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March 2019

March 12, 2019
    When I went to Iran at the invitation of the authorities there, I...
March 12, 2019
    Here's an updated account from Tad Walch, for the Deseret News:   "Rome...
March 11, 2019
    Matthew 10:17-25 Compare Mark 13:9-13; Luke 6:40; 12:11-12; 21:12-19; John 13:16; 14:26; 15:20;...
March 11, 2019
    This solar storm effectively knocked radio and television technology, which were just beginning...
March 11, 2019
    More than two decades ago -- how things have changed since those sunny...
March 11, 2019
    There was an interesting episode in domestic American politics at the end of...
March 11, 2019
    At the April 2008 General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of...
March 10, 2019
  Current estimates of the age of the Earth put it at about 4.543 billion...
March 10, 2019
    It seems to me that I've told this story somewhere before but I...
March 10, 2019
    Matthew 9:27-34; Matthew 12:22-24; Matthew 20:29-34 Mark 3:22; Mark 10:46-52 Luke 11:14-15; Luke...
March 10, 2019
    Tad Walch, of the Deseret News, has written a number of thoughtful and...
March 10, 2019
    Matthew 9:14-17 Mark 2:18-22 Luke 5:33-39 John 3:29-30   Two brief points to...
March 09, 2019
Mesoamerica continues to yield up significant new finds:   "1,000-Year-Old Pristine Mayan Artifacts Found in...
March 09, 2019
    Jim Toronto, a friend and colleague at Brigham Young University, called me just a...
March 09, 2019
    Two friends and I wanted to visit the bazaar in Tehran while we...
March 09, 2019
    I realize that the overwhelming majority of my readers (there are perhaps as...
March 09, 2019
    "Prophet Meets Pope Francis at the Vatican"   I'm delighted at this.  Despite...
March 08, 2019
    Matthew 9:1-8 Mark 2:1-12 Luke 5:17-26 Compare John 5:1-9   The logic here...
March 08, 2019
    Possibly the first serious poem that I ever really liked, that ever actually...
March 08, 2019
    Back in November, I launched a series of posts about my one and...
March 08, 2019
    It being Friday, a new article appeared today in Interpreter: A Journal of...
March 08, 2019
    Humans always want to know “why.”  Especially children.  It seems that it's an...
March 07, 2019
    Matthew 8:23-27 Mark 4:35-41 Luke 8:22-25 Compare Matthew 8:18   1.   The...
March 07, 2019
    Bill Hamblin and I published the following article in the Deseret News back...
March 07, 2019
    I grew up fairly near to Pasadena's California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and...
March 07, 2019
    The latest installment of my biweekly "Defending the Faith" column appeared today in...
March 07, 2019
    On a predominantly atheistic message board that is deeply hostile both to the...
March 06, 2019
    Matthew 8:14-17 Mark 1:29-34 Luke 4:38-41; 7:11-17   Among the four gospels, only...
March 06, 2019
    Ireland's Robert Boylan has called our attention to two commentaries on recently-issued Gospel...
March 06, 2019
    Here's a passage from Hans Küng, The Beginning of All Things: Science and Religion (Grand...
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