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March 2019

March 20, 2019
    The Age of the Earth   I'm sometimes described online as believing in...
March 20, 2019
    My friend Stan Barker has reminded me of the wonderful speech given by...
March 19, 2019
    Matthew 13:31-33 Mark 4:30-32 Compare Luke 13:18-21   The parable of the mustard...
March 19, 2019
    The other day, I called attention to a discouraging piece from Dr. Jeff...
March 19, 2019
    "A man is accused of threatening a Phoenix mosque the day after the...
March 19, 2019
    Living matter, unlike non-living matter, assimilates and processes energy, stores and manages information,...
March 18, 2019
    Matthew 13:18-23 Mark 4:13-20 Luke 8:11-15   When these passages speak of those...
March 18, 2019
    In his important book Religion of a Different Color, Paul Reeve recounts an...
March 18, 2019
    "Did the New Zealand Shooter Change the Cultural Script?  In livestreaming the massacre,...
March 18, 2019
    There has, quite understandably, been a huge amount of coverage of the recent...
March 17, 2019
    Matthew 12:43-45 Compare Luke 11:24-26   One of the things that this passage...
March 17, 2019
    Christian Anfinsen (1916-1995) earned his doctorate in biochemistry at Harvard University in 1943....
March 16, 2019
    Here's a moving item from CNN:   "In photos: World reacts to New...
March 16, 2019
    Matthew 12:22-30 Mark 3:22-27 Compare 9:32-34; Luke 11:14-15, 17-23; John 7:20; 8:48; 8:52;...
March 16, 2019
    On Wednesday night, my wife and I attended a Utah Opera performance of...
March 15, 2019
    Wikipedia defines "quantum entanglement" as "a physical phenomenon that occurs when pairs or...
March 15, 2019
    Matthew 12:9-14 Mark 3:1-6 Luke 6:6-11   I really should have connected this...
March 15, 2019
    Bill Hamblin and I published the column below in the Deseret News for...
March 15, 2019
    It's Friday.  You didn't see this coming?  Seriously?  There's a new article from...
March 15, 2019
    O you who believe!  Seek help in patience and prayer.  Truly God is...
March 15, 2019
    Matthew 11:20-24 Luke 10:12-15   It surprises people to see how small the...
March 15, 2019
    Despite its title ("The Neanderthal renaissance"), this slightly longish but quite interesting article...
March 14, 2019
    I'm not often given to nostalgia, but sometimes it happens.  And for some...
March 14, 2019
    One aspect of my visit to Iran was that, in a few ways,...
March 14, 2019
    Matthew 11:2-19 Luke 7:18-35 Compare Mark 1:2   Much could be said of...
March 13, 2019
    From the Interpreter Foundation, two discussions of Gospel Doctrine materials by Martin Tanner:...
March 13, 2019
    The other day, I posted some thoughts regarding a 2017 article proposing evidence...
March 13, 2019
    The previous post in this little series of informal recollections makes it obvious...
March 13, 2019
    Matthew 10:37-39 Luke 14:25-27; 17:33 Compare Matthew 16:24-25; Mark 8:34-35; Luke 9:23-24; John...
March 13, 2019
    I published the article below in the Deseret News on 15 June 2017:...
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