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January 2019

January 28, 2019
    Some, I think, will find this article interesting:   "Why do Muslim women...
January 28, 2019
    I've posted some prior notes (see "The Exoplanet Next Door" and "Revisiting Venus") from M....
January 27, 2019
    Matthew 2:1-12 Luke 2:8-20 (John 7:41-42)   The Greek term often rendered as...
January 27, 2019
    Long ago, I wrote the article on Allah for the Encyclopedia of Islam...
January 27, 2019
    Come, Follow Me New Testament Lesson 5: January 28–February 3: Matthew 3; Mark 1;...
January 27, 2019
    I'm not God.   I'm not even slightly confused about that.   And...
January 27, 2019
    Matthew 1:18-25 Luke 2:1-7   What can I possibly say here about this...
January 26, 2019
    In my previous post on this topic, I wrote the following:   "Frankly,...
January 26, 2019
    Continuing with some thoughts on the subject:   Frankly, men tend to dominate...
January 26, 2019
    On Friday night, my wife and I attended a performance at Brigham Young...
January 25, 2019
    Matthew 1:2-17 Luke 3:23-38   Most people simply skim or even skip over...
January 25, 2019
    On Thursday, I posted some notes ("The Exoplanet Next Door")  from M. Darby...
January 25, 2019
    On Thursday, in the Deseret News, I used my regular column to call...
January 25, 2019
    In my Middle East Studies (Arabic) 467R class, which is also listed as...
January 25, 2019
    If it continues, the leftward lurch of the Democratic Party will pose a...
January 24, 2019
    Luke 1:57-80   There is a comic element to the scene here where...
January 24, 2019
    Another item to include in your Christopher Hitchens Memorial Religion-Poisons-Everything file:   "Church...
January 24, 2019
    Notes from M. Darby Dyar, Suzanne E. Smrekar, and Stephen R. Kane, "The...
January 24, 2019
    My wife's friend Jean Marshall kindly brought this poem to our attention.  It's...
January 23, 2019
    Luke 1:26-38   This account of the Annunciation, as it's called, occurs only...
January 23, 2019
    "Natural selection . . . has lifted life from primeval simplicity to the...
January 23, 2019
    We're told from time to time that Christianity is dying, and that atheism...
January 23, 2019
    Back in early 2016, I saw the then-new film Risen.  My wife never did...
January 23, 2019
    This item from the NCAA, about a major meeting recently held at Brigham...
January 23, 2019
    A piece in the 13 December 2014 issue of the Economist reported on an...
January 22, 2019
    Luke 1:5-25   Out of all the things that could and should be said...
January 22, 2019
    During our recent visit to Egypt, I found out that -- contrary to...
January 22, 2019
    Some of you may have received a greater or lesser number of "notifications"...
January 22, 2019
    It’s time to revisit my occasional commentary on the New Testament.  I'll take...
January 21, 2019
    I've never previously read Lenn Evan Goodman, Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy ibn Yaqzan: A Philosophical Tale (Chicago...
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