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February 2024

February 29, 2024
  I would like to call your attention to a few articles by Latter-day Saint...
February 28, 2024
  According to accounts preserved in Hawaiian mythology, the great gods Kāne (pronounced KAH-nay), Lono,...
February 27, 2024
  Some of the polymathic scientists and  littérateurs over at the Peterson Obsession Board like...
February 26, 2024
  This blog entry is, to a considerable extent, a continuation of the thinking that...
February 25, 2024
  An article in The New York Times Magazine for 26 April 1981 entitled "Rosetta...
February 24, 2024
  Traveling around Hawai’i -- we went up and around to Princeville today, and out...
February 23, 2024
  Two new items appeared on the website of the Interpreter Foundation today: "Prophet or...
February 22, 2024
  Two non-new articles have newly appeared on the website of the Interpreter Foundation.  I...
February 22, 2024
  A friend picked us up at our hotel early this evening and took us...
February 21, 2024
  Well, our cruise ended this morning where it first began.  We disembarked from our...
February 20, 2024
  If all goes according to plan and if my understanding is not mistaken, I...
February 19, 2024
  For my own undoubtedly dishonorable purposes, I'm extracting here some more of the passages...
February 18, 2024
  The Interpreter Foundation continues to generate substantial materials for interested audiences.  Here are two...
February 17, 2024
  Two new articles went up at noon on Friday on the website of the...
February 16, 2024
  Two more items have appeared on the website of the Interpreter Foundation.  They are:...
February 15, 2024
  We entered Queen Charlotte Sound this morning and sailed until we reached the town...
February 14, 2024
  Newly posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Nibley Lectures: Come, Follow Me...
February 13, 2024
  We missed Auckland today.  A mechanical problem with one of our ship's lifeboats --...
February 12, 2024
  My friend Professor Louis Midgley has had a life-long love affair with New Zealand...
February 11, 2024
I return briefly to Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer’s posthumously-published 2008 book Extraordinary Knowing: Science, Skepticism, and...
February 10, 2024
  As discomfiting as it certainly is to our critics, the Interpreter Foundation continues to...
February 09, 2024
  We began the day with almost all of our group taking a multi-hour minibus...
February 08, 2024
  Amazingly, something new has appeared on the website of the Interpreter Foundation!  It is...
February 07, 2024
  Just in case anybody is out there who (a) might be interested and (b)...
February 06, 2024
  On the flight from Honolulu to Sydney, I watched the 2015 film In the...
February 05, 2024
  Here are some notes about certain of the witnesses to the Book of Mormon...
February 04, 2024
  I sometimes encounter the complaint from some atheists that they don't even desire immortality...
February 03, 2024
  The standard view of the origins of the Polynesians, and specifically of the Māori...
February 02, 2024
  "Temple Themes in the Book of Abraham," written by Stephen O. Smoot Abstract: The...
February 01, 2024
  Conference Talks: The Symbolism of the Cupped Hand in Ancient Egypt and Israel: Iconography,...
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