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August 2020

August 31, 2020
    Here's a passage from Alister E. McGrath, A Fine-Tuned Universe: The Quest for...
August 31, 2020
    The 2020-2021 BYU academic year has begun.  My own classes will begin tomorrow...
August 31, 2020
    An article by Kevin L. Barney has just gone up on the website...
August 31, 2020
    Many out there will recognize the name of George Mitton, who has been...
August 31, 2020
    President Spencer W. Kimball used to speak of the thirteen Articles of Faith,...
August 30, 2020
      This 2.5-minute-long video vividly introduces an astonishing fact:   "The Mind-Blowing Mathematics...
August 30, 2020
    In terms of their prospects for going to either heaven or hell, there...
August 29, 2020
    In my experience, theistic anti-Mormonism is largely (though not entirely) a conservative Protestant...
August 29, 2020
    Here are some notes from "Identification of a Regional Earthquake Fault Zone," Chapter...
August 29, 2020
    The sins that are likely to characterize the wealthy in a com­mercial society...
August 28, 2020
    It's Friday and, accordingly, a new article has appeared in Interpreter: A Journal...
August 28, 2020
    My attention was called some time back to a 2014 blog article titled...
August 28, 2020
    It is on the basis of his or her faith and good works,...
August 28, 2020
    I've been slow in calling attention to the latest installment of my bi-weekly...
August 27, 2020
    In August 1883, David Whitmer, the last surviving Witness of the Book of...
August 27, 2020
    Arguments have raged for well over a century and a half about the...
August 27, 2020
    The ultimate destination of the damned is described in the Qur'an with highly...
August 26, 2020
    I'm being attacked.   That's not news, of course.  I'm attacked every single...
August 26, 2020
    John Wickliffe Rigdon, a son of Sidney Rigdon, left a memoir of his...
August 26, 2020
    I continue with some notes from Jerry D. Grover, Jr., Geology of the...
August 26, 2020
    I continue chugging along with my manuscript on Islam for Latter-day Saints.  Here,...
August 25, 2020
    New, on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   "Raising the Abrahamic Discourse:...
August 25, 2020
    The current issue of Scientific American contains a clear and approachable summary article by...
August 25, 2020
    As we saw in the last chapter, one of the major themes of...
August 24, 2020
    The current issue of Scientific American contains a really nice summary article by the...
August 24, 2020
    This just up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   "John W....
August 24, 2020
    Yet the Qur'an does not bring any new truths. It does not claim...
August 23, 2020
    What follows is the letter that I sent out, toward the end of...
August 23, 2020
    In his foreword to Geraint F. Lewis and Luke A. Barnes, A Fortunate...
August 23, 2020
    Just a reminder:  The coronavirus pandemic has obviously been a nuisance (when it...
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