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April 2023

April 20, 2023
    First, though, a thought about earthquakes and divine providence.  I submitted this column...
April 19, 2023
    Mann tracht un Gott lacht is an old Yiddish proverb that means “Man...
April 19, 2023
    I spoke for about twenty minutes early this afternoon to members of the...
April 17, 2023
    In the most recently posted episode of The Interpreter Radio Show -- originally...
April 16, 2023
    This post, which focuses again on the famous passage in Matthew 5:48 (in...
April 15, 2023
    These new entries went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation,...
April 14, 2023
    I spent about 5.5 hours today -- minus a ten-minute break! -- recording...
April 13, 2023
    My wife and I went out to dinner last night with a former...
April 12, 2023
    Oy veh.  This is not a story that I was happy to see:...
April 11, 2023
    I've had a number of people ask whether I could share a link...
April 10, 2023
    I'm very pleased to have just received in the mail a hard copy...
April 09, 2023
    I was the speaker in my ward's sacrament meeting this Easter morning.  Below...
April 08, 2023
    Last night, Mike Parker (aka Peter Pan) and Robert Boylan (aka Roibeárd Ó...
April 07, 2023
    "The Goodness of the Cross and Good Friday: Lessons from Bavaria," written by...
April 06, 2023
    Just in from a bit of shoveling snow at my father-in-law's place across...
April 05, 2023
    There has been huge indignation in some circles -- including, sadly, among some...
April 04, 2023
    Since their arrival on Saturday night from the eastern United States, one of...
April 03, 2023
    It was, in my judgment, a wonderful General Conference; I thoroughly enjoyed it,...
April 02, 2023
    [Prefatory clarification:  The title of this blog entry notwithstanding, it doesn't actually constitute...
April 01, 2023
    I've thoroughly enjoyed General Conference thus far.  The talks have been uniformly excellent,...

March 2023

March 31, 2023
    A new article went up today at noon in Interpreter: A Journal of...
March 30, 2023
    I frequently read online comments, especially from former believers, claiming that the Church...
March 29, 2023
    I've begun to read Chris Ferrie and Geraint F. Lewis, Where Did the...
March 28, 2023
    For many, many decades until relatively recently, it was assumed by virtually everybody...
March 27, 2023
    In cooperation with Verdant Press and Eborn Books, the Interpreter Foundation has just...
March 26, 2023
    While, in terms of their form, Matthew 5:10 and 5:11-12 may seem at...
March 25, 2023
    I'm back to reading Richard S. Van Wagoner, Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of...
March 24, 2023
    A new article went up today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint...
March 23, 2023
    As I post this from Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, it's...
March 23, 2023
    I just sent the note below to a niece and two nephews, the...
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