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June 2025

June 02, 2025
  A few months ago, motivated by nothing in particular, I re-read T. E. Shaw's...
June 01, 2025
  My wife and I were back in Nauvoo and Carthage, Illinois, a few weeks...

May 2025

May 31, 2025
  Very recently, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued three new sets...
May 30, 2025
  Two new articles have just appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith...
May 29, 2025
  Here are two further sets of notes from John W. Welch, ed., Reexploring the Book...
May 29, 2025
  We attended a matinee performance on Wednesday afternoon of the play Giant, which stars...
May 27, 2025
  It was odd to wake up this morning and to recognize nobody at breakfast....
May 26, 2025
  We were up early this morning for a brief visit to Winchester Cathedral, where...
May 25, 2025
  We attended church at the Hyde Park Chapel on Exhibition Road this morning.  What...
May 24, 2025
  Yesterday, we did a walking tour in Southwark that focused on the dark and...
May 23, 2025
  In the morning, we did a walking tour in the borough of Southwark, which...
May 22, 2025
  This new item has now gone up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:...
May 21, 2025
  I'm very pleased to report that video- and audio recordings of the recent Interpreter...
May 20, 2025
  Two new items went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Come,...
May 19, 2025
  Today, we entered the area known as the Staffordshire Potteries, which is particularly associated...
May 18, 2025
  After leaving the Lake District yesterday afternoon, our group drove through Milnthorpe, where John...
May 17, 2025
  Our group headed up to the Lake District today, devoting much of our time...
May 16, 2025
  We met up with Kris Frederickson, a member of the Interpreter Foundation board and...
May 15, 2025
  My wife and I spent multiple hours yesterday, Wednesday, scouting out the glorious British...
May 14, 2025
  New, on the blog of the Interpreter Foundation, where nothing ever changes: "The Heartland...
May 13, 2025
  From the "Sometimes, You Can Only Laugh" Department:  As usual on such occasions, I...
May 11, 2025
  Back in 2022, in preparation for the launch of our Six Days in August...
May 11, 2025
  I was browsing last night in W. H. Lewis, ed., Letters of C. S....
May 10, 2025
  Although I can't honestly recommend the presentation that began at 1:35 PM this afternoon,...
May 09, 2025
  These four new items were posted today on the moribund website of the comatose...
May 08, 2025
  Newly posted on the blog of the perpetually unchanging, completely comatose website of the...
May 07, 2025
  We spent another solid day today filming for the Interpreter Foundation's forthcoming Becoming Brigham...
May 06, 2025
  Details regarding the approaching 2025 FAIR conference can be found here.  I hope to...
May 05, 2025
  We conducted a very good series of lengthy and substantial interviews today at the...
May 05, 2025
  I wrote the other day regarding the approval of a temple in Texas about...
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