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    I am, I suppose, in a melancholy mood.  "All real life is meeting,"...

    Matthew 26:57-68 Mark 14:53-65 Luke 22:54-71 John 18:13-24 Compare Matthew 26:55, 67-75; 27:1-2;...

    "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."  ...

      I've found myself thinking today about how geography has influenced the history...

    Matthew 26:47-56 Mark 14:43-52 Luke 22:47-53 John 18:2-12 Compare John 17:12; 18:20, 36...

    I published the column below in the Deseret News for 5 April 2018:...

    The latest installment of the bi-weekly column that Bill Hamblin and I do...

    Matthew 26:36-46 Mark 14:32-42 Luke 22:39-46 John 18:1 Compare Matthew 26:30; Mark 14:26;...

    President and Sister Russell M. Nelson, accompanied by Elder and Sister Gerrit W....

    Sigh.  The ever-dying Interpreter Foundation -- I've been seeing anonymous online claims again...

    John 16:29-33   Jesus is confident here that, even though the disciples will...

    I'm very pleased to be able to report that my friend, former student,...

    This has been a slightly unusual trip to the United Kingdom for us....

    John 15:26-27   Religious skeptics often mock the Latter-day Saint idea and claim...

    This is a remarkable article, from a Jewish journalist who just toured the...

    One of the complaints commonly leveled against science focuses on its tendency toward...

    John 14:27-31   Apart from noting that Jesus' declaration that "the Father is...

    "Is vegan diet healthy for kids? Belgian doctors say no"   I'm certainly...

    A potentially significant article recently appeared on a certainly controversial topic:   Joshua...

    John 14:15-26   1.   "If you love me, you will obey my...

    Here's the official Church press release:   "President Nelson Meets with New Zealand...

    "Egypt explosion: Tourists on bus injured near Giza pyramids"   A number of...

    John 13:31-35   It's impossible to improve upon this passage by commentary but,...

    Being in this general area reminds me of a column that I published...

    A Facebook comment demanding to know, essentially, why there are so many Muslim...

    We received word a couple of days ago that Mike Hill, a friend...

    I am, without apology, an Anglophile.  For me though, perhaps somewhat unusually, the...

    Matthew 26:21-25 Mark 14:18-21 John 13:21-30 Compare Luke 22:21-23   Two quick observations:...

    Professor Louis C. Midgley continues his celebration of all things Latter-day Saint and...

  I published this column fairly recently, on 7 March 2019, in the Deseret News:...