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December 2023

December 31, 2023
  Our last church meetings of 2023 were, I thought, quite good.  Our first sacrament...
December 30, 2023
  I would like to commend two recent blog entries by the redoubtable Jeff Lindsay...
December 30, 2023
  My day yesterday (Friday) was completely booked, from morning until late at night, and...
December 28, 2023
  I can't say that I'm even slightly surprised by these findings, which are reported...
December 27, 2023
  Even at Christmas, the Interpreter Foundation continues to produce.  Here, for example, is a...
December 26, 2023
  Every year since I launched this blog, I have called attention to some of...
December 25, 2023
  Christmas is winding down.  In certain areas of the globe, indeed, the Christmas holiday...
December 24, 2023
  At the request of the Deseret News, I published the brief message that follows...
December 23, 2023
    Today is the 218th anniversary of the birth of the Prophet Joseph Smith,...
December 22, 2023
  I published the following Christmas-themed article in Meridian Magazine last night:  "Mary’s Unique Role...
December 21, 2023
  New on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: "The Temple: Ancient and Restored: How...
December 20, 2023
  Still feeling under the weather and unambitious and, more importantly, thinking that there might...
December 19, 2023
    I published the column below in the Deseret News on 9 December 2010....
December 18, 2023
  I published this article in Salt Lake City's Deseret News back on 19 December...
December 17, 2023
    Tomorrow night (Monday night), I will be giving the tenth in a final...
December 16, 2023
  The other day, here on this blog, I posted an appreciation of Walt Disney...
December 15, 2023
  This new article went up earlier today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint...
December 14, 2023
  I thought this article, written by Jacob Hess, an interesting one and worth commending...
December 13, 2023
    The subject of this coming year in the "Come, Follow Me" curriculum of...
December 12, 2023
  I love Brigham Young University.  I believe in it.  I never wanted to teach...
December 11, 2023
  I noticed this Public Square Magazine article online the other day and found it...
December 10, 2023
  My mother grew up in St. George, and my ten-years-older brother was baptized in...
December 09, 2023
  You should really take a couple of minutes to read Elder Dale G. Renlund's...
December 09, 2023
  I would like to suggest a Christmas gift to you, both for yourself and...
December 07, 2023
  I return, yet again, to BYU Studies Quarterly 61/4 (2022), which is a special...
December 06, 2023
  What am I grateful for today?  I'm grateful that I have grandchildren, and that...
December 04, 2023
  I've been busy enough with the Unbearable Cuteness of Being and other distractions here...
December 04, 2023
    I encourage you to watch and to share the eighteen-minute video that the...
December 03, 2023
    I share some takeaways here from an article that I've just read in...
December 02, 2023
    The other day, I set up an online Facebook fundraiser for the Interpreter...
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