., aggressive Jewish reformers found an enthusiastic but dangerous ally in...
July 07, 2020
    Some passages about the experience of the Eight Witnesses to the Book of...
July 06, 2020
    "It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble," Will Rogers...
July 06, 2020
    This is an interesting article, but it's also a melancholy reminder of the...
July 06, 2020
    I hereby bring my little trilogy (which began with "Getting to Know Elder...
July 06, 2020
    The records that the Hebrews had so laboriously created would eventually prove to...
July 05, 2020
    I first met Elder Boyd K. Packer when he came to Switzerland during...
July 05, 2020
    Not long after I had joined the faculty at Brigham Young University, I...
July 05, 2020
    For all the talk of a land "flowing with milk and honey," Pales­tine...
July 04, 2020
    In the previous passage from my forthcoming book, I wrote briefly about the...
July 04, 2020
    The Fourth of July holiday isn't about quasi-military parades and fireworks, spectacular and...
July 04, 2020
    Notes based upon Pim van Lommel, Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death...
July 04, 2020
    With his permission, I again share a thought-provoking Facebook entry posted by a...
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