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June 2019

June 02, 2019
    Matthew 28:11-15   This is, as a matter of fact, one of the...
June 02, 2019
    The second installment of an ongoing critique of a major publication from the...
June 01, 2019
    Matthew 27:62-66   His disciples hadn't always grasped the idea that Jesus would...
June 01, 2019
    The latest iteration of my biweekly Deseret News column appeared the other day....

May 2019

May 31, 2019
    Matthew 27:55-56 Mark 15:40-41L Luke 23:49 Compare John 19:25-27   I suspect that...
May 31, 2019
    As I say, we're headed to Tel Dan (or Tell Dan) in just...
May 31, 2019
    In a few hours from my writing this, we'll be visiting the site...
May 30, 2019
    As some of you may be aware, I doubt very much that the...
May 30, 2019
    New, in today's edition of the Deseret News:   "A Latter-day Saint presence...
May 30, 2019
    John Charlton Polkinghorne, KBE (Knight of the British Empire), FRS (Fellow of the Royal Society), is...
May 29, 2019
    John 19:1-15 Compare Matthew 27:26-28; Mark 15:15, 17-20   When the chief priests...
May 29, 2019
    I published the article below on 21 February 2018, in Salt Lake City's...
May 29, 2019
    Some of you will recall the disturbing allegations of sexual abuse, even rape,...
May 28, 2019
    Matthew 27:11-14 Mark 15:2-5 Luke 23:2-5 John 18:29-38 Compare Matthew 26:53; Luke 23:9-10,...
May 28, 2019
    The poem from which the film Invictus (about which I wrote in my...
May 28, 2019
    An important observation from the redoubtable Jeff Lindsay:   "He Whose Name Cannot...
May 27, 2019
    Matthew 27:3-10   According to the gospel of John, Judas hanged himself out...
May 27, 2019
    For this second installment of my two-part "series," I share a passage from...
May 27, 2019
    I am, I suppose, in a melancholy mood.  "All real life is meeting,"...
May 26, 2019
    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;...
May 26, 2019
    "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."  ...
May 26, 2019
      I've found myself thinking today about how geography has influenced the history...
May 25, 2019
    Matthew 26:47-56 Mark 14:43-52 Luke 22:47-53 John 18:2-12 Compare John 17:12; 18:20, 36...
May 25, 2019
    I published the column below in the Deseret News for 5 April 2018:...
May 25, 2019
    The latest installment of the bi-weekly column that Bill Hamblin and I do...
May 24, 2019
    Matthew 26:36-46 Mark 14:32-42 Luke 22:39-46 John 18:1 Compare Matthew 26:30; Mark 14:26;...
May 24, 2019
    President and Sister Russell M. Nelson, accompanied by Elder and Sister Gerrit W....
May 24, 2019
    Sigh.  The ever-dying Interpreter Foundation -- I've been seeing anonymous online claims again...
May 23, 2019
    John 16:29-33   Jesus is confident here that, even though the disciples will...
May 23, 2019
    I'm very pleased to be able to report that my friend, former student,...
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