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January 2019

January 21, 2019
    In connection with this holiday, today, honoring Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....
January 21, 2019
    Current research in primatology and evolutionary biology may suggest at least a partial...
January 21, 2019
    I mentioned the other day that among the classes that I’m teaching this...
January 20, 2019
    First off:  "January 20–21, 2019 Total Lunar Eclipse (Blood Moon)"   You might...
January 20, 2019
    This poem, by Eliza R. Snow (1804-1887), appeared in the official Latter-day Saint...
January 20, 2019
    John Updike wrote this poem (entitled "The Dance of the Solids") after he...
January 19, 2019
    A very significant little item by Jeff Lindsay, writing from Shanghai:   "Further Notes on...
January 19, 2019
    Here's a brief but interesting article on a little-known field in the biological...
January 19, 2019
    The most recent iteration of the regular bi-weekly Hamblin-Peterson column in the Deseret...
January 18, 2019
    This astounding editorial, by one Clay Cane, appeared on the CNN website on...
January 18, 2019
    Masculinity is under ideologically-motivated attack in some quarters.   You may perhaps have...
January 18, 2019
    One of the classes that I'm teaching this term is Middle East Studies...
January 18, 2019
    New, in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:   "Barriers...
January 17, 2019
    "Our solar system's formation was a lot messier than you think"   ***...
January 17, 2019
    Suicide furnishes an issue that more than a few critics of the Church...
January 17, 2019
    “Humans think they are free, conscious beings, when in truth they are deluded...
January 16, 2019
    Over the past few days, two or three very passionate writers have insisted...
January 16, 2019
    I continue with my quick response to a reader of my blog who...
January 16, 2019
    New, via the website of the Interpreter Foundation, a fifty-minute audio interview by...
January 15, 2019
    In response to my blog entry of a few days ago on the...
January 15, 2019
    A while ago, in two or three responses to comments on my blog,...
January 15, 2019
    The 13 January 2019 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show featured Martin Tanner, John...
January 14, 2019
    I published this article in the Deseret News back on 13 May 2010:...
January 14, 2019
    New, on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   "There are Many Witnesses...
January 14, 2019
    The January/February 2019 issue of Discover includes a fascinating article by Corey S....
January 14, 2019
    Jay Nordlinger has an appalling but hugely important piece (for those who care...
January 13, 2019
    I offer for your possible interest two passages taken from very different works...
January 13, 2019
    I have been a fan of J. B. Phillips's The New Testament in...
January 13, 2019
    Bertrand Russell came up with the analogy of a celestial teapot -- now,...
January 13, 2019
    "And We have sent the Book down to you in truth, confirming what you...
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